Can I Run Age of Empires II?
World's Edge released Age of Empires II in 2019. It is a strategy game, published by Xbox Game Studios. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. It is not Windows only, with macOS covered too. Its Steam review count passes 157 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Cloud saves are enabled. Being 7 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Its Metacritic score stands at 84. It is localised into 17 languages according to the store listing. It carries 357 achievements.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64x2 5600+ |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 420 or ATI™ Radeon™ HD 6850 or Intel® HD Graphics 4000 or better with 2 GB VRAM |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | 2.4 Ghz i5 or greater or AMD equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia® GTX 650 or AMD HD 5850 or better |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a historical setting. Play is structured around a city the player lays out. What taxes the PC is the number of things being simulated, which means the requirements describe the start of a game, not the end of one. Play is presented in two dimensions. 12 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Age of Empires II is demanding
Age of Empires II barely touches the GPU. Its stated Nvidia GTX 650 or AMD HD 5850 target is below anything currently sold. Age of Empires II needs 64 bit Windows. At 2 GB, VRAM is a non issue for Age of Empires II. Age of Empires II needs only 8 GB of RAM. Disk footprint is light, near 15 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Age of Empires II?
Age of Empires II is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 420 or ATI™ Radeon™ HD 6850 or Intel® HD Graphics 4000 or better with 2 GB VRAM, 4 GB RAM, about 15 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: CPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 48.57x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 27.32x |
| 4K | Comfortable | 12.14x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run Age of Empires II?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Age of Empires II?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64x2 5600+; GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 420 or ATI™ Radeon™ HD 6850 or Intel® HD Graphics 4000 or better with 2 GB VRAM; 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64bit.
How much storage does Age of Empires II need?
Age of Empires II needs about 15 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for Age of Empires II?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Age of Empires II is the CPU.