Can I Run Age of Empires IV?
Released in 2021, Age of Empires IV is a strategy game built by World's Edge. Publishing duties went to Xbox Game Studios. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Metacritic places it at 81. Completionists have 175 achievements to work through. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Being 5 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Steam lists support for 26 languages. Its Steam review count passes 71 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-6300U or AMD Ryzen 5 2400G | CPU with AVX support required |
|---|---|
| GPU | Intel HD 520 or AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 64bit | Windows 11 64bit |
| DirectX | 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | 3.6 GHz 6-core (Intel i5) or AMD Ryzen 5 1600 | CPU with AVX support required |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce 970 GPU or AMD Radeon RX 570 GPU with 4GB of VRAM |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 64bit | Windows 11 64bit |
| DirectX | 12 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a wartime setting, moving through a base the player builds up. Play is presented in three dimensions. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. The load here grows with the save. An empty map tells you very little about how the machine will cope once the build is large.
Why Age of Empires IV is demanding
Age of Empires IV is undemanding on the graphics side. Its Nvidia GeForce 970 GPU or AMD Radeon RX 570 GPU target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Age of Empires IV. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 4 GB. DirectX 12 is named, so Age of Empires IV expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. Windows 11 appears in the requirements, which is worth checking before buying Age of Empires IV. Age of Empires IV takes about 50 GB of disk space. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Age of Empires IV?
Age of Empires IV targets a mainstream modern PC: Intel HD 520 or AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 and 8 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to Nvidia GeForce 970 GPU or AMD Radeon RX 570 GPU with 4GB of VRAM for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 2.07x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.17x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.52x |
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.
Common GPUs
| Graphics card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Age of Empires IV's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.
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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run Age of Empires IV?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Age of Empires IV?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-6300U or AMD Ryzen 5 2400G | CPU with AVX support required; GPU: Intel HD 520 or AMD Radeon RX Vega 11; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64bit | Windows 11 64bit.
How much storage does Age of Empires IV need?
Age of Empires IV needs about 50 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Age of Empires IV?
The RTX 3060 runs Age of Empires IV comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Age of Empires IV?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Age of Empires IV is the GPU.