Can I Run Dragon Age: The Veilguard?
BioWare released Dragon Age: The Veilguard in 2024. It is an action adventure game, published by Electronic Arts. It offers a single player campaign. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Its Steam review count passes 41 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Completionists have 52 achievements to work through. Cloud saves are enabled. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Steam lists support for 12 languages.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 3 3300X* (see notes) |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 970/1650 / AMD Radeon R9 290X |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 100 GB SSD |
| OS | 64 bit Windows 10/11 |
| DirectX | 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i9-9900K / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X* (see notes) |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA RTX 2070 / AMD Radeon RX 5700XT |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 100 GB SSD |
| OS | 64 bit Windows 10/11 |
| DirectX | 12 |
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Setting and environment
Dragon Age: The Veilguard is set in a fantasy world. The view is from a third person view. The publisher supplies 10 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Dragon Age: The Veilguard is demanding
The ask Dragon Age: The Veilguard makes is moderate. NVIDIA RTX 2070 / AMD Radeon RX 5700XT lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. DirectX 12 is named, so Dragon Age: The Veilguard expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Dragon Age: The Veilguard scales hard with the hardware you give it. Dragon Age: The Veilguard wants about 100 GB of disk space on an SSD, which is a real consideration on a smaller drive. Dragon Age: The Veilguard needs 64 bit Windows.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Dragon Age: The Veilguard?
Free up space before installing Dragon Age: The Veilguard: it needs roughly 100 GB of SSD storage. Once it's on disk the rest is unremarkable, NVIDIA GTX 970/1650 / AMD Radeon R9 290X and 16 GB of RAM meet the minimum, so most current PCs handle the compute side.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. Dragon Age: The Veilguard needs about 100 GB of SSD of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Borderline | 1.03x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.58x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.26x |
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 | Playable |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 Dragon Age: The Veilguard'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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Can my PC run Dragon Age: The Veilguard?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Dragon Age: The Veilguard?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 3 3300X* (see notes); GPU: NVIDIA GTX 970/1650 / AMD Radeon R9 290X; 16 GB RAM; OS: 64 bit Windows 10/11.
How much storage does Dragon Age: The Veilguard need?
Dragon Age: The Veilguard needs about 100 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Dragon Age: The Veilguard?
The RTX 3060 runs Dragon Age: The Veilguard comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Dragon Age: The Veilguard?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the GPU.