Can I Run DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™?
Released in 2020, DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ is an adventure role playing game built by Square Enix. It offers a single player campaign. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Cloud saves are enabled. Completionists have 57 achievements to work through. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Steam lists support for 8 languages. With more than 10 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. At 6 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 / Intel® Core™ i3-3330 |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon™ R7 260X / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 / 1 GB VRAM / Shader Model 5.0 or higher graphics card is required |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 40 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows® 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 / Intel® Core™ i5-6500 |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon™ R7 370 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 / 2 GB VRAM |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 40 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows® 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a fantasy world, moving through one continuous open world. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. It is played in three dimensions.
Why DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™. AMD Radeon R7 370 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 / scores low against the RTX 3060, putting DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 2 GB. DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ needs 64 bit Windows. Disk footprint is light, near 40 GB. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ at the floor and DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ at the recommended tier are not the same experience.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™?
Older hardware holds up here: DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ runs on modest graphics, with AMD Radeon™ R7 260X / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 / 1 GB VRAM / Shader Model 5.0 or higher graphics card is required enough to meet the minimum. Add 8 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 2.83x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.59x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.71x |
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 great |
| 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 DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™'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 DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™?
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What are the minimum system requirements for DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 / Intel® Core™ i3-3330; GPU: AMD Radeon™ R7 260X / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 / 1 GB VRAM / Shader Model 5.0 or higher graphics card is required; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows® 10 64-bit.
How much storage does DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ need?
DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ needs about 40 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™?
The RTX 3060 runs DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for DRAGON QUEST® XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age™ is the GPU.