Can I Run Empire?
Empire is a strategy game from World's Edge, released in 2019. Xbox Game Studios published it. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Alongside Windows it also ships for macOS. Being 7 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. 17 languages are covered by the store listing. Critics scored it 84 on Metacritic. Completionists have 357 achievements to work through. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. With more than 157 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented.
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 |
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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. 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. The publisher supplies 12 storefront screenshots of these environments. Play is presented in two dimensions.
Why Empire is demanding
Empire makes almost no demand of the graphics card. Nearly any machine built in the last decade clears the stated Nvidia GTX 650 or AMD HD 5850 target. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 2 GB. Disk footprint is light, near 15 GB. Empire needs only 8 GB of RAM.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Empire?
Empire 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 Empire?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Empire?
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 Empire need?
Empire needs about 15 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for Empire?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Empire is the CPU.