Can I Run Empires?
World's Edge released Empires in 2019. It is a strategy game, published by Xbox Game Studios. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. Alongside Windows it also ships for macOS. With more than 157 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Its 7 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Steam lists support for 17 languages. There are 357 achievements to chase. Critics scored it 84 on Metacritic.
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
Empires places its action in a historical setting, and the player works through a city the player lays out. Simulation heavy building games lean harder on the processor as the map fills, so late game performance rarely matches the opening hours. Play is presented in two dimensions. There are 12 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Empires is demanding
Empires barely touches the GPU. Its stated Nvidia GTX 650 or AMD HD 5850 target is below anything currently sold. The install is small at roughly 15 GB. Empires needs 64 bit Windows. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. Empires needs only 2 GB of video memory.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Empires?
Empires 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 Empires?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Empires?
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 Empires need?
Empires needs about 15 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for Empires?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Empires is the CPU.