Can I Run Mass Effect Legendary Edition?
Mass Effect Legendary Edition is an action role playing game from BioWare, released in 2021. Electronic Arts published it. It offers a single player campaign. Critics scored it 86 on Metacritic. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. Its Steam review count passes 61 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Being 5 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Steam lists support for 8 languages. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. It carries 127 achievements.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5 3570 or AMD FX-8350 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GPU: NVIDIA GTX 760, AMD Radeon 7970 / R9280X GPU RAM: 2 GB Video Memory |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 120 GB |
| OS | 64-bit Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-7700 or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X |
|---|---|
| GPU | GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1070 / RTX 200, Radeon Vega 56, GPU RAM: 4 GB Video Memory |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 120 GB |
| OS | 64-bit Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a science fiction setting, moving through combat arenas. There are 10 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Mass Effect Legendary Edition is demanding
The ask Mass Effect Legendary Edition makes is moderate. GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1070 / RTX 200, Radeon Vega 56, GPU RAM lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. Mass Effect Legendary Edition needs 64 bit Windows. Mass Effect Legendary Edition wants about 120 GB of disk space, which is a real consideration on a smaller drive. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Mass Effect Legendary Edition at the floor and Mass Effect Legendary Edition at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Its stated video memory figure is modest at 4 GB, so on Mass Effect Legendary Edition the speed of the graphics chip binds before its memory does. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Mass Effect Legendary Edition?
Free up space before installing Mass Effect Legendary Edition: it needs roughly 120 GB. Once it's on disk the rest is unremarkable, GPU: NVIDIA GTX 760, AMD Radeon 7970 / R9280X GPU RAM: 2 GB Video Memory and 8 GB of RAM meet the minimum, so most current PCs handle the compute side.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. Mass Effect Legendary Edition needs about 120 GB of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Runs well | 1.31x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.74x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.33x |
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 well |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 Mass Effect Legendary Edition'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 Mass Effect Legendary Edition?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Mass Effect Legendary Edition?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5 3570 or AMD FX-8350; GPU: GPU: NVIDIA GTX 760, AMD Radeon 7970 / R9280X GPU RAM: 2 GB Video Memory; 8 GB RAM; OS: 64-bit Windows 10.
How much storage does Mass Effect Legendary Edition need?
Mass Effect Legendary Edition needs about 120 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Mass Effect Legendary Edition?
The RTX 3060 runs Mass Effect Legendary Edition comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Mass Effect Legendary Edition?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Mass Effect Legendary Edition is the GPU.