Can I Run The Elder Scrolls Online PC?
The Elder Scrolls Online PC is an action adventure game from ZeniMax Online Studios, released in 2017. Bethesda Softworks published it. The game supports cooperative play. Metacritic places it at 80. At 9 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. It is localised into 7 languages according to the store listing. Its Steam review count passes 133 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. Alongside Windows it also ships for macOS.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5 2300 or AMD FX4350 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Direct X 11.0 compliant video card with 1GB RAM (NVIDIA® GeForce® 560 or AMD Radeon™ 6870) |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 150 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5 2300 or AMD FX4350 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Direct X 11.0 compliant video card with 4GB of RAM (NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 970 or AMD Radeon™ RX 570) or higher |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 150 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a fantasy world. Play is structured around one continuous open world. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and The Elder Scrolls Online PC has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. The publisher supplies 6 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why The Elder Scrolls Online PC is demanding
The Elder Scrolls Online PC is undemanding on the graphics side. Its Direct X 11.0 compliant video card target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear The Elder Scrolls Online PC. The Elder Scrolls Online PC needs 64 bit Windows. The Elder Scrolls Online PC needs only 8 GB of RAM. Budget around 150 GB of storage for The Elder Scrolls Online PC.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run The Elder Scrolls Online PC?
Free up space before installing The Elder Scrolls Online PC: it needs roughly 150 GB of HDD storage. Once it's on disk the rest is unremarkable, Direct X 11.0 compliant video card with 1GB RAM (NVIDIA® GeForce® 560 or AMD Radeon™ 6870) and 4 GB of RAM meet the minimum, so most current PCs handle the compute side.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. The Elder Scrolls Online PC needs about 150 GB of HDD of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 2.07x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.17x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.52x |
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 well |
| 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 The Elder Scrolls Online PC'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 The Elder Scrolls Online PC?
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What are the minimum system requirements for The Elder Scrolls Online PC?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i5 2300 or AMD FX4350; GPU: Direct X 11.0 compliant video card with 1GB RAM (NVIDIA® GeForce® 560 or AMD Radeon™ 6870); 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64-bit.
How much storage does The Elder Scrolls Online PC need?
The Elder Scrolls Online PC needs about 150 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run The Elder Scrolls Online PC?
The RTX 3060 runs The Elder Scrolls Online PC comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for The Elder Scrolls Online PC?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Elder Scrolls Online PC is the GPU.