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Can I Run The Mage's Tale?

The corrupt wizard Gaufroi has kidnapped your master, Mage Alguin, and only you have any hope of saving him. You may be an apprentice now, but to save your master, you will need to explore ten deadly...

Developer inXile EntertainmentRelease 2018
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPUIntel i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350 equivalent or greater
GPUNVIDIA GTX 970/AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or greater
RAM8 GB

Recommended requirements

CPUIntel i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350 equivalent or greater
GPUNVIDIA GTX 1060/AMD Radeon RX 480 equivalent or greater
RAM8 GB

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Can you run The Mage's Tale?

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Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the graphics card is the tightest fit.

Older hardware holds up here: The Mage's Tale runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GTX 970/AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or greater 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

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pComfortable1.93x
1440pBorderline1.09x
4KBelow the bar0.48x

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 cardVerdict
GTX 1060 6 GBRuns great
GTX 1060 LaptopRuns great
GTX 1650 4 GBRuns well
GTX 1650 LaptopRuns well
RTX 2060 6 GBRuns great
RTX 2060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3060 12 GBRuns great
RTX 3060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4060 8 GBRuns great
RTX 4060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3070 8 GBRuns great
RTX 3070 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4070 12 GBRuns great
RTX 4070 LaptopRuns great
RX 6600 8 GBRuns great

Each card is compared against The Mage's Tale'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 The Mage's Tale?

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What are the minimum system requirements for The Mage's Tale?

The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel i5-4590 or AMD FX 8350 equivalent or greater; GPU: NVIDIA GTX 970/AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or greater; 8 GB RAM.

Can an RTX 3060 run The Mage's Tale?

The RTX 3060 runs The Mage's Tale comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.

What is the bottleneck for The Mage's Tale?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Mage's Tale is the GPU.