Dragon Age: The Veilguard PC requirements revealed, no third-party DRM on PC

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Something to look forward to: We're only a few weeks away from the launch of Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which means the full PC system requirements have been revealed by Electronic Arts. EA has also confirmed that unlike console owners, PC users won't have the option of preloading the game. That might annoy some, but the upside is that Veilguard won't come with any third-party DRM, such as Denuvo.

Starting with the hardware requirements, Dragon Age: The Veilguard's lowest setting – 1080p/30 fps, graphics preset low – is pretty forgiving, asking for just a Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and GTX 970/GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon R9 290X.

The requirements become a bit more demanding at the recommended level of 1440p/30 fps or 1080p/60 fps, graphics preset high: a Core i9 9900K or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X combined with an RTX 2070 or AMD Radeon RX 5700XT. The RTX 3060 remains the most popular card among Steam survey participants, so plenty of people should manage this one.

The final Ultra level, which is 2160p@60fps with Ultra graphics presets, asks for either a Core i9 12900K or AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and an RTX 4080 or AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

EA has also included all the spec requirements for the different ray tracing options, which obviously push up the demands. See the full list below.

One consistent demand across all levels is 16GB of RAM and 100GB of SSD space.

At Gamescom 2024, Nvidia announced that Veilguard will be one of the upcoming games to feature DLSS and RTX technologies.

Ray Tracing Off

Minimum (1080p/30 fps, graphics preset low)

  • CPU: Intel Core i5-8400 (6 cores/6 threads) or AMD Ryzen 3 3300X (4 cores/8 threads)
  • RAM: 16GB
  • GPU: Nvidia GTX 970/GTX 1650 or AMD Radeon R9 290X
  • VRAM: 4GB
  • Storage: 100GB, SSD recommended

Recommended (1440p/30 fps or 1080p/60 fps, graphics preset high)

  • CPU: Intel Core i9 9900K or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (8 cores/16 threads)
  • RAM: 16GB
  • GPU: Nvidia RTX 2070 or AMD Radeon RX 5700XT
  • VRAM: 8GB
  • Storage: 100GB, SSD required

Ultra (2160p/60 fps, graphics preset ultra)

  • CPU: Intel Core i9 12900K or AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (16 cores/24 threads)
  • RAM: 16GB
  • GPU: Nvidia RTX 4080 or AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
  • VRAM: 12GB
  • Storage: 100GB, SSD required

Ray Tracing On

RT Selective (2160p/30 fps or 1440p/60 fps, graphics preset ultra)

  • CPU: Intel Core i9 9900K or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (8 cores/16 threads)
  • RAM: 16GB
  • GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080 or AMD Radeon RX 6800XT
  • VRAM: 10GB
  • Storage: 100GB, SSD required

RT On (1440p/30 fps, graphics preset ultra)

  • CPU: Intel Core i9 9900K or AMD Ryzen 7 3700X (8 cores/16 threads)
  • RAM: 16GB
  • GPU: Nvidia RTX 3080 or AMD Radeon RX 6800XT
  • VRAM: 10GB
  • Storage: 100GB, SSD required

RT On + Ultra RT (2160p/30 fps, graphics preset ultra)

  • CPU: Intel Core i9 12900K or AMD Ryzen 9 7950X (16 cores/24 threads)
  • RAM: 16GB
  • GPU: Nvidia RTX 4080 or AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX
  • VRAM: 12GB
  • Storage: 100GB, SSD required

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard has two elements you don't often see in games these days: it is a single-player-only game that can be played entirely offline, and you won't find any third-party DRM included. Both factors will likely please players, especially the lack of DRM such as Denuvo, which can impact a game's performance. You won't need to use the EA App to play it, either.

EA never explained why it isn't including third-party DRM in Dragon Age. It was recently found that games experience a 20% revenue drop if Denuvo is cracked soon after launch. However, no revenue is lost if the DRM remains uncracked for 12 weeks. It's why some companies remove Denuvo from titles months after launch, something EA did with Star Wars Jedi: Survivor.

PC owners can start downloading Dragon Age: The Veilguard at 9 am PT/12 pm ET on October 31. Xbox Series X/S owners can preload it on October 14th 9AM PDT, while PS5 owners have to wait until October 29th 9AM PDT.

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard PC requirements revealed, no third-party DRM on PC

 
7950x has now 24 threads and is the requirement for running the game on ultra for the most gpu bound resolution and settings. 🤪
Meanwhile 5700X3D, 7700, 5600x3d and 7600X3D should handle this game just fine.
Also the rt performance will take a typical brute forced 50% performance penalty at 30fps for graphics that look subjectively dated.

If you can play the game offline DRM free does that mean gamers will finally own something and be happy. I guess this publisher doesn't want to be Ubisofted!
 
I mean, it's actually great to see this, I'm not massively hopeful the game is going to be any good, I'll wait for reviews to come out first, but it is great to see no DRM and can be played offline.

HOWEVER, is this going to be used as an argument later down the line by EA?

"Did you see how bad the sales figures were for Dragon Age? That's because we didn't put any DRM on it! It's all the pirates fault we're gunna put DRM on everything!".

Completely ignoring the fact it was just a rubbish game and nobody bought it because it was rubbish.

I'm only bringing this up because, this is EA we're talking about, they have the reputation they do for good reason.

Edit: Looking at the trailers and reading up on it, this game is absolutely going to flop, so the DRM was removed genuinely to blame Priates for the bad sales numbers, incredible...
Remember this moment, next time you read an article about Pirates ruining gaming, just remember, EA is legitimately fabricating these statistics right here, right now.
 
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I greatly disliked the direction that combat went with Dragon Age 2 - it went from a strategic/tactical like combat (almost turn based like that I really enjoyed) in DA:O to some crappy hack'n'slash wannabe MMO type combat. Huge turn off for me, plus how they basically had a few maps and reused them over and over again and tried to make jokes about it in the game was disgusting.

DA:O was awesome. I played through it multiple times and enjoyed it every time. I hated DA2 and never got more than an hour or two into it and never touched it again.

I heard DA3 was just more of the same, if not worse when it came to combat so it doesn't bother me that I never played it.

I can't imagine this entry being any better. With the direction the franchise went after the first entry I have no interest in this one. If by some chance it turns out to be something better than DA2 and 3, I could give the game a try, but I'll have to check out reviews before that ever happens.

However, if the game is playable without being online and doesn't need to ever sync with EA servers to stay playable, maybe that will be a good thing. No sh!t awful DRM is also a great thing. Kudos to EA for going this route, hopefully it is more of something that we see down the road.

As it stands the only platform I purchase games on is GoG - copy the files to my side, install it the game without needing to be connected to GoG to play, that's how I roll. I may miss out on some games I would like to play that don't come to GoG, but it is more important to me to be able to utilize my purchases how I want over being dependent on a digital platform to abide by their terms to allow me access to something I paid for.
 
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I think it looks and plays good in the videos - not too concerned about the political aspects of it, I’ll find someone to bang regardless :p.
I have my «Dragon age Origins» fill with Baldurs Gate 3, which I’m about 70% through - so don’t mind a change of pace with some action combat instead
 
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Games requirements always seem high to me now considering what they look like without all the bells and whistles turned on .

I miss when a £150-200 GPU was a decent card I was happy to buy and then upgrade after getting good use of it.

I will wait and see but I think the odds of it being a good game are slim.


 
I *hate* specs like this; my father wants this, and has my old PC based around a 7700k; does that meet minimum requirements (more powerful then the i5, but older gen)?
 
gingerbill said:
Games requirements always seem high to me now considering what they look like without all the bells and whistles turned on .

I miss when a £150-200 GPU was a decent card I was happy to buy and then upgrade after getting good use of it.

I will wait and see but I think the odds of it being a good game are slim.
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- On the plus side, many games nowadays barely look any worse at low settings and run just fine.

In ye olde days, low was truly potato level graphics. Nowadays low just means the game loses that last 10% of really computationally expensive oomph, but still looks better than anything released prior to 2016 (so still quite good).

 
gamerk2 said:
I *hate* specs like this; my father wants this, and has my old PC based around a 7700k; does that meet minimum requirements (more powerful then the i5, but older gen)?
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7700k is on par with the i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 3300x so he will be fine to play the game.
 
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dirtyferret said:
7700k is on par with the i5-8400 / AMD Ryzen 3300x so he will be fine to play the game.
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They are not on par. Nowhere close. The i5 8400 is a 6 core when the 7700x is a quad core. 7700x is clocked higher but not enough to overcome a 50% core disadvantage.
dirtyferret said:
I thought it was because your comment said "I want to pirate your booty" to the mod?
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Burty117 said:
Yeah TechSpot is ultra touchy these days, Adblock got switched back on and I’ve been actively looking around for another site to spend time at, it’s a real shame, I enjoy TechSpot but the moderation here has got outta hand.
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No fun allowed! But hey, at least you didnt get you account banned for 3 months with no explanation and no way to see said explanation because you get locked out of your own account settings!

this is a bug Techspot needed to fix years ago. Techpowerup uses the same system but doesnt have this issue. Odd that...
axiomatic13 said:
- surgery trans scars?
This better be a violation of the site's TOS?
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Why is it a violation? This is a feature in the game, that devs have been explicitly vocal about (despite it making 0 sense in a world of magic where such a surgery would be totally pointless). Or in your mind does TOS mean you cant say "trans" in any capacity without being banhammered?

It's a fact: this game features "surgery trans scars", which makes no sense in game as you have healing magic that can revive people, so treating scars should be like preschool level, AND gender swap magic exists, so there'd be no reason to do such a surgery anyway. You'd just *poof* and move on. Much like the demands for wheelchair heroes in future D&D games, it's political pandering that is being forced front and center by the developers to virtue signal, showing where their priorities lie, and historically has resulted in poor game quality.
gdavid65 said:
Game visually doesn't look that good from the trailers anyway.. and I really couldn't give a flying F about ray tracing. It adds so little. And it's not like I don't own a near top-spec Nvidia card anyway...
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The graphics are really offputting, they dont fit in with the theme at all. The dialog we'v eheard so far is typical 2020s corpo slop, and the attitude the developers have presented on social media give 0 reason to trust this game will be any better then the gray sludge the industry has pumped out the last few years.
 
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If a 9900k or ryzen 3700x can get you 60fps at 1080p then those same cpus should be fine for 60 fps at 2160p because that resolution only increases the gpu load not cpu. Unless ray tracing is enabled of course
 
Theinsanegamer said:
They are not on par. Nowhere close. The i5 8400 is a 6 core when the 7700x is a quad core. 7700x is clocked higher but not enough to overcome a 50% core disadvantage.
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Rofl, obviously never read any of Steves core articles or they simply went completely over your head which is 100% believable based on that ridiculous comment.
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Another woke garbage game. When will these pathetic trash devs figure out we dont want your garbage?
 
gamerk2 said:
"I'm going to go completely offtopic and inject politics into this discussion because I can"
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The DEVELOPERS injected politics into their game via social media commentary for the last 2 years. They made the discussion political, so its not off topic.
dirtyferret said:
Rofl, obviously never read any of Steves core articles or they simply went completely over your head which is 100% believable based on that ridiculous comment.
www.techspot.com

Intel Core i7-8700K, i5-8600K, 8400 versus AMD Ryzen 7 1800X, R5 1600X, 1500X

Price vs. Performance & Conclusion. You've read the reviews and now we are putting them together on a single CPU comparison. On deck for this one we tested 8 processors in 9...
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Cool, you have results that AREN'T 7 years old? Maybe with some more recent games that use more then 2-3 cores? That use something faster then a vega 64? FFS SMH man.
 
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