PC Requirements and Performance

ARC Raiders needs at least a Core i5-6600K or Ryzen 5 1600, 12 GB of RAM and a GTX 1050 Ti or RX 580; Steam recommends a Core i5-9600K or Ryzen 5 3600, 16 GB and an RTX 2070 or RX 5700 XT, as read Oct 31, 2026. Press settings guides favor motion blur off, lower shadows and effects, and Reflex on.

ARC Raiders needs at least an Intel Core i5-6600K or AMD Ryzen 5 1600, 12 GB of RAM and a GTX 1050 Ti, RX 580 or Arc A380 on Windows 10 or later, as Steam listed them on Oct 31, 2026, and it recommends a Core i5-9600K or Ryzen 5 3600, 16 GB and an RTX 2070, RX 5700 XT or Arc B570. The engine has changed since launch (Unreal Engine 5.3 to 5.7 in update 1.45.0, Sep 8, 2026), and all the settings guides below predate it, so treat their numbers as starting points.

System requirements

	Minimum	Recommended
OS	Windows 10 or later, 64-bit, latest update	Same
Processor	Core i5-6600K or Ryzen 5 1600	Core i5-9600K or Ryzen 5 3600
Memory	12 GB	16 GB
Graphics	GTX 1050 Ti, RX 580 or Arc A380	RTX 2070, RX 5700 XT or Arc B570
DirectX	12	12
Network	Broadband	Broadband

Source: Steam store page, read Oct 31, 2026. The listing read for this page gives no storage size, and the game is online only. An older list exists: Tech Test 1 in 2024 listed a GTX 970 at minimum, which the store has since replaced. Consoles and cloud are on Platforms and Crossplay.

Performance reports

The one frame rate measurement in the research is PCGamesN's on Nov 4, 2025: 104fps average and 55fps 1% lows at 1080p on an RTX 4070 with its recommended settings. That is launch-era and before the engine change. No Digital Foundry frame-rate analysis was found, and no reliable source has re-measured performance on 2.3.0 as of Oct 31, 2026.

Embark's own notes record where performance slipped. It acknowledged FPS issues on PC since 1.29.0 and gave driver advice in 1.36.0 (Jul 7, 2026), and listed crashes tied to Windows Update KB5121003 as a known issue on Sep 8, 2026.

Settings the press recommends

These guides are from launch or soon after, and they disagree in places. Dexerto's and KeenGamer's are aimed at frame rate and clarity, and GameRant's at PvP visibility.

Setting	Dexerto (Oct 29, 2025)	KeenGamer (Nov 12, 2025)	GameRant (Jan 28, 2026)
Motion blur	Off	Off	Off
Field of view	Max	High
Textures		High
Shadows		Low	Lower
Effects		Low	Lower
Post-processing		Low	Lower
Reflections		Medium or Low
Foliage		Low
Global illumination		Medium resolution, ray tracing off	Ray tracing on Static
Frame limit	Yes
Nvidia Reflex	On
Frame generation	By your hardware

Sources: Dexerto, KeenGamer, GameRant.

Sources also split on DLSS models and on field of view: CNN versus Transformer, and 60 versus 80 on FOV between PCGamesN and Dexerto. Test both on your own machine, since no later measurement settles it. One current trap: Embark listed corrupted lighting in the main Outpost building with Shadow quality on Low as a known issue at 2.0. Update 2.0 also added an Emissive Toggle to turn off backpack lights, and 2.3.0 added a camera bob option to Gameplay. The rest is on Controls and Settings.

Upscaling and DLSS

The game offers DLSS, FSR and XeSS, and its plugins have moved with patches.

Update	Date	Change
1.24.0	Apr 14, 2026	Fixed blurry visuals with AMD FSR Frame Generation
1.26.0	Apr 28, 2026	Intel XeSS moved to SDK 3.0.0; PSSR 2 on PS5 Pro
2.3.0	Oct 27, 2026	FSR plugin updated to 4.1.1; workaround for a ray tracing GPU crash on AMD RX 7000 series cards

Owners of an RX 7000 card who saw ray tracing crashes should try again on 2.3.0.

Memory fixes by patch

Update after update has cut memory use, so old advice about crashes may no longer apply.

Update	Date	Fix
1.3.0	Nov 20, 2025	Raider Voice crash on PCs without AVX2
Hotfix, Oct 31	Oct 31, 2025	Memory leak from Steam avatars
1.42.0	Aug 21, 2026	Improved UI texture streaming cache
1.47.0	Sep 22, 2026	Item tooltips no longer keep old data and grow memory use over long sessions
2.1.0	Oct 13, 2026	Lower memory on Spaceport, Buried City and Dam Battlegrounds, especially on Xbox Series S
2.2.0	Oct 20, 2026	Lower memory from loot spawning and in Frigate interiors
2.3.0	Oct 27, 2026	Lower Frigate memory for cargo hold crashes; lower audio memory on Xbox Series S

Fixes for launch failures and error codes are on Troubleshooting and Error Codes.

Frequently asked questions

What are the ARC Raiders system requirements? ARC Raiders' minimum on Steam is a Core i5-6600K or Ryzen 5 1600, 12 GB of RAM and a GTX 1050 Ti, RX 580 or Arc A380. Recommended is a Core i5-9600K or Ryzen 5 3600, 16 GB and an RTX 2070, RX 5700 XT or Arc B570, read Oct 31, 2026.

Can my PC run ARC Raiders? If your PC meets those specs and DirectX 12 on 64-bit Windows 10 or later, ARC Raiders is listed as supported. It is also on GeForce Now if your hardware falls short.

What are the best settings for ARC Raiders? Press guides for ARC Raiders agree on motion blur off and lower shadows and effects; Dexerto adds max FOV, a frame limit and Reflex on. Those guides date from Oct 2025 to Jan 2026, before the engine update.

Does ARC Raiders have DLSS? Yes. ARC Raiders supports DLSS, and also FSR, updated to plugin 4.1.1 in update 2.3.0, and XeSS. Sources split on whether the CNN or Transformer DLSS model is better.

What FPS does ARC Raiders get? PCGamesN measured ARC Raiders at 104fps average and 55fps 1% lows at 1080p on an RTX 4070 on Nov 4, 2025. No reliable source has re-measured it on update 2.3.0 as of Oct 31, 2026.

How much storage does ARC Raiders need? The Steam listing read for this page on Oct 31, 2026 gives no storage size for ARC Raiders. Check the store or your download client for the current size.