Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart will be coming to PC soon and the requirements to play it have just landed. The PC port specs requirements were initially spotted by The Verge, via a post on Steam which has since been deleted.
The good news is there was in image accompanying that post. It contained all the specs requirements and that image was saved before the post was pulled down. One important detail is that you won’t need an SSD to play the game. This is significant because it was a focal point of the game coming to PS5. But it looks like PC players (when the game becomes available), will be able to get by with just an HDD.
And that will be a good thing for anyone who may not have an SSD for storage. Whether that’s because there physically isn’t one inside the PC or there’s just no room left on it. Either way, an SSD won’t be needed. But there’s also no harm in having one.
Ratchet and Clank PC requirements don’t include needing an SSD because of DirectStorage 1.2
DirectStorage 1.2 is the main reason why an SSD isn’t required. This tech from Microsoft boosts the loading times for games stored and running on HDDs. Load times is one of the main reasons to use an SSD. But DirectStorage 1.2 removes the need to have one.
In the now deleted blog post on Steam, Sony‘s in-house studio that handles the PC ports, Nixxes Software, notes that “DirectStorage is developed to fully utilize the speed of fast PCIe NVMe SSDs, but the technology is also compatible with SATA SSDs and even traditional hard disk drives. This means Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart on PC can use the same technology for loading data, regardless of the storage device in your system.”
Aside from not needing an SSD, it looks like you’ll need at least 75GB of disk space. Not a lot of storage space there compared to some other massive PC games. The minimum specs also state you need at least an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 GPU, although the recommended GPU is a GeForce RTX 2060. And the requirements go even higher if you want to tune the graphics up to ultimate with ray-tracing.
