The Dragon Age: The Veilguard is the long-awaited sequel that’s been a whole decade in the making. If you have been clinging to your old gaming rig since the days of Dragon Age: Inquisition, well, you are in luck! BioWare just dropped some details that should make you, and your wallet, pretty happy.
By them and according to Veilguard System requirements, you won’t need a state-of-the-art gaming setup to dive into this new adventure.
In fact, The Veilguard will run smoothly on even the most long-in-the-tooth hardware.
Got a ten-year-old NVIDIA GTX 970 or an AMD R9 290X gathering dust in your PC? No problem, you’re good. And if you haven’t bothered upgrading to some kind of fancy SSD, don’t sweat it—your trusty old HDD will do just fine.
Now, if you’re packing something more powerful—like a NVIDIA RTX 2070 or AMD’s Radeon RX 5700XT—you are in for a treat. You will be running this beauty of a game.
Just make sure you have at least 16 GB of RAM waiting for it, which is double what was required by Inquisition back in the day.
Yep, times have changed, but BioWare’s making sure The Veilguard keeps up while still playing nice with older setups.
Even better is that The Veilguard isn’t succumbing to the same exact mistakes as some of the other big-name releases recently.
You remember the debacle with Star Wars Jedi: Survivor on PC? It was a mess upon launch, and even now, it is still getting patched up.
By focusing on older hardware, BioWare’s bypassing those problems, which is a big win for all of us who don’t have the latest and greatest technology available.
And let me tell you, it’s not cutting corners with the graphics just because it’s so more accessible.
The pre-release footage looks amazing, proving great graphics aren’t about stuffing in as many pixels as possible.
That’s smart art direction, a striking color palette, and making sure everything runs silky smooth. You don’t need the newest gear for that.
Oh, and get this: The Veilguard will be SteamDeck verified right from the start.
With all of this flexibility, I wouldn’t be surprised if EA starts pondering over bringing the game to last-gen consoles like the PS4 and Xbox One.
I mean, they did it with Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, so why not with The Veilguard? There is a large audience out there still on legacy consoles, and I bet that if they had the opportunity to play BioWare’s latest masterpiece, they would certainly jump at it.
Whether you’re still gaming on your trusty old rig or you’ve got a powerhouse of a PC, Dragon Age: The Veilguard is shaping up to be an epic return to form you won’t want to miss.
