UbiSoft has decided it’s time to let PC gamers know what they’ll need to play Rainbow Six Siege and there shouldn’t be a problem getting this to run on the recommended specs. This is UbiSoft though and you can never be sure what’s going to happen when you load it up.
The minumum specs are as follows:
Supported OS
Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64bit versions required)
Processor
Intel Core i3 560 @ 3.3 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 945 @ 3.0 GHz
RAM
6GB
Video Card
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD 5870 (DirectX-11 compliant with 1GB of VRAM) [See list of supported video cards down below]
DVD ROM Drive
DVD-ROM Dual Layer
Sound
DirectX® 9.0c compatible sound card with latest drivers
Hard Drive
30GB
Multiplayer
Broadband connection with 256kbps upstream or faster
And for those with more juice inside their rig then the recommended specs look like this.
Supported OS
Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64bit versions required)
Processor
Intel Core i5-2500K @ 3.3 GHz or better or AMD FX-8120 @ 3.1 Ghz or better
RAM
8GB
Video Card
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 (or GTX760 / GTX960) or AMD Radeon HD 7970 (or R9 280x [2GB VRAM] / R9 380 / Fury X) [See list of supported video cards down below]
DVD ROM Drive
DVD-ROM Dual Layer
Sound
DirectX® 9.0c compatible sound card 5.1 with latest drivers
Hard Drive
47GB
Multiplayer
Broadband connection with 512kbps upstream or faster
UbiSoft has also posted a list of “supported” cards.
NVIDIA
GeForce GTX460 or better, GTX560 or better, GTX650 or better, GTX750 or better, or any card from the GT900 and Titan Series
AMD
Radeon HD5870 or better, HD6870 or better, HD7770 or better, R7 260X or better, or any card from the R-300 series and Fury X#
The update also includes a footnote regarding laptops and graphic card support saying that laptops with the supported chipsets “may work but are not supported”, and that “these chipsets are the only ones that will run this game” but other “chipsets may be supported after release”.
Rainbow Siege is due for release on 1 December.
