Gears of War E-Day PC System Requirements Guide

Gears of War: E-Day PC requirements details are here, and we found some interesting points around ray tracing and FPS. The game launches on October 6, 2026, and is built from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5. It supports 4K, HDR10, ray tracing, DLSS 4.5, AMD FSR Redstone, and uncapped frame rates on capable hardware. One thing to flag before checking your specs: a hardware ray-tracing-capable GPU is required, meaning older cards without RT support will not run the game at all, regardless of how powerful they are. An SSD is also mandatory. Here is a complete list of Gears of War E-Day PC System Requirements.

Gears of War E-Day PC System Requirements

Can Your Rig Handle Gears of War E-Day

The minimum bar is reasonable for a modern Unreal Engine 5 game, but there are two requirements that will catch people out. First, the mandatory ray tracing requirement means any GPU without dedicated RT cores simply cannot run the game. If you are on a GTX 1000 or 1600 series card, or older AMD cards without ray tracing support, you will need an upgrade. There is no way around this one.

The minimum GPU targets something like an RTX 2060 or RX 6600, which should get you a playable experience at lower settings. The recommended specs step up to an RTX 3060 Ti or RX 6700 XT, which is where you want to be for a smooth experience at 1080p or 1440p with the game's visual features turned up.

On the CPU side, the minimum is relatively light, asking only for something like a Ryzen 5 2600X or Intel i5-10400, which most people building or upgrading in the last four years will clear easily. The recommended CPU bumps to a Ryzen 5 5600 or i5-11600K, which is still a very accessible target. RAM sits at 12 GB minimum and 16 GB recommended. If you are running 8 GB, you will need to upgrade before launch.

On the positive side the game is optimised for handheld play on Steam Deck, Xbox Ally X, and Xbox Ally devices and supports ultrawide resolutions at both 21:9 and 32:9. If you are on a higher end setup the game also supports uncapped frame rates, Frame Generation, and Multi Frame Generation on supported hardware giving you plenty of headroom to push performance further.

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