Phantom Blade Zero launched on PC and PS5 on the night of October 28, and the PC version came with a few important notes from S-GAME itself. Here are the official requirements, what the day-one patch changes, and the studio’s warning about NVIDIA drivers.
According to the official Steam page, the minimum is an Intel Core i7-8700K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600, 16 GB of RAM and a GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB or Radeon RX 5500 XT 8 GB, targeting 1080p at 30 frames per second with upscaling. Recommended goes up to an Intel Core i5-10600K or Ryzen 5 5600X, 16 GB of RAM and a GeForce RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB or Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB, for 1440p at 60 frames, also with upscaling. Either way, an SSD is required, on 64-bit Windows 10 or 11.
Before launch, S-GAME prepared a day-one patch of about 5 GB that significantly improves ray tracing and path tracing performance and fixes several bugs. Players who pre-loaded should install it before launching; anyone downloading now gets the latest version automatically.
The headline was the graphics driver. The studio saw performance instability with NVIDIA driver 621.01 and recommends rolling back to 617.42 with a clean install until NVIDIA ships its next driver, which S-GAME expects soon. The game supports the DLSS 4.5 suite, with Ray Reconstruction and Dynamic Multi Frame Generation, on GeForce RTX cards.
For more modest PCs, S-GAME says it refined the non-ray-traced visuals to keep the art direction intact and tested the game on mid-range and lower-end machines as well as handhelds.
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Source: S-GAME e Steam.
Max Xavier
