The Rift System Requirements

The Rift system requirements state that you will need at least 2 GB of RAM. Additionally, the game developers recommend somewhere around 4 GB of RAM in your system. The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an AMD Radeon HD 4670. Furthermore, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 is recommended in order to run The Rift with the highest settings. You will need at least 8 GB of free disk space to install The Rift. Make sure your have 10 GB of free disk space in order to install The Rift. To play The Rift you will need a minimum CPU equivalent to an Intel Core i3-4340. However, the developers recommend a CPU greater or equal to an Intel Core i5-4400E to play the game.

The Rift will run on PC system with Windows 8 and upwards.

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