No Man’s Sky system requirements

The No Man’s Sky system requirements have received a few tweaks, alongside some massive gameplay overhauls in recent years, but we still don’t have any official recommended specs.

Despite the increases, you still won’t need the best GPU from our buying guide to get the best out of No Man’s Sky. Despite a rocky start, Hello Game’s exploration game is now one of the best space games on PC, and most gamers should have no issue getting it to run on their PC or laptop.

Here are the No Man’s Sky system requirements:

No Man’s Sky’s minimum specs are extremely lightweight, as you’ll only need an Intel Core i3 CPU and 8GB of RAM. Playing the game on one of the best gaming PC picks from our buying guide might be overkill, but you’d have no issue running the game at the highest settings. However, if you’re simply looking to play the game on a low-spec rig or gaming laptop, you won’t have to try very hard; in fact, you technically don’t even need a GPU.

The idea of playing No Man’s Sky without a graphics card may sound absurd, but the game is actually perfectly playable without a dedicated graphics card. We’ve come far enough with integrated graphics that buying one of the best gaming CPU options from our buying guide, such as the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, would be more than enough to run the game without a dedicated graphics card.

As for the No Man’s Sky download size, despite all the updates that have arrived in the game over the last nine years, the total file size is just 15GB, well under what we expect for most modern 3D games.

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