If you plan on housing Kratos and Atreus in the halls of your SSD when "God of War Ragnarok" launches on September 19, you might want to leave a little room. The system requirements overall don't seem too stringent, but you'll need 190GB of free space to fit all the gods, and probably quite a few wars as well.

The good news is that according to the spec sheet, all of these metrics are given in native resolution without upscaling. Nevertheless, the trailer for the PC port promises a whole host of upscaling tricks by all the major players (along with super ultrawide support), so if you need a little help with your specs, you'll have no shortage of options.

DLSS3.7, FSR3.1, and XeSS1.3 are all supported, so regardless of your graphics card choice, you're sure to find something suitable for your latest GPU.

Still, Kratos made a judgment call and determined that an Intel i5 4670K or AMD Ryzen 3 1200, plus a GTX 1060 or RX 5500 XT, would be required to meet the minimum spec. The GTX 1060 still seems to remain the requirement for many modern games, but this kind specs would only average 30 fps at low settings.

Moving up the sheet, an Intel i5 8600 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 with RTX 2060 Super or RX 5700 is needed to achieve 1080p 60fps at medium settings, and RTX 3070 or RX 6800 is needed to achieve 60fps at 1440p High. is needed, which puts a fair amount of strain on the GPU, but from what I've seen so far, the game looks pretty amazing.

Above that is where the categorization gets a little weird: above High is Performance, which corresponds to the high 4K 60fps setting, and Ultra is 4K 60fps, or Ultra.

For Performance, the GPU specs make a big jump to RTX 3080 Ti and RX 6900 XT, while Ultra requires RTX 4070 Ti or RX 7900 XT. Being 4K is probably not that surprising, and there is always upscaling to push those frames into the stratosphere. There is always upscaling to push these frames into the stratosphere.

Still, the 190 GB storage requirement is unconvincing. The PC port of the original God of War had a much more reasonable 70 GB, but God of War Ragnarok is a big game with lots of high-res textures and other graphics.

Maybe it's time to start uninstalling libraries, or maybe it's time to invest in a high-capacity SSD and free yourself from the anxiety of shuffling through a huge installed library of games I'm not the only one who gets sick to my stomach every time I see the free space on my SSD dwindle significantly. I'm sure I'm not alone.