Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker system requirements and benchmarking tool released

The fourth expansion for Final Fantasy 14 is months away, but if you want to know how well your rig will be able to handle Endwalker, Square Enix have published system requirements and a benchmarking tool you can download.

It comes with a character creator so that if you'd rather not see the default paladin bro in the benchmark you can make your hero, and it includes the option to make a male viera character, since Endwalker will let you play one of the previously gender-locked rabbitfolk as a man. 

The benchmark cutscene also highlights some of the additions coming with Endwalker, like the scholarly island of Old Sharlayan, which will be the new hub, and two new jobs: the Sage, who functions as a barrier healer, and the scythe-wielding Reaper

According to Square Enix, "This benchmark uses updated scoring criteria to account for the increase in multiplayer content and provide a more accurate evaluation of how your computer will perform when running the latest version of the game." 

Here are the Endwalker system requirements.

Final Fantasy 14 Endwalker minimum system requirements

  • OS: Windows® 8.1 64 bit, Windows® 10 64 bit
  • CPU: Intel® Core™i5 2.4GHz or higher
  • Memory: 4GB or higher
  • Available space on hard disk/SSD: 80GB or more
  • Graphics card: NVIDIA® Geforce® GTX750 or higher/AMD Radeon™ R7 260X or higher
  • Screen resolution: 1280x720
  • Internet: Broadband connection
  • Communications port: If you are using a router, please set up your ports so that the below packets can pass through. 
  • [Ports that may be used] TCP: 80, 443, 54992~54994, 55006~55007, 55021~55040
  • Sound card: DirectSound® supported sound card
  • DirectX®: DirectX® 11
  • OS: Windows® 8.1 64 bit, Windows® 10 64 bit
  • CPU: Intel® Core™i7 3GHz or higher
  • Memory: 8GB or higher
  • Available space on hard disk/SSD: 80GB or more
  • Graphics card: NVIDIA® Geforce® GTX970 or higher/AMD Radeon™ RX 480 or higher
  • Screen resolution: 1920x1080
  • Internet: Broadband connection
  • Communications port: If you are using a router, please set up your ports so that the below packets can pass through.
  • [Ports that may be used] TCP: 80, 443, 54992~54994, 55006~55007, 55021~55040
  • Sound card: DirectSound® supported sound card
  • DirectX®: DirectX® 11

Final Fantasy 14: Endwalker will be out on November 23.  

Jody Macgregor
Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.

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