Developer Blackbird Interactive and publisher Gearbox have released a blog post revealing the system requirements for Homeworld 3. The third installment of the popular sci-fi space RTS has pretty generous minimum requirements. For those looking to enable raytracing, Homeworld 3 will understandably require a beefier machine.

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Homeworld 3 PC System Requirements

Here are the system requirements for Homeworld 3 on PC:

MinimumRecommendedHighUltraRT LowRT HighRT UltraPresetLowMediumHighEpicRay Tracing: LowRay Tracing: HighRay Tracing: EpicResolution1080p1080p1440p2160p1080p1440p2160pGPUNvidia GTX 1060
AMD R9 480
Intel ARC A380Nvidia RTX 2070
AMD RX 5700
Intel ARC A580Nvidia RTX 2070S
AMD RX 6600 XT
Intel ARC A770Nvidia RTX 3080
AMD RX 6900XTNvidia RTX 3060
AMD RX 6650 XTNvidia RTX 3080
AMD RX 6900 XTNvidia RTX 4080
AMD RX 7900 XTXCPUIntel i5 8600K
AMD Ryzen 5 3600XIntel i7 11700K
AMD Ryzen 5 5600XIntel i7 12700K
AMD Ryzen 7 5800XIntel i7 13700K
AMD Ryzen 9 7900XIntel i5 10600K
AMD Ryzen 5 5500Intel i7 12700K
AMD Ryzen 7 5800XIntel i7 14900K
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3DRAM12GB16GB16GB16GB16GB16GB16GBVRAM6GB8GB8GB12GB8GB12GB16GBOS/StorageWindows 10 64-Bit
Windows 11 64-Bit
40GB HDDWindows 10 64-Bit
Windows 11 64-Bit
40GB HDDWindows 10 64-Bit
Windows 11 64-Bit
40GB HDDWindows 10 64-Bit
Windows 11 64-Bit
40GB HDDWindows 10 64-Bit
Windows 11 64-Bit
40GB HDDWindows 10 64-Bit
Windows 11 64-Bit
40GB HDDWindows 10 64-Bit
Windows 11 64-Bit
40GB HDD

Nothing too extreme

The minimum, recommended, and arguably even high requirements are quite minimal. All three even alow for an Intel ARC discrete GPU, requiring only 8GB of VRAM. All presets except for minimum require 16GB of RAM, which is pretty standard at this point. Looking over the requirements, it seems Homeworld 3 will be more CPU-reliant as opposed to GPU, which is par for the course for RTS titles. Even though Homeworld 3 is looking beautiful, the true marvel is having a ton of ships on the screen engaged in battle all at once.

It looks like the game filesize will be around 40GB, which unlike some recent titles, can apparently be played on an HDD and does not required an SSD.

Homeworld 3 releases on PC in February 2024.

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