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Resident Evil Village’s PC specs have officially been posted on the game’s Steam page. This new information has fittingly been made available on the same day as Resident Evil’s 25th anniversary, which has the series trending on Twitter. Many fans have been trying to estimate what hardware they will need in order to run the full game since footage was first released; while Resident Evil 7 already featured near-photorealistic visuals, Village promises to look and perform even better. This was already a given since the game is one of the most anticipated releases for current-gen consoles, but not as much is known about how optimized the PC experience will be.

The Resident Evil series has historically been fairly forgiving in terms of its games’ technical specifications. Resident Evil 7, for example, only required a minimum of an i5-4460 processor and a GeForce GTX 760 with 2 GB of VRAM. In order to hit 60 frames per second at 1080p, players were recommended to have an i7-3770 and a GeForce GTX 1060 with 3 GB of VRAM. Considering how incredible 7 still looks and performs today, Capcom’s Resident Evil team has certainly shown that it knows what it’s doing when it comes to optimizing the PC experience as much as possible.

According to Village’s Steam page, the latest entry in the franchise will slightly raise the bar. This time, the minimum CPU requirements are an i5-7500 or Ryzen 3 1200. The minimum GPU requirements are also a bit higher, calling for a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti or a Radeon RX 560, each with 4 GB of VRAM. The recommended specs are an i7-8700 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 along with a GeForce GTX 1070 or Radeon RX 5700. It should be noted, however, that the minimum requirements in this case are for running the game at 1080p/60fps, while the minimum requirements for Resident Evil 7 are for running the game at 1080p/30fps. On a more minor note, the game will also require DirectX Version 12; Resident Evil 7 required Version 11.

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Of course, players will need some more serious hardware in order to get the most out of Village. This means that a GeForce RTX 2070 or Radeon RX 6700 XT is required to support ray tracing. Additionally, going with the minimum or even recommended settings could potentially result in some dropped frames during graphics-intensive scenes. Of course, players will most likely be able to tweak individual settings such as texture resolution in order to achieve their most optimal settings, and there’s no rule mandating that players run the game at 60 fps. However, gameplay from the PS5-exclusive Maiden demo shows that the game runs beautifully at higher frame rates.

There’s a lot more Resident Evil content to look forward to coming up. Capcom is releasing another showcase for Village in April, and Resident Evil RE:Verse is receiving an open beta soon as well. The Gold Editions of both Resident Evil 7 and Village have also been confirmed to be coming to Stadia, and a new Village demo featuring combat is set to release on all platforms this Spring. With all of this and more in the works for Resident Evil Village and the rest of the franchise, it’s definitely a good time to be a Resident Evil fan.