God of War Ragnarok requires 190 GB of space on an SSD, but the rest of its system requirements are reasonable.

You'd better make some space if you plan to host Kratos and Atreus on your SSD when God of War Ragnarok launches on September 19. The system requirements may not seem too demanding, but you'll still need 190 GB to accommodate all those Gods and their warring.

According to the specs, all of these metrics are displayed at native resolution without any upscaling. The PC port trailer promises a variety of upscaling tricks from all of the major players, along with super ultrawide support.

DLSS 3.7 is supported as well as FSR 3.1, XeSS 1.3 and DLSS 3.7. However, I've found that DLSS is the best option if you can.

Kratos still made his decision, and decided that you only need an Intel Core i5 4670K, AMD Ryzen 3 1,200, GTX 1060, or RX 5500XT to meet minimum specifications. The GTX 1060 is still required for many modern games, even though this spec only gets you 30 fps on average at Low settings.

The next step up is 1080p 60 fps on Medium settings, which requires an Intel i5 or AMD Ryzen 3600, along with an RTX Super or RX 5570, while 1440p at 60 fps requires an RTX 6800 or RX 3070. The game is not too demanding on the GPU, but it does look great in the trailers.

The categorisation gets a bit strange above that. Above High, Performance is what appears to be 4K 60fps settings at high settings. Ultra is 4K, but not Ultra.

Performance GPU specs jump to RTX 3080 and RX 6900 XT while Ultra requires an RTX 4700 Ti or RX 7900 XT. It shouldn't be a surprise at all that the frame rate is higher at 4K.

Still, that 190 GB requirement is a bit much. The original God of War port required a much smaller 70 GB. However, I understand that God of War Ragnarok has a larger game with lots of hi-res textures, and other graphical bells, and whistles.

It's time to uninstall some hangers in your library or maybe invest in a larger SSD to reduce the stress of moving around your large game installations. It's not only me who feels a slight tingle in the stomach when I see my SSD space decrease significantly, is it? It's not the Norse horrors that make me feel a little queasy, but the dwindling number of GBs and the choky space indicator.