Fortnite Gets Graphics Upgrade, Here Are the PC Specs Required

The PC version of Fortnite will get an important update regarding graphics improvements, Epic Games recently announced, that when the next season there will be a new level of graphic quality that gamers with high PC specs can take advantage of.

Epic updated quality preset options in Fortnite. Players who set their graphics settings to “High” will now get the same visuals as players who set their graphics to “Epic”.

While gamers using Epic’s settings will get better visuals than ever before, including the Strom effect, as well as “cooler-looking explosions, fire, and Slurp effects,” said Epic Games.

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Players using the highest graphics settings will also notice better post-processing effects with various lightning features, such as blooms, lens flares, and shadows.

Epic also introduced the effect for the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions of Fortnite last fall, and now they’re bringing it to PC.

“With this new update, Epic PC’s visual effects will now be on par with next-generation consoles,” an Epic Games spokesperson said. And based on the Polygon page, Fortnite’s graphics settings have supported ray tracing since last September.

Due to this visual improvement, Epic’s graphics settings will now require a slightly taller PC. Since the high quality presets will be like the visual quality of the old Epic, thus the PC specs required also go up.

For more details, please see the PC hardware specifications needed to play Fortnite in the new Epic settings:

Nvidia GTX 1080, AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, or equivalent GPU
4 GB VRAM or higher
Intel Core i7-8700, AMD Ryzen 7 3700x, or equivalent
RAM 16GB or higher
NVMe Solid State Drive
Windows 10 64-bit

Epic Games is also changing Fortnite’s recommended PC specs with an upcoming update, though it says the changes aren’t related to visual enhancements.

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However, the recommended GPUs this time around will be Nvidia GTX 960 or AMR Radeon R9 290, and Windows 10 64-bit OS (though Epic Games says that “players on Windows 7 64-bit and Windows 8 64-bit can still run Fortnite on optimal performance”)

Here are the recommended PC hardware specifications: