As we get nearer to launch, many gamers have requested what sort of {hardware} Hytale requires. Our purpose is obvious: make the sport broadly accessible whereas nonetheless supporting the size, simulation, and modability that outline Hytale. Keep in mind that we’re nonetheless engaged on efficiency enhancements.
This submit outlines what we’ve examined to date, why sure {hardware} issues, and the present minimal, advisable, and recording/streamer system necessities. These necessities are based mostly on actual in-house benchmarks and can proceed to evolve as we optimize the sport.
You possibly can scroll all the way down to the “Beneficial Necessities” for a TL;DR. Hytale is just not a easy recreation for computer systems, so we attempt to clarify as a lot as attainable.
We’re actively working to carry Hytale to Linux and Mac as quickly as attainable.
Hytale requires each a 64-bit processor and working system.
Minimal: Focusing on 30+ FPS at 1080p on Low preset.Beneficial: Focusing on 60+ FPS at 1080p on Excessive preset.Recording/Streamer: Steady framerate with high-quality video seize and streaming at 1440p.
These classes mirror precise in-house testing throughout low-end built-in GPUs, mid-range laptops, and high-end recording setups.
Minimal Necessities (1080p @ 30 FPS)
OS: 64-bit Home windows 10 (model 1809), Home windows 11CPU: Intel Core i5-7500 (or equal), AMD Ryzen 3 1200 (or equal)RAM: Singleplayer, with devoted graphics: 8 GBSingleplayer, with built-in graphics: 12 GBMultiplayer-only: 8 GBGPU:Built-in:Intel UHD Graphics 620AMD Radeon Vega 6Dedicated:NVIDIA GTX 900 SeriesAMD Radeon 400 SeriesIntel Arc A-SeriesNote: A graphics card with up-to-date drivers supporting no less than OpenGL 4.1 is required. Future variations of Hytale might also require help for Vulkan 1.3 and DirectX 12.Storage: SATA SSD with 20 GB of free spaceNetwork: 2 Mbit/s connection for multiplayer (UDP/QUIC suitable).
Primarily based on benchmarks the place Intel HD Graphics 630 achieved ~30–34 FPS at 1080p. We undoubtedly suggest setting the “view distance” to 192 blocks. Be sure that no different packages are working to ensure efficiency.
Beneficial Necessities (1080p @ 60 FPS)
OS: 64-bit Home windows 10 (model 1809), Home windows 11CPU: Intel Core i5-10400 (or equal), AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (or equal)RAM: 16 GBGPU:Built-in:Intel Iris Xe GraphicsAMD Radeon 660M Devoted:NVIDIA GTX 900 SeriesAMD Radeon 400 SeriesIntel Arc A-SeriesNote: A graphics card with up-to-date drivers supporting no less than OpenGL 4.1 is required. Future variations of Hytale might also require help for Vulkan 1.3 and DirectX 12.Storage: NVMe SSD with 20 GB of free area Community: 8 Mbit/s connection for multiplayer (UDP/QUIC suitable)
Storage Necessities
Hytale procedurally generates a world that may, in apply, develop with no fastened restrict. Primarily based on intensive playtime in exploration mode, we discovered these numbers to be consultant of a standard playthrough. Have in mind: the extra you discover, customise, and construct with all kinds of blocks, the extra reminiscence and storage the sport would require.
Set up measurement: 8 GBSaved recreation measurement (in Exploration mode): ~661 MB for 5000×5000 blocks~27 KB per 32×32 chunk
We suggest no less than 10 GB of obtainable storage with 20 GB being a secure guess to benefit from the recreation for an extended length. SSD is strongly advisable.
Community Necessities
Hytale must be downloaded from the web as we don’t provide bodily gross sales. As soon as downloaded, you may all the time play singleplayer in “offline-mode”.
For multiplayer, the community necessities principally rely in your view distance. You’ll obtain much more information than importing. Your add velocity is usually irrelevant and really small. (<250 Kbit/s)
Now we have examined an Exploration Mode server and created a worst-case state of affairs by travelling at 1.5x velocity to maintain loading new world information quicker than a participant might.
View Distance: 192 blocksMinimum: 2 Mbit/s Beneficial: 4 Mbit/sView Distance: 384 blocksMinimum: 4.5 Mbit/sRecommended: 7 Mbit/sView Distance: 480 blocksMinimum: 6 Mbit/sRecommended: 10 Mbit/s
Have in mind these numbers are worst case situations. In the event you play usually in an exploration mode server whereas mining, crafting and exploring, you’ll not eat practically as a lot bandwidth and will even have playable experiences on 1 Mbit/s ADSL connections at decrease view distances.
Particularly enjoying minigames equivalent to Skywars, Bedwars or different minigames with small maps will end in very low bandwidth utilization.
Recording / Streamer Necessities (1440p @ 60 FPS)
For gamers who wish to document, stream, or produce Hytale content material with steady framerates throughout high-bitrate seize.
The purpose right here is just not uncooked FPS however constant frametime below heavy load (giant battles, advanced builds, excessive view distance, simultaneous server simulation if in singleplayer).
Recommended Setup
OS: 64-bit Home windows 10 (model 1809), Home windows 11CPU: Intel Core i7-10700K (or equal), AMD Ryzen 7 3800X (or equal)RAM: 32 GBGPU:NVIDIA RTX 30 SeriesAMD Radeon RX 7000 SeriesIntel Arc A-seriesNote: These suggestions are made as newer graphics playing cards present a lot better video high quality for a given bitrate, particularly for livestreaming situations. If supported, we additionally strongly suggest the usage of AV1 / HEVC for video recording.Storage:NVMe SSD with no less than 10% (or 50 GB) of free area accessible.Observe: For greatest efficiency, we suggest utilizing a separate drive for video recording.
One inside benchmark (AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, NVIDIA RTX 5080, 2×32 GB DDR5-6000) sustained round 400 FPS at 3840×1440 decision with view distance set to 768 blocks in singleplayer whereas recording the sport in AV1.
This tier is elective however useful for creators who need steady 60+ FPS at excessive resolutions throughout recording periods.
Hytale runs each a shopper and a server. Relying on the way you play, your {hardware} necessities change:
Singleplayer
Singleplayer is essentially the most demanding state of affairs. Your machine runs:
The complete recreation shopper (rendering, UI, gameplay)The complete simulation on the server (NPCs, world technology/updates, networking layer)
This will increase CPU and RAM utilization in comparison with multiplayer. Usually, the “server” or singleplayer requires extra CPU efficiency as a consequence of NPCs, world technology and voxel logic working in your pc.
Multiplayer
In multiplayer, the server runs remotely. Your PC solely handles graphics and gameplay, which generally leads to higher efficiency on the identical {hardware}.
In the event you intend to play solely multiplayer / minigames, you could possibly use lower than the necessities listed under.
Mods
Mods will improve necessities. Massive content material packs, advanced server logic, or prolonged view distances can push each the CPU and the GPU more durable than within the baseline recreation.
Essentially the most impactful efficiency choice known as “view distance”. That is the radius across the participant that’s seen, loaded and simulated across the participant.
The main downside of view distance is that each time you double the view distance (e.g. 192 -> 384), you quadruple the quantity of world round you. Which means you might have 4x as many blocks and NPCs, that are inflicting your pc to work more durable.
We suggest you expertise Hytale with a view distance of 384 blocks. We designed Orbis round this distance, but when that’s not sufficient for you, it’s possible you’ll wish to spend a while dialling within the supreme view distance to your personal pc.
Visualization of View Distance
(Screenshot of 192 view distance from above)
(Screenshot of 384 view distance from above)
(Screenshot of 192 view distance from participant perspective)
(Screenshot of 384 view distance from participant perspective for advisable gameplay)
(Screenshot of 768 view distance from participant perspective)
(Screenshot of 1024 view distance from participant perspective)
This part could be very technical and it isn’t anticipated that gamers perceive this however it might assist a technical buddy / group member that will help you decide in case your pc / laptop computer is enough.
Hytale is a sandbox voxel recreation, which suggests it cares extra about CPU efficiency and RAM than many different video games. As soon as your GPU meets our minimal specs, upgrading your CPU (and having sufficient system reminiscence) will normally assist greater than shopping for a good quicker graphics card.
Internally, Hytale builds giant texture atlases (huge mixed textures) and retains numerous world geometry in VRAM. Increased view distances improve this utilization. That’s why some GPUs run out of VRAM or begin stuttering even when they appear superb on paper.
As a rule of thumb:
Ensure that your GPU meets or exceeds our listed minimal (together with VRAM).Choose a devoted (discrete) GPU over an built-in one on laptops.After that, deal with a stable multi-core CPU and sufficient RAM fairly than a top-end GPU.
Now we have not completed optimizing Hytale. Graphics, world simulation, reminiscence conduct, GPU overhead, and extra are nonetheless being tuned. Anticipate efficiency to enhance additional as we progress by Early Entry and past. Our mission is to constantly enhance the efficiency of Hytale.
We’re nonetheless engaged on the system necessities for Mac and Linux which we intend to help for older Macs (Intel Processors) and newer Macs with M1+ (Apple Processors). We are going to replace this submit as we obtain extra information.
We acquired numerous inquiries concerning the Steamdeck and we additionally lack the power to check it proper now and we don’t plan to launch on Steam till we decide our capacity to adjust to Steam’s insurance policies. On paper it ought to work on Steamdeck however we additionally lack good enter mappings / small show UI – so we are going to as soon as once more ask for some endurance.
These necessities can be up to date as we apply optimizations by Early Entry. Our focus is to make Hytale run nicely throughout all kinds of methods with out compromising scale or modability.
When you have a pc that doesn’t run singleplayer very nicely, you must be a part of a buddy and play with them on their singleplayer or play on on-line servers as they present higher efficiency.
~ Hytale Staff
