Age of Empires IV Offers Min Spec Mode

Age of Empires IV is releasing this October 28 and there’s a lot to be excited about. This being the fourth installment to a successful franchise, expect many improvements that can eat up your PC's resources. The good news is that the developers at World’s Edge and Relic Entertainment made sure it could be enjoyed by a wide range of players.

In a post, the team revealed that they knew they had to release an RTS game, which would exceed the expectations of fans. One of the things they came up with was the Min Spec Mode which should allow players to experience the game despite having older machines. This mode is actually triggered through a combination of different in-game settings with help from the auto-detection system.

It should be obvious that the Min Spec Mode allows older machines to play the game for some trade-off. For example, the campaign can be playable though under lower resolution textures and simpler lightning.

Here are the PC system requirements:

• Minimum
  • AMD
    • CPU: Ryzen 5 2400G
    • GPU: Radeon RX Vega 11
    • VRAM: N/A
    • RAM: 8 GB
    • STORAGE: 50 GB
    • OS: Windows 10/Windows 11
  • NVIDIA
    • CPU: Intel i5–6300U
    • GPU: Intel HD 520
    • VRAM: N/A
    • RAM: 8 GB
    • STORAGE: 50 GB
    • OS: Windows 10/Windows 11
• Low
  • AMD
    • CPU: Ryzen 3 1300X
    • GPU: Radeon HD 7950
    • VRAM: 2 GB
    • RAM: 8 GB
    • STORAGE: 50 GB
    • OS: Windows 10/Windows 11
  • NVIDIA
    • CPU: Intel i5–4460T
    • GPU: NVIDIA GTX 760
    • VRAM: 2GB
    • RAM: 8 GB
    • STORAGE: 50 GB
    • OS: Windows 10/Windows 11
• Recommended
  • AMD
    • CPU: Ryzen 5 2600
    • GPU: Radeon RX 570
    • VRAM: 4 GB
    • RAM: 16 GB
    • STORAGE: 50 GB
    • OS: Windows 10/Windows 11
  • NVIDIA
    • CPU: Intel i5–8400
    • GPU: NVIDIA Geforce 970
    • VRAM: 4 GB
    • RAM: 16 GB
    • STORAGE: 50 GB
    • OS: Windows 10/Windows 11
• Ideal
  • AMD
    • CPU: Ryzen 5 3600
    • GPU: Radeon RX 5700 XT
    • VRAM: 8 GB
    • RAM: 16 GB
    • STORAGE: 50 GB
    • OS: Windows 10/Windows 11
  • NVIDIA
    • CPU: Intel i7–9700
    • GPU: NVIDIA RTX 2070
    • VRAM: 8 GB
    • RAM: 16 GB
    • STORAGE: 50 GB
    • OS: Windows 10/Windows 11

What do you think? Was offering a minimum setting a good way to make the game more accessible?