Minimum and recommended

At a glance

Minimum and recommended for Vesper on Windows

How to read these numbers

Emulation is demanding and Vesper is early software. These figures are starting points, not guarantees, and your result depends on the title, your hardware, and the build you installed.

We publish no resolution or frame-rate targets. Meeting the recommended column makes a good session likely, not certain.

The two requirements that are absolute

AVX2 on the CPU and Vulkan 1.3 on the GPU are not negotiable. Everything else on this page is a matter of degree; those two are pass or fail.

AVX2 is an instruction set your processor either has or does not, and no setting adds it. Vulkan 1.3 arrives through your graphics driver, which means an old driver can fail the check on hardware that is otherwise perfectly capable. Update the driver before concluding your GPU is too old, and see the Vulkan entry for the background.

Where the money is best spent

• RAM from 8 GB to 16 GB is the most noticeable single upgrade.
• An NVMe SSD matters for the large streaming open worlds.
• CPU cores help traversal more than they help combat.
• VRAM matters for the GPU-bound titles rather than across the board.

If your machine sits at the floor, start with a lighter title such as Kena before judging the emulator on something like Spider-Man 2.