Gears of War: E-Day system requirements drop — GTX 10-series left out, 130 GB storage required

Gears of War: E-Day is coming to Xbox and PC on October 6 — no PlayStation version. It's up for pre-purchase on Steam right now at $70, and alongside the Xbox Games Showcase reveal, the full PC system requirements landed too.

Minimum specs call for an AMD Ryzen 5 2600X, Intel Core i7 6850K, or Intel Core i5 10400, paired with 12 GB of RAM and a GPU of at least an Nvidia RTX 2060, AMD RX 6600, or Intel Arc A580. The recommended tier bumps that up to an AMD Ryzen 5 5600 or Intel Core i5 11600K, 16 GB RAM, and either an RTX 3060 Ti, AMD RX 6700 XT, or Intel Arc B580 — with newer-gen options like the RTX 5060 and AMD RX 9060 XT listed as well. Both tiers require 130 GB of SSD storage, no spinning drives allowed. Minimum OS is Windows 10 22H2 build 19045.7291; recommended is Windows 11 25H2.

The headline story here is the RTX 2060 as a minimum — most modern games still list a GTX 1070 or similar as their floor, so E-Day is cutting off the entire GTX 10-series. The likely explanation is ray tracing with no software fallback: the RTX 2060 is the first Nvidia generation with hardware RT support, which would explain both the elevated minimum and the relatively modest recommended tier. An RTX 3060 Ti or RX 6700 XT as a recommended GPU in 2025 is pretty reasonable, so the requirements aren't outrageous overall — just not friendly to older hardware.

The 130 GB storage demand is harder to defend. That's a massive footprint even by modern AAA standards, and it lands during an ongoing global memory and storage shortage. Clear out your SSD before October.