The requirements to play GTA 6 on PC will be high, although they will be within the limits of the norm for a demanding game designed on the basis of the current generation of consoles. Rockstar will have to make it work on the Xbox Series S, a modest console that equivalent to a low-end PC up to date, and that’s ultimately good news for all that means at the requirements level.

To play in 1080p with a medium level of quality and an acceptable frame rate per second, we will not need a powerful computer, but it is important to remember one thing, that for GTA 6 to work well on compatibles, we will have to count yes or yes for the key component, and SSD storage disk.

These types of storage drives have become a basic requirement for most games today, and if we don’t have one, we won’t be able to enjoy GTA 6 on PC. That’s not to say the game won’t work on HDD, it might, but that’s clear performance will be very poor and what will we have problems loading assets which will seriously affect geometry and textures.

I’ll give you an example, Alan Wake 2 works on hard drive, but it has such serious problems that a large part of the geometry does not load, many textures are missing, and there are very serious graphical errors. The experience is absolutely terrible when playing this title with a hard drive and the same goes for others like Starfield which directly It jerks and freezes every few seconds.

Why GTA 6 will need an SSD

Well because it was developed based on current consoles like I said before and they all have SSD. The base is a model that includes the Xbox Series S and Xbox Series SSD disk with a speed of 2.4 GB/sso it would be ideal to have a solution that achieves at least this level of bandwidth.

On a more technical note, this game will need an SSD because it will use an advanced version of the RAGE graphics engine adapted to the current generation of consoles, and because it will retain the open world approach that characterizes the franchise. This world is generated in real time, so it needs to be maintained constant flow of assets.

A graphics engine of this level applied to an open world game will have to work large amount of property, and as i said the flow will be constant so it will need a lot of bandwidth to make everything work as it should. A hard drive typically operates at between 100MB/s and 200MB/s of bandwidth, while a cheap PCIe NVMe SSD can easily exceed that bandwidth. 2000 MB/s.

The difference in performance is huge as we can see and is crucial for an open world game with the quality that GTA 6 will need to be able to load all the necessary assets in real time, no loading screens between zones and no tearing or glitches when loading geometry into textures. I already talked to you about this a few years ago and SATA SSD already makes a huge difference in games compared to HDD.