What's the Best PC for Playing Star Wars: Outlaws?

The first open-world Star Wars game is here! With massive, detailed worlds, built-in Ray Tracing, and some of the most advanced visual features we have seen to date in a game, Star Wars: Outlaws will truly push any PC. If you want to turn on some of the highest-end features, many of which are exclusive to PC, like Ray-traced Direct Illumination, you will need the absolute best of the best in terms of PC components. But, with the built-in effects, Star Wars: Outlaws remains a great-looking game, even on lower settings, but it comes at a higher base cost to performance. PC is easily the best place to play Star Wars: Outlaws, and we have a suite of PCs that will tackle the title with aplomb and let you enjoy exploring the gorgeous worlds of Star Wars: Outlaws without worrying about performance.

PC SPECS FOR STAR WARS: OUTLAWS

Minimum (1080p at 30 frames per second, Low graphics preset, AMD FSR 2 set to Quality):

Operating system: Windows 10, Windows 11 (64-bit versions)
Processor AMD Ryzen 5 3600 @ 3.6 GHz, Intel Core i7-8700K @ 3.7 GHz, or better
RAM 16 GB (running dual-channel mode)
Video card AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (6 GB), Intel Arc A750 (8 GB), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 (6 GB), or better
Hard drive 65 GB available storage (SSD)
DirectX version DirectX 12

Recommended (1080p at 60 frames per second, High graphics preset, AMD FSR 2 set to Quality):

Operating system: Windows 10, Windows 11 (64-bit versions)
Processor AMD Ryzen 5 5600X @ 3.7 GHz, Intel Core i5-10400 @ 2.9 GHz, or better
RAM 16 GB (running dual-channel mode)
Video card AMD Radeon RX-6700 XT (12 GB), NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 TI (8 GB), or better
Hard drive 65 GB available storage (SSD)
DirectX version DirectX 12

Picking a PC

While the above settings will offer a quality experience, many PC gamers today are playing on higher-resolution screens and looking to push visual features as far as they can. Running Star Wars: Outlawsabove 1080p is taxing, especially when an RTX 3060 is the baseline for high settings at 1080p. Star Wars: Outlaws pushes things even further with the PC-exclusive NVIDIA Raytraced Direct Illumination, a setting that will bring any GPU to its knees. To tackle these issues, we have recommendations for PCs that fit the bill, from recommended settings to trying to push the game’s visuals as far as they can go.

The Player: One PC

The Player: One PC has everything you need to stick to a PC that offers options between the minimum and recommended settings. You can add an RTX 4060 and the i5-13400F to surpass the recommended settings. The Player: One PC is also part of our subscription service, where you can pay monthly and return the PC at any time to get excellent performance combined with convenience.

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3050 GPU - 6GB or NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4060 GPU
Intel® Core™ i5-13400F or AMD Ryzen™ 5 7500F
16GB or 32GB DDR5 5200 MHz RAM
1TB or 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD storage space

The Player: Two PC

The Player: Two PC will get Kay Vess where she needs to go in style. Featuring an RTX 4070 or a 4070 Ti, alongside a suite of powerful AMD Processors, the Player: Two PC has everything you need to push settings into the high range. The Player: Two PC will tackle Star Wars: Outlaws with aplomb, and this desktop is also available for our subscription service. You can feel secure with guaranteed upgrades every two years and no-cost cancellations.

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070
AMD Ryzen™ 5 7600X or Ryzen™ 7 9700X
16GB or 32GB DDR5 5200 MHz RAM
1TB or 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD storage space

The Player: Three PC

If you need the best, the Player: Three PC won’t disappoint you. Feel free to max your settings and watch the gorgeous worlds unfold in Star Wars: Outlaws. With an RTX 4070 Ti, RTX 4080, or even an RTX 4090, you can turn on settings like Raytraced Direct Illumination and still get stable framerates, offering the best overall experience in terms of framerate and resolution alongside a robust graphical feature set. If you want Star Wars: Outlaws to look its best, the Player: Three PC is your one-stop shop.

NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4070 Ti SUPER or NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4080 SUPER
Intel® Core™ i7-13700KF, Intel® Core™ i9-13900KF or AMD Ryzen™ 7 7800X3D CPU
32GB or 64GB DDR5 5200 MHz RAM
1TB or 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD storage space

Performance Tips

While we offer several PCs to suit your needs when playing Star Wars: Outlaws, you may need some advice or tips on how to get the game running smoothly on your current system or your new NZXT PC. We have compiled some performance help below:

► Unless you have one of the best GPUs around (RTX 4080/4090), you need to disable NVIDIA’s Raytraced Direct Illumination. This third-party feature exclusive to PCs offers incredibly detailed raytraced lighting and shadows but at a massive cost. Without frame generation and a powerful GPU, even cards like the RTX 3080 will dip into the low 20s above 1080p.

► Raytracing is built into Massive’s utilization of the Snowdrop engine, as they did with their previous work, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. Star Wars: Outlaws was built from the ground up with raytracing, and certain areas and visual effects wouldn’t work without it. As such, raytracing in Star Wars: Outlaws can be set to low but never fully turned off. Cities like the one on Mirogana rely almost entirely on indirect lighting as they are obscured in shadow, something that regular rasterized lighting could never convincingly pull off.

► The base requirements for Star Wars: Outlaws are higher than most titles, and running the game smoothly can be challenging on older GPUs. Lowering raytracing settings overall will significantly improve performance.

► Use one of the available upscalers, like DLSS or FSR. If you have a card with frame generation available, that provides more options to improve performance across the board.

► Take your time and familiarize yourself with the settings menu and all the possibilities; Star Wars: Outlaws has a robust suite of tools to configure gameplay, performance, accessibility, and more.

Don’t miss out on everything Star Wars: Outlaws has to offer, and make sure to get the most out of your experience with these performance tips or PC recommendations. NVIDIA provides copies of Star Wars: Outlaws with qualifying purchases of their GPUs during their current promotion, so if you want to upgrade your video card, you have the option. Whether you go with our prebuilt PCs or just want to refine your existing setup, Star Wars: Outlaws will immerse you in a galaxy far, far away.