Ace Combat 8 Guide

Can I Run Ace Combat 8? PC Check

The hard line for Ace Combat 8 on PC is the graphics card: it needs hardware ray tracing and Shader Model 6.6, even on the lowest settings. Pick your card below and the check tells you that first, then walks through memory, Windows, the SSD rule and free space.

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Graphics card

Pick your card. The first thing the check answers is the hard requirement: whether the card has ray-tracing hardware.

How to read the result

The Steam page names two cards per brand, one for the minimum and one for the recommended tier. The check places your card in one of four classes against those two: under the minimum, the minimum class, between the two, or the recommended class. The classes are this site's estimate from each maker's lineup, not a benchmark or a frame-rate promise, and the check does not rate processors. The store's own targets are 1080p with upscaling at 30 fps on Low for the minimum card, and 1080p with upscaling at 60 fps on Medium for the recommended card. The full parts list, processor included, is on the system requirements page.

Cards that cannot run it

Every GeForce GTX card and every Radeon older than the RX 6000 series lacks ray-tracing hardware, so none of these meets the minimum requirement:

  • GeForce GTX 1060 (3 GB)
  • GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB)
  • GeForce GTX 1070
  • GeForce GTX 1080
  • GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
  • GeForce GTX 1650
  • GeForce GTX 1660
  • GeForce GTX 1660 Super
  • GeForce GTX 1660 Ti
  • Radeon RX 580 (4 GB)
  • Radeon RX 580 (8 GB)
  • Radeon RX 590
  • Radeon RX Vega 64
  • Radeon RX 5500 XT (4 GB)
  • Radeon RX 5500 XT (8 GB)
  • Radeon RX 5600 XT
  • Radeon RX 5700
  • Radeon RX 5700 XT

If your card is on that list, the console versions are the realistic way in; the platforms page covers PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, and the Steam Deck page covers handhelds.

It passes, but it crashes

A green check does not rule out crashes in the first week. The publisher's notice asks for two things before anything else: the graphics driver version the game recommends when it starts, and at least 16 GB left free on the install drive with Windows virtual memory switched on. The crash fixes page goes through those and the error codes players are hitting.