Galactic Civilizations III is one of the first of the “new generation” of natively 64-bit, DirectX 11 games.  More importantly, it is both critically acclaimed and a best seller meaning that the hardware requirements of this game, while non-trivial, are not so high as to prevent it from being commercially successful.

We got the Steam hardware results on tens of thousands of Galactic Civilizations III players. Let’s take a look.

So what do they have?

Operating System

1. Windows 7 (42%)
2. Windows 8.1 (28%)
3. Windows 10 (25%)
4. Other (trivial)

Number of cores

1. 4 cores (76%)
2. 2 cores (15%)
3. 6 cores (7%)
4. Other (trivial)

CPU vendor

1. Intel (84%)
2. AMD (16%)

GPU vendor

1. Nvidia (68%)
2. AMD (23%)
3. Intel (8%)

System RAM

1. >12 GB (53%)
2. 8 GB (35%)
3. 4 GB (5%)
4. other (trivial)

Video memory

1. 2GB (30%)
2. 4GB (23%)
3. 1GB (21%)
4. other (trivial)

Display Resolution

1. 1920x1080  or 1920 x 1200 (63%)
2. 1600x900 or 1680 x 1050 (9%)
3. 1366x768 (6%)
4. 2560x1440 (6%)
5. other (trivial)

Multi-Monitors

1. 25% of players have multiple monitors