Valor Mortis System Requirements and the Upscaling Caveat

At a glance

Valor Mortis asks for a mid-range PC and, notably, an SSD in both of its requirement tiers — the listing marks SSD as required for the minimum profile as well as the recommended one. The two published frame-rate targets each carry a qualifier that most summaries drop.

Minimum

The minimum is a genuine floor rather than a formality: a Ryzen 5 3600 or i5-10600K paired with an RX 5600 XT or GTX 1660 Ti is a card from several generations back, and 16 GB of system memory is the same figure as the recommended tier. That last detail is unusual and worth reading as a signal — this build does not appear to be asking for more memory at higher settings, it is asking for a better GPU and CPU.

The stated result is 30 FPS at 1080p on the Low preset. That is playable but is not the experience the game is built to deliver, and the qualifier attached to it is covered further down this page.

Recommended

The recommended tier roughly doubles the graphics requirement while leaving memory unchanged: an RX 6800 or RTX 3070 on top of a Ryzen 7 5800X or i5-13400, for 60 FPS at 1440p on Medium. There is a wide gap between an RX 5600 XT and an RX 6800, which means the two tiers are describing quite different machines rather than adjacent ones.

The upscaling caveat

This is the single most important qualifier on the store page, and it is the reason a Steam discussion thread exists titled "why are system reuqirements posted with upscaling?" — a player thread that, as of October 14, 2026, had drawn 10 replies. The misspelling is the poster's, and it is reproduced here rather than corrected.

Resolution upscaling renders the game at a lower internal resolution and reconstructs it at your display resolution. When a target frame rate is quoted "with upscaling", the hardware listed is being asked to hit that figure on a smaller internal image than the output suggests. Dropping the qualifier — which most summaries of these requirements do — turns a conditional figure into an unconditional one, and then anyone running without upscaling concludes the requirements are wrong.

The honest reading is narrow and useful: with upscaling on, this hardware is the developer's stated target for this frame rate and preset. Anything beyond that is your configuration, not the store page's promise.

Changed since the demo

The minimums published now are lower than the ones published earlier in 2026, and the storage figure moved in the opposite direction. The comparison below reflects the figures reported at each point.

The three snapshots do not describe one direction of change. The playtest build asked for 8 GB of system memory and an SSD with no storage figure attached; the demo period saw the CPU and GPU floor raised and a 50 GB storage requirement listed; and the current listing asks for 16 GB on both tiers with a CPU and GPU floor lower than the demo's, plus 60 GB of storage. That is a requirement list that was revised more than once, not one that was simply cut.

Storage and SSD

Storage is the requirement most likely to catch you out, for three reasons.

• SSD is required on both tiers. Not recommended — required, on minimum as well as recommended. A mechanical drive is outside the published specification.
• The figure is 60 GB. It appears in both profiles, so it is a single number rather than a range, and it has risen since the demo period.
• Required space is not the same as downloaded size. A store listing describes the space the installed game needs; the download and any temporary working space during patching are separate concerns. Leave headroom rather than filling a drive to exactly 60 GB.

The full platform picture, including which systems the game does and does not support, is on the release date and platforms page.