IOI Lowers 007 First Light Hardware Requirements After 'Miscommunication'

A week ago, IO Interactive revealed the PC specs for 007 First Light.

They were, thankfully, pretty forgiving and accessible. The minimum requirements only need an NVIDIA GTX 1660/AMD Ryzen 5 3500 video card with an Intel Core i5 9500K / AMD Ryzen 5 3500 processor. Even the recommended specs (Intel Core i5 13500 / AMD Ryzen 5 7600, NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti / AMD RX 6700 XT) were ultimately on the lower side of things.

Given the price of PC parts today becoming more and more unreasonable, it's a breath of fresh air that we won't need to drop over $1000 to play a new game on our PC. It turns out, though, that IOI made a slight mistake with the specs. Thankfully, it's a minor change that isn't anything drastic: 007 First Light's minimum specs require 6 GB of Video Ram (down from 8), and the recommended specs ask for 8 GB of Video Ram (down from 12). The recommended RAM requirement for the game is also now 16 GB, down from 32.

Updated PC Requirements For 007 First Light

Here is the full, updated breakdown of minimum and required PC hardware requirements, complete with another stealth change.

Previously, the minimum Intel processor was the "Intel Core i5 9500K," which is a processor that doesn't exist.

IOI made the update following community backlash about "inconsistencies" in the earlier PC requirements.

The earlier mistake was due to an internal miscommunication leading to an older version of the specs to be shared. After a thorough re-examination and additional testing, the recommended RAM has been corrected from 32GB to 16GB, VRAM values have been updated, and the minimum CPU line has been fixed. Additional performance targets will be shared closer to launch.

007 First Light is set to release on May 27th, 2026, for PC, Xbox, PlayStation 5, and Nintendo Switch 2.