Can I Run Europa Universalis IV?
Choose the two parts in your machine and this page says whether Europa Universalis IV will run, roughly what frame rate to expect from Europa Universalis IV, and what its developer actually asked for when they published the Europa Universalis IV requirements, with nothing to download and no detection tool to install.
Yes, comfortably
Comfortably. The GeForce RTX 4060 is well past what Europa Universalis IV recommends, so expect roughly 126 fps at 1080p (1920 x 1080) with room to raise settings further.
In Europa Universalis IV the Ryzen 5 5600 runs out before the GeForce RTX 4060 does, so the processor rather than the card is what sets this figure and a quicker card would not move it.
Check your own parts against Europa Universalis IV
Europa Universalis IV system requirements, as published
Reproduced exactly as the developer of Europa Universalis IV wrote them, so every figure in this table is theirs rather than our reading of what Europa Universalis IV needs.
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| Processor | Intel® Core™ i3-2105 / AMD® FX 4300 | Intel® Core™ i3 3240 / AMD® FX 8120 |
| Graphics | Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 460 / AMD® Radeon™ HD 5850 | Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 560 Ti |
| Memory | 4 GB | 8 GB |
The Europa Universalis IV requirements above were retrieved from its own Steam listing, app 236850, and reproduced unchanged, and because a patch to Europa Universalis IV can change them that listing is the authority if a figure here looks stale. The verdict and the frame rate shown for Europa Universalis IV are ours, modelled from our hardware index rather than measured on a test bench. Steam listing. How we calculate this.
What the Europa Universalis IV requirements actually mean
The two bars Europa Universalis IV sets sit unusually close together: its minimum card resolves to 3.7 on our index and its recommended one to 5.2, only 41% apart, which means anything that runs Europa Universalis IV at all is within reach of the recommended setting and there is little to gain from buying far past the minimum for this one.
Of the 89 graphics cards we track, 89 clear the Europa Universalis IV minimum and 89 clear its recommended spec, so 0 cards land in between: fast enough to start Europa Universalis IV and slow enough that the settings menu is where the rest of the work gets done.
The cheapest card still on sale that clears what Europa Universalis IV recommends is the Radeon RX 6400 at 12.0 on our index against the 5.2 Europa Universalis IV asks for, and since everything below it on the current shelf falls under that bar, the Radeon RX 6400 is where the Europa Universalis IV question stops being about the card.
The oldest card in our database that still gets over the Europa Universalis IV minimum is the GeForce GTX 970 from 2014, which is worth knowing before replacing anything: if what you have is that card or newer, Europa Universalis IV will start, and the question becomes which settings rather than whether.
Europa Universalis IV asks for 4 GB of system memory as a minimum and 8 GB as its recommendation, a step of 4 GB that matters more than it looks: at 4 GB the Europa Universalis IV world streams in from storage rather than from memory, which shows up as a stutter when you turn a corner instead of as a lower average frame rate.
For its processor minimum Europa Universalis IV names Intel® Core™ i3-2105 / AMD® FX 4300, and we deliberately do not map that onto our index: the parts in that string predate our database, so converting them would mean inventing a number rather than reading one, and the Europa Universalis IV verdict treats the processor as a secondary signal instead.