Check your PCIe lane speed. SA DX30 requires PCIe 4.0 x16. If you are using a riser cable or a slot running at x8, you will bottleneck. Force Gen4 in your BIOS.
| Component | Requirement | |-----------|-------------| | | Windows 11 (24H2 or newer) | | DirectX | DirectX 12 Ultimate (with Mesh Shaders & Work Graphs) | | CPU | AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D or Intel Core Ultra 9 295K | | GPU | NVIDIA RTX 6090 (32GB) or RTX 5090 (24GB) in SLI (NVLink) | | RAM | 96 GB DDR5 | | Storage | 150 GB Gen5 NVMe + 32GB Optane cache | | VRAM Required | 24+ GB | sa directx 30 system requirements fixed
If you currently own a GPU with less than 12GB of VRAM (RTX 3070, 3060 Ti, RX 6700), stop trying to force Sandstorm Awakening to run. The — not lowered. The fix proved the game is a next-gen title requiring next-gen hardware. Check your PCIe lane speed
Most "System Requirements" errors occur when a game asks for a specific "Feature Level" (like 11_0, 11_1, or 12_0) and your system cannot provide it. Force Gen4 in your BIOS
Want to test your system? Run dxdiag and check “DirectX Version” – it will say DirectX 12. That’s still the latest.
Because this is a fan-made mod and not an official game, there are no "fixed" official requirements from Rockstar Games. However, community benchmarks and modder recommendations indicate a significant jump from the base game.
This bypasses the game's broken auto-detection and tells the engine exactly how much VRAM you have. This fixes the common "Out of Video Memory" error.