Can I Run 2021?

Released in 2021, 2021 is a racing simulation game built by Red Dot Games. Publishing duties went to PlayWay S.A.. It offers a single player campaign. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. It carries 46 achievements. The game ships for Windows alone. Being 5 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. Its Steam review count passes 36 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Steam lists support for 17 languages. Workshop content is supported, so the published requirements describe the unmodded game only.

Developer Red Dot GamesPublisher PlayWay S.A.Release 2021Genre Racing, Simulation

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	Intel Core i5 4690 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
GPU	NVidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB
RAM	8 GB
Storage	35 GB HDD
DirectX	Version 11

Recommended requirements

CPU	Intel Core i5 6600K / AMD Ryzen 7 1700X
GPU	NVidia GeForce GTX 1070 8GB
RAM	16 GB
Storage	35 GB HDD
DirectX	Version 11

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Players spend their time in an open sandbox, moving through circuits and tracks. There are 32 official screenshots to judge the look from. The view is in three dimensions.

Why 2021 is demanding

The ask 2021 makes is moderate. NVidia GeForce GTX 1070 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means 2021 scales hard with the hardware you give it. 2021 takes about 35 GB of disk space.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run 2021?

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Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the graphics card is the tightest fit.

Older hardware holds up here: 2021 runs on modest graphics, with NVidia GeForce GTX 760 2GB enough to meet the minimum. Add 8 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.

Bottleneck: GPU

Projected by resolution

Resolution	Projection	Headroom
1080p	Runs well	1.31x
1440p	Below the bar	0.74x
4K	Below the bar	0.33x

A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.

Common GPUs

Graphics card	Verdict
GTX 1060 6 GB	Runs well
GTX 1060 Laptop	Playable
GTX 1650 4 GB	Playable
GTX 1650 Laptop	Playable
RTX 2060 6 GB	Runs great
RTX 2060 Laptop	Runs well
RTX 3060 12 GB	Runs great
RTX 3060 Laptop	Runs great
RTX 4060 8 GB	Runs great
RTX 4060 Laptop	Runs great
RTX 3070 8 GB	Runs great
RTX 3070 Laptop	Runs great
RTX 4070 12 GB	Runs great
RTX 4070 Laptop	Runs great
RX 6600 8 GB	Runs great

Each card is compared against 2021's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.