Can I Run Aeon Drive?
Released in 2021, Aeon Drive is an action adventure game built by 2Awesome Studio. Publishing duties went to CRITICAL REFLEX. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Steam lists support for 14 languages. Alongside Windows it also ships for macOS and Linux. Its Metacritic score stands at 77. It carries 134 Steam reviews, a small sample, so first hand performance reports are thin. Completionists have 25 achievements to work through. It keeps shared screen play alive, so a second player needs only a second controller. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i3 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Intel HD 4000 |
| RAM | 1.95 GB |
| Storage | 0.49 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 10 |
Recommended requirements
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a deliberately retro presentation, moving through spaces built for exploration. There are 6 official screenshots to judge the look from. Play is presented from a side on view. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and Aeon Drive can never assume the player will stop and let it load.
Why Aeon Drive is demanding
Aeon Drive makes almost no demand of the graphics card. Nearly any machine built in the last decade clears the stated Intel HD 4000 target. Aeon Drive needs only 1.95 GB of RAM. The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 10. Disk footprint is light, near 0 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Aeon Drive?
Aeon Drive is light on hardware. Its minimum, Intel HD 4000, 1.95 GB RAM, about 0.49 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 48.57x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 27.32x |
| 4K | Comfortable | 12.14x |
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 great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| 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 Aeon Drive'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.
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The Last of Us Part IFrequently asked questions
Can my PC run Aeon Drive?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Aeon Drive?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3; GPU: Intel HD 4000; 1.95 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Aeon Drive need?
Aeon Drive needs about 0.49 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Aeon Drive?
The RTX 3060 runs Aeon Drive comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Aeon Drive?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Aeon Drive is the GPU.