Can I Run Aliens: Fireteam Elite?
Released in 2021, Aliens: Fireteam Elite is an action role playing game built by Cold Iron Studios. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. 12 languages are covered by the store listing. The game ships for Windows alone. There are 46 achievements to chase. Cloud saves are enabled. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. Its Steam review count passes 21 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Its 5 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD Athlon X4 950 / Intel i5-2500K |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD R9 285 4GB / Nvidia GTX 760 4GB |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 30 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 1600AF / Intel i5-7400 |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD RX 480 8GB / Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB |
| VRAM | 8 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 30 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Aliens: Fireteam Elite places its action in a horror setting, and the player works through combat arenas. 7 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Play is presented from a third person view.
Why Aliens: Fireteam Elite is demanding
Aliens: Fireteam Elite is undemanding on the graphics side. Its AMD RX 480 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Aliens: Fireteam Elite. Disk footprint is light, near 30 GB. Aliens: Fireteam Elite asks for 8 GB of video memory, so VRAM capacity matters here as much as speed. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Aliens: Fireteam Elite at the floor and Aliens: Fireteam Elite at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Aliens: Fireteam Elite?
Older hardware holds up here: Aliens: Fireteam Elite runs on modest graphics, with AMD R9 285 4GB / Nvidia GTX 760 4GB 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 | Comfortable | 1.93x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.09x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.48x |
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 | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs well |
| 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 Aliens: Fireteam Elite'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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Can my PC run Aliens: Fireteam Elite?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Aliens: Fireteam Elite?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD Athlon X4 950 / Intel i5-2500K; GPU: AMD R9 285 4GB / Nvidia GTX 760 4GB; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Aliens: Fireteam Elite need?
Aliens: Fireteam Elite needs about 30 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Aliens: Fireteam Elite?
The RTX 3060 runs Aliens: Fireteam Elite comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Aliens: Fireteam Elite?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Aliens: Fireteam Elite is the GPU.