Can I Run American Truck Simulator?
American Truck Simulator is an indie simulation game from SCS Software, released in 2016. SCS Software both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Completionists have 130 achievements to work through. Its Steam review count passes 165 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Alongside Windows it also ships for macOS and Linux. At more than a decade old it predates every current graphics architecture, which helps compatibility and limits how well it exploits a modern card. 30 languages are covered by the store listing. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. Metacritic places it at 76. Workshop content is supported, so the published requirements describe the unmodded game only.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-6400 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 or similar |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon RX 460 or Intel HD 630 (2GB VRAM) |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 25 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-9600 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 or similar |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon RX 590 (2GB VRAM) |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 12 GB |
| Storage | 25 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
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Setting and environment
Play is built around one continuous open world. There are 32 official screenshots to judge the look from. The view is from a first person view. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and American Truck Simulator can never assume the player will stop and let it load.
Why American Truck Simulator is demanding
The ask American Truck Simulator makes is moderate. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon RX 590 ( lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. American Truck Simulator names just 2 GB of video memory, so the bottleneck sits in raw GPU throughput rather than VRAM. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so American Truck Simulator at the floor and American Truck Simulator at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Disk footprint is light, near 25 GB. American Truck Simulator needs only 12 GB of RAM. A 64 bit version of Windows is required.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run American Truck Simulator?
American Truck Simulator is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon RX 460 or Intel HD 630 (2GB VRAM), 8 GB RAM, about 25 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 | 1.73x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.98x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.43x |
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 well |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 American Truck Simulator'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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Frequently asked questions
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What are the minimum system requirements for American Truck Simulator?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 or similar; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon RX 460 or Intel HD 630 (2GB VRAM); 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64-bit.
How much storage does American Truck Simulator need?
American Truck Simulator needs about 25 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run American Truck Simulator?
The RTX 3060 runs American Truck Simulator comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for American Truck Simulator?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for American Truck Simulator is the GPU.