Can I Run Azur Lane: Crosswave?
IDEA FACTORY released Azur Lane: Crosswave in 2020. It is an action adventure game, published by Idea Factory International. The game supports a single player campaign. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. The game ships for Windows alone. Over 6 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Completionists have 27 achievements to work through. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Being 6 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel CPU Core-I5 3.2GHz or above |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750Ti or AMD R7 260X equivalent |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 4 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel CPU Core i7 3770 or above |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 970 or AMD RX 560 2GB equivalent |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 4 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64bit (DirectX 11 equivalent) |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
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Setting and environment
Azur Lane: Crosswave places its action in an anime styled world, and the player works through combat arenas. The view is in two dimensions. 25 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Azur Lane: Crosswave is demanding
Azur Lane: Crosswave is undemanding on the graphics side. Its GeForce GTX 970 or AMD RX 560 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Azur Lane: Crosswave. Azur Lane: Crosswave needs only 8 GB of RAM. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Azur Lane: Crosswave scales hard with the hardware you give it. Azur Lane: Crosswave needs 64 bit Windows. DirectX 12 is named, so Azur Lane: Crosswave expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. Azur Lane: Crosswave takes about 4 GB of disk space.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Azur Lane: Crosswave?
Azur Lane: Crosswave is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750Ti or AMD R7 260X equivalent, 8 GB RAM, about 4 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 | 3.7x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 2.08x |
| 4K | Borderline | 0.92x |
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 Azur Lane: Crosswave'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 Azur Lane: Crosswave?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Azur Lane: Crosswave?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel CPU Core-I5 3.2GHz or above; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750Ti or AMD R7 260X equivalent; 8 GB RAM.
How much storage does Azur Lane: Crosswave need?
Azur Lane: Crosswave needs about 4 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Azur Lane: Crosswave?
The RTX 3060 runs Azur Lane: Crosswave comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Azur Lane: Crosswave?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Azur Lane: Crosswave is the GPU.