Can I Run Baldur's Gate II?
Released in 2023, Baldur's Gate II is an adventure role playing game built by Larian Studios. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Builds exist for macOS as well as Windows. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. Cloud saves are enabled. Its Steam review count passes 746 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Steam lists support for 15 languages. Metacritic places it at 96. It carries 54 achievements.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel I5 4690 / AMD FX 8350 / Snapdragon X Elite |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 / Intel Arc A380 / Qualcomm Adreno X1 (4GB+ of VRAM) |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 150 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel i7 8700K / AMD r5 3600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia 2060 Super / RX 5700 XT / Intel Arc A580 (8GB+ of VRAM) |
| VRAM | 8 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 150 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
The game takes place in a fantasy world. 19 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Baldur's Gate II is demanding
Demand in Baldur's Gate II is ordinary. The publisher has Nvidia 2060 Super / RX 5700 XT / Intel Arc A580 ( in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Baldur's Gate II scales hard with the hardware you give it. Baldur's Gate II needs 64 bit Windows. Baldur's Gate II expects 16 GB of system memory. Installation is large at roughly 150 GB, and an SSD is specified rather than suggested. The 8 GB VRAM figure quietly excludes a lot of 6 GB hardware that would otherwise cope.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Baldur's Gate II?
Free up space before installing Baldur's Gate II: it needs roughly 150 GB of SSD storage. Once it's on disk the rest is unremarkable, Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 / Intel Arc A380 / Qualcomm Adreno X1 (4GB+ of VRAM) and 8 GB of RAM meet the minimum, so most current PCs handle the compute side.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. Baldur's Gate II needs about 150 GB of SSD of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Runs well | 1.17x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.66x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.29x |
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 | Playable |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| 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 Baldur's Gate II'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
Can my PC run Baldur's Gate II?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Baldur's Gate II?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel I5 4690 / AMD FX 8350 / Snapdragon X Elite; GPU: Nvidia GTX 970 / RX 480 / Intel Arc A380 / Qualcomm Adreno X1 (4GB+ of VRAM); 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64-bit.
How much storage does Baldur's Gate II need?
Baldur's Gate II needs about 150 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Baldur's Gate II?
The RTX 3060 runs Baldur's Gate II comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Baldur's Gate II?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Baldur's Gate II is the GPU.