Can I Run Battle Brothers?
Released in 2017, Battle Brothers is a role playing simulation game built by Overhype Studios. Publishing duties went to Hooded Horse. It offers a single player campaign. There are 101 achievements to chase. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Its 9 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Its Metacritic score stands at 80. Its Steam review count passes 25 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i3-2100 (dual-core) / AMD® Phenom™ II X2 565 (dual-core) |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460 (1 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 5770 (1 GB) / Intel® HD Graphics 4000 |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 2 GB |
| OS | Windows® 10 (64-bit) |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5-2400 (quad-core) / AMD® FX-Series™ FX-4300 (quad-core) |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 630 (1 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 6670 (1 GB) |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 2 GB |
| OS | Windows® 10 (64-bit) |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a medieval setting. Play is structured around one continuous open world. That openness is what costs performance. Battle Brothers has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. It is played from a third person view. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Battle Brothers is demanding
Battle Brothers makes almost no demand of the graphics card. Nearly any machine built in the last decade clears the stated NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 ( target. At 4 GB, system memory is undemanding. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Battle Brothers needs only 1 GB of video memory. The install is small at roughly 2 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Battle Brothers?
Battle Brothers is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460 (1 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 5770 (1 GB) / Intel® HD Graphics 4000, 2 GB RAM, about 2 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: CPU
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.
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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run Battle Brothers?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Battle Brothers?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i3-2100 (dual-core) / AMD® Phenom™ II X2 565 (dual-core); GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 460 (1 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ HD 5770 (1 GB) / Intel® HD Graphics 4000; 2 GB RAM; OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit).
How much storage does Battle Brothers need?
Battle Brothers needs about 2 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Battle Brothers?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Battle Brothers is the CPU.