Can I Run BLACKTAIL?
BLACKTAIL is an action adventure game from THE PARASIGHT, released in 2022. Focus Entertainment published it. The game supports a single player campaign. Completionists have 32 achievements to work through. The game ships for Windows alone. With more than 1 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Cloud saves are enabled. Metacritic places it at 80. Steam lists support for 13 languages.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-3570K / AMD FX-4300 |
|---|---|
| GPU | 4 GB VRAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 / Radeon RX 470 |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 (64bit only) |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-6600K / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X |
|---|---|
| GPU | 6 GB VRAM, GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER / Radeon RX 590 |
| VRAM | 6 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 (64bit only) |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a mythological world, moving through one continuous open world. That openness is what costs performance. BLACKTAIL has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. Play is presented from a first person view. There are 8 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why BLACKTAIL is demanding
The ask BLACKTAIL makes is moderate. 6 GB VRAM, GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER / Radeon RX 590 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. BLACKTAIL takes about 20 GB of disk space. BLACKTAIL calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means BLACKTAIL scales hard with the hardware you give it. Its stated video memory figure is modest at 6 GB, so on BLACKTAIL the speed of the graphics chip binds before its memory does.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run BLACKTAIL?
BLACKTAIL is light on hardware. Its minimum, 4 GB VRAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 / Radeon RX 470, 8 GB RAM, about 20 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 | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| 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 BLACKTAIL'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 BLACKTAIL?
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What are the minimum system requirements for BLACKTAIL?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-3570K / AMD FX-4300; GPU: 4 GB VRAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 / Radeon RX 470; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 (64bit only).
How much storage does BLACKTAIL need?
BLACKTAIL needs about 20 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run BLACKTAIL?
The RTX 3060 runs BLACKTAIL comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for BLACKTAIL?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for BLACKTAIL is the GPU.