Can I Run Blackwind?
Blackwind is an action adventure game from Drakkar Dev, released in 2022. Blowfish Studios published it. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Split screen on one PC is supported, a feature most releases have quietly dropped. 8 languages are covered by the store listing. It is not Windows only, with macOS covered too. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. There are 63 achievements to chase.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD FX-8320 (3.5 GHz) / Intel i5-4690K (3.5 GHz) or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-3930K (3.2 GHz)/AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (3.2 GHz) or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a military setting, moving through spaces built for exploration. The view is in three dimensions. That openness is what costs performance. Blackwind has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. There are 10 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Blackwind is demanding
Blackwind sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. The install is small at roughly 3 GB. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Blackwind scales hard with the hardware you give it. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Blackwind?
Blackwind is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760, 4 GB RAM, about 3 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 | 1.7x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.96x |
| 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 Blackwind'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 Blackwind?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Blackwind?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD FX-8320 (3.5 GHz) / Intel i5-4690K (3.5 GHz) or better; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does Blackwind need?
Blackwind needs about 3 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Blackwind?
The RTX 3060 runs Blackwind comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Blackwind?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Blackwind is the GPU.