Can I Run Boat Crew?
Boat Crew is an action indie game from Tabbing Tabby, released in 2022. MicroProse Software published it. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. It carries 420 Steam reviews, a small sample, so first hand performance reports are thin. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Cloud saves are enabled. Because it hooks into the Steam Workshop, what a player installs on top can matter more for performance than the official figures.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-3330 / AMD FX 4300 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 750Ti / AMD HD7850 |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 1 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 10 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5 3570K / AMD FX 6300 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 1050 / AMD RX 560 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 1 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
The game is set in the Second World War. Play is structured around systems the player balances from above. The load here grows with the save. An empty map tells you very little about how the machine will cope once the build is large. 13 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Boat Crew is demanding
The graphics requirement for Boat Crew is light. Hardware around Nvidia GTX 1050 / AMD RX 560 is enough, so Boat Crew runs on machines never bought for gaming. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Boat Crew scales hard with the hardware you give it. The install is small at roughly 1 GB. Boat Crew needs only 8 GB of RAM.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Boat Crew?
Boat Crew is light on hardware. Its minimum, Nvidia GTX 750Ti / AMD HD7850, 4 GB RAM, about 1 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 Boat Crew'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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The Last of Us Part IFrequently asked questions
Can my PC run Boat Crew?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Boat Crew?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-3330 / AMD FX 4300; GPU: Nvidia GTX 750Ti / AMD HD7850; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does Boat Crew need?
Boat Crew needs about 1 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Boat Crew?
The RTX 3060 runs Boat Crew comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Boat Crew?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Boat Crew is the GPU.