Can I Run Bully: Scholarship Edition?
Released in 2010, Bully: Scholarship Edition is an action adventure game built by Rockstar New England. Publishing duties went to Rockstar Games. It offers a single player campaign. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. Its Steam review count passes 36 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. The game ships for Windows alone. At more than a decade old it predates every current graphics architecture, which helps compatibility and limits how well it exploits a modern card. Steam lists support for 5 languages. Its Metacritic score stands at 72.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Pentium 4 (3+ GHZ) / AMD Athlon 3000+ |
|---|---|
| GPU | DirectX 9.0c Shader 3.0 supported, Nvidia 6800 or 7300 or better, ATI Radeon X1300 or better |
| RAM | 1 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 9 |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in an open sandbox. Play is structured around one continuous open world. The publisher supplies 15 storefront screenshots of these environments. It is played from a third person view. That openness is what costs performance. Bully: Scholarship Edition has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves.
Why Bully: Scholarship Edition is demanding
It targets DirectX 9, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy. System memory expectations are modest at 1 GB. The install is small at roughly 5 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Bully: Scholarship Edition?
Bully: Scholarship Edition targets a mainstream modern PC: DirectX 9.0c Shader 3.0 supported, Nvidia 6800 or 7300 or better, ATI Radeon X1300 or better and 1 GB of RAM for the minimum. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: RAM
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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run Bully: Scholarship Edition?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Bully: Scholarship Edition?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Pentium 4 (3+ GHZ) / AMD Athlon 3000+; GPU: DirectX 9.0c Shader 3.0 supported, Nvidia 6800 or 7300 or better, ATI Radeon X1300 or better; 1 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Bully: Scholarship Edition need?
Bully: Scholarship Edition needs about 5 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Bully: Scholarship Edition?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Bully: Scholarship Edition is the RAM.