Can I Run Call of Duty: Black Ops?
Call of Duty: Black Ops is an action adventure game from Treyarch, released in 2015. Activision published it. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. At more than a decade old it predates every current graphics architecture, which helps compatibility and limits how well it exploits a modern card. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. 11 languages are covered by the store listing. It is not Windows only, with macOS covered too. Completionists have 98 achievements to work through. It keeps shared screen play alive, so a second player needs only a second controller. Its Metacritic score stands at 73. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. With more than 155 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Steam Workshop support means community content is part of the picture, and a heavy mod load can push the real requirements past anything the publisher lists.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i3-530 @ 2.93 GHz / AMD Phenom™ II X4 810 @ 2.60 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 470 @ 1GB / ATI® Radeon™ HD 6970 @ 1GB |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 6 GB |
| Storage | 100 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 64-Bit / Windows 8 64-Bit / Windows 8.1 64-Bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Call of Duty: Black Ops places its action in an outbreak scenario, and the player works through combat arenas. The view is from a first person view. The publisher supplies 15 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Call of Duty: Black Ops is demanding
Video memory is not the constraint here, at 1 GB. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. At 6 GB, system memory is undemanding. Installation is large at roughly 100 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Call of Duty: Black Ops?
Free up space before installing Call of Duty: Black Ops: it needs roughly 100 GB. Once it's on disk the rest is unremarkable, NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 470 @ 1GB / ATI® Radeon™ HD 6970 @ 1GB and 6 GB of RAM meet the minimum, so most current PCs handle the compute side.
Bottleneck: CPU
Large install. Call of Duty: Black Ops needs about 100 GB of free storage.
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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run Call of Duty: Black Ops?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Call of Duty: Black Ops?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i3-530 @ 2.93 GHz / AMD Phenom™ II X4 810 @ 2.60 GHz; GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 470 @ 1GB / ATI® Radeon™ HD 6970 @ 1GB; 6 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7 64-Bit / Windows 8 64-Bit / Windows 8.1 64-Bit.
How much storage does Call of Duty: Black Ops need?
Call of Duty: Black Ops needs about 100 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Call of Duty: Black Ops?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Call of Duty: Black Ops is the CPU.