Can I Run Call of Duty: Black Ops III?
Call of Duty: Black Ops III is an action adventure game from Treyarch, released in 2015. Activision published it. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. Metacritic places it at 73. 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. 11 languages are covered by the store listing. It is old enough that no current GPU generation existed when it shipped, so modern hardware tends to be far past what it can use. Its Steam review count passes 155 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Alongside Windows it also ships for macOS. It keeps shared screen play alive, so a second player needs only a second controller. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. It carries 98 achievements.
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
Players spend their time in an outbreak scenario, moving through combat arenas. The view is from a first person view. There are 15 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Call of Duty: Black Ops III is demanding
At 6 GB, system memory is undemanding. Budget around 100 GB of storage for Call of Duty: Black Ops III. Call of Duty: Black Ops III needs 64 bit Windows. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 1 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 III?
Free up space before installing Call of Duty: Black Ops III: 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 III needs about 100 GB of free storage.
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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run Call of Duty: Black Ops III?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Call of Duty: Black Ops III?
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 III need?
Call of Duty: Black Ops III needs about 100 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Call of Duty: Black Ops III?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Call of Duty: Black Ops III is the CPU.