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Can I Run Call to Arms: Gates of Hell?

Call to Arms: Gates of Hell is an action simulation game from Barbedwire Studios, released in 2021. Digitalmindsoft published it. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Completionists have 414 achievements to work through. 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. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Steam lists support for 10 languages. Its 5 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Cloud saves are enabled. Over 31 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. A pad covers most of the game, though parts of it still expect a keyboard.

Developer Barbedwire StudiosPublisher DigitalmindsoftRelease 2021Genre Action, Simulation, Strategy
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

GPUGTX 1070 / RX 5600
RAM16 GB
Storage80 GB SSD
OS64bit - Windows 7, 8, 10, 11
DirectX11

Recommended requirements

CPUAMD Ryzen 7 3700X
GPURTX 2070 / RX 6600
RAM32 GB
Storage80 GB SSD
OS64bit - Windows 10
DirectX12

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Setting and environment

Players spend their time in the Second World War, moving through combat arenas. It is played from a third person view. There are 26 official screenshots to judge the look from.

Why Call to Arms: Gates of Hell is demanding

Demand in Call to Arms: Gates of Hell is ordinary. The publisher has RTX 2070 / RX 6600 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. The install is small at roughly 80 GB, on an SSD. Call to Arms: Gates of Hell calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level. System memory is unusually high at 32 GB, so a 16 GB machine needs an upgrade even with a strong graphics card. Call to Arms: Gates of Hell needs 64 bit Windows. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Call to Arms: Gates of Hell at the floor and Call to Arms: Gates of Hell at the recommended tier are not the same experience.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run Call to Arms: Gates of Hell?

90%
Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), system RAM is the tightest fit.

Call to Arms: Gates of Hell leans on the processor more than the graphics card. A strong multi-core CPU paired with a mid-range card is the right shape here, the minimum GPU is a GTX 1070 / RX 5600, not a top-end GPU.

Bottleneck: RAM

Large install. Call to Arms: Gates of Hell needs about 80 GB of SSD of free storage.

Projected by resolution

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pBorderline1.1x
1440pBelow the bar0.62x
4KBelow the bar0.27x

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 cardVerdict
GTX 1060 6 GBPlayable
GTX 1060 LaptopPlayable
GTX 1650 4 GBBelow minimum
GTX 1650 LaptopBelow minimum
RTX 2060 6 GBRuns great
RTX 2060 LaptopRuns well
RTX 3060 12 GBRuns great
RTX 3060 LaptopRuns well
RTX 4060 8 GBRuns great
RTX 4060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3070 8 GBRuns great
RTX 3070 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4070 12 GBRuns great
RTX 4070 LaptopRuns great
RX 6600 8 GBRuns great

Each card is compared against Call to Arms: Gates of Hell'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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Frequently asked questions

Can my PC run Call to Arms: Gates of Hell?

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What are the minimum system requirements for Call to Arms: Gates of Hell?

The minimum requirements are GPU: GTX 1070 / RX 5600; 16 GB RAM; OS: 64bit - Windows 7, 8, 10, 11.

How much storage does Call to Arms: Gates of Hell need?

Call to Arms: Gates of Hell needs about 80 GB of SSD storage.

Can an RTX 3060 run Call to Arms: Gates of Hell?

The RTX 3060 runs Call to Arms: Gates of Hell comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.

What is the bottleneck for Call to Arms: Gates of Hell?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Call to Arms: Gates of Hell is the RAM.