Can I Run Child of Light?
Child of Light is a role playing game from Ubisoft Montréal, released in 2014. Ubisoft published it. It offers a single player campaign and competitive multiplayer. 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 12 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Its Metacritic score stands at 77. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Two players can share one screen on a single machine, which is rare enough now to be worth noting. Steam lists support for 8 languages.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core2Duo E8200 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon II X2 240 @ 2.8 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | nVidia GeForce 8800 GT or AMD Radeon HD2900 XT (512MB VRAM with Shader Model 4.0 or higher) |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB |
| OS | Windows Vista |
| DirectX | 9 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core2Quad Q8400 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon II X4 620 @ 2.6 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | nVidia GeForce GTX260 or AMD Radeon HD4870 (512MB VRAM with Shader Model 4.0 or higher) |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB |
| OS | Windows Vista |
| DirectX | 9 |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a fantasy world. Play is structured around platforming routes. The view is in two dimensions. There are 7 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Child of Light is demanding
Disk footprint is light, near 3 GB. At 4 GB, system memory is undemanding. It targets DirectX 9, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Child of Light?
Child of Light targets a mainstream modern PC: nVidia GeForce 8800 GT or AMD Radeon HD2900 XT (512MB VRAM with Shader Model 4.0 or higher) and 2 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to nVidia GeForce GTX260 or AMD Radeon HD4870 (512MB VRAM with Shader Model 4.0 or higher) for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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Frequently asked questions
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What are the minimum system requirements for Child of Light?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core2Duo E8200 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon II X2 240 @ 2.8 GHz; GPU: nVidia GeForce 8800 GT or AMD Radeon HD2900 XT (512MB VRAM with Shader Model 4.0 or higher); 2 GB RAM; OS: Windows Vista.
How much storage does Child of Light need?
Child of Light needs about 3 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Child of Light?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Child of Light is the CPU.