Can I Run Cloud Gardens?
Cloud Gardens is a casual indie game from Noio, released in 2021. Noio both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign. With more than 2 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. It is localised into 9 languages according to the store listing. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Completionists have 11 achievements to work through. Alongside Windows it also ships for macOS. Being 5 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 2.4GHz Dual Core |
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| GPU | 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800 / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT |
| RAM | 1 GB |
| Storage | 0.29 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 10 |
Recommended requirements
| OS | Windows 10+ |
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Setting and environment
Cloud Gardens places its action in natural landscapes, and the player works through an open sandbox. There are 17 official screenshots to judge the look from. Play is presented in three dimensions. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Cloud Gardens has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs.
Why Cloud Gardens is demanding
The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 10. The install is small at roughly 0 GB. System memory expectations are modest at 1 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Cloud Gardens?
Cloud Gardens targets a mainstream modern PC: 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800 / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT and 1 GB of RAM for the minimum. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run Cloud Gardens?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Cloud Gardens?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 2.4GHz Dual Core; GPU: 512 MB NVIDIA GeForce 9800 / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT; 1 GB RAM.
How much storage does Cloud Gardens need?
Cloud Gardens needs about 0.29 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for Cloud Gardens?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Cloud Gardens is the CPU.