Can I Run Cook-Out?
Released in 2021, Cook-Out is a casual indie game built by Resolution Games. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. Steam lists support for 7 languages. Metacritic places it at 86. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. It carries 169 Steam reviews, a small sample, so first hand performance reports are thin. Cloud saves are enabled. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. It carries 49 achievements.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-4590/AMD FX 8350 equivalent or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 470 or greater |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 0.39 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel i5-4590 / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X or greater |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 480 or greater |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a fantasy world, moving through systems the player balances from above. The publisher supplies 5 storefront screenshots of these environments. What taxes the PC is the number of things being simulated, which means the requirements describe the start of a game, not the end of one. Play is presented in three dimensions.
Why Cook-Out is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by Cook-Out. NVIDIA GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 480 or greater scores low against the RTX 3060, putting Cook-Out within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Cook-Out at the floor and Cook-Out at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Cook-Out takes about 0 GB of disk space. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Cook-Out?
Cook-Out is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 470 or greater, 8 GB RAM, about 0.39 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.93x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.09x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.48x |
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 card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Cook-Out'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
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What are the minimum system requirements for Cook-Out?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-4590/AMD FX 8350 equivalent or better; GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 470 or greater; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Cook-Out need?
Cook-Out needs about 0.39 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Cook-Out?
The RTX 3060 runs Cook-Out comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Cook-Out?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Cook-Out is the GPU.