Can I Run CooKing?

Released in 2019, CooKing is a casual simulation game built by Big Cheese Studio. The game supports a single player campaign. Completionists have 302 achievements to work through. Critics scored it 64 on Metacritic. Its Steam review count passes 17 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. It is localised into 12 languages according to the store listing. A pad covers most of the game, though parts of it still expect a keyboard. Being 7 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe.

Developer Big Cheese StudioRelease 2019Genre Casual, Simulation

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	i5 3550 / FX-8350
GPU	GTX 660Ti 3GB / R9 270X 4GB
RAM	6 GB
Storage	6 GB HDD
DirectX	Version 9.0c

Recommended requirements

CPU	i5 4570 / Ryzen 7 1700x
GPU	GTX 1060 6GB / RX 480 GB 8GB
RAM	16 GB
Storage	6 GB HDD
OS	Windows 10 x64
DirectX	Version 11

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Players spend their time in an open sandbox, moving through systems the player balances from above. Simulation heavy building games lean harder on the processor as the map fills, so late game performance rarely matches the opening hours. There are 19 official screenshots to judge the look from. The view is from a first person view.

Why CooKing is demanding

CooKing is undemanding on the graphics side. Its GTX 1060 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear CooKing. CooKing expects 16 GB of system memory. CooKing takes about 6 GB of disk space.

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

Can you run CooKing?

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

CooKing targets a mainstream modern PC: GTX 660Ti 3GB / R9 270X 4GB and 6 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to GTX 1060 6GB / RX 480 GB 8GB for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears 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 CooKing'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.