Can I Run Cooking Simulator?
Big Cheese Studio released Cooking Simulator in 2019. It is a casual simulation game, self published by the studio. It offers a single player campaign. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. Its Steam review count passes 17 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Metacritic places it at 64. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Steam lists support for 12 languages. At 7 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. It carries 302 achievements.
Can your PC run it? →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 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in an open sandbox, moving through systems the player balances from above. 19 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. It is played from a first person view. The load here grows with the save. An empty map tells you very little about how the machine will cope once the build is large.
Why Cooking Simulator is demanding
Cooking Simulator 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 Simulator. Cooking Simulator takes about 6 GB of disk space. Cooking Simulator expects 16 GB of system memory.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Cooking Simulator?
Cooking Simulator 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 Simulator'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 Cooking Simulator?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Cooking Simulator?
The minimum requirements are CPU: i5 3550 / FX-8350; GPU: GTX 660Ti 3GB / R9 270X 4GB; 6 GB RAM.
How much storage does Cooking Simulator need?
Cooking Simulator needs about 6 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Cooking Simulator?
The RTX 3060 runs Cooking Simulator comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Cooking Simulator?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Cooking Simulator is the GPU.