Can I Run Cooking Simulator VR?
Big Cheese Studio released Cooking Simulator VR in 2021. It is a casual indie game, self published by the studio. It offers a single player campaign. Completionists have 161 achievements to work through. The game ships for Windows alone. At 5 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. 12 languages are covered by the store listing. Over 1 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-8600 / AMD equivalent or greater |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 / AMD equivalent or greater |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 12 GB HDD |
| OS | 32/64-bit Windows 10 / 11 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-12700K / AMD equivalent or greater |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 4070 / AMD equivalent or greater |
| RAM | 32 GB |
| Storage | 12 GB HDD |
| OS | 32/64-bit Windows 10 / 11 |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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Setting and environment
Cooking Simulator VR places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through dense spaces with several routes through each problem. The publisher supplies 12 storefront screenshots of these environments. Play is presented in three dimensions.
Why Cooking Simulator VR is demanding
Cooking Simulator VR sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting NVIDIA GeForce GTX 4070 / AMD equivalent or greater, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. Cooking Simulator VR needs 64 bit Windows. System memory is unusually high at 32 GB, so a 16 GB machine needs an upgrade even with a strong graphics card. Cooking Simulator VR takes about 12 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 Simulator VR?
Cooking Simulator VR leans on the processor more than the graphics card, its minimum CPU, a Intel Core i5-8600 / AMD equivalent or greater, is what most builds trip over. A strong multi-core CPU paired with a mid-range card is the right shape here, the minimum GPU is a NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 / AMD equivalent or greater, not a top-end GPU.
Bottleneck: RAM
Borderline on RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. If you are buying today, plan a modest upgrade to system RAM to be comfortable, otherwise it is worth waiting for a better price or a stronger build.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Borderline | 1.1x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.62x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.27x |
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.
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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run Cooking Simulator VR?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Cooking Simulator VR?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-8600 / AMD equivalent or greater; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 / AMD equivalent or greater; 16 GB RAM; OS: 32/64-bit Windows 10 / 11.
How much storage does Cooking Simulator VR need?
Cooking Simulator VR needs about 12 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for Cooking Simulator VR?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Cooking Simulator VR is the RAM.