Can I Run Cuphead?
Cuphead is an action indie game from Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc., released in 2017. Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc. both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Split screen on one PC is supported, a feature most releases have quietly dropped. Builds exist for macOS as well as Windows. Its Metacritic score stands at 88. 12 languages are covered by the store listing. With more than 194 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Cloud saves are enabled. Completionists have 42 achievements to work through. Being 9 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 | Intel Core2 Duo E8400, 3.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+, 3.0GHz or higher |
|---|---|
| GPU | Geforce 9600 GT or AMD HD 3870 512MB or higher |
| RAM | 3 GB |
| Storage | 4 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Cuphead places its action in a deliberately retro presentation, and the player works through platforming routes. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. It is played in two dimensions.
Why Cuphead is demanding
Cuphead takes about 4 GB of disk space. Cuphead needs only 3 GB of RAM.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Cuphead?
Cuphead targets a mainstream modern PC: Geforce 9600 GT or AMD HD 3870 512MB or higher and 3 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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Can my PC run Cuphead?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Cuphead?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E8400, 3.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+, 3.0GHz or higher; GPU: Geforce 9600 GT or AMD HD 3870 512MB or higher; 3 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7.
How much storage does Cuphead need?
Cuphead needs about 4 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Cuphead?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Cuphead is the CPU.