Can I Run Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning?
Cypress Inheritance, LLC released Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning in 2014. It is an action adventure game, self published by the studio. It offers a single player campaign. It is old enough that no current GPU generation existed when it shipped, so modern hardware tends to be far past what it can use. It carries 16 achievements. Builds exist for macOS as well as Windows. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-9700 / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super (VRAM 8 GB) / Radeon RX 5700XT (8GB) |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-12700 / AMD Ryzen 7 5700X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti (VRAM 12 GB) / AMD Radeon RX 6800XT (VRAM 16 GB) |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB HDD |
| OS | 64 bit Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a science fiction setting, moving through spaces built to be avoided rather than cleared. The publisher supplies 16 storefront screenshots of these environments. The view is in three dimensions.
Why Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning is demanding
Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning is a heavy title. Its NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti (VRAM target scores above the RTX 3060 we measure against, so anything meaningfully slower is making compromises rather than running Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning properly. Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning needs 64 bit Windows. DirectX 12 is named, so Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning expects 16 GB of system memory. The install is small at roughly 50 GB. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning scales hard with the hardware you give it.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning?
Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning is one of the more demanding games on PC. To reach its recommended tier you'll want a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080Ti (VRAM 12 GB) / AMD Radeon RX 6800XT (VRAM 16 GB)-class graphics card, with NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super (VRAM 8 GB) / Radeon RX 5700XT (8GB) the floor just to launch at minimum settings. Plan for a recent high-end GPU rather than a mainstream one.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Below the bar | 0.62x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.35x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.15x |
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 | Below minimum |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Playable |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Playable |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Playable |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Playable |
Each card is compared against Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning'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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Can my PC run Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i7-9700 / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super (VRAM 8 GB) / Radeon RX 5700XT (8GB); 16 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning need?
Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning needs about 50 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning?
The RTX 3060 can run Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning: it sits around the minimum GPU requirement, so expect to manage settings.
What is the bottleneck for Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Cypress Inheritance: The Beginning is the GPU.