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Can I Run Dawn City?

"Dawn City" is a first person VR shooting game. In 2030, the global zombie tide outbreak, the city became a hell on earth. Game player is surrounded by zombies in the center of the city in t...

Developer Lucid Dream StudioRelease 2017Genre Action, Adventure, Simulation
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPUIntel i5 4440
GPUNVIDIA GeForce® GTX 970
Storage8 GB HDD
DirectXVersion 11

Recommended requirements

CPUIntel i5 4440 equivalent or better
GPUNVIDIA GeForce® GTX 1070
Storage10 GB HDD
OSwindows 10
DirectXVersion 12

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Can you run Dawn City?

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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.

Older hardware holds up here: Dawn City runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 970 enough to meet the minimum. Add a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.

Bottleneck: GPU

Projected by resolution

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pRuns well1.31x
1440pBelow the bar0.74x
4KBelow the bar0.33x

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 cardVerdict
GTX 1060 6 GBRuns well
GTX 1060 LaptopPlayable
GTX 1650 4 GBPlayable
GTX 1650 LaptopPlayable
RTX 2060 6 GBRuns great
RTX 2060 LaptopRuns well
RTX 3060 12 GBRuns great
RTX 3060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4060 8 GBRuns great
RTX 4060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3070 8 GBRuns great
RTX 3070 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4070 12 GBRuns great
RTX 4070 LaptopRuns great
RX 6600 8 GBRuns great

Each card is compared against Dawn City'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 Dawn City?

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What are the minimum system requirements for Dawn City?

The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel i5 4440; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce® GTX 970.

How much storage does Dawn City need?

Dawn City needs about 8 GB of HDD storage.

Can an RTX 3060 run Dawn City?

The RTX 3060 runs Dawn City comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.

What is the bottleneck for Dawn City?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Dawn City is the GPU.