Can I Run Dead Rising?
Capcom Vancouver released Dead Rising in 2010. It is an action adventure game, published by Capcom. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. Over 6 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. There are 50 achievements to chase. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. Being over ten years old, its ceiling was set by the hardware of a different era. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Critics scored it 78 on Metacritic. It is localised into 6 languages according to the store listing. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz or better, AMD Athlon X2 2.2 Ghz or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTS or better, ATI Radeon™ HD 3850 or better |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 9 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows Vista®/XP, Windows 7 |
| DirectX | 9 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in an outbreak scenario, moving through one continuous open world. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and Dead Rising can never assume the player will stop and let it load. The view is from a third person view. The publisher supplies 35 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Dead Rising is demanding
At 2 GB, system memory is undemanding. The install is small at roughly 9 GB. It targets DirectX 9, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Dead Rising?
Dead Rising targets a mainstream modern PC: NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTS or better, ATI Radeon™ HD 3850 or better and 2 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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What are the minimum system requirements for Dead Rising?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 Ghz or better, AMD Athlon X2 2.2 Ghz or better; GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800GTS or better, ATI Radeon™ HD 3850 or better; 2 GB RAM; OS: Windows Vista®/XP, Windows 7.
How much storage does Dead Rising need?
Dead Rising needs about 9 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for Dead Rising?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Dead Rising is the CPU.