Can I Run Dead Rising 2?
Released in 2010, Dead Rising 2 is an action adventure game built by Capcom Vancouver. Publishing duties went to Capcom. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. Its Metacritic score stands at 78. It is localised into 6 languages according to the store listing. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. 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. Over 6 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Completionists have 50 achievements to work through.
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
The game is set in an outbreak scenario. Play is structured around one continuous open world. The view is from a third person view. There are 35 official screenshots to judge the look from. That openness is what costs performance. Dead Rising 2 has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves.
Why Dead Rising 2 is demanding
Dead Rising 2 needs only 2 GB of RAM. The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 9. Disk footprint is light, near 9 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Dead Rising 2?
Dead Rising 2 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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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run Dead Rising 2?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Dead Rising 2?
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 2 need?
Dead Rising 2 needs about 9 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for Dead Rising 2?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Dead Rising 2 is the CPU.