Can I Run Death Stranding Director's Cut?
Death Stranding Director's Cut is an action adventure game from KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS, released in 2022. 505 Games published it. It offers a single player campaign. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Cloud saves are enabled. Metacritic places it at 86. Completionists have 63 achievements to work through. Steam lists support for 20 languages. With more than 50 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 560 4 GB |
| VRAM | 3 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 80 GB |
| OS | Windows® 10 |
| DirectX | 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel™ Core i7-3770 or AMD Ryzen™ 5 1600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 590 |
| VRAM | 6 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 80 GB |
| OS | Windows® 10 |
| DirectX | 12 |
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Setting and environment
Death Stranding Director's Cut places its action in a world after its collapse, and the player works through environments built to be read rather than fought through. It is played from a third person view. The publisher supplies 22 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Death Stranding Director's Cut is demanding
The ask Death Stranding Director's Cut makes is moderate. GeForce GTX 1060 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. DirectX 12 is named, so Death Stranding Director's Cut expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Death Stranding Director's Cut at the floor and Death Stranding Director's Cut at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Disk footprint is light, near 80 GB. Death Stranding Director's Cut names just 6 GB of video memory, so the bottleneck sits in raw GPU throughput rather than VRAM.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Death Stranding Director's Cut?
Older hardware holds up here: Death Stranding Director's Cut runs on modest graphics, with GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 560 4 GB enough to meet the minimum. Add 8 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. Death Stranding Director's Cut needs about 80 GB of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.73x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.98x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.43x |
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 | Runs great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Death Stranding Director's Cut'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 Death Stranding Director's Cut?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Death Stranding Director's Cut?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200; GPU: GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 560 4 GB; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows® 10.
How much storage does Death Stranding Director's Cut need?
Death Stranding Director's Cut needs about 80 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Death Stranding Director's Cut?
The RTX 3060 runs Death Stranding Director's Cut comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Death Stranding Director's Cut?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Death Stranding Director's Cut is the GPU.