Can I Run Death Stranding Director's Cut PC?
Death Stranding Director's Cut PC is an action adventure game from KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS, released in 2022. 505 Games published it. It offers a single player campaign. Completionists have 63 achievements to work through. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Over 48 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. 20 languages are covered by the store listing. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Metacritic places it at 85. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 1050 4 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 560 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 80 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows® 10 |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel™ Core i7-3770 or AMD Ryzen™ 5 1600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 590 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 80 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows® 10 |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a world after its collapse, moving through one continuous open world. There are 24 official screenshots to judge the look from. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Death Stranding Director's Cut PC has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. It is played from a third person view.
Why Death Stranding Director's Cut PC is demanding
The ask Death Stranding Director's Cut PC makes is moderate. GeForce GTX 1060 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Death Stranding Director's Cut PC scales hard with the hardware you give it. The install is small at roughly 80 GB. Death Stranding Director's Cut PC calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB.
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 PC?
Older hardware holds up here: Death Stranding Director's Cut PC runs on modest graphics, with GeForce GTX 1050 4 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 PC needs about 80 GB of HDD 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 | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 PC'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 PC?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Death Stranding Director's Cut PC?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-3470 or AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200; GPU: GeForce GTX 1050 4 GB or AMD Radeon™ RX 560 4 GB; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows® 10.
How much storage does Death Stranding Director's Cut PC need?
Death Stranding Director's Cut PC needs about 80 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Death Stranding Director's Cut PC?
The RTX 3060 runs Death Stranding Director's Cut PC comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Death Stranding Director's Cut PC?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Death Stranding Director's Cut PC is the GPU.