Can I Run Direct?
Released in 2024, Direct is an action adventure game built by Sucker Punch Productions. Publishing duties went to PlayStation Publishing LLC. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. It carries 77 achievements. Its Steam review count passes 63 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Steam lists support for 26 languages. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i3-7100 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 75 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-8600 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 75 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a historical setting, moving through one continuous open world. The view is from a third person view. The publisher supplies 9 storefront screenshots of these environments. That openness is what costs performance. Direct has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves.
Why Direct is demanding
Demand in Direct is ordinary. The publisher has NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. Direct expects 16 GB of system memory. Disk footprint is light, near 75 GB on an SSD. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Direct scales hard with the hardware you give it.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Direct?
Older hardware holds up here: Direct runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT 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. Direct needs about 75 GB of SSD of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Runs well | 1.26x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.71x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.31x |
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 well |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 Direct'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
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What are the minimum system requirements for Direct?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3-7100 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon RX 5500 XT; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Direct need?
Direct needs about 75 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Direct?
The RTX 3060 runs Direct comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Direct?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Direct is the GPU.