Can I Run Dragon Quest Builders?
Released in 2019, Dragon Quest Builders is an action adventure game built by Square Enix. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Its Metacritic score stands at 85. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. There are 31 achievements to chase. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Steam lists support for 9 languages. Over 6 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Its 7 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen™ 3 1300X or above | Intel® Core™ i3-3225 or above |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon™ HD 7750 (2GB) / NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 640 (2GB) |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 6 GB |
| Storage | 12 GB |
| OS | Windows® 7 SP1 / 8.1 / 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen™ 3 1300X or above | Intel® Core™ i7-3770 or above |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon™ RX Vega 56 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6 GB VRAM |
| VRAM | 6 GB |
| RAM | 6 GB |
| Storage | 12 GB |
| OS | Windows® 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Dragon Quest Builders places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through one continuous open world. That openness is what costs performance. Dragon Quest Builders has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. There are 7 official screenshots to judge the look from. It is played from a third person view.
Why Dragon Quest Builders is demanding
Demand in Dragon Quest Builders is ordinary. The publisher has AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. At only 6 GB of VRAM, memory capacity is not what limits Dragon Quest Builders. The chip itself is. Disk footprint is light, near 12 GB. Dragon Quest Builders needs only 6 GB of RAM. A 64 bit version of Windows is required.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Dragon Quest Builders?
Dragon Quest Builders targets a mainstream modern PC: AMD Radeon™ HD 7750 (2GB) / NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 640 (2GB) and 6 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to AMD Radeon™ RX Vega 56 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6 GB VRAM for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.7x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.96x |
| 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 Dragon Quest Builders'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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Can my PC run Dragon Quest Builders?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Dragon Quest Builders?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 3 1300X or above | Intel® Core™ i3-3225 or above; GPU: AMD Radeon™ HD 7750 (2GB) / NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 640 (2GB); 6 GB RAM; OS: Windows® 7 SP1 / 8.1 / 10 64-bit.
How much storage does Dragon Quest Builders need?
Dragon Quest Builders needs about 12 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Dragon Quest Builders?
The RTX 3060 runs Dragon Quest Builders comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Dragon Quest Builders?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Dragon Quest Builders is the GPU.