Can I Run Dragon Quest Builders 2?
Square Enix released Dragon Quest Builders 2 in 2019. It is an action adventure game, self published by the studio. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. 9 languages are covered by the store listing. At 7 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Completionists have 31 achievements to work through. Its Metacritic score stands at 85. Its Steam review count passes 6 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand.
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
The game is set in an open sandbox. Play is structured around one continuous open world. That openness is what costs performance. Dragon Quest Builders 2 has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. Play is presented from a third person view. There are 7 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Dragon Quest Builders 2 is demanding
The ask Dragon Quest Builders 2 makes is moderate. AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. Dragon Quest Builders 2 needs 64 bit Windows. At only 6 GB of VRAM, memory capacity is not what limits Dragon Quest Builders 2. The chip itself is. Dragon Quest Builders 2 takes about 12 GB of disk space. System memory expectations are modest at 6 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Dragon Quest Builders 2?
Dragon Quest Builders 2 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 2'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 2?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Dragon Quest Builders 2?
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 2 need?
Dragon Quest Builders 2 needs about 12 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Dragon Quest Builders 2?
The RTX 3060 runs Dragon Quest Builders 2 comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Dragon Quest Builders 2?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Dragon Quest Builders 2 is the GPU.