Can I Run DreadOut?
DreadOut is an adventure indie game from Digital Happiness, released in 2014. Digital Happiness both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign. 11 languages are covered by the store listing. Metacritic places it at 55. Over 4 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Alongside Windows it also ships for Linux. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. A pad covers most of the game, though parts of it still expect a keyboard. Being over ten years old, its ceiling was set by the hardware of a different era. Completionists have 42 achievements to work through.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Dual-Core 2.4 GHz or AMD Dual-Core Athlon 2.5 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT or AMD Radeon HD 3830 or Intel HD Graphics 4000, 512 MB VRAM |
| VRAM | 0.5 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 9.0c |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-2300 or AMD Phenom II X4 940 or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 or AMD Radeon HD 7750 with 1 GB VRAM or better |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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Setting and environment
DreadOut places its action in a horror setting, and the player works through self contained puzzle rooms. 14 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Play is presented from a third person view.
Why DreadOut is demanding
DreadOut makes almost no demand of the graphics card. Nearly any machine built in the last decade clears the stated NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 or AMD Radeon HD 7750 target. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. Disk footprint is light, near 10 GB. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 1 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run DreadOut?
DreadOut is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT or AMD Radeon HD 3830 or Intel HD Graphics 4000, 512 MB VRAM, 4 GB RAM, about 5 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: CPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 48.57x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 27.32x |
| 4K | Comfortable | 12.14x |
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.
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What are the minimum system requirements for DreadOut?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Dual-Core 2.4 GHz or AMD Dual-Core Athlon 2.5 GHz; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT or AMD Radeon HD 3830 or Intel HD Graphics 4000, 512 MB VRAM; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does DreadOut need?
DreadOut needs about 5 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for DreadOut?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for DreadOut is the CPU.