Can I Run Dream Golf VR?
Dream Golf VR is a casual indie game from Isaac Stearns, released in 2017. Isaac Stearns both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Completionists have 180 achievements to work through. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. The base game is free to play, so trying it costs only disk space and download time. At 9 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel™ Core™ i5-4590 or AMD FX™ 8350, equivalent or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce™ GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon™ RX 480, equivalent or better |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 2 GB HDD |
Recommended requirements
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Setting and environment
Dream Golf VR places its action in a fantasy world, and the player works through spaces built for exploration. The publisher supplies 15 storefront screenshots of these environments. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Dream Golf VR has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs.
Why Dream Golf VR is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by Dream Golf VR. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 480, equivalent scores low against the RTX 3060, putting Dream Golf VR within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. System memory expectations are modest at 4 GB. Dream Golf VR takes about 2 GB of disk space.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Dream Golf VR?
Older hardware holds up here: Dream Golf VR runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GeForce™ GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon™ RX 480, equivalent or better enough to meet the minimum. Add 4 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.93x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.09x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.48x |
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 great |
| 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 Dream Golf VR'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 Dream Golf VR?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Dream Golf VR?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel™ Core™ i5-4590 or AMD FX™ 8350, equivalent or better; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce™ GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon™ RX 480, equivalent or better; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does Dream Golf VR need?
Dream Golf VR needs about 2 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Dream Golf VR?
The RTX 3060 runs Dream Golf VR comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Dream Golf VR?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Dream Golf VR is the GPU.