Can I Run Eco?
Eco is an adventure indie game from Strange Loop Games, released in 2018. Strange Loop Games both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Being 8 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Its Steam review count passes 11 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Steam lists support for 10 languages. There are 87 achievements to chase.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 1500X 3.5 GHz Quad-Core or Intel i5-6500 3.2 GHz Quad-Core or similar |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon R9 290 or NVIDIA GTX 970 or similar (Minimum: 4 GB VRAM) |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 6 GB |
| OS | Windows 11 64-Bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6 GHz Eight-Core or Intel Core i7 9700K 3.6 GHz Eight-Core or similar |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon RX 5700 or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 or similar (Recommended: 8 GB VRAM) |
| VRAM | 8 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB |
| OS | Windows 11 64-Bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in an open sandbox, moving through a base the player builds up. 28 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. What taxes the PC is the number of things being simulated, which means the requirements describe the start of a game, not the end of one.
Why Eco is demanding
The ask Eco makes is moderate. AMD Radeon RX 5700 or NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. The install is small at roughly 10 GB. It wants 8 GB of video memory, which rules out the 6 GB cards that are otherwise quick enough. Windows 11 appears in the requirements, which is worth checking before buying Eco. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Eco scales hard with the hardware you give it. Eco expects 16 GB of system memory.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Eco?
Older hardware holds up here: Eco runs on modest graphics, with AMD Radeon R9 290 or NVIDIA GTX 970 or similar (Minimum: 4 GB VRAM) 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
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Borderline | 1.1x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.62x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.27x |
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 | Playable |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 Eco'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 Eco?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Eco?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1500X 3.5 GHz Quad-Core or Intel i5-6500 3.2 GHz Quad-Core or similar; GPU: AMD Radeon R9 290 or NVIDIA GTX 970 or similar (Minimum: 4 GB VRAM); 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 11 64-Bit.
How much storage does Eco need?
Eco needs about 6 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Eco?
The RTX 3060 runs Eco comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Eco?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Eco is the GPU.