Can I Run EmergeNYC?
EmergeNYC is an action adventure game from FlipSwitch Games, released in 2016. FlipSwitch Games both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Being over ten years old, its ceiling was set by the hardware of a different era. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard. Builds exist for macOS as well as Windows. With more than 3 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5 / AMD FX-9590 or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 670 2GB / AMD R9 280 better |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB HDD |
| OS | 64 Bit Operating System |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-3770 / AMD FX-9590 or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 1070 4GBs or greater |
| RAM | 32 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB HDD |
| OS | 64 Bit Operating System |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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Setting and environment
EmergeNYC places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through one continuous open world. 16 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. It is played from a first person view. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and EmergeNYC has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs.
Why EmergeNYC is demanding
EmergeNYC sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting GTX 1070 4GBs or greater, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. EmergeNYC takes about 20 GB of disk space. At 32 GB, the RAM requirement is the one most likely to catch an otherwise capable PC out. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means EmergeNYC scales hard with the hardware you give it.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run EmergeNYC?
EmergeNYC is memory-hungry: it wants 16 GB of system RAM, above the 8 GB many machines still ship with. Graphically it is undemanding, GTX 670 2GB / AMD R9 280 better clears the minimum, so more RAM, not a new GPU, is the upgrade most players need.
Bottleneck: RAM
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Runs well | 1.31x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.74x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.33x |
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 well |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 EmergeNYC'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 EmergeNYC?
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What are the minimum system requirements for EmergeNYC?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5 / AMD FX-9590 or better; GPU: GTX 670 2GB / AMD R9 280 better; 16 GB RAM; OS: 64 Bit Operating System.
How much storage does EmergeNYC need?
EmergeNYC needs about 20 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run EmergeNYC?
The RTX 3060 runs EmergeNYC comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for EmergeNYC?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for EmergeNYC is the RAM.