Can I Run Espire 1?
Digital Lode Immersive Media released Espire 1 in 2019. It is an action adventure game, published by Tripwire Presents. It offers a single player campaign. Cloud saves are enabled. It is localised into 7 languages according to the store listing. It carries 380 Steam reviews, a small sample, so first hand performance reports are thin. Its 7 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. It carries 35 achievements.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or greater |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 21 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64 Bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-12400 / AMD Ryzen 5 5600X or greater |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT equivalent or greater |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 21 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 64 Bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a science fiction setting, moving through tight tactical maps. There are 13 official screenshots to judge the look from. Play is presented from a first person view.
Why Espire 1 is demanding
Espire 1 asks a lot of the graphics card. It targets NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti / AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT equivalent or greater, which our tables put above the RTX 3060, so Espire 1 tends to define the machine you build rather than fit around one you own. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Espire 1 scales hard with the hardware you give it. The install is small at roughly 21 GB, on an SSD. A 64 bit version of Windows is required.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Espire 1?
Older hardware holds up here: Espire 1 runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or greater 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 | Below the bar | 0.83x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.47x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.21x |
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 | Below minimum |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Playable |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs well |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs well |
Each card is compared against Espire 1'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
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What are the minimum system requirements for Espire 1?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel i5-4590 equivalent or greater; GPU: NVIDIA GTX 970 / AMD Radeon R9 290 equivalent or greater; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64 Bit.
How much storage does Espire 1 need?
Espire 1 needs about 21 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Espire 1?
The RTX 3060 runs Espire 1 well, meeting the title's GPU requirement.
What is the bottleneck for Espire 1?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Espire 1 is the GPU.