Can I Run Euro Truck Simulator?
Euro Truck Simulator is an indie simulation game from SCS Software, released in 2012. SCS Software both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. Completionists have 106 achievements to work through. Metacritic places it at 79. Builds exist for macOS and Linux as well as Windows. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. Steam Workshop support means community content is part of the picture, and a heavy mod load can push the real requirements past anything the publisher lists. With more than 775 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. It is localised into 30 languages according to the store listing. Being over ten years old, its ceiling was set by the hardware of a different era. Cloud saves are enabled.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-6400 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 or similar |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon RX 460 or Intel HD 630 (2GB VRAM) |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 25 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-9600 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 or similar |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon RX 590 (2GB VRAM) |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 12 GB |
| Storage | 25 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
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Setting and environment
Play is built around one continuous open world. Play is presented from a third person view. That openness is what costs performance. Euro Truck Simulator has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. The publisher supplies 50 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Euro Truck Simulator is demanding
Euro Truck Simulator sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 or AMD Radeon RX 590 (, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. At only 2 GB of VRAM, memory capacity is not what limits Euro Truck Simulator. The chip itself is. Euro Truck Simulator takes about 25 GB of disk space. Euro Truck Simulator needs only 12 GB of RAM. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Euro Truck Simulator 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 Euro Truck Simulator?
Euro Truck Simulator is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon RX 460 or Intel HD 630 (2GB VRAM), 8 GB RAM, about 25 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: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.73x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.98x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.43x |
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 well |
| 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 Euro Truck Simulator'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 Euro Truck Simulator?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Euro Truck Simulator?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 or AMD Ryzen 3 1200 or similar; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 or AMD Radeon RX 460 or Intel HD 630 (2GB VRAM); 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64-bit.
How much storage does Euro Truck Simulator need?
Euro Truck Simulator needs about 25 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Euro Truck Simulator?
The RTX 3060 runs Euro Truck Simulator comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Euro Truck Simulator?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Euro Truck Simulator is the GPU.