Can I Run Fallout?
Fallout is a role playing game from Bethesda Game Studios, released in 2020. Bethesda Softworks published it. It offers cooperative play. It carries 72 achievements. With more than 77 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. Its 6 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. Steam lists support for 13 languages. A pad covers most of the game, though parts of it still expect a keyboard.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-6600k 3.5 GHz /AMD Ryzen 3 1300X 3.5 GHz or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB /AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB or equivalent |
| VRAM | 3 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 96 GB |
| OS | Windows 8.1/10 (64-bit versions) |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-4790 3.6 GHz /AMD Ryzen 5 1500X 3.5 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 970 4GB /AMD R9 290X 4GB |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 96 GB |
| OS | Windows 8.1/10 (64-bit versions) |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a world after its collapse, moving through one continuous open world. 17 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. That openness is what costs performance. Fallout has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves.
Why Fallout is demanding
Fallout is undemanding on the graphics side. Its NVIDIA GTX 970 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Fallout. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Fallout scales hard with the hardware you give it. Fallout takes about 96 GB of disk space. Fallout needs only 4 GB of video memory. Fallout needs 64 bit Windows. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Fallout?
Older hardware holds up here: Fallout runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB /AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB or equivalent 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
Large install. Fallout needs about 96 GB of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.98x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.11x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.49x |
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 Fallout'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 Fallout?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Fallout?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-6600k 3.5 GHz /AMD Ryzen 3 1300X 3.5 GHz or equivalent; GPU: NVIDIA GTX 780 3GB /AMD Radeon R9 285 2GB or equivalent; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 8.1/10 (64-bit versions).
How much storage does Fallout need?
Fallout needs about 96 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Fallout?
The RTX 3060 runs Fallout comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Fallout?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Fallout is the GPU.