Can I Run Fishing: Barents Sea?
Fishing: Barents Sea is a simulation game from Misc Games, released in 2018. Misc Games both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign. Over 2 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Being 8 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Metacritic places it at 69. Cloud saves are enabled. There are 30 achievements to chase. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. The game ships for Windows alone. It is localised into 19 languages according to the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 3 GHz Dual Core |
|---|---|
| GPU | DirectX 11 compatible graphics card with 1 GB VRAM (Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 or better or comparable AMD card) |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB |
| OS | Windows Vista/7/8/10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Quad-Core Processor with 3 GHz or better recommended |
|---|---|
| GPU | DirectX 11 compatible graphics card with 3 GB+ RAM (Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 or better or comparable AMD card) |
| VRAM | 3 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Play is built around one continuous open world. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Fishing: Barents Sea has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. It is played from a first person view. 11 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Fishing: Barents Sea is demanding
The ask Fishing: Barents Sea makes is moderate. DirectX 11 compatible graphics card lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. Disk footprint is light, near 10 GB. Fishing: Barents Sea needs 64 bit Windows. Its stated video memory figure is modest at 3 GB, so on Fishing: Barents Sea the speed of the graphics chip binds before its memory does. Fishing: Barents Sea needs only 8 GB of RAM. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Fishing: Barents Sea 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 Fishing: Barents Sea?
Fishing: Barents Sea is light on hardware. Its minimum, DirectX 11 compatible graphics card with 1 GB VRAM (Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 or better or comparable AMD card), 4 GB RAM, about 10 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 | 1.7x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.96x |
| 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 Fishing: Barents Sea'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 Fishing: Barents Sea?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Fishing: Barents Sea?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 3 GHz Dual Core; GPU: DirectX 11 compatible graphics card with 1 GB VRAM (Nvidia Geforce GTX 750 or better or comparable AMD card); 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows Vista/7/8/10 64-bit.
How much storage does Fishing: Barents Sea need?
Fishing: Barents Sea needs about 10 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Fishing: Barents Sea?
The RTX 3060 runs Fishing: Barents Sea comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Fishing: Barents Sea?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Fishing: Barents Sea is the GPU.