Can I Run Foundry?

Released in 2024, Foundry is an indie simulation game built by Channel 3 Entertainment. Publishing duties went to Paradox Interactive. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. 9 languages are covered by the store listing. It carries 81 achievements. The game ships for Windows alone. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard. Its Steam review count passes 3 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now.

Developer Channel 3 EntertainmentPublisher Paradox InteractiveRelease 2024Genre Indie, Simulation, Strategy

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	Intel® Core™ i3-2120 \| AMD® FX™ 6350
GPU	Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 660 (2GB) \| AMD® Radeon™ RX 460 (2GB) \| ASUS® ROG Ally \| AMD® Radeon™ Vega 8 \| Intel® Iris® Xe
VRAM	2 GB
RAM	8 GB
OS	Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit

Recommended requirements

CPU	Intel® Core™ i5-4690K \| AMD® Ryzen™ 5 2400G
GPU	Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 970 (4GB) \| AMD® Radeon™ RX 480 (8GB) \| Intel® Arc™ A750 (8GB, ReBAR on)
VRAM	4 GB
RAM	8 GB
OS	Windows® 10 Home 64 Bit \| Windows® 11

Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Players spend their time in an open sandbox, moving through a base the player builds up. The publisher supplies 29 storefront screenshots of these environments. What taxes the PC is the number of things being simulated, which means the requirements describe the start of a game, not the end of one.

Why Foundry is demanding

Very little is asked of the GPU by Foundry. Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 ( scores low against the RTX 3060, putting Foundry within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. Foundry needs 64 bit Windows. Foundry needs only 8 GB of RAM. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Foundry at the floor and Foundry at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 4 GB.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run Foundry?

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Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the graphics card is the tightest fit.

Foundry is light on hardware. Its minimum, Nvidia® GeForce™ GTX 660 (2GB) | AMD® Radeon™ RX 460 (2GB) | ASUS® ROG Ally | AMD® Radeon™ Vega 8 | Intel® Iris® Xe, 8 GB RAM, 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	1.98x
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 Foundry'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.