Can I Run Giants Uprising?
Giants Uprising is an action indie game from VARSAV Game Studios, released in 2021. Untold Tales published it. The game supports a single player campaign. 9 languages are covered by the store listing. Completionists have 30 achievements to work through. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Its 190 Steam reviews make it a niche release rather than a widely tested one. Being 5 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz (6 CPUs) / AMD Ryzen™ 5 2500X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / Radeon™ R9 390X |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 16 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 (64bit version only) |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Procesor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz (6 CPUs) / AMD Radeon RX 540 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / Radeon™ R9 390X |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 16 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 (64bit version only) |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a medieval setting, moving through spaces built for exploration. It is played in three dimensions. There are 6 official screenshots to judge the look from. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and Giants Uprising can never assume the player will stop and let it load.
Why Giants Uprising is demanding
The ask Giants Uprising makes is moderate. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. Disk footprint is light, near 16 GB. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Giants Uprising scales hard with the hardware you give it. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Giants Uprising calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level. Giants Uprising expects 16 GB of system memory.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Giants Uprising?
Giants Uprising is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / Radeon™ R9 390X, 8 GB RAM, about 16 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 Giants Uprising'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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Can my PC run Giants Uprising?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Giants Uprising?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8400 CPU @ 2.80GHz (6 CPUs) / AMD Ryzen™ 5 2500X; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 2GB / Radeon™ R9 390X; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 (64bit version only).
How much storage does Giants Uprising need?
Giants Uprising needs about 16 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Giants Uprising?
The RTX 3060 runs Giants Uprising comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Giants Uprising?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Giants Uprising is the GPU.