Can I Run Gold?

Code Horizon released Gold in 2017. It is an indie simulation game, self published by the studio. It offers a single player campaign. There are 42 achievements to chase. Over 15 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. It is localised into 13 languages according to the store listing. At 9 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. 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. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones.

Developer Code HorizonRelease 2017Genre Indie, Simulation

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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU	Intel Core i5
GPU	NVidia GeForce GTX 760
RAM	8 GB
Storage	19 GB HDD
DirectX	Version 11

Recommended requirements

CPU	Intel Core i7
GPU	NVidia GeForce GTX 970
RAM	16 GB
Storage	19 GB HDD
DirectX	Version 11

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Gold places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through one continuous open world. That openness is what costs performance. Gold has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. 26 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Play is presented from a first person view.

Why Gold is demanding

Very little is asked of the GPU by Gold. NVidia GeForce GTX 970 scores low against the RTX 3060, putting Gold within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. Gold takes about 19 GB of disk space. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Gold 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 Gold?

100%

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

Gold is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVidia GeForce GTX 760, 8 GB RAM, about 19 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	1.98x
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 Gold'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.