Can I Run Gray Dawn?
Released in 2018, Gray Dawn is an adventure indie game built by Interactive Stone. It offers a single player campaign. The game ships for Windows alone. It is localised into 9 languages according to the store listing. It carries 18 achievements. With only 836 reviews on Steam, there is little community data on how it behaves across hardware. Its 8 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Its Metacritic score stands at 71. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 770 / Radeon R9 280X |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 6 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 64-bit |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-3930K /AMD Ryzen 5 1600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / Radeon RX 580 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 6 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 64-bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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Setting and environment
Gray Dawn places its action in an unsettling psychological setting, and the player works through environments built to be read rather than fought through. It is played from a first person view. There are 8 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Gray Dawn is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by Gray Dawn. GeForce GTX 1060 scores low against the RTX 3060, putting Gray Dawn within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Gray Dawn at the floor and Gray Dawn at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Disk footprint is light, near 6 GB. A 64 bit version of Windows is required.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Gray Dawn?
Gray Dawn is light on hardware. Its minimum, GeForce GTX 770 / Radeon R9 280X, 8 GB RAM, about 6 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 | 1.89x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.06x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.47x |
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 Gray Dawn'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 Gray Dawn?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Gray Dawn?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320; GPU: GeForce GTX 770 / Radeon R9 280X; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 64-bit.
How much storage does Gray Dawn need?
Gray Dawn needs about 6 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Gray Dawn?
The RTX 3060 runs Gray Dawn comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Gray Dawn?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Gray Dawn is the GPU.