Can I Run Hardspace: Shipbreaker?
Released in 2022, Hardspace: Shipbreaker is a simulation game built by Blackbird Interactive. The game supports a single player campaign. Critics scored it 83 on Metacritic. Cloud saves are enabled. Over 19 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. It carries 27 achievements. It is localised into 9 languages according to the store listing. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel i5-6600K / AMD Ryzen 3 1300X |
|---|---|
| GPU | 4 GB VRAM, GeForce GTX 770 / Radeon R9 380 |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 4 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 (64-bit) |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel i7-8700 / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | 6 GB VRAM, GeForce GTX 980 Ti / Radeon RX Vega 56 |
| VRAM | 6 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 4 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 (64-bit) |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in space and the vessels that cross it, moving through an open sandbox. The view is from a first person view. That openness is what costs performance. Hardspace: Shipbreaker has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. There are 10 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Hardspace: Shipbreaker is demanding
The ask Hardspace: Shipbreaker makes is moderate. 6 GB VRAM, GeForce GTX 980 Ti / Radeon RX Vega 56 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. Disk footprint is light, near 4 GB. Hardspace: Shipbreaker expects 16 GB of system memory. Hardspace: Shipbreaker names just 6 GB of video memory, so the bottleneck sits in raw GPU throughput rather than VRAM. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Hardspace: Shipbreaker scales hard with the hardware you give it. 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 Hardspace: Shipbreaker?
Hardspace: Shipbreaker is light on hardware. Its minimum, 4 GB VRAM, GeForce GTX 770 / Radeon R9 380, 8 GB RAM, about 4 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 | Runs well | 1.48x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.83x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.37x |
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 well |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| 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 Hardspace: Shipbreaker'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 Hardspace: Shipbreaker?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Hardspace: Shipbreaker?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel i5-6600K / AMD Ryzen 3 1300X; GPU: 4 GB VRAM, GeForce GTX 770 / Radeon R9 380; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 (64-bit).
How much storage does Hardspace: Shipbreaker need?
Hardspace: Shipbreaker needs about 4 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Hardspace: Shipbreaker?
The RTX 3060 runs Hardspace: Shipbreaker comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Hardspace: Shipbreaker?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Hardspace: Shipbreaker is the GPU.