Can I Run Horizon Forbidden West?
Guerrilla released Horizon Forbidden West in 2024. It is an action role playing game, published by PlayStation Publishing LLC. The game supports a single player campaign. It carries 80 achievements. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. The game ships for Windows alone. 25 languages are covered by the store listing. Its Steam review count passes 19 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. 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 i3-8100 or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 5500XT 4GB |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 150 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit (version 1909 or higher) |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-8600 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or AMD Radeon RX 5700 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 150 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit (version 1909 or higher) |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a world after its collapse, moving through one continuous open world. The view is from a third person view. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Horizon Forbidden West has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. There are 7 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Horizon Forbidden West is demanding
The ask Horizon Forbidden West makes is moderate. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 or AMD Radeon RX 5700 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. 16 GB of system memory is expected, the current mainstream figure. Horizon Forbidden West wants about 150 GB of disk space on an SSD, which is a real consideration on a smaller drive. At only 4 GB of VRAM, memory capacity is not what limits Horizon Forbidden West. The chip itself is. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Horizon Forbidden West 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 Horizon Forbidden West?
Free up space before installing Horizon Forbidden West: it needs roughly 150 GB of SSD storage. Once it's on disk the rest is unremarkable, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 5500XT 4GB and 16 GB of RAM meet the minimum, so most current PCs handle the compute side.
Bottleneck: GPU
Large install. Horizon Forbidden West needs about 150 GB of SSD of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Borderline | 1.1x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.62x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.27x |
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 | Playable |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs well |
| 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 Horizon Forbidden West'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 Horizon Forbidden West?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Horizon Forbidden West?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3-8100 or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 4GB or AMD Radeon RX 5500XT 4GB; 16 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64-bit (version 1909 or higher).
How much storage does Horizon Forbidden West need?
Horizon Forbidden West needs about 150 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Horizon Forbidden West?
The RTX 3060 runs Horizon Forbidden West comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Horizon Forbidden West?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Horizon Forbidden West is the GPU.