Can I Run How to Survive 2?
Eko Software released How to Survive 2 in 2016. It is an action adventure game, published by 505 Games. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Completionists have 49 achievements to work through. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. 12 languages are covered by the store listing. Two players can share one screen on a single machine, which is rare enough now to be worth noting. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Critics scored it 69 on Metacritic. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. With more than 8 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. It is old enough that no current GPU generation existed when it shipped, so modern hardware tends to be far past what it can use.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel i3 3GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | DirectX 11 compatible |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 64 bits |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel i5 3 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | Geforce GTX 660 or Radeon R7 200 series - DirectX 11 compatible |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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Setting and environment
How to Survive 2 places its action in an outbreak scenario, and the player works through hostile territory. The publisher supplies 24 storefront screenshots of these environments. It is played from a third person view.
Why How to Survive 2 is demanding
A 64 bit version of Windows is required. How to Survive 2 needs only 8 GB of RAM. The install is small at roughly 8 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run How to Survive 2?
How to Survive 2 targets a mainstream modern PC: DirectX 11 compatible and 4 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to Geforce GTX 660 or Radeon R7 200 series - DirectX 11 compatible for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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What are the minimum system requirements for How to Survive 2?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel i3 3GHz; GPU: DirectX 11 compatible; 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 64 bits.
How much storage does How to Survive 2 need?
How to Survive 2 needs about 8 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for How to Survive 2?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for How to Survive 2 is the CPU.