Can I Run Hyper Light Drifter?
Heart Machine released Hyper Light Drifter in 2016. It is an action adventure game, self published by the studio. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Completionists have 23 achievements to work through. Metacritic places it at 84. 6 languages are covered by the store listing. Builds exist for macOS and Linux as well as Windows. With more than 15 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Split screen on one PC is supported, a feature most releases have quietly dropped. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. 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 | 1.2 ghz |
|---|---|
| GPU | 512 mb video memory |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 2 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 and above |
| DirectX | 10 |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a world after its collapse. Play is structured around spaces built for exploration. The publisher supplies 10 storefront screenshots of these environments. It is played in two dimensions. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Hyper Light Drifter has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs.
Why Hyper Light Drifter is demanding
Disk footprint is light, near 2 GB. It targets DirectX 10, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy. System memory expectations are modest at 4 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Hyper Light Drifter?
Hyper Light Drifter targets a mainstream modern PC: 512 mb video memory and 4 GB of RAM for the minimum. 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 Hyper Light Drifter?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 1.2 ghz; GPU: 512 mb video memory; 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7 and above.
How much storage does Hyper Light Drifter need?
Hyper Light Drifter needs about 2 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Hyper Light Drifter?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Hyper Light Drifter is the CPU.