Can I Run Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE?
Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE is an action casual game from Casey Donnellan Games LLC, released in 2020. tinyBuild published it. It offers a single player campaign. Being 6 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Cloud saves are enabled. It is free to play at the base tier. The game ships for Windows alone. It is localised into 12 languages according to the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 2.4 GHz Dual Core |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 760 or Equivalent |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 2 GB HDD |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | 2.4 GHz Quad Core |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 1060 or Equivalent |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 2 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 64 Bit |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in an open sandbox. Play is structured around spaces built for exploration. 8 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Play is presented from a first person view. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs.
Why Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE is demanding
Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting GTX 1060, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. The install is small at roughly 2 GB. Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE needs only 8 GB of RAM. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE at the floor and Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE needs 64 bit Windows.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE?
Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE is light on hardware. Its minimum, GTX 760 or Equivalent, 4 GB RAM, about 2 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 | 1.7x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.96x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.43x |
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 well |
| 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 Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE'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 Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 2.4 GHz Dual Core; GPU: GTX 760 or Equivalent; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE need?
Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE needs about 2 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE?
The RTX 3060 runs Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE is the GPU.