Can I Run Knights of Honor II?
Black Sea Games released Knights of Honor II in 2022. It is a simulation strategy game, published by THQ Nordic. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Critics scored it 76 on Metacritic. Its Steam review count passes 4 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. There are 100 achievements to chase. Steam lists support for 12 languages.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD FX-8350 or Intel Core i5-2500K |
|---|---|
| GPU | Radeon HD 7870 / GeForce GTX 750-Ti |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 14 GB |
| OS | Windows 10/11 |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 3 3100 or Intel Core i5-6600k |
|---|---|
| GPU | Radeon RX 580 / GeForce GTX 1660 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 14 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10/11 |
| DirectX | 11 |
Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Knights of Honor II places its action in a medieval setting, and the player works through a map at national or global scale. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Knights of Honor II is demanding
Knights of Honor II is undemanding on the graphics side. Its Radeon RX 580 / GeForce GTX 1660 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Knights of Honor II. Knights of Honor II expects 16 GB of system memory. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Knights of Honor II scales hard with the hardware you give it. Knights of Honor II takes about 14 GB of disk space, SSD specified.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Knights of Honor II?
Knights of Honor II is light on hardware. Its minimum, Radeon HD 7870 / GeForce GTX 750-Ti, 8 GB RAM, about 14 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 | 1.89x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.06x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.47x |
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 great |
| 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 Knights of Honor II'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 Knights of Honor II?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Knights of Honor II?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD FX-8350 or Intel Core i5-2500K; GPU: Radeon HD 7870 / GeForce GTX 750-Ti; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10/11.
How much storage does Knights of Honor II need?
Knights of Honor II needs about 14 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Knights of Honor II?
The RTX 3060 runs Knights of Honor II comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Knights of Honor II?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Knights of Honor II is the GPU.