Can I Run Lost Ember?
Released in 2019, Lost Ember is an action adventure game built by Mooneye Studios. It offers a single player campaign. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Completionists have 33 achievements to work through. 11 languages are covered by the store listing. Cloud saves are enabled. Critics scored it 78 on Metacritic. With more than 4 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Being 7 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 3.0GHz CPU Dual Core |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 550 Ti 1GB/ Radeon 6950 1GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 13 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 10 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | 2.4GHz CPU Quad Core |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 770 2GB / Radeon R9 280X 3GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 13 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 10 |
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Setting and environment
Lost Ember places its action in natural landscapes, and the player works through spaces built for exploration. Play is presented from a third person view. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Lost Ember has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. There are 10 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Lost Ember is demanding
Lost Ember is undemanding on the graphics side. Its GTX 770 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Lost Ember. It targets DirectX 10, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB. Lost Ember takes about 13 GB of disk space.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Lost Ember?
Lost Ember targets a mainstream modern PC: GTX 550 Ti 1GB/ Radeon 6950 1GB and 4 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to GTX 770 2GB / Radeon R9 280X 3GB for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 3.27x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 1.84x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.82x |
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 great |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs great |
| 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 Lost Ember'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 Lost Ember?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Lost Ember?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 3.0GHz CPU Dual Core; GPU: GTX 550 Ti 1GB/ Radeon 6950 1GB; 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Lost Ember need?
Lost Ember needs about 13 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Lost Ember?
The RTX 3060 runs Lost Ember comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Lost Ember?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Lost Ember is the GPU.