Can I Run Mass Effect 3?
Released in 2020, Mass Effect 3 is an action role playing game built by BioWare. Publishing duties went to Electronic Arts. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Its Metacritic score stands at 89. It carries 68 achievements. Over 2 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. At 6 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Steam lists support for 7 languages.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (equivalent AMD CPU) |
|---|---|
| GPU | Supported chipsets: NVIDIA 7900 or better; ATI X1800 or better. Please note that NVIDIA GeForce 9300, 8500, 8400, and 8300 are below minimum system requirements, as are AMD/ATI Radeon HD3200, HD3300, and HD4350. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required. |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB |
| OS | Win 7 |
| DirectX | 9 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (equivalent AMD CPU) |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD/ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB or greater / NVidia GeForce 9800 GT 512 MB or greater |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB |
| OS | Win 7 |
| DirectX | 9 |
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Setting and environment
Mass Effect 3 places its action in a science fiction setting, and the player works through combat arenas. 7 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. It is played from a third person view.
Why Mass Effect 3 is demanding
Disk footprint is light, near 15 GB. It targets DirectX 9, 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 Mass Effect 3?
Mass Effect 3 targets a mainstream modern PC: Supported chipsets: NVIDIA 7900 or better; ATI X1800 or better. Please note that NVIDIA GeForce 9300, 8500, 8400, and 8300 are below minimum system requirements, as are AMD/ATI Radeon HD3200, HD3300, and HD4350. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required. and 2 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to AMD/ATI Radeon HD 4850 512 MB or greater / NVidia GeForce 9800 GT 512 MB or greater for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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Can my PC run Mass Effect 3?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Mass Effect 3?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (equivalent AMD CPU); GPU: Supported chipsets: NVIDIA 7900 or better; ATI X1800 or better. Please note that NVIDIA GeForce 9300, 8500, 8400, and 8300 are below minimum system requirements, as are AMD/ATI Radeon HD3200, HD3300, and HD4350. Updates to your video and sound card drivers may be required.; 2 GB RAM; OS: Win 7.
How much storage does Mass Effect 3 need?
Mass Effect 3 needs about 15 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Mass Effect 3?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Mass Effect 3 is the CPU.