Can I Run Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC?
Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC is an action indie game from TaleWorlds Entertainment, released in 2022. TaleWorlds Entertainment both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign and competitive multiplayer. A pad covers most of the game, though parts of it still expect a keyboard. Critics scored it 77 on Metacritic. The game ships for Windows alone. There are 50 achievements to chase. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. With more than 227 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Steam lists support for 13 languages. Because it hooks into the Steam Workshop, what a player installs on top can matter more for performance than the official figures.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i3-8100 / AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 / Snapdragon X Elite |
|---|---|
| GPU | Intel® UHD Graphics 630 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660 2GB / AMD Radeon™ HD 7850 2GB |
| RAM | 6 GB |
| Storage | 60 GB HDD |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5-9600K / AMD Ryzen™ 5 3600X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 3GB / AMD Radeon™ RX 580 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 60 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 (64-bit only) |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a medieval setting. Play is structured around one continuous open world. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. It is played from a third person view. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs.
Why Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 scores low against the RTX 3060, putting Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. The install is small at roughly 60 GB. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC at the floor and Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC at the recommended tier are not the same experience.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC?
Older hardware holds up here: Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC runs on modest graphics, with Intel® UHD Graphics 630 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660 2GB / AMD Radeon™ HD 7850 2GB enough to meet the minimum. Add 6 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.
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 Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC'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 Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i3-8100 / AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 / Snapdragon X Elite; GPU: Intel® UHD Graphics 630 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660 2GB / AMD Radeon™ HD 7850 2GB; 6 GB RAM.
How much storage does Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC need?
Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC needs about 60 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC?
The RTX 3060 runs Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Mount & Blade Bannerlord PC is the GPU.