Can I Run Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord?
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 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. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Metacritic places it at 77. Over 227 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. There are 50 achievements to chase. 13 languages are covered by the store listing. Workshop content is supported, so the published requirements describe the unmodded game only.
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 |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 6 GB |
| Storage | 60 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 (64-bit only) |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5-9600K / AMD Ryzen™ 5 3600X |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 3GB / AMD Radeon™ RX 580 |
| VRAM | 3 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 60 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 (64-bit only) |
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Setting and environment
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord places its action in a medieval setting, and the player works through one continuous open world. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord can never assume the player will stop and let it load. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Play is presented from a third person view.
Why Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is demanding
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is undemanding on the graphics side. Its NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord. The install is small at roughly 60 GB. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord at the floor and Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 3 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord?
Older hardware holds up here: Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord 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 II: Bannerlord'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 II: Bannerlord?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord?
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; OS: Windows 7 (64-bit only).
How much storage does Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord need?
Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord needs about 60 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord?
The RTX 3060 runs Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is the GPU.