Can I Run NieR Automata PC?
NieR Automata PC is an action role playing game from Square Enix, released in 2017. Square Enix both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign. There are 47 achievements to chase. It is localised into 6 languages according to the store listing. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Metacritic places it at 84. Being 9 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard. With more than 114 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i3 2100 or AMD A8-6500 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 VRAM 2GB or AMD Radeon R9 270X VRAM 2GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5 4670 or AMD A10-7850K |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 VRAM 4GB or AMD Radeon R9 380X VRAM 4GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in an anime styled world, moving through one continuous open world. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and NieR Automata PC has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why NieR Automata PC is demanding
The ask NieR Automata PC makes is moderate. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 VRAM lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. NieR Automata PC needs only 8 GB of RAM. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means NieR Automata PC scales hard with the hardware you give it. NieR Automata PC takes about 50 GB of disk space.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run NieR Automata PC?
Older hardware holds up here: NieR Automata PC runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 VRAM 2GB or AMD Radeon R9 270X VRAM 2GB enough to meet the minimum. Add 4 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 | 1.73x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.98x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.43x |
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 well |
| 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 NieR Automata 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 NieR Automata PC?
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What are the minimum system requirements for NieR Automata PC?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3 2100 or AMD A8-6500; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 VRAM 2GB or AMD Radeon R9 270X VRAM 2GB; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does NieR Automata PC need?
NieR Automata PC needs about 50 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run NieR Automata PC?
The RTX 3060 runs NieR Automata PC comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for NieR Automata PC?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for NieR Automata PC is the GPU.