Can I Run Octopath Traveler?
Square Enix released Octopath Traveler in 2019. It is a role playing game, self published by the studio. It offers a single player campaign. Critics scored it 80 on Metacritic. It is localised into 9 languages according to the store listing. Its 7 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. With more than 13 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Cloud saves are enabled. Completionists have 88 achievements to work through.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD FX-4350 / Intel® Core™ i3-3210 |
|---|---|
| GPU | AMD Radeon™ R7 260X (2GB VRAM) / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750(2GB VRAM) |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB |
| OS | Windows® 7 SP1 / 8.1 / 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 / Intel® Core™ i5-6400 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Radeon™ RX 470(4GB VRAM) / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6 GB VRAM |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 6 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB |
| OS | Windows® 7 SP1 / 8.1 / 10 64-bit |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in an anime styled world, moving through one continuous open world. That openness is what costs performance. Octopath Traveler has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. The publisher supplies 17 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Octopath Traveler is demanding
The graphics requirement for Octopath Traveler is light. Hardware around Radeon RX 470( is enough, so Octopath Traveler runs on machines never bought for gaming. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 4 GB. Disk footprint is light, near 5 GB. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Octopath Traveler at the floor and Octopath Traveler at the recommended tier are not the same experience. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. At 6 GB, system memory is undemanding.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Octopath Traveler?
Octopath Traveler is light on hardware. Its minimum, AMD Radeon™ R7 260X (2GB VRAM) / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750(2GB VRAM), 4 GB RAM, about 5 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 2.24x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.26x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.56x |
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 Octopath Traveler'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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Frequently asked questions
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What are the minimum system requirements for Octopath Traveler?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD FX-4350 / Intel® Core™ i3-3210; GPU: AMD Radeon™ R7 260X (2GB VRAM) / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750(2GB VRAM); 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows® 7 SP1 / 8.1 / 10 64-bit.
How much storage does Octopath Traveler need?
Octopath Traveler needs about 5 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Octopath Traveler?
The RTX 3060 runs Octopath Traveler comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Octopath Traveler?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Octopath Traveler is the GPU.