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Can I Run Octopath Traveler II?

Square Enix released Octopath Traveler II in 2023. It is a role playing game, self published by the studio. The game supports a single player campaign. Its Steam review count passes 13 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. The game ships for Windows alone. It carries 33 achievements. 9 languages are covered by the store listing.

Developer Square EnixRelease 2023Genre RPG
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPUAMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 / Intel® Core™ i3-6100
GPUAMD Radeon™ RX 460 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750
RAM8 GB
Storage10 GB
OSWindows® 10 / 11 64-bit
DirectX12

Recommended requirements

CPUAMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 / Intel® Core™ i5-6400
GPUAMD Radeon™ RX 470 / Intel® Arc™ A750 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB VRAM
VRAM6 GB
RAM8 GB
Storage10 GB
OSWindows® 10 / 11 64-bit
DirectX12

Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

The game is set in a gentle, brightly drawn world. Play is structured around one continuous open world. That openness is what costs performance. Octopath Traveler II has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. There are 6 official screenshots to judge the look from.

Why Octopath Traveler II is demanding

The graphics requirement for Octopath Traveler II is light. Hardware around AMD Radeon RX 470 / Intel Arc A750 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 is enough, so Octopath Traveler II runs on machines never bought for gaming. Octopath Traveler II needs 64 bit Windows. At 6 GB, VRAM is a non issue for Octopath Traveler II. Disk footprint is light, near 10 GB. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Octopath Traveler II scales hard with the hardware you give it. Octopath Traveler II needs only 8 GB of RAM. DirectX 12 is named, so Octopath Traveler II expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run Octopath Traveler II?

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Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the graphics card is the tightest fit.

Octopath Traveler II is light on hardware. Its minimum, AMD Radeon™ RX 460 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750, 8 GB RAM, about 10 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

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pComfortable2.24x
1440pRuns well1.26x
4KBelow the bar0.56x

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 cardVerdict
GTX 1060 6 GBRuns great
GTX 1060 LaptopRuns great
GTX 1650 4 GBPlayable
GTX 1650 LaptopPlayable
RTX 2060 6 GBRuns great
RTX 2060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3060 12 GBRuns great
RTX 3060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4060 8 GBRuns great
RTX 4060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3070 8 GBRuns great
RTX 3070 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4070 12 GBRuns great
RTX 4070 LaptopRuns great
RX 6600 8 GBRuns great

Each card is compared against Octopath Traveler II'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

Can my PC run Octopath Traveler II?

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What are the minimum system requirements for Octopath Traveler II?

The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD Ryzen™ 3 1200 / Intel® Core™ i3-6100; GPU: AMD Radeon™ RX 460 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows® 10 / 11 64-bit.

How much storage does Octopath Traveler II need?

Octopath Traveler II needs about 10 GB of available storage.

Can an RTX 3060 run Octopath Traveler II?

The RTX 3060 runs Octopath Traveler II comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.

What is the bottleneck for Octopath Traveler II?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Octopath Traveler II is the GPU.