Can I Run Pacific Drive?
Released in 2024, Pacific Drive is an action adventure game built by Ironwood Studios. Publishing duties went to Kepler Interactive. It offers a single player campaign. 14 languages are covered by the store listing. There are 49 achievements to chase. Its Steam review count passes 21 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. The game ships for Windows alone. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5 8600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB |
| VRAM | 6 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 18 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-10600k |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia RTX 2080/3070 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 18 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a science fiction setting, moving through hostile territory. There are 14 official screenshots to judge the look from. Play is presented from a first person view.
Why Pacific Drive is demanding
The ask Pacific Drive makes is moderate. Nvidia RTX 2080/3070 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. Disk footprint is light, near 18 GB. Pacific Drive names just 6 GB of video memory, so the bottleneck sits in raw GPU throughput rather than VRAM. DirectX 12 is named, so Pacific Drive expects a graphics driver and card from the modern era rather than merely a fast one. Pacific Drive expects 16 GB of system memory. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Pacific Drive at the floor and Pacific Drive 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 Pacific Drive?
Pacific Drive is memory-hungry: it wants 16 GB of system RAM, above the 8 GB many machines still ship with. Graphically it is undemanding, Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB clears the minimum, so more RAM, not a new GPU, is the upgrade most players need.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Borderline | 0.9x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.51x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.23x |
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 | Playable |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs well |
Each card is compared against Pacific Drive'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 Pacific Drive?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Pacific Drive?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5 8600; GPU: Nvidia GTX 1060 6GB; 16 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Pacific Drive need?
Pacific Drive needs about 18 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Pacific Drive?
The RTX 3060 runs Pacific Drive comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Pacific Drive?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Pacific Drive is the GPU.