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Can I Run Prison Boss VR?

Prison Boss VR is a crafting and simulation game with one simple goal: make cash! Locked up in your prison cell, produce and sell contraband items to buy your freedom back. But don’t get caught by the...

Developer TREBUCHETRelease 2017
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPUIntel i5-4590
GPUNVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
RAM8 GB
Storage6 GB HDD
OSWindows 10
DirectXVersion 11

Recommended requirements

CPUIntel i7-4770
GPUNVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060
RAM16 GB
Storage6 GB HDD
OSWindows 10
DirectXVersion 12

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Can you run Prison Boss VR?

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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.

Older hardware holds up here: Prison Boss VR runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 enough to meet the minimum. Add 8 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.

Bottleneck: GPU

Projected by resolution

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pComfortable1.7x
1440pBorderline0.96x
4KBelow the bar0.43x

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 cardVerdict
GTX 1060 6 GBRuns great
GTX 1060 LaptopRuns well
GTX 1650 4 GBRuns well
GTX 1650 LaptopRuns well
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 Prison Boss VR'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 Prison Boss VR?

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What are the minimum system requirements for Prison Boss VR?

The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel i5-4590; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.

How much storage does Prison Boss VR need?

Prison Boss VR needs about 6 GB of HDD storage.

Can an RTX 3060 run Prison Boss VR?

The RTX 3060 runs Prison Boss VR comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.

What is the bottleneck for Prison Boss VR?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Prison Boss VR is the GPU.