Can I Run Resident Evil 2?
Resident Evil 2 is an action game from CAPCOM Co., Ltd., released in 2019. CAPCOM Co., Ltd. both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign. Critics scored it 89 on Metacritic. At 7 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. The game ships for Windows alone. It carries 44 achievements. It is localised into 15 languages according to the store listing. Its Steam review count passes 152 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. Cloud saves are enabled. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5-4460 or AMD FX™-6300 or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 or AMD Radeon™ RX 460 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 26 GB |
| OS | WINDOWS® 10 (64-BIT Required) |
| DirectX | 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i7-3770 or AMD FX™-9590 or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon™ RX 480 with 3GB VRAM |
| VRAM | 3 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 26 GB |
| OS | WINDOWS® 10 (64-BIT Required) |
| DirectX | 12 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in an outbreak scenario, moving through self contained puzzle rooms. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. The view is from a third person view.
Why Resident Evil 2 is demanding
Resident Evil 2 is undemanding on the graphics side. Its NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 480 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Resident Evil 2. Disk footprint is light, near 26 GB. Resident Evil 2 calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level. Resident Evil 2 needs only 8 GB of RAM. Resident Evil 2 needs only 3 GB of video memory. A 64 bit version of Windows is required. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Resident Evil 2 at the floor and Resident Evil 2 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 Resident Evil 2?
Older hardware holds up here: Resident Evil 2 runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 or AMD Radeon™ RX 460 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
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.93x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.09x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.48x |
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 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 Resident Evil 2'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 Resident Evil 2?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Resident Evil 2?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-4460 or AMD FX™-6300 or better; GPU: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 960 or AMD Radeon™ RX 460; 8 GB RAM; OS: WINDOWS® 10 (64-BIT Required).
How much storage does Resident Evil 2 need?
Resident Evil 2 needs about 26 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Resident Evil 2?
The RTX 3060 runs Resident Evil 2 comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Resident Evil 2?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Resident Evil 2 is the GPU.