Can I Run Risen?
Risen is a role playing game from Piranha Bytes, released in 2012. THQ Nordic published it. It offers a single player campaign. Completionists have 49 achievements to work through. With more than 3 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. A pad covers most of the game, though parts of it still expect a keyboard. Its Metacritic score stands at 69. The game ships for Windows alone. It is old enough that no current GPU generation existed when it shipped, so modern hardware tends to be far past what it can use. It is localised into 8 languages according to the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Dual Core with 2.1 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | 512 MB Radeon 3870 / GeForce 8800 GTX |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 6 GB |
| OS | Windows XP (with Servicepack 2) |
| DirectX | 9 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Dual Core with 3 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | 1024 MB Radeon 4890 / GeForce GTX 260 |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| OS | Windows XP (with Servicepack 3), Windows Vista (with Servicepack 1), Windows 7 |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a fantasy world. Play is structured around one continuous open world. The view is from a third person view. That openness is what costs performance. Risen has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. The publisher supplies 13 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Risen is demanding
Disk footprint is light, near 6 GB. At 4 GB, system memory is undemanding. It targets DirectX 9, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Risen?
Risen targets a mainstream modern PC: 512 MB Radeon 3870 / GeForce 8800 GTX and 2 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to 1024 MB Radeon 4890 / GeForce GTX 260 for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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Frequently asked questions
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What are the minimum system requirements for Risen?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Dual Core with 2.1 GHz; GPU: 512 MB Radeon 3870 / GeForce 8800 GTX; 2 GB RAM; OS: Windows XP (with Servicepack 2).
How much storage does Risen need?
Risen needs about 6 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Risen?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Risen is the CPU.