Can I Run Risen 3?
Piranha Bytes released Risen 3 in 2014. It is a role playing game, published by THQ Nordic. The game supports a single player campaign. It is localised into 7 languages according to the store listing. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Critics scored it 65 on Metacritic. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Over 4 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. There are 50 achievements to chase. Being over ten years old, its ceiling was set by the hardware of a different era.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 2.4 GHz Dual Core Processor |
|---|---|
| GPU | Radeon HD 3850 or GeForce 9600 GT, VRAM 512MB |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 9.0c |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5 at 2.5 GHz or better or AMD Phenom II x4 940 at 3.0 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 or AMD Radeon HD 5870, 1 GB VRAM |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB HDD |
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Setting and environment
Risen 3 places its action in a fantasy world, and the player works through one continuous open world. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Risen 3 has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. The view is from a third person view. The publisher supplies 17 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Risen 3 is demanding
Disk footprint is light, near 8 GB. At 1 GB, VRAM is a non issue for Risen 3. The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 9.0. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Risen 3?
Risen 3 targets a mainstream modern PC: Radeon HD 3850 or GeForce 9600 GT, VRAM 512MB and 2 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 or AMD Radeon HD 5870, 1 GB VRAM for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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What are the minimum system requirements for Risen 3?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 2.4 GHz Dual Core Processor; GPU: Radeon HD 3850 or GeForce 9600 GT, VRAM 512MB; 2 GB RAM.
How much storage does Risen 3 need?
Risen 3 needs about 8 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for Risen 3?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Risen 3 is the CPU.