Can I Run S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl?
GSC Game World released S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl in 2024. It is an action adventure game, published by GSC Game World (worldwide). The game supports a single player campaign. Its Steam review count passes 103 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. It is localised into 18 languages according to the store listing. Because it hooks into the Steam Workshop, what a player installs on top can matter more for performance than the official figures. It carries 58 achievements. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. The game ships for Windows alone. A pad covers most of the game, though parts of it still expect a keyboard.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-7700K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600X |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB / Intel Arc A750 |
| VRAM | 6 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 160 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 x64 / Windows 11 x64 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-11700 / AMD Ryzen 7 5800X |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti / Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 / AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT |
| RAM | 32 GB |
| Storage | 160 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 x64 / Windows 11 x64 |
Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a world after its collapse, moving through one continuous open world. The view is from a first person view. That openness is what costs performance. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. There are 11 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is demanding
The graphics demand in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is at the top end. Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti / Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 / AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT outscores our RTX 3060 reference, and a machine that clears S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl comfortably will clear most other things. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl names Windows 11, so a Windows 10 machine may need attention first. At 32 GB, the RAM requirement is the one most likely to catch an otherwise capable PC out. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl at the floor and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Its stated video memory figure is modest at 6 GB, so on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl the speed of the graphics chip binds before its memory does. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl wants about 160 GB of disk space on an SSD, which is a real consideration on a smaller drive.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl?
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is one of the more demanding games on PC. To reach its recommended tier you'll want a Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti / Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 / AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT-class graphics card, with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB / Intel Arc A750 the floor just to launch at minimum settings. Plan for a recent high-end GPU rather than a mainstream one.
Bottleneck: RAM
Large install. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl needs about 160 GB of SSD of free storage.
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Below the bar | 0.72x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.41x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.18x |
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 | Below minimum |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Playable |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs well |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Playable |
Each card is compared against S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl'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 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl?
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What are the minimum system requirements for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i7-7700K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600X; GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB / Intel Arc A750; 16 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 x64 / Windows 11 x64.
How much storage does S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl need?
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl needs about 160 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl?
The RTX 3060 runs S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl well, meeting the title's GPU requirement.
What is the bottleneck for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is the RAM.