Can I Run Saints Row IV?
Deep Silver Volition released Saints Row IV in 2013. It is an action adventure game, published by Deep Silver. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. 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. 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. There are 73 achievements to chase. Steam Workshop support means community content is part of the picture, and a heavy mod load can push the real requirements past anything the publisher lists. Alongside Windows it also ships for Linux. It is localised into 8 languages according to the store listing. Metacritic places it at 86. With more than 57 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 | AMD Athlon II x3 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 260 | AMD Radeon HD 5800 series |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB |
| OS | Windows Vista (x86 or x64) |
| DirectX | 10 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel i3 2100T | AMD Phenom II x4 or higher |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 560 | AMD Radeon HD 6800 series or higher |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 (x86 or x64) |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Saints Row IV places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through one continuous open world. 6 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. It is played from a third person view. That openness is what costs performance. Saints Row IV has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves.
Why Saints Row IV is demanding
At 4 GB, system memory is undemanding. Disk footprint is light, near 10 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Saints Row IV?
Saints Row IV targets a mainstream modern PC: NVIDIA GTX 260 | AMD Radeon HD 5800 series and 4 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to NVIDIA GTX 560 | AMD Radeon HD 6800 series or higher 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 Saints Row IV?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 | AMD Athlon II x3; GPU: NVIDIA GTX 260 | AMD Radeon HD 5800 series; 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows Vista (x86 or x64).
How much storage does Saints Row IV need?
Saints Row IV needs about 10 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Saints Row IV?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Saints Row IV is the CPU.