Can I Run Saints Row: The Third?
Released in 2011, Saints Row: The Third is an action game built by Volition. Publishing duties went to Deep Silver. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. It is localised into 9 languages according to the store listing. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Completionists have 83 achievements to work through. 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. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Its Steam review count passes 48 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Builds exist for Linux as well as Windows. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. Critics scored it 84 on Metacritic.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 2GHz Dual Core Processor (Intel® Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon™ X2) or higher |
|---|---|
| GPU | 320MB Video RAM GPU w/ Shader Model 3.0 support. NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 series or better. ATI Radeon™ HD3800 series or better |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB |
| OS | Windows® XP |
| DirectX | 9 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Any Quad Core Processor (Intel® Core i5 or AMD Phenom™ II X4) or 3.0+ Dual Core CPU |
|---|---|
| GPU | 1GB Video RAM GPU w/ Shader Model 4.0 support. NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 400 series or better. ATI Radeon™ HD5000 series or better |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB |
| OS | Microsoft® Windows® 7 |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Saints Row: The Third places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through one continuous open world. The view is from a third person view. That openness is what costs performance. Saints Row: The Third has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. There are 14 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why Saints Row: The Third is demanding
System memory expectations are modest at 4 GB. Saints Row: The Third needs only 1 GB of video memory. Saints Row: The Third takes about 10 GB of disk space.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Saints Row: The Third?
Saints Row: The Third targets a mainstream modern PC: 320MB Video RAM GPU w/ Shader Model 3.0 support. NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 series or better. ATI Radeon™ HD3800 series or better and 2 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to 1GB Video RAM GPU w/ Shader Model 4.0 support. NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 400 series or better. ATI Radeon™ HD5000 series or better 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
Can my PC run Saints Row: The Third?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Saints Row: The Third?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 2GHz Dual Core Processor (Intel® Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon™ X2) or higher; GPU: 320MB Video RAM GPU w/ Shader Model 3.0 support. NVIDIA® GeForce® 8800 series or better. ATI Radeon™ HD3800 series or better; 2 GB RAM; OS: Windows® XP.
How much storage does Saints Row: The Third need?
Saints Row: The Third needs about 10 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Saints Row: The Third?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Saints Row: The Third is the CPU.