Can I Run Salt 2?
Salt 2 is an action adventure game from Lavaboots Studios, released in 2025. Lavaboots Studios both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Completionists have 36 achievements to work through. It is localised into 9 languages according to the store listing. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Its Steam review count passes 2 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. As a new title, the figures below were written against parts you can still buy.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 2.5 Ghz Quad Core or Similar |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 660 or Later With Shader Model 5.0 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 2 GB |
| OS | Windows 8 or later |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | i5 3 Ghz |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 1060 or Later |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 2 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 or later |
| DirectX | 11 |
Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
Salt 2 places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through one continuous open world. The publisher supplies 39 storefront screenshots of these environments. That openness is what costs performance. Salt 2 has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. Play is presented in three dimensions.
Why Salt 2 is demanding
Demand in Salt 2 is ordinary. The publisher has GTX 1060 or Later in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. Salt 2 expects 16 GB of system memory. Disk footprint is light, near 2 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Salt 2?
Salt 2 targets a mainstream modern PC: GTX 660 or Later With Shader Model 5.0 and 8 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to GTX 1060 or Later for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.7x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.96x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.43x |
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 | Runs great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Salt 2'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 Salt 2?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Salt 2?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 2.5 Ghz Quad Core or Similar; GPU: GTX 660 or Later With Shader Model 5.0; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 8 or later.
How much storage does Salt 2 need?
Salt 2 needs about 2 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Salt 2?
The RTX 3060 runs Salt 2 comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Salt 2?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Salt 2 is the GPU.