Can I Run Scarlet Nexus?
Scarlet Nexus is an action adventure game from BANDAI NAMCO Studios Inc., released in 2021. BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment published it. The game supports a single player campaign. The game ships for Windows alone. Critics scored it 78 on Metacritic. Its Steam review count passes 13 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. It is localised into 12 languages according to the store listing. Its 5 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. It carries 53 achievements.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-3470 | AMD FX-8350 |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce GTX 760, 2 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7970, 3 GB |
| VRAM | 2 GB |
| RAM | 6 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-4690K | AMD Ryzen 5 2600X |
|---|---|
| GPU | Nvidia GeForce GTX 970, 4 GB | AMD Radeon R9 290X, 4 GB |
| VRAM | 4 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in an anime styled world. Play is structured around one continuous open world. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Scarlet Nexus has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. The publisher supplies 15 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Scarlet Nexus is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by Scarlet Nexus. Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 scores low against the RTX 3060, putting Scarlet Nexus within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Scarlet Nexus at the floor and Scarlet Nexus at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Scarlet Nexus takes about 50 GB of disk space. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 4 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Scarlet Nexus?
Older hardware holds up here: Scarlet Nexus runs on modest graphics, with Nvidia GeForce GTX 760, 2 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7970, 3 GB enough to meet the minimum. Add 6 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.98x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.11x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.49x |
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 great |
| 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 Scarlet Nexus'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 Scarlet Nexus?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Scarlet Nexus?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 | AMD FX-8350; GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 760, 2 GB | AMD Radeon HD 7970, 3 GB; 6 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Scarlet Nexus need?
Scarlet Nexus needs about 50 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Scarlet Nexus?
The RTX 3060 runs Scarlet Nexus comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Scarlet Nexus?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Scarlet Nexus is the GPU.