Sea Power cover art

Can I Run Sea Power?

Triassic Games released Sea Power in 2024. It is an action simulation game, published by MicroProse Software. The game supports a single player campaign. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. 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. Its Steam review count passes 5 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe.

Developer Triassic GamesPublisher MicroProse SoftwareRelease 2024Genre Action, Simulation, Strategy
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPUAMD Ryzen 5 2600X / Intel Core i5-8600K
GPU4 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon RX 480 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650
VRAM4 GB
RAM8 GB
Storage20 GB HDD
OSWindows 10 64-bit
DirectXVersion 11

Recommended requirements

CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5600X / Intel Core i5-12600
GPU8 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon RX 6700 / Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
VRAM8 GB
RAM16 GB
Storage20 GB HDD
OSWindows 10 64-bit
DirectXVersion 11

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Players spend their time in the Cold War, moving through an open sandbox. That openness is what costs performance. Sea Power has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. The publisher supplies 14 storefront screenshots of these environments.

Why Sea Power is demanding

Sea Power sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting 8 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon RX 6700 / Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. It wants 8 GB of video memory, which rules out the 6 GB cards that are otherwise quick enough. The install is small at roughly 20 GB. Sea Power expects 16 GB of system memory. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Sea Power scales hard with the hardware you give it. A 64 bit version of Windows is required.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run Sea Power?

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Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the processor is the tightest fit.

Sea Power leans on the processor more than the graphics card, its minimum CPU, a AMD Ryzen 5 2600X / Intel Core i5-8600K, is what most builds trip over. A strong multi-core CPU paired with a mid-range card is the right shape here, the minimum GPU is a 4 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon RX 480 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650, not a top-end GPU.

Bottleneck: CPU

Projected by resolution

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pBorderline1x
1440pBelow the bar0.56x
4KBelow the bar0.25x

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 cardVerdict
GTX 1060 6 GBPlayable
GTX 1060 LaptopPlayable
GTX 1650 4 GBBelow minimum
GTX 1650 LaptopBelow minimum
RTX 2060 6 GBRuns well
RTX 2060 LaptopPlayable
RTX 3060 12 GBRuns great
RTX 3060 LaptopRuns well
RTX 4060 8 GBRuns great
RTX 4060 LaptopRuns well
RTX 3070 8 GBRuns great
RTX 3070 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4070 12 GBRuns great
RTX 4070 LaptopRuns great
RX 6600 8 GBRuns great

Each card is compared against Sea Power'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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Frequently asked questions

Can my PC run Sea Power?

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What are the minimum system requirements for Sea Power?

The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X / Intel Core i5-8600K; GPU: 4 GB VRAM, AMD Radeon RX 480 / Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64-bit.

How much storage does Sea Power need?

Sea Power needs about 20 GB of HDD storage.

Can an RTX 3060 run Sea Power?

The RTX 3060 runs Sea Power comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.

What is the bottleneck for Sea Power?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Sea Power is the CPU.