Can I Run Silver Chains?
Silver Chains is an adventure indie game from Cracked Heads Games, released in 2019. Headup published it. The game supports a single player campaign. It is localised into 11 languages according to the store listing. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Critics scored it 51 on Metacritic. Completionists have 16 achievements to work through. It carries 925 Steam reviews, a small sample, so first hand performance reports are thin. Its 7 years mean the stated figures describe machines that were current then, not now. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard. The game ships for Windows alone.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-3470 (3.2 GHz) / AMD A8-7600 (3.1 GHz) |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 265 |
| RAM | 5 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB HDD |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-6500 (3.2 GHz) / AMD Ryzen 5 1600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 1070 / AMD Radeon RX 590 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB HDD |
| OS | Windows 10 |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in a horror setting. Play is structured around hostile territory. The publisher supplies 6 storefront screenshots of these environments. It is played from a first person view.
Why Silver Chains is demanding
Silver Chains sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting GeForce GTX 1070 / AMD Radeon RX 590, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. Disk footprint is light, near 15 GB. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Silver Chains at the floor and Silver Chains at the recommended tier are not the same experience.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Silver Chains?
Silver Chains is light on hardware. Its minimum, GeForce GTX 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 265, 5 GB RAM, about 15 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.73x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.98x |
| 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 Silver Chains'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 Silver Chains?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Silver Chains?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-3470 (3.2 GHz) / AMD A8-7600 (3.1 GHz); GPU: GeForce GTX 750 Ti / AMD Radeon R7 265; 5 GB RAM.
How much storage does Silver Chains need?
Silver Chains needs about 15 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Silver Chains?
The RTX 3060 runs Silver Chains comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Silver Chains?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Silver Chains is the GPU.