Can I Run Skater XL?
Skater XL is an action adventure game from Easy Day Studios Pty Ltd, released in 2020. Easy Day Studios Pty Ltd both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Steam lists support for 7 languages. Metacritic places it at 56. Being 6 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. The game ships for Windows alone. Over 18 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 2.5GHz dual core i5 or higher |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 950 or higher |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | 3.5GHz quad core i5 or higher |
|---|---|
| GPU | GTX 960 or higher |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in an open sandbox, moving through one continuous open world. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and Skater XL can never assume the player will stop and let it load. The publisher supplies 13 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Skater XL is demanding
Skater XL is undemanding on the graphics side. Its GTX 960 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear Skater XL. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Skater XL at the floor and Skater XL at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has. Disk footprint is light, near 5 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Skater XL?
Skater XL is light on hardware. Its minimum, GTX 950 or higher, 8 GB RAM, about 5 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 | 2.83x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.59x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.71x |
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 great |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs great |
| 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 Skater XL'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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The Last of Us Part IFrequently asked questions
Can my PC run Skater XL?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Skater XL?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 2.5GHz dual core i5 or higher; GPU: GTX 950 or higher; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7.
How much storage does Skater XL need?
Skater XL needs about 5 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Skater XL?
The RTX 3060 runs Skater XL comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Skater XL?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Skater XL is the GPU.