Can I Run Tempest Rising?
Tempest Rising is an action strategy game from Slipgate Ironworks™, released in 2025. 3D Realms published it. It offers a single player campaign and competitive multiplayer. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Its Steam review count passes 9 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. As a new title, the figures below were written against parts you can still buy. Workshop content is supported, so the published requirements describe the unmodded game only. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Critics scored it 80 on Metacritic. Steam lists support for 10 languages. It carries 98 achievements.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-8600 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600 or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 1060 3GB/6GB / AMD RX 580 8GB or better |
| VRAM | 3 GB |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 45 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 or 11 (64 bit) |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-11600k / AMD Ryzen 5 5600X or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti 8GB / AMD 7600 XT 16GB or better |
| VRAM | 8 GB |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 or 11 (64 bit) |
| DirectX | 12 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a wartime setting, moving through a base the player builds up. The publisher supplies 30 storefront screenshots of these environments. The view is from an isometric view. Simulation heavy building games lean harder on the processor as the map fills, so late game performance rarely matches the opening hours.
Why Tempest Rising is demanding
The graphics demand in Tempest Rising is at the top end. NVIDIA RTX 3060 Ti outscores our RTX 3060 reference, and a machine that clears Tempest Rising comfortably will clear most other things. Tempest Rising needs 64 bit Windows. The install is small at roughly 50 GB, on an SSD. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Tempest Rising scales hard with the hardware you give it. Tempest Rising asks for 8 GB of video memory, so VRAM capacity matters here as much as speed. Tempest Rising expects 16 GB of system memory. Tempest Rising calls for DirectX 12, which rules out otherwise capable hardware that never got the feature level.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Tempest Rising?
Older hardware holds up here: Tempest Rising runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GTX 1060 3GB/6GB / AMD RX 580 8GB or better enough to meet the minimum. Add 8 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 | Below the bar | 0.83x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.47x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.21x |
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 | Below minimum |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Below minimum |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Below minimum |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Playable |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs well |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs well |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs well |
Each card is compared against Tempest Rising'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
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What are the minimum system requirements for Tempest Rising?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-8600 / AMD Ryzen 5 1600 or better; GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1060 3GB/6GB / AMD RX 580 8GB or better; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 or 11 (64 bit).
How much storage does Tempest Rising need?
Tempest Rising needs about 45 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Tempest Rising?
The RTX 3060 runs Tempest Rising well, meeting the title's GPU requirement.
What is the bottleneck for Tempest Rising?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Tempest Rising is the GPU.