Can I Run The Council?
The Council is an adventure role playing game from Big Bad Wolf, released in 2018. Focus Entertainment published it. The game supports a single player campaign. Completionists have 42 achievements to work through. The game ships for Windows alone. 6 languages are covered by the store listing. With more than 4 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Metacritic places it at 67. At 8 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Cloud saves are enabled. The base game is free to play, so trying it costs only disk space and download time.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i3-2125 (3.3 GHz)/AMD FX-4100 (3.6 GHz) |
|---|---|
| GPU | 1 GB, GeForce GTX 750/Radeon R7 360 |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB HDD |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-3770 (3.4 GHz)/AMD FX-8370 (4.0 GHz) |
|---|---|
| GPU | 4 GB, GeForce GTX 960/Radeon R9 380 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB HDD |
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Setting and environment
The Council places its action in an investigation, and the player works through self contained puzzle rooms. It is played from a third person view. There are 8 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why The Council is demanding
The graphics requirement for The Council is light. Hardware around 4 GB, GeForce GTX 960/Radeon R9 380 is enough, so The Council runs on machines never bought for gaming. The Council takes about 15 GB of disk space. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means The Council scales hard with the hardware you give it.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run The Council?
The Council is light on hardware. Its minimum, 1 GB, GeForce GTX 750/Radeon R7 360, 4 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 | 3.04x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 1.71x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.76x |
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 The Council'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 The Council?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i3-2125 (3.3 GHz)/AMD FX-4100 (3.6 GHz); GPU: 1 GB, GeForce GTX 750/Radeon R7 360; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does The Council need?
The Council needs about 15 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run The Council?
The RTX 3060 runs The Council comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for The Council?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Council is the GPU.