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Can I Run The Crystal Nebula?

Fly your spaceship from wormhole to wormhole, navigating dangerous space station obstacle courses and collecting crystals from the wreckage of fallen enemies. The Crystal Nebula demands your highest d...

Developer Tristan HodgesRelease 2016
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

GPUGeforce GTX 760
RAM4 GB
Storage0.2 GB HDD

Recommended requirements

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Can you run The Crystal Nebula?

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

The Crystal Nebula is light on hardware. Its minimum, Geforce GTX 760, 4 GB RAM, about 0.2 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

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pComfortable3.95x
1440pComfortable2.22x
4KBorderline0.99x

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 GBRuns great
GTX 1060 LaptopRuns great
GTX 1650 4 GBRuns great
GTX 1650 LaptopRuns great
RTX 2060 6 GBRuns great
RTX 2060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 3060 12 GBRuns great
RTX 3060 LaptopRuns great
RTX 4060 8 GBRuns great
RTX 4060 LaptopRuns great
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 The Crystal Nebula'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 The Crystal Nebula?

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What are the minimum system requirements for The Crystal Nebula?

The minimum requirements are GPU: Geforce GTX 760; 4 GB RAM.

How much storage does The Crystal Nebula need?

The Crystal Nebula needs about 0.2 GB of HDD storage.

Can an RTX 3060 run The Crystal Nebula?

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

What is the bottleneck for The Crystal Nebula?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Crystal Nebula is the GPU.