Can I Run The Great War: Western Front?
The Great War: Western Front is a strategy game from Petroglyph, released in 2023. Frontier Foundry published it. The game supports a single player campaign and competitive multiplayer. It is localised into 9 languages according to the store listing. Because it hooks into the Steam Workshop, what a player installs on top can matter more for performance than the official figures. The game ships for Windows alone. Cloud saves are enabled. There are 12 achievements to chase. Over 2 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 | Intel i5-4590 / AMD FX-8350 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 390 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 13 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10 64bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel i5-8600K / AMD Ryzen 5 2600 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580 |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 13 GB SSD |
| OS | Windows 10/11 64bit |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
The Great War: Western Front places its action in a historical setting, and the player works through a board the player reads before committing. 12 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why The Great War: Western Front is demanding
The Great War: Western Front is undemanding on the graphics side. Its NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 580 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear The Great War: Western Front. The Great War: Western Front needs 64 bit Windows. The Great War: Western Front takes about 13 GB of disk space, SSD specified. Its 16 GB RAM requirement matches what a typical machine already has. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so The Great War: Western Front at the floor and The Great War: Western Front 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 The Great War: Western Front?
The Great War: Western Front is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 390, 8 GB RAM, about 13 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 | 1.89x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.06x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.47x |
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 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 The Great War: Western Front'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 Great War: Western Front?
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What are the minimum system requirements for The Great War: Western Front?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel i5-4590 / AMD FX-8350; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 / AMD Radeon R9 390; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10 64bit.
How much storage does The Great War: Western Front need?
The Great War: Western Front needs about 13 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run The Great War: Western Front?
The RTX 3060 runs The Great War: Western Front comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for The Great War: Western Front?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Great War: Western Front is the GPU.