Can I Run The Infected?
Released in 2020, The Infected is an action casual game built by DigX Studios. It offers a single player campaign. With more than 6 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. It is localised into 16 languages according to the store listing. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Being 6 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB or AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB |
| RAM | 6 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB SSD |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320 |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB or AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB + |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB SSD |
| DirectX | Version 12 |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in an open sandbox. Play is structured around a base the player builds up. The publisher supplies 14 storefront screenshots of these environments. The load here grows with the save. An empty map tells you very little about how the machine will cope once the build is large. The view is in three dimensions.
Why The Infected is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by The Infected. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 scores low against the RTX 3060, putting The Infected within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding. Disk footprint is light, near 8 GB on an SSD. The Infected 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 The Infected?
Older hardware holds up here: The Infected runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB or AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB enough to meet the minimum. Add 6 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 | Comfortable | 2.07x |
| 1440p | Runs well | 1.17x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.52x |
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 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 Infected'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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Can my PC run The Infected?
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What are the minimum system requirements for The Infected?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5-2400/AMD FX-8320; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB or AMD Radeon RX 570 4GB; 6 GB RAM.
How much storage does The Infected need?
The Infected needs about 8 GB of SSD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run The Infected?
The RTX 3060 runs The Infected comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for The Infected?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Infected is the GPU.