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Can I Run The Stanley Parable?

The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you wi...

Developer Galactic CafeRelease 2013Genre Adventure, Indie
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
GPUVideo card must be 128 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b (ATI Radeon X800 or higher / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or higher / Intel HD Graphics 2000 or higher - *NOT* an Express graphics card).
RAM2 GB
Storage3 GB HDD

Recommended requirements

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Can you run The Stanley Parable?

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

The Stanley Parable targets a mainstream modern PC: Video card must be 128 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b (ATI Radeon X800 or higher / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or higher / Intel HD Graphics 2000 or higher - *NOT* an Express graphics card). and 2 GB of RAM for the minimum. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.

Bottleneck: CPU

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Frequently asked questions

Can my PC run The Stanley Parable?

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What are the minimum system requirements for The Stanley Parable?

The minimum requirements are CPU: 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher); GPU: Video card must be 128 MB or more and should be a DirectX 9-compatible with support for Pixel Shader 2.0b (ATI Radeon X800 or higher / NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or higher / Intel HD Graphics 2000 or higher - *NOT* an Express graphics card).; 2 GB RAM.

How much storage does The Stanley Parable need?

The Stanley Parable needs about 3 GB of HDD storage.

What is the bottleneck for The Stanley Parable?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Stanley Parable is the CPU.