Can I Run The Witness?
The Witness is an adventure indie game from Thekla, Inc., released in 2016. Thekla, Inc. both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign. It carries 2 achievements. It is old enough that no current GPU generation existed when it shipped, so modern hardware tends to be far past what it can use. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Metacritic places it at 87. It is not Windows only, with macOS covered too. Over 16 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. 15 languages are covered by the store listing. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 1.8GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | Intel HD 4000 series |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 |
| DirectX | 10 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | 2.4GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce 780 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 5 GB |
| OS | Windows 7 |
| DirectX | 10 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a mystery to unpick, moving through self contained puzzle rooms. Play is presented from a first person view. There are 6 official screenshots to judge the look from.
Why The Witness is demanding
The Witness barely touches the GPU. Its stated GeForce 780 target is below anything currently sold. The Witness needs only 8 GB of RAM. The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 10. Disk footprint is light, near 5 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run The Witness?
The Witness is light on hardware. Its minimum, Intel HD 4000 series, 4 GB RAM, about 5 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: CPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 48.57x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 27.32x |
| 4K | Comfortable | 12.14x |
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.
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Can my PC run The Witness?
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What are the minimum system requirements for The Witness?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 1.8GHz; GPU: Intel HD 4000 series; 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7.
How much storage does The Witness need?
The Witness needs about 5 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for The Witness?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for The Witness is the CPU.