Can I Run Wreckfest?
Released in 2018, Wreckfest is an action indie game built by Bugbear. Publishing duties went to THQ Nordic. It offers a single player campaign and competitive multiplayer. Steam lists support for 13 languages. There are 20 achievements to chase. Saves sync through Steam Cloud, so moving between machines does not cost progress. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard. Metacritic places it at 81. Over 30 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. The game ships for Windows alone. At 8 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Because it hooks into the Steam Workshop, what a player installs on top can matter more for performance than the official figures.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i3 with 2.8 GHz or AMD equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA Geforce® GTX™ 560 or AMD Radeon™ HD 7770 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 32 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ i5 with 3.0 GHz or AMD equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce® GTX™ 970 or AMD Radeon™ R9 380X |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 32 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Wreckfest places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through circuits and tracks. 19 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Play is presented from a third person view.
Why Wreckfest is demanding
Very little is asked of the GPU by Wreckfest. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 380X scores low against the RTX 3060, putting Wreckfest within reach of laptop and integrated graphics. Wreckfest takes about 32 GB of disk space. At 8 GB, system memory is undemanding.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Wreckfest?
Wreckfest targets a mainstream modern PC: NVIDIA Geforce® GTX™ 560 or AMD Radeon™ HD 7770 and 8 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to NVIDIA GeForce® GTX™ 970 or AMD Radeon™ R9 380X for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.98x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 1.11x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.49x |
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 Wreckfest'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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The Last of Us Part IFrequently asked questions
Can my PC run Wreckfest?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Wreckfest?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel® Core™ i3 with 2.8 GHz or AMD equivalent; GPU: NVIDIA Geforce® GTX™ 560 or AMD Radeon™ HD 7770; 8 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.
How much storage does Wreckfest need?
Wreckfest needs about 32 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Wreckfest?
The RTX 3060 runs Wreckfest comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Wreckfest?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Wreckfest is the GPU.