Black Mesa System Requirements: Can You Run It?
- Developer:
- Crowbar Collective
- Publisher:
- Crowbar Collective
- Release date:
- 5 May 2015 (9 years ago)
- User score:
- 4.5 / 5 (295 votes)
- Hardware demand level:
- 0.4 / 10 - not demanding
Official Black Mesa system requirements for PC
These are the PC specifications advised by developers to run Black Mesa at minimal and recommended settings. Although these requirements are usually approximate, they can still be used to determine the indicative hardware tier needed to play the game.
Minimum requirements
Graphics card:
- 2 GB Dedicated Video Card or Greater
CPU:
- 2.6 Dual Core Processor or Greater
Memory:
- 6 GB RAM
- File size:
- 20 GB available space
- Operating system:
- Windows® 7 (32/64-bit)/Vista or Greater
- DirectX:
- Version 9.0c
Recommended requirements
Graphics card:
- 4 GB Dedicated Video Card or Greater
CPU:
- 3.2 Quad Core Processor or Greater
Memory:
- 8 GB RAM
- File size:
- 20 GB available space
- Operating system:
- Windows® 7 (32/64-bit) or Greater
- DirectX:
- Version 9.0c
Black Mesa performance on your PC
Black Mesa performance on your GPU
GeForce RTX 3060's performance compared to the game's official system requirements.
Your graphics card can run Black Mesa at recommended settings according to Crowbar Collective.
Projected FPS in various settings and resolutions
Black Mesa FPS calculator: average frames per second on GeForce RTX 3060 (according to our approximations). FPS may vary depending on your operating system and other factors.
Black Mesa performance on your CPU
Core i5-12400's performance compared to the game's official system requirements.
Core i5-12400 is 16.9x faster than Sempron 3850. Your CPU can run Black Mesa at recommended settings according to Crowbar Collective.
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