Arrowhead Game Studios · 2024 · Co-op Shooter
Helldivers 2 is Arrowhead Game Studios’ cooperative third-person shooter, built on their in-house engine with large-scale on-screen destruction and enemy counts that scale GPU demand quickly in busy fights.
It’s a solidly mid-to-high demanding title, particularly at higher settings with many enemies and effects on screen at once.
| Requirement | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | Intel Core i7-4790K / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X | Intel Core i7-9700K / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X |
| GPU | NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti / AMD RX 470 | NVIDIA RTX 2060 / AMD RX 6600XT |
| RAM | 8 GB | 16 GB |
| Storage | 135 GB | 40 GB |
| OS | Windows 10 64-bit | Windows 10 64-bit |
Source: the publisher's own officially listed system requirements (view source). Actual performance still depends on drivers, background load and in-game settings.
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Test Your ConfigurationCo-op shooters with large enemy counts on screen (swarms, destructible terrain, chaotic effects) put steady load on both the CPU and GPU at the same time, so a bottleneck here tends to show up as dropped frames specifically during the busiest fights rather than a flat, consistently low average.
The jump from 8GB to 16GB of RAM between the minimum and recommended spec is where Helldivers 2 stops paging textures and level data from disk mid-play — below 16GB, that shows up as short stutters and pop-in rather than a flat drop in average framerate. At roughly 40GB, plan storage for Helldivers 2 the same way you would for any modern title: an NVMe SSD keeps load times and texture streaming noticeably smoother than a hard drive at the same free-space total.
8GB is the publisher's stated minimum, meaning Helldivers 2 will start and run, but 16GB (the recommended figure) avoids the stuttering that comes from paging assets off your storage drive mid-session. Use our RAM calculator to check your exact total against everything else you run alongside it.
For Helldivers 2, the GPU is the more common limiting part at higher resolutions and settings — our PC Bottleneck Calculator breaks this down by your exact CPU and GPU pairing instead of a generic rule of thumb.
Plan for at least 40GB free, not exactly 40GB — day-one patches, DLC and shader/texture caches routinely add several more gigabytes after install. Our Storage Calculator can help you plan an upgrade if you are close to full.