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Can you run The Stanley Parable? PC requirements and settings
The Stanley Parable, by Galactic Cafe (Adventure, Indie), came out on Steam on October 17, 2013.
Here are the official specs, and what they mean on the most common graphics cards.
Minimum cardVideo 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).
Recommended RAM2 GB
Estimate per graphics card
No frame-rate estimate for this game
The official page does not name a specific graphics card for both the minimum and the
recommended specs. Rather than an invented number, we give none. ORION does the maths on your
own PC, with your card, processor and screen, then measures the real frame rate while you play.
Official specs
Minimum and recommended requirements
Minimum
- OS
- Windows XP/Vista/7/8
- Processor
- 3.0 GHz P4, Dual Core 2.0 (or higher) or AMD64X2 (or higher)
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Graphics
- 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).
- Storage
- 3 GB
Source: the
game's Steam page, read on October 7, 2026.
Where to buy
Buy The Stanley Parable
The official page first. In ORION, the Store tab compares prices across shops, with the
official stores listed before key resellers.
On your PC
The same estimate with your own hardware, and the settings applied for you
ORION is a free game launcher for Windows. It reads your graphics card, processor and
screen, estimates every game in your library, then measures the real frame rate while you
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Questions
The Stanley Parable at a glance
Which graphics card do I need for The Stanley Parable at 1080p?
Minimum: 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). The official page does not name a specific graphics card for both minimum and recommended specs, so we give no frame-rate estimate for this game. ORION does the maths on your own PC.
How much RAM does The Stanley Parable need?
The publisher recommends 2 GB of RAM.
How much storage does The Stanley Parable take?
The official page asks for 3 GB of storage.