HELLDIVERS 2 system requirements: the official specs, and what they do not tell you

The published table

Everything in this section is copied from the developer's own requirement table on the store page, captured on 2026-10-21.¹ Nothing here is benchmarked by us.

	Minimum	Recommended
OS	Windows 10	Windows 10
Processor	Intel Core i7-4790K / AMD Ryzen 5 1500X	Intel Core i7-9700K / AMD Ryzen 7 3700X
Memory	8 GB RAM	16 GB RAM
Graphics	GeForce GTX 1050 Ti / Radeon RX 470	GeForce RTX 2060 / Radeon RX 6600XT
Storage	135 GB available space	40 GB available space
Additional	Requires a 64-bit processor and OS	SSD recommended

The contradiction you should plan around

The minimum row asks for 135 GB of free space. The recommended row asks for 40 GB. A recommended configuration cannot need less disk than a minimum one, so one of those two numbers is wrong.¹

Until the store page is corrected, the safe planning figure is the larger one. If you install on a drive with little headroom, you are betting on the row that is internally inconsistent.¹

What the specs imply

The gap between the two rows is mostly CPU and GPU headroom: the recommended tier moves from a four-core-era i7 to an eight-core i7, and from a 4 GB-class GPU to a 6 GB-class one.¹ The RAM jump from 8 GB to 16 GB is the single most common upgrade path for machines built before 2020.

We do not state a target frame rate, resolution or preset. Those numbers require running the game on known hardware, and we have not done that. A guide that prints a frame-rate figure without a test bench is manufacturing data.

What players do and do not complain about

Our review sample for this game is twelve English reviews selected for length, playtime and helpfulness, not a statistically representative poll.² In that sample, none of the long-form reviews centre on crashes, stutter or VRAM limits. The complaints are about update direction and moderation instead.

This coming update is probably the most malicious I have seen yet. 1. Modders are extremely rare. The only "massive" issue would probably be people cheating in SC which you could mitigate some other way. 2. Rather than give actual mod support by separating Modded vs Unmodded games, you are choosing to rip out mods…

Modders gave me more QoL improvements in last couple of months than I got in two years in this game. I'm not even saying anything about them fixing the AI removing "arrowhead funny" teamkills and damage from guard dogs and blueberries. Or offering alternatives for other issues we had. Like bouncing. Because AH did…

I have played this cursed and glorious game for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of hours upon the PlayStation. Then I acquired another PlayStation. Then mine eldest offspring claimed my account, for it possessed many fine weapons. So I fled unto the second PlayStation. Then mine other offspring discovered that acco…

These three are a small slice of the corpus, and all three come from accounts with several hundred hours logged. They describe how the game is being discussed, not how it performs on your hardware.

That absence is weak evidence, not proof. If a future update ships a performance regression, the sample will change and so will this paragraph.

Settings advice we can defend

Without a benchmark rig, the only defensible advice is structural rather than numeric: start at the preset your GPU class maps to in the table above, and change one setting at a time so a regression can be attributed.¹ Do not copy a settings list from a machine you do not own.

How to check your own machine

Sources and limits

The spec table comes from the store page and is dated by our capture.¹ The player sample comes from Steam's public review endpoint.² Official patch communication lives on the news hub, which we link but do not paraphrase.³