Black Mesa System Requirements

An Intel Core 2 Duo Q6867 CPU is required at a minimum to run Black Mesa. Whereas, an Intel Core i5-1300F is recommended in order to run it. The minimum memory requirement for Black Mesa is 6 GB of RAM installed in your computer. If possible, make sure your have 8 GB of RAM in order to run Black Mesa to its full potential. The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an AMD Radeon HD 5450. But, according to the developers the recommended graphics card is an AMD Radeon R5 M230. In terms of game file size, you will need at least 20 GB of free disk space available.

Black Mesa will run on PC system with Windows® 10 or Newer and upwards. Additionally it has a Linux version.

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Black Mesa FPS - what frame rate can you expect?

How many FPS will I get on Black Mesa? We reference thousands of reports from PCGameBenchmark users running our FPS tracking app to tell you exactly how Black Mesa performs across a range of different settings and resolutions on the most popular PC gaming setups.

What frame rate does Black Mesa run at?

Here are the typical frame rate samples

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
207	Intel Core i7-10750H	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti	16 GB
119	Intel Core i5-2400	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650	24 GB
34	Intel Core i5-7200U	AMD Radeon R7 M440	16 GB
32	Intel Core i5-7600	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB	8 GB
30	Intel Core i5-7200U	Intel HD Graphics 620	16 GB

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