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Defense Grid: The Awakening

Defense Grid: The Awakening

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🖥️ Defense Grid: The Awakening system requirements

Minimum and recommended PC specs (official, from Steam). Meeting "Minimum" means you can play; for smoother visuals and higher settings, refer to "Recommended".

🖥️ Can your PC run Defense Grid: The Awakening?

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Requirement equivalentGPU tierCPU tierMemory
Minimum — 1.8 GHz processor (estimated) 0.5 GB
Recommended — Dual-core processor (estimated) 1 GB

💻 Minimum

Supported OS
Windows XP, Vista
Processor
1.8GHz CPU or higher
Memory
512 MB RAM
Hard disk space
1GB available space
DirectX version
DirectX 9.0c or higher, June 2008 version or later
Video
Video: DirectX 9 video card with shader 2 support such as the following: ATI Radeon 9600 or newer (9600-9800, X300-X1950, HD 2400-HD 4870) NVIDIA GeForce 6100 or newer (6100-6800, 7100-7950, 8300-8800, 9600-9800, or GTX 216-280)

🚀 Recommended

Supported OS
Windows XP, Vista
Processor
dual core 2.0GHz CPU or higher
Memory
1GB RAM XP, 1.5GB RAM Vista
Hard disk space
1GB available space
DirectX version
DirectX 9.0c or higher, June 2008 version or later
Video
DirectX 9 video card with shader 3 support and 256MB VRAM such as the following: ATI Radeon X700 or newer (X700-X1950, HD 2400-HD 4870) NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or newer (7600-7950, 8300-8800, 9600-9800, or GTX 216-280)
Controller
Optionally supports Microsoft Game Controller for Windows

Source: Steam store page (updated 2026/10/9). Requirements may change after updates; check the store page before buying.

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