Dead Space 2 — System Requirements, FPS Estimate & Settings
2011 · Shooter, Action · Electronic Arts · ESRB Mature · Metacritic 87
Official system requirements
Publisher-published Minimum / Recommended values via RAWG, retrieved 2026-08-21. Real-world performance varies with drivers, resolution and your full build.
| Spec | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Processor: 2.8 GHz processor or equivalent | — |
| Processor | Memory: 1 GB RAM (XP), 2 GB RAM (Vista or Windows 7) | — |
| Memory | Hard Disk Space: At least 10GB of hard drive space for installation, plus additional space for saved games | — |
| Graphics | Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or better (7300, 7600 GS, and 8500 are below minimum system requirements), ATI X1600 Pro or better (X1300, X1300 Pro and HD2400 are below minimum system requirements), 256MB Video Card and Shader Model 3.0 required | — |
| Storage | DirectX®: DirectX 9.0c | — |
Multi-GPU FPS estimate
Estimated average FPS by GPU at 1080p / 1440p / 4K, derived from Dead Space 2's demand tier (tier 8, Very demanding (flagship GPU)) and published TechPowerUp-style relative-performance indices (RTX 4090 = 100), retrieved 2026-08-29. Planning estimates, not benchmarks.
| GPU | 1080p | 1440p | 4K |
|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 4090 | 67 | 44 | 25 |
| RTX 4080 Super | 60 | 40 | 23 |
| RTX 4080 | 58 | 38 | 22 |
| RX 7900 XTX | 64 | 42 | 24 |
| RX 7900 XT | 60 | 40 | 23 |
| RTX 4070 Ti Super | 51 | 34 | 19 |
| RX 7800 XT | 51 | 34 | 19 |
| RTX 4070 Super | 48 | 32 | 18 |
| RTX 4070 | 45 | 30 | 17 |
| RX 7700 XT | 46 | 31 | 18 |
| RTX 3070 | 42 | 28 | 16 |
| RX 6800 XT | 51 | 33 | 19 |
| RTX 4060 Ti | 37 | 24 | 14 |
| RX 6700 XT | 45 | 30 | 17 |
| RTX 3060 | 34 | 22 | 13 |
| RX 6600 XT | 38 | 25 | 15 |
| RTX 2060 | 31 | 20 | 12 |
| GTX 1660 Super | 25 | 17 | 10 |
| RX 580 | 29 | 19 | 11 |
| GTX 1060 6GB | 24 | 16 | 9 |
| GTX 1650 | 19 | 13 | 8 |
| Intel Arc A770 | 39 | 26 | 15 |
| UHD 770 (integrated) | 8 | 8 | 8 |
Method: a game's demand tier maps to a “GPU index needed for ~60 FPS at 1080p”; each GPU's relative index produces an estimate via a diminishing-returns curve, then scaled for resolution. Source: TechPowerUp GPU database (relative performance), 2026-08-29.
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Release & version notes
Official release date: 2011-01-25. Ongoing patches and version history are published by the developer — for the latest patch notes, see the official store or support page. GameFigs summarizes the official release only and does not invent patch dates.
About Dead Space 2
Dead Space 2 is a third-person action shooter including both survival and horror elements. The game is a direct sequel to the first chapter of the Dead Space franchise. The game is set in the space environment of the future. The story of the second part begins in 2511, 3 years after the events held in the first game. The main character Isaac Clarke is awakened after 3-year coma (after the escape from Aegis VII) in an insane asylum in the Sprawl on Titan. A soon as the event pace raises and antagonists start pursuing him to get his brains (for building a new Marker), Isaac realizes his only goal – the destruction of the Marker. Players are offered to join the protagonist’s space adventures to complete his main mission and to force a Necromorph outbreak. As in the previous part, Isaac uses a special Resource Integration Gear – special suit, which displays important in-game parameters including health and oxygen level (required for vacuum spaces), and which also serves as a gameplay HUD. In case if one of the scales reaches the zero point, Isaac will die, and the game will be restarted from the last checkpoint.
Sources & attribution
- Game data (release year, genres, platforms, system requirements, description, cover art) via RAWG.io, retrieved 2026-08-21.
- GPU relative-performance indices via TechPowerUp GPU database (relative performance), retrieved 2026-08-29.
- FPS estimates on this page are GameFigs planning estimates from the demand-tier + GPU-index model — not benchmark results.
How the Dead Space 2 optimization card & FPS estimate are computed
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