Half-Life: Alyx is Valve’s VR return to the Half-Life series. It’s the story of an impossible fight against a vicious alien race known as the Combine, set between the events of Half-Life and Half-Life 2. Playing as Alyx Vance, you are humanity’s only chance for survival.

Half-Life: Alyx System Requirements

2 Mar 2020 - Specs reviewed

Official Minimum Requirements

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Core i5-7500 / Ryzen 5 1600
Memory: 12 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 1060 / RX 580 - 6GB VRAM

Recommended Requirements

OS: Win 7 64
Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K 4-Core 4.0GHz / AMD Ryzen R5 1600
Graphics: AMD Radeon RX Vega 64 Air 8GB or NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080
VRAM: 8GB
System Memory: 16 GB RAM
Storage: 50 GB Hard drive space
DirectX 11 Compatible Graphics Card

PC System Analysis For Half-Life: Alyx Requirements

Half-Life: Alyx runs on the Source game engine. You need a Core i7-6700K 4-Core 4.0GHz or Ryzen R5 1600 processor coupled with a GeForce GTX 1080 to run Half-Life: Alyx system requirements at recommended. You can expect to get around 60FPS at 1080p screen res on high graphics settings with this hardware. Also your PC needs 16 GB RAM to meet the rec specs and run at 60 frames. Half-Life: Alyx needs a Core i5-7500 3.4GHz or Ryzen R5 1600 processor coupled with a GeForce GTX 1060 to run Half-Life: Alyx system requirements at minimum requirements. A machine of this performance will return around 30FPS on low settings. System memory for min is 12 GB.

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6.6

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Half-Life: Alyx PC Release Date:

23 Mar 2020

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02:48 Feb-01-2021

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11:48 Aug-09-2020

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20:49 Aug-18-2020

I voted yes because…I've got the same GPU and your CPU comparable to my I7-3770. On Ultra -Fog medium I've got 45-90FPS when I sometime looked in MSI Afterburner. GPU utilization 13-80% and CPU 40-100% (for me)