Gaming
Can the HP Envy 17 (2022) run The Forest?
Minimum requirements
Meets minimum requirements
Meets recommended requirements
The publisher lists GeForce 8800 series (legacy) (tier 1); we compare against the highest-class alternative, so the requirement is tier 1. GPU option (unpaired with CPU options) — NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Laptop GPU: PASS. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Laptop GPU is tier 3; the requirement is tier 1.
How this was judged
Graphics chips are compared by class (an 8-tier rubric), not by benchmark score. The same tier as the requirement is only ever “likely”. Read the tier rubric and its limitations.
- The Forest system requirements · publisher requirements
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units · secondary source (Wikipedia), spec facts only
- Manufacturer spec page for this configuration · manufacturer
- https://www.dell.com/support/manuals/en-us/inspiron-14-5430-laptop/inspiron-14-5430-setup-and-specifications/gpudiscrete?guid=guid-d5b37be7-2d7f-4094-b039-4eec4e45f2b1&lang=en-us · manufacturer
Published requirements
Minimum requirements
- CPU
- Intel Dual-Core 2.4 GHz
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT · DirectX 9.0
- RAM
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 5 GB
- OS
- Windows 7
Recommended requirements
- CPU
- Quad Core Processor
- GPU
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 · DirectX 9.0
- RAM
- 4 GB
- Storage
- 5 GB
- OS
- Windows 7
Sources and limits
How we know this · Report an error
- Valve (Steam) — The Forest on Steam — System Requirements · retrieved 9/20/2026
The laptop’s figures come from its verified specification page. Requirements are the publisher’s and can change. This compares the laptop with the publisher’s listed native requirements — it does not account for emulation, translation layers or cloud gaming. See how we verify the specs.