System Requirements

Below are the system requirements for comfortable work with Counter-Strike 2 Workshop Tools.

Game

See Counter-Strike 2 System Requirements.

Hammer

Hammer now leverages GPU-Accelerated raytracing to both preview and bake lighting for Counter-Strike 2 maps, drastically speeding up compile times, even on lower-end hardware. As such, a GPU capable of raytracing is now required for Hammer to be fully functional.

Note:-lightmapcpu was removed with the Armory update; CPU compiling is now completely unavailable.

Warning:If your computer only meets the minimum system requirements, you may be unable to achieve high-quality baked lighting on your maps. Medium and large maps typically require 32 GB of RAM to bake lighting in 8K or even 4K.

	Minimum	Recommended
System memory (RAM)	16 GB	32 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 (or Quadro/Titan equivalent) Note:Although some GTX 10 and 16 cards do support GPU-Accelerated raytracing, Hammer doesn't support GPU-Accelerated raytracing because of a lack of RT cores. AMD Radeon 6600 XT (or other RDNA 2 cards) Intel Arc series (tested on Battlemage)	Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Ti+ (or Quadro/Titan equivalent) AMD Radeon 6800 XT+ (or other RDNA 2 cards) Intel Arc series (tested on Battlemage only as of Jan 5th, 2025.)

Other tools

Not tested, but it doesn't seem like even a toaster couldn't handle them.