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Far Cry 2 PC system requirements

Far Cry 2 needs at least a processor listed as “Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz, Pentium D 2.66 Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better”, 1 GB of RAM and a graphics card listed as “256 MB, Shader Model 3 required, NVidia 6800 or ATI X1650 or better*”, on Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista (64 is supported).

For the recommended settings: an Intel Core 2 Duo Family, AMD 64 X2 5200+, AMD Phenom or better processor, 2 GB of RAM and a graphics card listed as “512 MB, NVidia 8600 GTS or better, ATI X1900 or better*”. It takes 3.5 GB of storage.

Far Cry 2: minimum and recommended PC requirements (Windows)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system	Microsoft Windows XP or Windows Vista (64 is supported)	Not listed
Processor	Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz, Pentium D 2.66 Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better	Intel Core 2 Duo Family, AMD 64 X2 5200+, AMD Phenom or better
Memory	1 GB	2 GB RAM
Graphics	256 MB, Shader Model 3 required, NVidia 6800 or ATI X1650 or better*	512 MB, NVidia 8600 GTS or better, ATI X1900 or better*
Storage	3.5 GB (Multiple saves and user created maps will increase the amount of needed hard disk space.)	Not listed
Sound card	Not listed	5.1 sound card recommended
Additional notes	*Supported Video cards: NVidia 6800, NVidia 7000 series, 8000 series, 9000 series, 200 series. 8800M and 8700M supported for laptops. ATI X1650 – 1950 series , HD2000 series , HD3000 series , HD4000 series	Not listed

How demanding is Far Cry 2?

Memory: Needs more minimum RAM than 1% of the 1,937 PC games with requirements we track (1 GB).

It is on our list of low-end PC games (4 GB of RAM or less).
Storage: Larger than 21% of the 1,852 games with a storage figure (3.5 GB).

It is on our list of small PC games (under 5 GB).

Compared with the minimum requirements of every game that has a requirements page on gamekeys.deals. We compare memory and storage only: processor and graphics card names cannot be ranked reliably from Steam's text.