System requirements · PC
Far Cry PC system requirements
Far Cry needs at least an AMD Athlon™ 1 GHz or Pentium® III 1 GHz processor, 256 MB of RAM and a graphics card listed as “64 MB DirectX® 9.0b-compliant graphics card (see supported list*)”, on Windows® 2000/XP (only).
For the recommended settings: an AMD Athlon 2-3 GHz or Pentium 4 2-3 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM and a graphics card listed as “128 MB GeForce™ 4 128 MB to GeForce FX 5950; ATI Radeon 9500-9800 XT”. It takes 4 GB of storage.
Minimum and recommended requirements
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| Operating system | Windows® 2000/XP (only) | Windows 2000/XP (only) |
| Processor | AMD Athlon™ 1 GHz or Pentium® III 1 GHz | AMD Athlon 2-3 GHz or Pentium 4 2-3 GHz |
| Memory | 256 MB | 512-1024 MB |
| Graphics | 64 MB DirectX® 9.0b-compliant graphics card (see supported list*) | 128 MB GeForce™ 4 128 MB to GeForce FX 5950; ATI Radeon 9500-9800 XT |
| DirectX | DirectX 9.0b or higher | Not listed |
| Storage | 4 GB | Not listed |
| Sound card | DirectX 9.0b compliant PCI card (Sound Blaster Audigy series recommended) | Sound Blaster® Audigy® series (see supported list*) |
| Additional notes | Broadband with 64 Kbps upstream (512 Kbps upstream to host 8 players) Windows compatible mouse and keyboard required | NVIDIA GeForce 2/3/4/FX families ( NVIDIA based cards must have ForceWare drivers 53.03 or later; GeForce 2 and GeForce 4 MX cards do not support all graphics features). ATI Radeon 8500/9000 families (ATI Radeon 9500-9800 XT recommended; ATI-based cards must have Catalyst drivers 3.9 or higher). Laptop models of the listed cards are not fully supported. For an up-to-date list of supported chipsets, video cards, and operating systems, please visit the FAQ for this game at: . |
How demanding is Far Cry?
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Memory: No PC game we track asks for less minimum RAM than Far Cry (256 MB).
It is on our list of low-end PC games (4 GB of RAM or less).
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Storage: Larger than 21% of the 1,852 games with a storage figure (4 GB).
It is on our list of small PC games (under 5 GB).
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