System requirements · PC
Football Manager 26 PC system requirements
Football Manager 26 needs at least a processor listed as “Desktop: Intel Core i3-530 or AMD FX-4100 Laptop: Intel Core i3-330M or AMD A6-5200 Requires SSE4.2 & SSSE3”, 4 GB of RAM and a graphics card listed as “Desktop: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 380 or Intel HD 530 Laptop: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M or AMD Radeon R9 M375 or Intel HD 530 512MiB VRAM”, on Windows 10 (with updates 22H2), Windows 11 (with updates 23H2) (64-bit).
For the recommended settings: a processor listed as “Desktop: Intel Core i5-9600 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Laptop: Intel Core i5-1035G7 or AMD Ryzen 7 3750H”, 12 GB of RAM and a graphics card listed as “Desktop: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT Laptop: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile or AMD Radeon RX 6600M”. It takes 20 GB of storage.
Minimum and recommended requirements
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| Operating system | Windows 10 (with updates 22H2), Windows 11 (with updates 23H2) | Windows 11 – with updates (23H2) |
| Processor | Desktop: Intel Core i3-530 or AMD FX-4100 Laptop: Intel Core i3-330M or AMD A6-5200 Requires SSE4.2 & SSSE3 | Desktop: Intel Core i5-9600 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600 Laptop: Intel Core i5-1035G7 or AMD Ryzen 7 3750H |
| Memory | 4 GB RAM | 12 GB RAM |
| Graphics | Desktop: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 380 or Intel HD 530 Laptop: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M or AMD Radeon R9 M375 or Intel HD 530 512MiB VRAM | Desktop: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT Laptop: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile or AMD Radeon RX 6600M |
| DirectX | Version 11 Same for both: minimum and recommended | |
| Storage | 20 GB available space Same for both: minimum and recommended | |
| Additional notes | Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system Microsoft no longer supports Windows 10 or older versions. Same for both: minimum and recommended | |
How demanding is Football Manager 26?
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Memory: Needs more minimum RAM than 15% of the 1,937 PC games with requirements we track (4 GB).
It is on our list of low-end PC games (4 GB of RAM or less).
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Storage: Larger than 57% of the 1,852 games with a storage figure (20 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.
Other platforms
Mac
| Minimum | Recommended | |
|---|---|---|
| Operating system | 11 Big Sur, 12 Monterey, 13 Ventura, 14 Sonoma, 15 Sequoia - with updates | 13 Ventura, 14 Sonoma, 15 Sequoia – with updates |
| Processor | Apple M1 or Intel Core M | Apple M1 |
| Memory | 4 GB RAM | 12 GB RAM |
| Graphics | Desktop: Apple M1 or NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M or Intel HD Graphics 5000 or AMD FirePro D300 Laptop: Apple M1 or NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M or Intel HD Graphics 5000 | 1GiB VRAM, Apple M1 |
| Storage | 20 GB available space Same for both: minimum and recommended | |
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