Can I Run Fallout: New Vegas?
Fallout: New Vegas is an action role playing game from Obsidian Entertainment, released in 2010. Bethesda Softworks published it. It offers a single player campaign. Its Steam review count passes 209 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Being over ten years old, its ceiling was set by the hardware of a different era. It carries 75 achievements. Its Metacritic score stands at 84. Steam lists support for 5 languages. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Dual Core 2.0GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce 6 series, ATI 1300XT series |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB |
| OS | Windows 7/Vista/XP |
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Setting and environment
Fallout: New Vegas places its action in a world after its collapse, and the player works through one continuous open world. That openness is what costs performance. Fallout: New Vegas has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. It is played from a first person view. 12 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion.
Why Fallout: New Vegas is demanding
Fallout: New Vegas takes about 10 GB of disk space. At 2 GB, system memory is undemanding.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Fallout: New Vegas?
Fallout: New Vegas targets a mainstream modern PC: NVIDIA GeForce 6 series, ATI 1300XT series and 2 GB of RAM for the minimum. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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Can my PC run Fallout: New Vegas?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Fallout: New Vegas?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Dual Core 2.0GHz; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 6 series, ATI 1300XT series; 2 GB RAM; OS: Windows 7/Vista/XP.
How much storage does Fallout: New Vegas need?
Fallout: New Vegas needs about 10 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Fallout: New Vegas?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Fallout: New Vegas is the CPU.