Can I Run Far Cry 3?
Released in 2012, Far Cry 3 is an action adventure game built by Ubisoft Montreal, Massive Entertainment, and Ubisoft Shanghai. Publishing duties went to Ubisoft. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. Over 120 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. A pad covers most of the game, though parts of it still expect a keyboard. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. It carries 44 achievements. Critics scored it 88 on Metacritic. It is localised into 17 languages according to the store listing. Being over ten years old, its ceiling was set by the hardware of a different era. The game ships for Windows alone.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core®2 Duo E6700 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ @ 3.0Ghz or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | 512MB Video RAM (1GB Video RAM), DirectX9c (DirectX11) Shader Model 3.0 (Shader Model 5.0) |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB |
| OS | Windows XP, Windows Vista |
| DirectX | 9 |
Recommended requirements
| GPU | 512MB Video RAM (1GB Video RAM), DirectX9c (DirectX11) Shader Model 3.0 (Shader Model 5.0) |
|---|---|
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in an open sandbox, moving through one continuous open world. There are 18 official screenshots to judge the look from. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Far Cry 3 has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. The view is from a first person view.
Why Far Cry 3 is demanding
At 4 GB, system memory is undemanding. Far Cry 3 needs only 1 GB of video memory. Far Cry 3 takes about 15 GB of disk space.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Far Cry 3?
Far Cry 3 targets a mainstream modern PC: 512MB Video RAM (1GB Video RAM), DirectX9c (DirectX11) Shader Model 3.0 (Shader Model 5.0) and 4 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to 512MB Video RAM (1GB Video RAM), DirectX9c (DirectX11) Shader Model 3.0 (Shader Model 5.0) for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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Frequently asked questions
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What are the minimum system requirements for Far Cry 3?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core®2 Duo E6700 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ @ 3.0Ghz or better; GPU: 512MB Video RAM (1GB Video RAM), DirectX9c (DirectX11) Shader Model 3.0 (Shader Model 5.0); 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows XP, Windows Vista.
How much storage does Far Cry 3 need?
Far Cry 3 needs about 15 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Far Cry 3?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Far Cry 3 is the CPU.