Can I Run Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon?
Ubisoft Montreal released Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon in 2013. It is an action adventure game, published by Ubisoft. It offers a single player campaign. The game ships for Windows alone. There are 19 achievements to chase. Its Metacritic score stands at 81. An age check at 18 sits in front of the store page. 8 languages are covered by the store listing. Over 18 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard. Being over ten years old, its ceiling was set by the hardware of a different era.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 2.66 GHz Intel® Core™2 Duo E6700 or 3.00 GHz AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 6000+ |
|---|---|
| GPU | 512 MB DirectX® 9.0c-compliant |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB |
| OS | Windows® XP (SP3) / Windows Vista® (SP2) / Windows 10 (64-bit versions only) |
| DirectX | 9 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | 2.93 GHz Intel® Core™ i3-530 or 3.10 GHz AMD Phenom™ II X2 550 or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | 1024 MB DirectX 11-complaint or higher |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB |
| OS | Windows® XP (SP3) / Windows Vista® (SP2) / Windows 10 (64-bit versions only) |
| DirectX | 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a cyberpunk future, moving through one continuous open world. The publisher supplies 7 storefront screenshots of these environments. It is played from a first person view. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs.
Why Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is demanding
System memory expectations are modest at 4 GB. The install is small at roughly 3 GB. A 64 bit version of Windows is required.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon?
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon targets a mainstream modern PC: 512 MB DirectX® 9.0c-compliant and 2 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to 1024 MB DirectX 11-complaint or higher 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
Can my PC run Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 2.66 GHz Intel® Core™2 Duo E6700 or 3.00 GHz AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 6000+; GPU: 512 MB DirectX® 9.0c-compliant; 2 GB RAM; OS: Windows® XP (SP3) / Windows Vista® (SP2) / Windows 10 (64-bit versions only).
How much storage does Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon need?
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon needs about 3 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is the CPU.