Can I Run FINAL FANTASY XIII-2?
Released in 2014, FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 is a role playing game built by Square Enix. It offers a single player campaign. It is localised into 5 languages according to the store listing. Cloud saves are enabled. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. Completionists have 31 achievements to work through. Being over ten years old, its ceiling was set by the hardware of a different era. Over 5 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 2GHz Dual Core CPU |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® Geforce® 8 Series/ ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series VRAM 256MB or later |
| RAM | 1.46 GB |
| Storage | 30 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 9.0c |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel® Core™ 2 Quad (2.66 GHz)/ AMD Phenom™ II X4 (2.8 GHz) processor |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA® Geforce® GTX™ 460/ ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 30 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 9.0c |
Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source
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Setting and environment
FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 places its action in a fantasy world, and the player works through one continuous open world. 6 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Play is presented from a third person view. Continuous worlds put sustained pressure on memory and storage, and FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 can never assume the player will stop and let it load.
Why FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 is demanding
FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 makes almost no demand of the graphics card. Nearly any machine built in the last decade clears the stated NVIDIA Geforce GTX 460/ ATI Radeon HD 5870 target. The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 9.0. Disk footprint is light, near 30 GB. FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 needs only 2 GB of RAM.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run FINAL FANTASY XIII-2?
Older hardware holds up here: FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 runs on modest graphics, with NVIDIA® Geforce® 8 Series/ ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series VRAM 256MB or later enough to meet the minimum. Add 1.46 GB of RAM and a mid-range CPU and a PC several years old will play it fine.
Bottleneck: CPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 48.57x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 27.32x |
| 4K | Comfortable | 12.14x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run FINAL FANTASY XIII-2?
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What are the minimum system requirements for FINAL FANTASY XIII-2?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 2GHz Dual Core CPU; GPU: NVIDIA® Geforce® 8 Series/ ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 series VRAM 256MB or later; 1.46 GB RAM.
How much storage does FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 need?
FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 needs about 30 GB of HDD storage.
What is the bottleneck for FINAL FANTASY XIII-2?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for FINAL FANTASY XIII-2 is the CPU.