Can I Run Five Nights at Freddy's?
Five Nights at Freddy's is an indie simulation game from Scott Cawthon, released in 2014. Scott Cawthon both developed and published it. It offers a single player campaign. 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. Its Steam review count passes 53 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. Metacritic places it at 78.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | 1 GB |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 1 GB |
| Storage | 1 GB |
| OS | XP,Vista,Windows7 |
| DirectX | 9 |
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Setting and environment
Five Nights at Freddy's places its action in a horror setting, and the player works through hostile territory. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Play is presented from a first person view.
Why Five Nights at Freddy's is demanding
Five Nights at Freddy's needs only 1 GB of RAM. The install is small at roughly 1 GB. At 1 GB, VRAM is a non issue for Five Nights at Freddy's. It targets DirectX 9, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Five Nights at Freddy's?
Five Nights at Freddy's targets a mainstream modern PC: 1 GB and 1 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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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run Five Nights at Freddy's?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Five Nights at Freddy's?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 2 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Athlon or equivalent; GPU: 1 GB; 1 GB RAM; OS: XP,Vista,Windows7.
How much storage does Five Nights at Freddy's need?
Five Nights at Freddy's needs about 1 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Five Nights at Freddy's?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Five Nights at Freddy's is the CPU.