Can I Run Just Cause 2?
Avalanche Studios released Just Cause 2 in 2010. It is an action adventure game, published by Square Enix. It offers a single player campaign. Cloud saves are enabled. Critics scored it 84 on Metacritic. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17. It is old enough that no current GPU generation existed when it shipped, so modern hardware tends to be far past what it can use. Over 40 thousand players have left a Steam review, so this is a title whose performance is widely reported. There are 50 achievements to chase. Steam lists support for 7 languages. The game ships for Windows alone.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Dual-core CPU with SSE3 (Athlon 64 X2 4200 / Pentium D 3GHz) |
|---|---|
| GPU | DX10 compatible graphics card with 256 MB of memory (Nvidia GeForce 8800 series/ ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro) |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 10 GB |
| OS | Microsoft Windows Vista (Windows XP is unsupported) |
| DirectX | 10 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core® 2 Duo 2.6 GHz or AMD Phenom X3 2.4GHz or equivalen |
|---|---|
| GPU | DX10 compatible graphics card with 512 MB of memory (Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 series/ ATI Radeon HD 5750 series) |
| RAM | 3 GB |
| OS | Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 or Windows 7 |
| DirectX | 10 |
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Setting and environment
The game is set in an open sandbox. Play is structured around one continuous open world. Play is presented from a third person view. The publisher supplies 10 storefront screenshots of these environments. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and Just Cause 2 has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs.
Why Just Cause 2 is demanding
Just Cause 2 needs only 3 GB of RAM. Disk footprint is light, near 10 GB. The DirectX requirement is undemanding, at version 10.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Just Cause 2?
Just Cause 2 targets a mainstream modern PC: DX10 compatible graphics card with 256 MB of memory (Nvidia GeForce 8800 series/ ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro) and 2 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to DX10 compatible graphics card with 512 MB of memory (Nvidia GeForce GTS 250 series/ ATI Radeon HD 5750 series) 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 Just Cause 2?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Dual-core CPU with SSE3 (Athlon 64 X2 4200 / Pentium D 3GHz); GPU: DX10 compatible graphics card with 256 MB of memory (Nvidia GeForce 8800 series/ ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro); 2 GB RAM; OS: Microsoft Windows Vista (Windows XP is unsupported).
How much storage does Just Cause 2 need?
Just Cause 2 needs about 10 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Just Cause 2?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Just Cause 2 is the CPU.