Can I Run South Park: The Fractured but Whole?
Ubisoft San Francisco released South Park: The Fractured but Whole in 2017. It is a role playing game, published by Ubisoft. It offers a single player campaign. With more than 31 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. 9 languages are covered by the store listing. There are 35 achievements to chase. Controller support is partial, so some input still falls back to the keyboard. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Being 9 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. Steam gates it behind an age check at 17.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5 2400 / AMD FX 4320 or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560Ti / GTX 650 / GTX 750 / GTX 950 / GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon HD 7850 / R9 270 / R9 370 / RX 460 |
| RAM | 6 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB |
| OS | Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only) |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5-4690K / AMD FX-8350 or equivalent |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 / GTX 750ti / GTX 960 / GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon R9 280X / R9 380 / RX 470 |
| Storage | 20 GB |
| OS | Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only) |
Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source
Scores are deterministic, computed by fixed rules and benchmark tables, not written by an AI. How we score. Maintained by Farhad Ali. Spotted a wrong specification? Tell us.
Setting and environment
Play is built around one continuous open world. 10 storefront images show what the game actually looks like in motion. Open environments are the harder case for a PC, and South Park: The Fractured but Whole has to keep far more of its world resident and streaming than a level based game needs. The view is in two dimensions.
Why South Park: The Fractured but Whole is demanding
South Park: The Fractured but Whole is undemanding on the graphics side. Its NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 / GTX 750ti / GTX 960 / GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon R9 280X / R9 380 / RX 470 target sits well below our RTX 3060 reference, so most cards still in service clear South Park: The Fractured but Whole. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means South Park: The Fractured but Whole scales hard with the hardware you give it. South Park: The Fractured but Whole needs 64 bit Windows. Disk footprint is light, near 20 GB. System memory expectations are modest at 6 GB.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run South Park: The Fractured but Whole?
South Park: The Fractured but Whole is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560Ti / GTX 650 / GTX 750 / GTX 950 / GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon HD 7850 / R9 270 / R9 370 / RX 460, 6 GB RAM, about 20 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 5.31x |
| 1440p | Comfortable | 2.99x |
| 4K | Runs well | 1.33x |
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.
Common GPUs
| Graphics card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs great |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against South Park: The Fractured but Whole's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.
Similar games you can run
See everything your PC can run →
Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run South Park: The Fractured but Whole?
Upload your DxDiag file to Idxdiag's free checker and get a component by component compatibility verdict for South Park: The Fractured but Whole in seconds. No install required.
What are the minimum system requirements for South Park: The Fractured but Whole?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5 2400 / AMD FX 4320 or equivalent; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560Ti / GTX 650 / GTX 750 / GTX 950 / GTX 1050 / AMD Radeon HD 7850 / R9 270 / R9 370 / RX 460; 6 GB RAM; OS: Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only).
How much storage does South Park: The Fractured but Whole need?
South Park: The Fractured but Whole needs about 20 GB of available storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run South Park: The Fractured but Whole?
The RTX 3060 runs South Park: The Fractured but Whole comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for South Park: The Fractured but Whole?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for South Park: The Fractured but Whole is the GPU.