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Far Cry 4 – PC System Requirements Revealed – Recommends GTX 680, Requires 30GB Of Free HDD

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Far Cry 4 is almost upon us and NVIDIA has revealed the PC system requirements for this upcoming open-world game. According to the green team, PC gamers will need at least an Intel i5-750 or an AMD Phenom II X4 955, 4GB of RAM, and 30GB of free HDD space. Moreover, it appears that the game will only support DX11. You can view the full list of the game’s system requirements below. Kudos to our reader ‘Dracula ™ © ®’ for spotting them!

Far Cry 4 PC Requirements:

Minimum System Requirements
Operating system: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8/8.1 (64bit versions only)
Processor: Intel Core i5-750 @ 2.6 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.2 GHz
Memory: 4GB
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 or AMD Radeon HD5850 (1GB VRAM)
Direct X: Version 11
Hard Drive: 30 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card with latest drivers

Recommended System Requirements
Operating system: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8/8.1 (64bit versions only)
Processor: Intel Core i5-2400S @ 2.5 GHz or AMD FX-8350 @ 4.0 GHz or better
Memory: 8GB
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 or AMD Radeon R9 290X or better (2GB VRAM)
Direct X: Version 11
Hard Drive: 30 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card with latest drivers

[UPDATE]

Apparently NVIDIA made a mistake. The recommended AMD GPU is R9 280X and not R9 290X.

[UPDATE 2]

Ubisoft has posted the official PC requirements and according them, an AMD R9 290X is recommended.

141 thoughts on “Far Cry 4 – PC System Requirements Revealed – Recommends GTX 680, Requires 30GB Of Free HDD”

    1. Hey nvidia fanboy, true pc gamers know that card well.go search and learn how your monster will be crushed by it and then come here saying blah blah blah.

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        1. Haha well not everybody gets their salary pay-check so fast some of us are living in poor contry’s with huge delay’s on payments!

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          1. Agreed,in my country people are paying 3 times the real price because we are sanctioned.

          3. Here we pay three times the real dollar worth for every dollar because of sanctions. It is like 2700 dollars for gtx980 because while we have to pay much more than the real worth of dollar,one dollar costs 3200 tomans instead of max 1000 tomans ,in other words,we are paying 3 dollars for one dollar.toman is our currency.

          1. Yea its just at a SoC at that speed its almost a 980 SLI in one card… not a 980 at standard “which all the recommends are” 😉

      1. you do know farcry 3 needed a 680gtx just to play at 50-60fps on ultra there is nothing wrong with these requirements

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          1. weird you mean like all the reviews? Please make a video something is wrong with all are copies

          2. I get 50-55 in open areas and 60 in closed areas. Not quite 60 but when you are playing at 55 there isnt much of a diffirence.

            check which version you use the dx11 or dx9 exe? I think one of the settings is causing drops

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfVDU8odZpA

            This guy gets 50-60 fps too.

            i build a pc for a friend with a gtx 660 ti and a fx 4ghz cpu and it run fine.

            I just looked at benchmarks and it seems the gtx 660 doent do well. Well this is news to me. My gtx660 ic oced by default.

            Seems to me i didnt reallize i was playing under 60 fps, i can immediatly tell in most games when the fps goes to 50, not in far cry 4, i hope fc4 is like that too.

        1. He he,you can believe what you want,but that is not the truth.also if a game is optimized bad,that is not the card’s or amd’s fault.

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          4. I remember the benchmarks said otherwise but still it runs well.i have a gtx 580 still and it ran well.unfotunately i can not watch the attachment buecause the link is filtered. It is very good that you got a boost.i hope you enjoy fc4 too.?

          6. 1920x1080p yep and thanks 🙂
            Its a pure monster GTX 680 sadly for the new games (consoles texture) i need more VRAM!
            Thats why i am gonna change it with something massive as it was GTX 680 !

          8. No i didn’t drop a few settings!
            Ultra 4x MSAA 70+’
            Maybe you used Ultra 8x MSAA then FPS drops!
            Hey @minepo what CPU do you have and what kind of GTX 680 do you own?

          10. weird i am not claiming am doing 60 fps at all times but as far as i played my gtx660 maintaints 60 fps.

            Its a hit and miss some people run the game fine with dx11, others not so much. Make sure you run the dx11 exe.

          15. No it doesn’t run at 70+FPS on a 680 i own a 770GTX and i have to turn off AA just to keep 45+FPS on ultra still good enough for me however

          17. then make the video i can make a video to and prove to you other wise not a lie i always monitor my FPS in games wtf. Also you are calling every single review on the internet also a lie or fake as well.

          18. Ohh you have two accounts how can you say that GTX 680 at Ultra no aa its running with 45 FPS LMAO!
            more like 200+ 300+

          19. what no i own a 770GTX and i played this game 3 times when driving i always drop my FPS to 45. just make a video if not i will not listen to your statements compared to every single professional review ever.

          24. FC 3 was optimized with AMD help. This will be nice comparison. Most games from GE program runs better on variety of HW. HairWorks might do lot of damage there.

        2. You’ve clearly not used AMD drivers for a long time, I have and they’re good with my R9 280, as good as NVIDIA drivers so far and been using them for over a month.

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          2. Not exactly, i used AMD cards 2 h ago at my friend house more precise 2x SHappire HD 7950 CF lmao and a Club R9 290 RoyalAce and i played a bit and then i figured out how it performs lmao again!
            Some games were extremly nice to play with(BF4,even the new COD) but were some games were the min FPS was unusal bad ,stutter,v-sync on at 60 FPS(i love to play at that sweet 60) works like SH!T on AMD cards from what i saw……idk if all the 3 cards are damaged or he need to use a different driver for them but was a mess…
            I will buy AMD tomorow if their drivers and their frame-pacing on ALL CARDS it will be at least at 15% of Nvidia’s drivers
            PS: Never had a good opinion about AMD in general as a company at least this is how a true”old” PC gamer was raised and educated because we all know that nothing comes good from AMD.
            The only card that i seen it on the local hardware store(AMD) that performed extremly nice with very good frame-pacing in Thief at 4k was the R9 295X2

        3. “hahahaha” what about? Radeon has bigger memory bandwidth. more ROPs, more RAM, etc. Shutter is less common on Radeon in games like Watch Dogs.

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    2. It’s a way to say “Hey you! Yes, I mean you, useless PCgamer, buy an Nvidia graphic card cuz we have a partnership with them.”

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      1. Yea everybody know’s but they made a contract already with Nvidia!
        Normally should be R9 280x /GTX 770 or HD 7970Ghz/GTX 680!
        But Ubisoft logic !

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    4. Nah, maybe…. maybe… Radeon would require an R9 290X to see comparable performance against a GTX680 ! A way of saying “the way it’s meant to be played” mate…. what a life…

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    5. Surely that’s just a mistake as the minimum GPU specs aren’t biased towards nVIDIA . At the end of the day this game also runs on consoles with low end AMD hardware so it really shouldn’t be too much of an issue for AMD users.

      I always use nVIDIA as I like their features better than AMD’s but I don’t think you will need a 290x to match a 680 mate so I wouldn’t worry.

      These PC specs have been a little on the bullshit side for a while now. For example The Evil Within was meant to require an I7 CPU with a gtx680 with mandatory 4gb of VRAM and then when the game was finally on sale we found out that a lowly 2gb 750ti give PS4 like performance when paired with an I3

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      1. Far cry 4 looks like far cry 3 with some minor improvements, the minimum requirements can run the game on high-very high just fine.

        So it seems to me that either ubi kiev screwed the pc version of fc4, or the minimum requirements are not “minimum” and they pull them out of their asses to make people upgrade or maintain the myth of next gen consoles.

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  3. They are high requirements for an “expansion” of Far Cry 3 anyway. Obviously I’ll wait for DSOgaming and Digital Foundry’s benchmarks. Never believe those bunch of monkeys/developer.

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  4. Now that Ubisoft partners with Nvidia they want to hurt AMD with these ridiculous reqs ,but just so you know 290x is ~30% faster than GTX680

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    2. Well we will have to see how the 290x performs vs the GTX680 at higher settings with all the gameworks features on. Figuratively speaking, my money is on the GTX680.

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      1. Maybe part of “The way it’s meant to be played” deal is to cripple performance on everything else except Nvidia.

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          1. CUDA is no rocket science, it’s just a proprietary name from Nvidia. In reality CUDA cores are just stream processors.

    1. they worked closely with nvidia so maybe sh**ty optimized for AMD, but consoles also have AMD hardware so IDK.. maybe on purpose?

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    1. Stop making that ridiculous comparision, the R290x is way more powerful than the 680 that is already outdated.

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      1. Why? to stop the truth?
        oudated …sure thats why can max out all the games 1920x1080p over 60 FPS and i am not saying that R9 290x can’t but the drivers betrade her! 🙂

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          1. Is that with shader cache on?
            And depends what driver to achive over 70+ using Ultra 4x MSAA i used 337.50!

          2. Shader cache doesn’t make much difference if you’re not CPU limited and it assumes the game is heavy CPU bound.

          5. all that proves is at an average the framerate goes under 60, not that it can do 60 for most of the time.

        2. To Stop the lie, look all the comments below, only you keep saying that bullshit. Please, when you say something, try to be a little less fanboy.

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    1. Comments enter pending mode whenever they contain one or more links. Your comment should be visible now

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      1. Thanks for letting me know, I thought my comments were getting deleted due to that link so I posted another one without link. Anyway I deleted the additional one, thanks again.

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  12. I don’t buy this non sense, even R9 290 is faster than GTX 680 let alone
    R9 290X! This is a nice way to say we haven’t optimized the game for
    40% of the PC market.

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    1. Actually its ~30% according with Steam, but AMD have integrated GPU, so dedicated card will probably be like 20~25%.

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  13. It looks great in the story trailer, I just wish the game didnt have all that stupid Tarzan s**t going on. That really puts me off getting it.

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  14. Sweet. I won’t be maxing out this game (I never max out a game, even if I can), but with a minimum requirement of a GTX 460 I should be good with my GTX 670 😀

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  17. Explain me plz how does a cpu that runs far cry 3 maxed out is on “minimum”

    or why they reccomend a cpu that wipes the floor with ps4 cpu.

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  20. 680 recommended for FC4 but for ACU minimum XD ubisoft..

    Also i remember they said how they are running consoles at same settings as ‘very-high’ on PC. But why recommend 680 or 290x then for PC? Those are at least two-three times stronger than console GPUs. So if both console and PC share same max-settings this seems kinda fishy.. Or PC will get some Ultra specific options , which would make sense

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    1. Well for one its only playing the game at 30fps remember the xbox one still have a 7790 class GPU although it is DDR3 ram.

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  21. Higher requirements for AMD, R9 290X top of the line AMD card recommended LMAO. If the R9 290X performance the same as the GTX 680 in this game then there is seriously something wrong. Also, the i5 2400S is nowhere near the performance of an FX8350.

    CPU Mark:

    AMD FX 8350 – 9020
    AMD FX 6300 – 6354
    Intel i5 2400S – 4868

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  22. these requirements aren’t that high and i’m sure even a APU will be able to do 720P medium just fine. Far cry 3 works great on lower-end hardware

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  25. ”Apparently NVIDIA made a mistake. The recommended AMD GPU is R9 280X and not R9 290X.”

    How is that nvidias fault? 🙂

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  29. whenever a game requires 8 gig i know its gonna run like crap.. and considering this is ubisoft my expectations for the PC version is low.

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  30. Watching the video now again i was questionable since every time i drive my FPS drops maybe i will make a video to just so you don’t think i was trolling really thinking its my CPU

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    1. He’s running FXAA, not MSAA at all. Overriding in your graphics control panel doesn’t do anything, I’ve told him before about this, since it only mainly works with non deferred game engine renders, i.e that’s why DX9 doesn’t have the MSAA option, since deferred render and MSAA are not compatible in DX9.

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  33. Looking at the clockspeed differences in those requirements, AMD truly is sh*t, it’s bizarre!2.5GHz vs 4.0GHz, LOL!

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    1. It’s bullsh*t and so is also needing a R9 290X. They’re saying a 4800 score can beat a 9000 CPU score which contradicts what they said about Watch Dogs. Ubisoft claimed you needed a 9000+ CPU score recommended to run Watch Dogs, which was false.

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  34. LOL, 32xCSAA doesn’t work, you’re running FXAA. Try 8xMSAA.

    “FC3 runs amazing Ultra 4x MSAA 70+ ”

    And here you’re running below 70fps without MSAA on and I’ve told you before, override or enhance doesn’t always work properly because of the deferred renderer, you supposed to have enhance on and MSAA in-game anyway.

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    1. Yes it is working and looks even better than MSAA !
      And yes with 4x MSAA on Ultra i have 70+ FPS but i hate that quality!

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    2. Exactly its working amazing not just properly!
      I just hope FC4 it will be as good as FC3 in terms of optmization!
      If not another loan to the bank and done!

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      1. If you think it’s working proper then use 8xMSAA in-game and see your FPS drop like a stone because 32xCSAA is not working mate, I’ve told you before about it.

        Would you like me to explain why again? Also NVIDIA said the same thing.

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          3. Crysis 3 runs better for me(on high), I can keep a more consistently stable 60fps, while Farcry 3 runs pretty poor(on ultra)

  35. An R9 280x Gigabyte out of the box at 1100 MHz runs FC3 (with a 4670K @ 4.4 GHz) at 70 FPS with 8x MSAA and everything default maxed out (no tampering withh catalyst). I think he’s not lying about 70 fps with 4x MSAA on a 680, but the 32xCSAA unfortunately is not valid when the game doesn’t support it at all. You think it looks better because FXAA indeed does look better than no AA.

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  36. My R9 280x Gigabyte out of the box at 1100 MHz runs FC3 (with a 4670K @ 4.4 GHz) at 70 FPS with 8x MSAA and everything default maxed out (no tampering with catalyst). I think you’re not lying about 70 fps with 4x MSAA on a 680, but unfortunately the 32xCSAA run is not valid when the game doesn’t support it at all. You think it looks better because FXAA indeed does look better than no AA.

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    1. 70 FPS with R9 280x hah thats a very nice lie ( YT video please)!
      And yes 32x CSAA looks and works in FC3 for some Nvdia users and yea don’t work indeed with(AMD) but for some of us it does work great and it looks awesome

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      1. Sorry, your fanboyism is busting at it’s seams. No use arguing with it. 680 is pretty f’ing old, it can barely run Shadow of Mordor at medium texture settings (same with watch_dogs). You’re the one who needs an upgrade here, not me 🙂

        2015 comes and 2GB cards are out in the dump. I love the GTX 900 series though. Maybe get one of those before you show off?

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