Alien Swarm System Requirements

You will need at least 5 GB of free disk space to install Alien Swarm. The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an NVIDIA GeForce 6600. Furthermore, an NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT is recommended in order to run Alien Swarm with the highest settings. To play Alien Swarm you will need a minimum CPU equivalent to an Intel Pentium 4 4.00GHz. However, the developers recommend a CPU greater or equal to an Intel Core 2 Duo Q6867 to play the game. The minimum memory requirement for Alien Swarm is 1 GB of RAM installed in your computer.

Alien Swarm will run on PC system with Windows® 7 / Vista / Vista64 / XP and upwards.

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Alien Swarm FPS - what frame rate can you expect?

How many FPS will I get on Alien Swarm? We reference thousands of reports from PCGameBenchmark users running our FPS tracking app to tell you exactly how Alien Swarm performs across a range of different settings and resolutions on the most popular PC gaming setups. Here’s a selection of our most recent test results.

What frame rate does Alien Swarm run at?

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
59	Intel Core i7-6700	Intel HD 530	16 GB
42	Intel Core i5-8250U	Intel UHD Graphics 620	8 GB
37	Intel Core i5-7200U	Intel HD Graphics 620	8 GB

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