Far Cry 5 System Requirements

To run the Far Cry 5 system requirements, you will need an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 graphics card, an AMD FX-6300 Six-Core CPU, 8GB of RAM, and 40GB of HD space.

When it comes to the Far Cry 5 system requirements, the minimum specs are quite attainable,  gaming PCs that are a few years old will still run this game well. An AMD FX-6300 Six-Core CPU is required at a minimum to run Far Cry 5. Whereas, an AMD Ryzen 5 1600 is recommended in order to run it. The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670. But, according to the developers the recommended graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970. The minimum memory requirement for Far Cry 5 is 8 GB of RAM installed in your computer. The Far Cry 5 PC specs also ask for at least 40GB of free storage space to install the game.

Far Cry 5 Performance Guide

Far Cry 5 FPS Boosts can be achieved through a number of changes - running the game as administrator, ensuring Windows Power options are set for 'Best Performance' and disabling any overlays such as Discord Overlay. In addition, graphical options such as Environment and Anti-Aliasing can affect performance significantly, so try turning these down if you are suffering from poor performance

Far Cry 5 stuttering issues can also be solved by ensuring you have the latest NVIDIA Drivers or AMD Drivers for your graphics card.

Far Cry 5 Update

The game is over 2 years old now and Ubisoft are no longer releasing large patches or updates, however there are no significant glitches or issues as these have been sorted in earlier patches.

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Far Cry 5 will run on PC system with Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (64-bit versions only) and upwards.

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Far Cry 5 FPS - what frame rate can you expect?

How many FPS will I get on Far Cry 5? We reference thousands of reports from PCGameBenchmark users running our FPS tracking app to tell you exactly how Far Cry 5 performs across a range of different settings and resolutions on the most popular PC gaming setups.

What frame rate does Far Cry 5 run at?

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
607	Intel Core i7-10700KF	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070	32 GB
391	Intel Core i7-9700K	Intel UHD 630	16 GB
182	Intel Core i5-6600	Intel HD 530	24 GB
44	Intel Core i5-6300HQ	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M	20 GB
40	Intel Core i7-6700HQ	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M	16 GB

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