Quake Live System Requirements

The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT. Furthermore, a modern graphics card is recommended in order to run Quake Live with the highest settings. An Intel Pentium 4 2.00GHz CPU is required at a minimum to run Quake Live. However, the developers recommend a CPU greater or equal to an Intel Core i5 750S to play the game. You will need at least 1 GB of free disk space to install Quake Live. Make sure your have 2 GB of free disk space in order to install Quake Live. Quake Live system requirements state that you will need at least 1 GB of RAM. Additionally, the game developers recommend somewhere around 2 GB of RAM in your system.

Quake Live will run on PC system with Windows 7 or later and upwards.

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Quake Live FPS - what frame rate can you expect?

How many FPS will I get on Quake Live? We reference thousands of reports from PCGameBenchmark users running our FPS tracking app to tell you exactly how Quake Live 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 Quake Live run at?

Here are the typical frame rate samples

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
151	Intel Core i7-14700KF	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti	32 GB
59	Intel Core i7-6700K	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB	32 GB

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