Over the past couple of years, a page about Football Manager’s specs would hardly have changed from version to version. Most of the changes were around the game’s systems with very little extra being applied to the system it was running on.

This year’s 25 iteration could just be a little bit different, however. A switch to the Unity engine and the promise of a hugely ramped-up graphical experience could be causing the sweats for fans used to running the game on whatever older hardware they have lying around.

Sports Interactive has just announced the specs for FM25 for both desktop and laptop so let’s have a look at whether it is upgrade time for anybody.

Football Manager 25 PC System Requirements

As we mentioned we have two flavors, Minimum and Recommended and each comes with a Desktop and laptop variant. Here are the specs and we will dig in afterwards.

Minimum Specs

Component
Desktop Specification
Laptop Specification

OS
Windows 10, Windows 11 – with updates
Windows 10, Windows 11 – with updates

Processor
Intel Core i3-530 or AMD FX-4100
Intel Core i3-330M or AMD A6-5200

Memory
4 GB RAM
4 GB RAM

Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 380 or Intel HD 530
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M or AMD Radeon R9 M375 or Intel HD 530

VRAM
512MB VRAM
512MB VRAM

DirectX
Version 11
Version 11

Storage
20 GB available space
20 GB available space

Additional
1080p gameplay at “Low” settings
1080p gameplay at “Low” settings

Recommended Specs

Component
Desktop Specification
Laptop Specification

OS
Windows 11 – with updates
Windows 11 – with updates

Processor
Intel Core i5-9600 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Intel Core i5-1035G7 or AMD Ryzen 7 3750H

Memory
12 GB RAM
12 GB RAM

Graphics
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 or AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 Mobile or AMD Radeon RX 6600M

VRAM
1GB VRAM
1GB VRAM

DirectX
Version 11
Version 11

Storage
20 GB available space
20 GB available space

Additional
1080p gameplay at “High” settings
1080p gameplay at “High” settings

The recommended spec has shot up considerably here if we take a look at the specs for last year’s game:

FM2024 specs

Component
Specification

CPU
Intel Core 2
AMD Athlon 64 X2

RAM
4 GB

GPU
Nvidia GeForce 9600M GT
AMD Mobility Radeon HD 3650
Intel GMA X4500

That RTX 2060 card for the Recommended specs, while still within most people’s range, starts to look a bit spicier than in previous years, especially if you are playing on a laptop. We will need to get the game in our hands to try to work out just how much of a factor this is going to be for many of the player base, but with a lot of regular features already being stripped out of the new look game, fans will hoping that Sports Interactive has got this beloved franchise’s next move right.

Football Manager 25 releases on PC on 26th November on Steam and Xbox Game Pass. It will also launch the same day on PS5 and Xbox with the Nintendo Switch version due a week later.

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