Sid Meier's Civilization® V System Requirements — Minimum, Recommended and What They Actually Mean

The official minimum and recommended PC requirements for Sid Meier's Civilization® V, split into OS, CPU, memory, graphics and storage, with a note on what each number means in practice. Figures come from the store listing, not from a template.

By GameInfo data desk Published 2026-09-18 Updated 2026-09-18

Sid Meier’s Civilization® V — requirements, current state and what is inside

This page lists the official minimum and recommended PC requirements for Sid Meier’s Civilization® V (released Sep 21, 2010), split into the fields the listing actually states. Everything below is read from the store listing for this app; where a field is missing it is shown as missing rather than filled in.

At a glance

Fact	Value	Confidence
Developer	Firaxis Games, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)	【A】
Publisher	2K, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)	【A】
Released	Sep 21, 2010	【A】
Platforms	windows, mac, linux	【A】
Genres	Strategy	【A】
Current price	$29.99	【A】
Media score	90/100 (Metacritic)	【A】
Own-site price record	1 天（自 2026-09-18 起）	【B】

Is anyone still playing it?

Measure	Value
Concurrent players now	12,407
Recorded since	2026-09-18 (1 daily snapshot)
Lowest / highest in that window	12,407 / 12,407

This site has only been recording for 1 day(s), so there is nothing to compare against yet. No week-on-week figure is shown until there is one.

This is one snapshot taken per day from Steam's public concurrent-player endpoint, kept as a series on this site. Two things it is not: it is not a 24-hour peak (that needs hourly sampling, which this site does not do), and a low number does not mean a game is bad — single-player games are routinely played offline. The comparable question it answers is whether the number is drifting up or down.

Can your machine run it?

This check reads what your browser is willing to report about this device, then compares it field by field against the requirements below. It runs entirely in your browser — nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is stored.

This panel needs JavaScript. With scripts off you can still read every requirement on this page and compare it by hand. When it does run, it prints your own machine next to the game's requirements — nothing more:

It reads: your operating system, whether your system is 64-bit, how much memory your browser reports, your logical core count, and your graphics adapter.
It cannot read: VRAM, CPU model, free disk space, DirectX version or driver version — no website can. Those rows are shown as not readable rather than guessed.
It does not decide. It will not tell you whether the game runs. Side by side, the comparison takes you a second to make; a score would only be a guess dressed up as an answer.

Minimum requirements

Field	Value
OS *	Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7
Processor	Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz
Memory	2GB RAM
Graphics	256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better integrated graphics
DirectX®	DirectX® version 9.0c
Hard Drive	8 GB Free
Sound	DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
Note	Optimized for the touch-screen Ultrabook™ device

Recommended requirements

Field	Value
OS *	Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7
Processor	1.8 GHz Quad Core CPU
Memory	4 GB RAM
Graphics	512 MB ATI 4800 series or better, 512 MB nVidia 9800 series or better
DirectX®	DirectX® version 11
Hard Drive	8 GB Free
Sound	DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card
Note	Optimized for the touch-screen Ultrabook™ device

Where the two tiers actually differ

同一个字段在”最低”和”推荐”两档里分别写了什么。这张表由该游戏自己的数据算出来，不是通用模板 —— 别的游戏差别在别的地方。

Field	Minimum	Recommended	Verdict
OS	Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7	Windows® Vista SP2/ Windows® 7	两档相同
CPU	Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.0 GHz	1.8 GHz Quad Core CPU	两档不同
RAM	2GB RAM	4 GB RAM	两档不同
GPU	256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better integrated graphics	512 MB ATI 4800 series or better, 512 MB nVidia 9800 series or better	两档不同
Storage	8 GB Free	8 GB Free	两档相同
Sound	DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card	DirectX 9.0c-compatible sound card	两档相同
Note	Optimized for the touch-screen Ultrabook™ device	Optimized for the touch-screen Ultrabook™ device	两档相同

What these numbers actually mean

官方最低要 2 GB 内存、推荐 4 GB。最低配置是”能进游戏”，推荐配置才是”不会因为切出浏览器就被系统吃掉显存”。按 4 GB 装机比按 2 GB 稳。
显卡跨度值得注意：最低写的是 256 MB ATI HD2600 XT or better, 256 MB nVidia 7900 GS or better, or Core i3 or better integrated graphics，推荐写的是 512 MB ATI 4800 series or better, 512 MB nVidia 9800 series or better。前者能开起来，后者决定你能否在中高画质下保持流畅 —— 两者之间通常还差一到两个档次的显卡。
该游戏有 2 条配置说明没有按”字段名: 值”的格式书写，因此无法结构化对照 —— 这一项我们保持原样列出，不做推断。

How to read the confidence labels

Label	Meaning
【A】	来自官方接口或商店页面的实测值，不是推算
【B】	本站自己的观测记录（每天记一次，逐日累积）
【C】	由上文实测值推算出来的，规则写在该条旁边

What this page does not tell you

它不预测帧率。官方配置要求是”能否运行”的门槛，不是”运行得多流畅”。
它不评价显卡档次。本页只转述官方写了什么，不把型号换算成一个”性能分”。
它不包含折扣分析。本站的价格记录才开始积累，样本量还不足以支持任何折扣结论。

价格、平台与配置数据由公开商店接口取得（appid 8930），本页由脚本生成、随数据更新；游戏名称与商标归其各自权利人所有，本站与该游戏发行商无关联。

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Common questions

Where do the Sid Meier's Civilization® V requirements on this page come from?

They are read from the public store listing for this app (appid 8930) and split into fields. Nothing here is guessed or filled in from a template; if the listing does not state a field, this page says so rather than inventing a value.

Do these requirements say whether I can actually run it well?

No. A minimum spec is the point at which the game launches, not the point at which it is pleasant. Where the listing gives both a minimum and a recommended figure, this page shows both and says what the gap usually costs you.

Does this page show price history?

This site has been recording the price of this app for 1 day(s) so far, counting today. That is not yet enough to say anything about discount patterns, so no pattern is claimed. The record grows by one entry per day.