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Can you run Grand Theft Auto: Vice City? PC requirements and settings

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, by Rockstar Games (Action), came out on Steam on January 4, 2008. Here are the official specs, and what they mean on the most common graphics cards.

Minimum card32 MB video card with DirectX 9.0 compatible drivers ("GeForce" or better)
Recommended RAM0.1 GB

Estimate per graphics card

No frame-rate estimate for this game

The official page does not name a specific graphics card for both the minimum and the recommended specs. Rather than an invented number, we give none. ORION does the maths on your own PC, with your card, processor and screen, then measures the real frame rate while you play.

Official specs

Minimum and recommended requirements

Minimum

OS
Microsoft Windows 2000/XP
Processor
800 MHz Intel Pentium III or 800 MHz AMD Athlon or 1.2GHz Intel Celeron or 1.2 GHz AMD Duron processor
Memory
128 MB of RAM
Graphics
32 MB video card with DirectX 9.0 compatible drivers ("GeForce" or better)
DirectX
Microsoft DirectX 9.0
Storage
915 MB of free hard disk space (+ 635 MB if video card does NOT support DirectX Texture Compression)

Source: the game's Steam page, read on October 7, 2026.

Where to buy

Buy Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

The official page first. In ORION, the Store tab compares prices across shops, with the official stores listed before key resellers.

On your PC

The same estimate with your own hardware, and the settings applied for you

ORION is a free game launcher for Windows. It reads your graphics card, processor and screen, estimates every game in your library, then measures the real frame rate while you play and sets the game up with its "Recommended" profile. No account, no ads.

Questions

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City at a glance

Which graphics card do I need for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City at 1080p?

Minimum: 32 MB video card with DirectX 9.0 compatible drivers ("GeForce" or better). The official page does not name a specific graphics card for both minimum and recommended specs, so we give no frame-rate estimate for this game. ORION does the maths on your own PC.

How much RAM does Grand Theft Auto: Vice City need?

The publisher recommends 0.1 GB of RAM.

How much storage does Grand Theft Auto: Vice City take?

The official page asks for 915 MB of free hard disk space (+ 635 MB if video card does NOT support DirectX Texture Compression) of storage.

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