Garry's Mod — Settings, Requirements & Optimization
2004 · Adventure, Action, Casual, Simulation, Indie · Facepunch Studios · ESRB Rating Pending
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Optimize Garry's Mod for your PC
This is a planning estimate derived from the game's demand tier, not a benchmark.
My Garry's Mod Settings Card
Generated at GameFigs on 2026-08-21. Game demand tier: 2/9.
Official system requirements
Publisher-published Minimum / Recommended values via RAWG. Real-world performance varies with drivers, resolution and your full build.
| Spec | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Minimum: | Recommended: |
| Processor | OS: Windows® Vista/XP | OS: Windows® 7/8/8.1/10 |
| Memory | Processor: 1.8 GHz Processor | Processor: 2.5 GHz Processor or better |
| Graphics | Memory: 2 GB RAM | Memory: 8 GB RAM |
| Storage | Graphics: DirectX® 9 level Graphics Card (Requires support for SSE) | Graphics: 1GB dedicated VRAM or better |
| DirectX | DirectX: Version 9.0c | DirectX: Version 9.0c |
| Item 7 | Network: Broadband Internet connection | Network: Broadband Internet connection |
| Item 8 | Storage: 5 GB available space | Storage: 10 GB available space |
About Garry's Mod
Garry's Mod or simply GMod is a source-engine based modification that now works as a standalone game. With no plot or exact gameplay at all, anyone can create his own game mode to play for fun. You can find anything you're into. Trouble In Terrorist Town, Prop Hunt, Hunger Games, Franchise-based modes such as Star Wars or Lord of the Rings - anything.
Basically, GMod stands for God Mode in video games, because you can play with any asset of the source engine. Try out physics, characters, maps, weaponry - anything. Based on that, Garry's Mod gives players quite a variety of mods to spend their time. It doesn't sound so earnestly. You will probably find something that will provide you with quite a good amount of fun. Servers are specifically sorted in game modes so you'll never play a different mode while playing exact one what you wanted. At the end of the day, this game is about receiving as much fun from what is happening around you as possible.
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Tune settings →Sources & attribution
- Game data (release year, genres, platforms, system requirements, description, cover art) via RAWG.io, retrieved 2026-08-21.
- FPS bands, presets and upscaler advice on this page are GameFigs planning estimates from the game's demand tier — not benchmark results.
How the Garry's Mod optimization card is computed
Each game is scored on a 0–9 demand tier from its published PC requirements (and a year/genre fallback when requirements are absent). Your GPU and CPU selections map to comparable-class scores. The generator compares your hardware score against the game's demand to pick a starting preset, estimate an FPS band at 1080p/1440p/4K, and recommend an upscaler (DLSS / FSR 3) and ray-tracing posture. The output is a planning guide — always verify in-game with the built-in benchmark when available.