EA SPORTS FC 25 is available now worldwide for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch! This latest entry in the FC franchise brings new social ways to play with Rush, overhauls tactical foundations through FC IQ, and women’s
EA SPORTS FC 25 is available now worldwide for PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch! The latest entry in the FC franchise introduces new social gameplay features like Rush, overhauls tactical foundations through FC IQ, and brings women’s football to career mode for the first time. You can read more about why I enjoyed my time with the game in my full review.
EA SPORTS FC 25 has officially launched for the PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PC, and Nintendo Switch. This newest installment in the FC franchise delivers exciting new features, including Rush, a social way to play, and FC IQ, which revamps the game’s tactical systems. For the first time, women’s football is included in career mode, offering a fresh and engaging experience. I had a great time playing EA SPORTS FC 25, and you can read about my full impressions in my review. However, after playing on Xbox, I had the opportunity to test the PC version and thought it would be helpful to share my insights for those considering the PC edition.
How Does The PC Version Perform
One question you might be asking yourself before buying EA SPORTS FC 25 is “how does it perform on PC?” Well, after a week of testing the PC version via Steam across all modes. I’m very happy to report that the game performs very well and seems to have room for scaling well across a variety of hardware configurations.
For my testing, I used my PC setup which consists of an Intel Core i9-14900KF, RTX 4080 SUPER, and 32DDR5 RAM, with the game installed on a SSD. At the highest in-game and at 4K settings with ray tracing on I had a great experience hitting myself imposed cap of 120fps a majority of the time. I would get the occasional 3-4fps drop but this remained well within VRR’s effective range meaning everything felt smooth as butter during gameplay.
EA SPORTS FC 25 does allow you to adjust the render quality to various levels, but I had it set to the highest quality available. Interestingly the game doesn’t seem to have any mention of DLSS or FSR support. So, any scaling that is taking place here must be EA’s proprietary technology.
During my testing I also had dynamic resolution scaling disabled, so everything was running at a native 4K resolution, which made the performance in gameplay even more impressive.
Cutscenes however were a different story at times dropping by as much as 20% compared to gameplay. There is a very easy solve for this as EA SPORTS FC 25 does give you the option to run these scenes at half frame rate instead. So, I had them at a solid 60fps. You can of course run the game at a lower resolution such as 1080p, or 1440p but in my limited testing on these resolutions, cutscenes still exhibit frame-rate drops compared to the core gameplay.
Verdict
All in all, I found EA SPORTS FC 25 to be a solid experience on PC, and given that I was on max settings there is room for those of you with older hardware than mine to have a decent experience. Of course, it has to be said that not everyone will have the same experience as I did, such as PC gaming. Still, it has been overall positive for me, and hopefully for you as well.
If you’re playing on the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, or Xbox Series X|S, you’ll find rock-solid performance, despite it being capped at 60fps. As for the Nintendo Switch, that could be a different story.
