Farming Simulator 22


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Warnings

This game requires an internet connection on launch.

Farming Simulator 22 is a singleplayer and multiplayer first-person and third-person farming and simulation game in the Farming Simulator series.

General information

Official forums

Official Discord server for game series

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
		Platinum Edition, Premium Edition and the Year 1 Bundle also available.
(unavailable)		GIANTS Software key. Year 1 Bundle was also available.
Retail		GIANTS Software key. Platinum/Premium editions also available.
Official website		GIANTS Software key. Platinum/Premium editions also available. Year 1 Bundle was also available.
Epic Games Store		Requires an internet connection on launch.^[2]^[3] Platinum and Premium editions also available. Year 1 Bundle was also available.
GamersGate		Platinum, Premium and the Year 1 Bundle also available.
Green Man Gaming
Mac App Store
Microsoft Store		Platinum and Premium editions also available.
Steam		Platinum and Premium editions also available. Year 1 Bundle was also available. Requires the Steam client to be running.^[4]

Version differences

Year 1 Bundle

Sold only on GamersGate and Gamesplanet since July 2024. Included the base game and the Year 1 Season Pass.

Platinum Edition

Includes the base game and the Platinum Expansion.

Premium Edition

Includes the base game, the Year 1 Season Pass and the Year 2 Season Pass.

Monetization

Type	Notes
DLC	DLCs add new vehicles and machines to use.
Expansion pack	The Premium and Platinum expansions add new maps, multiple vehicles, new crops, gameplay mechanics and more.
One-time game purchase	The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
No microtransactions	The game does not contain microtransactions.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Year 1 Season Pass	Included in the Year 1 Bundle and the Premium Edition.
ANTONIO CARRARO Pack	Included with the Year 1 Season Pass.
Kubota Pack	Included with the Year 1 Season Pass.
Vermeer Pack	Included with the Year 1 Season Pass.
Platinum Expansion	Included with the Year 1 Season Pass and the Platinum Edition.
ERO Grapeliner Series 7000	Included with the Year 1 Season Pass.
Year 2 Season Pass	Included in the Premium Edition.
GÖWEIL Pack	Included with the Year 2 Season Pass.
Hay & Forage Pack	Included with the Year 2 Season Pass.
HORSCH AgroVation Pack	Included with the Year 2 Season Pass.
OXBO Pack	Included with the Year 2 Season Pass.
Premium Expansion	Included with the Year 2 Season Pass.
Volvo LM 845	Included with the Year 2 Season Pass.
GIANTS Bonus Bundle	Available only on the GIANTS Software store.
Fendt 900 Black Beauty	Included in the GIANTS Bonus Bundle. Also available separately.
Mack Trucks: Black Anthem	Included in the GIANTS Bonus Bundle. Also available separately.
Zetor 25 K	Included in the GIANTS Bonus Bundle. Also available separately.
Case IH Farmall Anniversary Pack
Volvo T 425 Krabat
Porsche Diesel Junior 108
Pumps n' Hoses Pack
Farm Production Pack
AGI Pack	Free. For GIANTS Software key versions, it can be downloaded here.
CLAAS XERION SADDLE TRAC Pack	Included with pre-orders and physical copies.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\FarmingSimulator2022\game.xml %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\FarmingSimulator2022\gameSettings.xml %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\FarmingSimulator2022\inputBinding.xml
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1248130/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\FarmingSimulator2022\savegame*\
Microsoft Store	%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\GIANTSSoftware.FarmingSimulator22-Window10Edition_fa8jxm5fj0esw\SystemAppData\wgs
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1248130/pfx/^{[Note 1]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents* folder in OneDrive on all computers.*
Steam Cloud		953.67 MB available
Xbox Cloud

Video

Display settings

Advanced video settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		See Ultra-widescreen.
Ultra-widescreen		Hor+ gameplay with spanned HUD.^[5]
4K Ultra HD		In-game HUD Scale slider available.
Field of view (FOV)		Adjustable from 45°-120°.
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed		Exclusive fullscreen option also available.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Referred to as Texture Filtering. Up to 16x available.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FSRAA, DLAA, TAA and MSAA (2x, 4x and 8x). SSAA also available via the Resolution Scaling and Resolution Scaling 3D sliders.
High-fidelity upscaling		DLSS 3.1, FSR 1, FSR 3, XeSS 1.2 Quality modes and a shared sharpness slider are available for all upscalers.
Frame generation		FSR Frame Generation Requires FSR 3 upscaling to be active. See here for instructions to use frame generation with unsupported GPUs.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Optional Framerate Limit cap. (30/60/144/240 FPS)
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.
Ray tracing (RT)
Color blind mode		Under General Settings when loaded into the game. Changes crop/field state colors for easier recognision of hues for deuteranopy.

Bypass FSR 3 GPU Check

Bypass FSR 3 GPU Check^[6]

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open the game.xml file with a text editor.
Change <fidelityFxSR30>Off</fidelityFxSR30> to On and <fidelityFxSR30FrameInterpolation>false</fidelityFxSR30FrameInterpolation> to True

Notes

I haven't tested this myself, but someone else confirmed it worked for the RX 580

Input

Mouse settings

Controller settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Keyboard and mouse prompts
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Shared between keyboard/mouse and controllers.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller sensitivity		Separate sensitivity and dead-zone sliders for each individual axis.
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger support

DirectInput-compatible controllers

PlayStation controllers

Nintendo controllers

Other controller(s)		Supports DirectInput steering wheels.^[7]
Additional button prompts

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Input prompt override		Referred to as Input Help Mode.
Haptic feedback
Digital movement support
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Camera settings
Input settings

Audio

General settings

Audio settings

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Vehicle, Environment, Radio, GUI, Voice Chat and Voice Recording sliders.
Surround sound		Surround sound mix is just stereo repeat.^[8]
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Finnish
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Brazilian Portuguese
Romanian
Russian
Spanish
Latin American Spanish
Swedish
Turkish

Network

All multiplayer types require a connection to the GIANTS authentication server.

Multiplayer types

Type	Players	Notes
Local play
LAN play
Online play	16	Co-op, Versus Versus modes are Arena (3v3) and Bale Stacking (8 players).
Asynchronous multiplayer
Crossplay	Supported platforms: Xbox One, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 More information is available in the Crossplay FAQ.

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated		Dedicated servers can be rented from one of the approved providers here.
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Ports

No port information; you can edit this page to add it.

This game supports Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for automatic port configuration.

VR support

3D modes	State	Notes
Native 3D		Use Geo-11 for Side-by-Side, Top-and-Bottom, Interleaved and Anyglyph. Or Geo-11 in 3D Game Bridge GUI for Eye-Tracked Lightfield displays.
Nvidia 3D Vision		Also works with Geo-11. Requires switching to Direct3D 11 and disabling fullscreen optimizations.^[9]
vorpX		Dual-View Rendering (G3D) or DirectVR Game officially supported by vorpX.^{[citation needed]}

Devices
Tobii Eye Tracking		Officially supported game, see official tobii game list.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11, 12	Windows standard
OpenGL
Vulkan

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	ARM	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)				^[10]

Other APIs on Windows

Modify game.xml^[11]

Go to the configuration file(s) location.
Open the game.xml file with a text editor.
Find the text <renderer>D3D_12</renderer>.
Change this text to for example <renderer>Vulkan</renderer>.

Usable APIs include D3D_11, D3D_12, OpenGL, and Vulkan

Save the file and launch the game.

Middleware

No middleware information; you can edit this page to add it.

Developer Controls

Go to configuration file location.
Open game.xml
Find the line <controls>false</controls>
Change it to <controls>true</controls>

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-3330 AMD FX-8320	Intel Core i5-5675C AMD Ryzen 5 1600
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	35 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 AMD Radeon R7 265 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 AMD Radeon RX 570 6 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.14
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-3330 AMD FX-8320
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Storage drive (HDD/SSD)	70 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 AMD Radeon R7 265 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Notes

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1
Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1248130/.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (1248130) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

References

↑ GIANTS Engine 9: Improvements in Farming Simulator 22 - last accessed on 23 January 2025
↑ Verified by User:3dj on 2025-05-13
If blocking internet access with a firewall, whitelisting *.on.epicgames.com should allow it to get past the loading screen.
↑ Verified by User:Dribbleondo on 2024-05-23
Game cannot be launched offline standalone, or away from EGS.
↑ Verified by User:Jwillikers on 2025-09-03
Confirmed that FarmingSimulator2022.exe requires Steam to be running when launched directly through the game folder, regardless of whether a steam_appid.txt file or the x64\steam_api64.dll library was present in <path-to-game>.
↑ Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2025-11-16
Tested at 2560x1080 and 3840x1080 resolutions.
↑ Verified by User:Mine18 on 2024-01-19
Found by another user
↑ Verified by User:3dj on 2025-05-13
Tested with a Thrustmaster T150
↑ [1] - last accessed on 2025-07-24
↑ [2] - last accessed on 2025-07-24
↑ Farming Simulator 22 - last accessed on 2 January 2022
↑ Verified by User:Tunket on 2021-11-23

[Proton_path_note-5] 1.0 ^1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1248130/.
Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
The app ID (1248130) may differ in some cases.
Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[2] File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.

[3] Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/1248130/.

[4] Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.

[5] The app ID (1248130) may differ in some cases.

[6] Treat backslashes as forward slashes.

[7] See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.

[1] GIANTS Engine 9: Improvements in Farming Simulator 22 - last accessed on 23 January 2025

[2] Verified by User:3dj on 2025-05-13
If blocking internet access with a firewall, whitelisting *.on.epicgames.com should allow it to get past the loading screen.

[3] Verified by User:Dribbleondo on 2024-05-23
Game cannot be launched offline standalone, or away from EGS.

[4] Verified by User:Jwillikers on 2025-09-03
Confirmed that FarmingSimulator2022.exe requires Steam to be running when launched directly through the game folder, regardless of whether a steam_appid.txt file or the x64\steam_api64.dll library was present in <path-to-game>.

[6] Verified by User:SargeCassidy on 2025-11-16
Tested at 2560x1080 and 3840x1080 resolutions.

[7] Verified by User:Mine18 on 2024-01-19
Found by another user

[8] Verified by User:3dj on 2025-05-13
Tested with a Thrustmaster T150

[9] [1] - last accessed on 2025-07-24

[10] [2] - last accessed on 2025-07-24

[11] Farming Simulator 22 - last accessed on 2 January 2022

[12] Verified by User:Tunket on 2021-11-23

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Developers

	GIANTS Software
Engines
	GIANTS Engine 9^[1]
Release dates
Windows	November 22, 2021
macOS (OS X)	November 22, 2021
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, DLC, Expansion pack
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	First-person, Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Farming, Simulation
Vehicles	Industrial
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Contemporary
Series	Farming Simulator