Dark Souls II System Requirements: Can You Run It?

Dark Souls II
Developer:
FromSoftware
Publisher:
Bandai Namco Entertainment
Release date:
Metacritic score:
91 / 100
Our user score:
4.1 / 5 (194 votes)

Official Dark Souls II system requirements for PC

These are the PC specifications advised by developers to run Dark Souls II at minimal and recommended settings. Although these requirements are usually approximate, they can still be used to determine the indicative hardware tier needed to play the game.

PassMinimum requirements

Pass Graphics card:
NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600GT, ATI Radeon™ HD 5870
Pass CPU:
AMD® Phenom II™ X2 555 3.2Ghz or Intel® Pentium Core™ 2 Duo E8500 3.17Ghz
Pass Memory:
2 GB RAM
File size:
14 GB available space
Operating system:
Windows XP SP3, Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8
DirectX:
9.0c

PassRecommended requirements

Pass Graphics card:
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 or ATI Radeon™ HD 6870 or higher
Pass CPU:
Intel® Core™ i3 2100 3.10GHz or AMD® A8 3870K 3.0GHz
Pass Memory:
4 GB RAM
File size:
14 GB available space
Operating system:
Windows 7 SP1
DirectX:
9.0c

Dark Souls II performance on your PC

Dark Souls II performance with your GPU

GeForce RTX 3060's performance compared to the game's official system requirements.

RTX 3060
recommended
Radeon HD 6870
30 fps @ low
1366×768
60 fps @ medium
1920×1080
60 fps @ high
1920×1080
60 fps @ ultra
1920×1080

Projected FPS in various settings and resolutions

Dark Souls II FPS calculator: average frames per second on GeForce RTX 3060 (according to our approximations). FPS may vary depending on your operating system and other factors.

low settings / 768p
120−130 FPS
medium settings / 1080p
85−90 FPS
high settings / 1080p
70−75 FPS
ultra settings / 1080p
130−140 FPS

Dark Souls II performance with your CPU

Core i5-12400's performance compared to the game's official system requirements.

i5-12400
recommended
Core i3-2100

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4.1 194 votes

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