Dark Souls III System Requirements: Can You Run It?

Dark Souls III
Developer:
FromSoftware
Publisher:
Bandai Namco Entertainment
Release date:
11 April 2016 (7 years old)
Our user score:
4.4 / 5 (761 vote)

Official Dark Souls III system requirements for PC

These are the PC specifications advised by developers to run Dark Souls III 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 GTX 750 Ti / ATI Radeon HD 7950
Pass CPU:
Intel Core i3-2100 / AMD® FX-6300
Pass Memory:
4 GB RAM
File size:
25 GB available space
Operating system:
Windows 7 SP1 64bit, Windows 8.1 64bit Windows 10 64bit
DirectX:
Version 11

PassRecommended requirements

Pass Graphics card:
NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 970 / ATI Radeon R9 series
Pass CPU:
Intel Core i7-3770 / AMD® FX-8350
Pass Memory:
8 GB RAM
File size:
25 GB available space
Operating system:
Windows 7 SP1 64bit, Windows 8.1 64bit Windows 10 64bit
DirectX:
Version 11

Dark Souls III performance on your PC

Dark Souls III performance with your GPU

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

RTX 3060
recommended
GeForce GTX 970
30 fps @ low
1366×768
60 fps @ medium
1920×1080
60 fps @ high
1920×1080
60 fps @ ultra
1920×1080
60 fps @ epic
3840×2160

Projected FPS in various settings and resolutions

Dark Souls III 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
50−55 FPS
medium settings / 1080p
85−90 FPS
high settings / 1080p
65−70 FPS
ultra settings / 1080p
103 FPS
4K / 2160p
80−85 FPS

Dark Souls III performance with your CPU

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

i5-12400
recommended
Core i7-3770

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