Darksiders System Requirements: Can You Run It?

Your gaming PC configuration

Developer:: Vigil Games
Publisher:: THQ Nordic
Release date:: 24 September 2010 (13 years old)
User score:: 4.8 / 5 (19 votes)

Official Darksiders system requirements for PC

These are the PC specifications advised by developers to run Darksiders 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.

Minimum requirements

Graphics card:: NVIDIA (GeForce 8800/GeForce GT220) 256MB graphics card or better, ATI Radeon X1900 256MB graphics card or better (must support pixel shader 3)

CPU:: AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3800+ 2.4Ghz or better, Intel Pentium 4 530 3.0Ghz Processor or better

Memory:: 1GB RAM (Windows XP), 2GB RAM (Vista / Windows 7)

File size:: 12GB

Operating system:: Windows XP SP3, Vista SP1, Windows 7

DirectX:: DirectX 9.0c

Recommended requirements

Graphics card:: NVIDIA (GeForce GTS 240) 256MB graphics card or better, ATI Radeon HD3870 256MB graphics card or better (must support pixel shader 3)

CPU:: AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200+ Dual Core 2.60Ghz, Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 Dual Core 2.13Ghz

Memory:: 2GB RAM (Windows XP), 3GB RAM (Vista / Windows 7)

File size:: 12GB

Operating system:: Windows XP SP3, Vista SP1, Windows 7

DirectX:: DirectX 9.0c

Darksiders performance on your PC

Darksiders performance with your GPU

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

RTX 3060

minimum
GeForce 8800 GS

recommended
Radeon HD 3870

30 fps @ low
1366×768

Projected FPS in various settings and resolutions

Darksiders 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

60−65 FPS