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DARK SOULS II PC system requirements

DARK SOULS II needs at least an AMD® Phenom II™ X2 555 3.2Ghz or Intel® Pentium Core ™ 2 Duo E8500 3.17Ghz processor, 2 GB of RAM and an NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600GT, ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 graphics card, on Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.

For the recommended settings: an Intel® CoreTM i3 2100 3.10GHz or AMD® A8 3870K 3.0GHz processor, 4 GB of RAM and an NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 or ATI Radeon™ HD 6870 or higher graphics card. It takes 12 GB of storage.

DARK SOULS II: minimum and recommended PC requirements (Windows)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system	Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8	Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8
Processor	AMD® Phenom II™ X2 555 3.2Ghz or Intel® Pentium Core ™ 2 Duo E8500 3.17Ghz	Intel® CoreTM i3 2100 3.10GHz or AMD® A8 3870K 3.0GHz
Memory	2 GB RAM	4 GB RAM
Graphics	NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600GT, ATI Radeon™ HD 5870	NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 or ATI Radeon™ HD 6870 or higher
DirectX	Version 9.0c Same for both: minimum and recommended
Storage	12 GB available space	15 GB available space
Sound card	DirectX 9 sound device Same for both: minimum and recommended
Network	Broadband Internet connection Same for both: minimum and recommended
Additional notes	Controller support: Microsoft Xbox 360® Controller for Windows® (or equivalent) recommended Same for both: minimum and recommended

How demanding is DARK SOULS II?

Memory: Needs more minimum RAM than 5% of the 1,937 PC games with requirements we track (2 GB).

It is on our list of low-end PC games (4 GB of RAM or less).
Storage: Larger than 47% of the 1,852 games with a storage figure (12 GB).

Compared with the minimum requirements of every game that has a requirements page on gamekeys.deals. We compare memory and storage only: processor and graphics card names cannot be ranked reliably from Steam's text.