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DARK SOULS III PC system requirements

DARK SOULS III needs at least an Intel Core i3-2100 / AMD® FX-6300 processor, 4 GB of RAM and an NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 750 Ti / ATI Radeon HD 7950 graphics card, on Windows 7 SP1 64bit, Windows 8.1 64bit Windows 10 64bit.

For the recommended settings: an Intel Core i7-3770 / AMD® FX-8350 processor, 8 GB of RAM and an NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 970 / ATI Radeon R9 series graphics card. It takes 25 GB of storage.

DARK SOULS III: minimum and recommended PC requirements (Windows)
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system	Windows 7 SP1 64bit, Windows 8.1 64bit Windows 10 64bit Same for both: minimum and recommended
Processor	Intel Core i3-2100 / AMD® FX-6300	Intel Core i7-3770 / AMD® FX-8350
Memory	4 GB RAM	8 GB RAM
Graphics	NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 750 Ti / ATI Radeon HD 7950	NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 970 / ATI Radeon R9 series
DirectX	Version 11 Same for both: minimum and recommended
Storage	25 GB available space Same for both: minimum and recommended
Sound card	DirectX 11 sound device Same for both: minimum and recommended
Network	Broadband Internet connection Same for both: minimum and recommended
Additional notes	Internet connection required for online play and product activation Same for both: minimum and recommended

How demanding is DARK SOULS III?

Memory: Needs more minimum RAM than 15% of the 1,937 PC games with requirements we track (4 GB).

It is on our list of low-end PC games (4 GB of RAM or less).
Storage: Larger than 65% of the 1,852 games with a storage figure (25 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.