DARK SOULS II System Requirements

The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an ATI Radeon HD 5870. Furthermore, an AMD Radeon HD 6870 is recommended in order to run DARK SOULS™ II with the highest settings. To play DARK SOULS™ II you will need a minimum CPU equivalent to an Intel Core 2 Duo E8500. However, the developers recommend a CPU greater or equal to an Intel Core i3-2100 to play the game. DARK SOULS™ II system requirements state that you will need at least 2 GB of RAM. Additionally, the game developers recommend somewhere around 4 GB of RAM in your system. You will need at least 12 GB of free disk space to install DARK SOULS™ II. By contrast, the game developers recommend somewhere around 15 GB of free disk space on your system drive.

For more FromSoftware games, check the Elden Ring PC requirements.

DARK SOULS II will run on PC system with Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8 and upwards.

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DARK SOULS II FPS - what frame rate can you expect?

How many FPS will I get on DARK SOULS II? We reference thousands of reports from PCGameBenchmark users running our FPS tracking app to tell you exactly how DARK SOULS II performs across a range of different settings and resolutions on the most popular PC gaming setups.

What frame rate does DARK SOULS II run at?

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
46	Intel Core i3-8145U	Intel UHD Graphics 620	12 GB
44	Intel Core i5-5200U	NVIDIA GeForce 820M	8 GB
43	Intel Core i5-6300U	Intel HD 520	8 GB
43	Intel Core i5-7300HQ	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050	8 GB
42	Intel Core i5-8265U	Intel UHD Graphics 620	8 GB

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