DARK SOULS III System Requirements

To play DARK SOULS™ III you will need a minimum CPU equivalent to an Intel Core i3-2100. Whereas, an Intel Core i7-3770 is recommended in order to run it. The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti. But, according to the developers the recommended graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970. You will need at least 25 GB of free disk space to install DARK SOULS™ III. DARK SOULS™ III system requirements state that you will need at least 4 GB of RAM.

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

DARK SOULS III will run on PC system with Windows 7 SP1 64bit, Windows 8.1 64bit Windows 10 64bit and upwards.

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

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

What frame rate does DARK SOULS III run at?

Here are the typical frame rate samples

Avg FPS	CPU	GPU	RAM
54	Intel Core i5-10400	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti	32 GB
52	Intel Core i5-10400F	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER	8 GB
45	Intel Core i5-10400F	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	16 GB
45	Intel Core i7-7700HQ	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050	16 GB
39	Intel Core i5-9300H	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050	16 GB

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