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?

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What frame rate does DARK SOULS III run at?

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