Dark Souls III’s PC requirements are strangely low

OS: Windows 7 SP1 64bit, Windows 8.1 64bit Windows 10 64bit
Processor: AMD® A8 3870 3,6 Ghz or Intel® Core ™ i3 2100 3.1Ghz
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 465 / ATI Radeon TM HD 6870
DirectX: Version 11
Network: Broadband Internet connection
Storage: 50 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX 11 sound device

While at its absolute best at 4k resolution, Dark Souls III looks to be a very pretty game at good ol’ 1080p.

Using the most refined version of the engine used by the Souls series yet, and thanks to Silicon Studio’s Yebis post-processing process, Dark Souls III is set to be From Software’s best looking game to date, so what in the heck is going on with its PC hardware requirements?

Don’t get us wrong, we love the idea of a highly optimised engine that can provide fantastic visuals with the 100% efficiency and very little in the way of hardware, but that’s very rare indeed.

We suspect that “recommended” is what you’ll need to play the game smoothly at 1080p, rather than what will be required to run it on Ultra Settings, or the game’s equivalent of Ultra.

And you can forget 4k resolution with a GTX 750 or HD 7850 – you’re not going to touch playable frame rates with anything less than a GTX 980 or AMD equivalent.

Minimum Requirements – “Really, that’s all?”