{"id":84591,"date":"2015-12-17T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=84591"},"modified":"2015-12-17T12:44:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T10:44:48","slug":"dark-souls-iiis-pc-requirements-are-strangely-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/84591-dark-souls-iiis-pc-requirements-are-strangely-low","title":{"rendered":"Dark Souls III&#8217;s PC requirements are strangely low"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While at its absolute best at <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/82504-dark-souls-iii-at-4k-good-luck-finding-anything-prettier.html\" target=\"_blank\">4k resolution<\/a>, <em>Dark Souls III<\/em> looks to be a very pretty game at good ol\u2019 1080p.<\/p>\n<p>Using the most refined version of the engine used by the <em>Souls<\/em> series yet, and thanks to Silicon Studio\u2019s Yebis post-processing process, <em>Dark Souls III <\/em>is set to be From Software\u2019s best looking game to date, so what in the heck is going on with its PC hardware requirements?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dark-Souls-3-Low-PC-Requirements-Screenshot-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-84597\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-84597\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dark-Souls-3-Low-PC-Requirements-Screenshot-1.jpg\" alt=\"Dark Souls 3 - Low PC Requirements\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dark-Souls-3-Low-PC-Requirements-Screenshot-1.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dark-Souls-3-Low-PC-Requirements-Screenshot-1-230x130.jpg 230w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dark-Souls-3-Low-PC-Requirements-Screenshot-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Dark-Souls-3-Low-PC-Requirements-Screenshot-1-640x360.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t 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\u2019s very rare indeed.<\/p>\n<p>We suspect that \u201crecommended\u201d is what you\u2019ll need to play the game smoothly at 1080p, rather than what will be required to run it on Ultra Settings, or the game\u2019s equivalent of Ultra.<\/p>\n<p>And you can forget 4k resolution with a GTX 750 or HD 7850 \u2013 you\u2019re not going to touch playable frame rates with anything less than a GTX 980 or AMD equivalent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Minimum Requirements \u2013 \u201cReally, that\u2019s all?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>OS:<\/strong>Windows 7 SP1 64bit, Windows 8.1 64bit Windows 10 64bit<\/li>\n<li><strong>Processor:<\/strong>AMD\u00ae A8 3870 3,6 Ghz or Intel\u00ae Core \u2122 i3 2100 3.1Ghz<\/li>\n<li><strong>Memory:<\/strong>8 GB RAM<\/li>\n<li><strong>Graphics:<\/strong>NVIDIA\u00ae GeForce GTX 465 \/ ATI Radeon TM HD 6870<\/li>\n<li><strong>DirectX:<\/strong>Version 11<\/li>\n<li><strong>Network:<\/strong>Broadband Internet connection<\/li>\n<li><strong>Storage:<\/strong>50 GB available space<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sound Card:<\/strong>DirectX 11 sound device<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recommended Specifications \u2013 \u201cWe doubt it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>OS:<\/strong>Windows 7 SP1 64bit, Windows 8.1 64bit Windows 10 64bit<\/li>\n<li><strong>Processor:<\/strong>AMD\u00ae FX 8150 3.6 GHz or Intel\u00ae Core\u2122 i7 2600 3.4 GHz<\/li>\n<li><strong>Memory:<\/strong>8 GB RAM<\/li>\n<li><strong>Graphics:<\/strong>NVIDIA\u00ae GeForce\u00ae GTX 750, ATI Radeon\u2122 HD 7850<\/li>\n<li><strong>DirectX:<\/strong>Version 11<\/li>\n<li><strong>Network:<\/strong>Broadband Internet connection<\/li>\n<li><strong>Storage:<\/strong>50 GB available space<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sound Card:<\/strong>DirectX 11 sound device<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reading through the specs a second time, the recommended processors should be more than enough. But a GTX 750?<\/p>\n<p>For reference sake, Intel is able to match the performance of the GTX 750 with their Iris Pro 6200 integrated GPU.<\/p>\n<p>On a positive note, that might mean being able to play <em>Dark Souls III<\/em> perfectly comfortably on <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/84329-intel-to-reveal-a-beastly-skylake-powered-nuc-codename-skull-canyon.html\" target=\"_blank\">Intel\u2019s upcoming, ultra-compact Skull Canyon NUC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A box the size of your fist playing <em>Dark Souls III<\/em>. How times have changed.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Seeing as we&#8217;re on the topic of PC hardware<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/84529-gddr6-is-debunked-gddr5x-the-likely-choice-for-next-gen-mid-range-cards.html\">GDDR6 is debunked: GDDR5X the likely choice for next-gen mid-range cards<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/84067-radeon-r9-fury-x2-will-only-be-available-in-2016.html\">Radeon R9 Fury X2 will only be available in 2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/83925-nvidia-allegedly-preparing-the-gtx-960-ti-to-fill-gap-between-gtx-960-and-gtx-970.html\">NVIDIA allegedly preparing the GTX 960 Ti to fill gap between GTX 960 and GTX 970<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/81692-nvidia-working-on-top-secret-dual-gpu.html\">NVIDIA working on top-secret dual-GPU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a positive note, that means being able to play Dark Souls III perfectly comfortably on small, ultra-compact PC the size of your fist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":84593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14268,15185,16092,4541,6589,13970],"class_list":["post-84591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-dark-souls-3","tag-dark-souls-iii","tag-fromsoftware","tag-minimum-requirements","tag-pc-requirements","tag-recommended-specifications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}