Can I Run Amnesia: The Dark Descent?
Amnesia: The Dark Descent is an action adventure game from Frictional Games, released in 2010. Frictional Games both developed and published it. The game supports a single player campaign. With more than 20 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Being over ten years old, its ceiling was set by the hardware of a different era. It is localised into 7 languages according to the store listing. Completionists have 18 achievements to work through. Its Metacritic score stands at 85. A gamepad works without remapping, since controller support is complete. Alongside Windows it also ships for macOS and Linux.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | 2.0Ghz - Low budget CPUs such as Celeron or Duron needs to be at about twice the CPU speed |
|---|---|
| GPU | Radeon X1000/GF 6 - Integrated graphics and very low budget cards might not work. |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 3 GB |
| OS | Windows XP/Vista/7 |
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Setting and environment
Amnesia: The Dark Descent places its action in a horror setting, and the player works through self contained puzzle rooms. The publisher supplies 6 storefront screenshots of these environments. The view is from a first person view.
Why Amnesia: The Dark Descent is demanding
System memory expectations are modest at 2 GB. Amnesia: The Dark Descent takes about 3 GB of disk space.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Amnesia: The Dark Descent?
Amnesia: The Dark Descent targets a mainstream modern PC: Radeon X1000/GF 6 - Integrated graphics and very low budget cards might not work. and 2 GB of RAM for the minimum. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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Can my PC run Amnesia: The Dark Descent?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Amnesia: The Dark Descent?
The minimum requirements are CPU: 2.0Ghz - Low budget CPUs such as Celeron or Duron needs to be at about twice the CPU speed; GPU: Radeon X1000/GF 6 - Integrated graphics and very low budget cards might not work.; 2 GB RAM; OS: Windows XP/Vista/7.
How much storage does Amnesia: The Dark Descent need?
Amnesia: The Dark Descent needs about 3 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Amnesia: The Dark Descent?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Amnesia: The Dark Descent is the CPU.