Can I Run Dark and Light?
Snail Games USA released Dark and Light in 2017. It is an action adventure game, self published by the studio. The game supports a single player campaign and cooperative play. At 9 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Steam Workshop support means community content is part of the picture, and a heavy mod load can push the real requirements past anything the publisher lists. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. There are 29 achievements to chase. With more than 10 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Steam lists support for 8 languages.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i5 2500K |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 960 or higher |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 10 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-5820k 6x 3.3 GHz |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce GTX 1070 or higher |
| RAM | 16 GB |
| Storage | 50 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 10 |
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Setting and environment
Dark and Light places its action in an open sandbox, and the player works through one continuous open world. There are 44 official screenshots to judge the look from. That openness is what costs performance. Dark and Light has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves.
Why Dark and Light is demanding
Dark and Light sits in the middle of the demand range, targeting GeForce GTX 1070, a tier a mainstream card from the last few generations reaches without difficulty. It targets DirectX 10, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy. The install is small at roughly 50 GB. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Dark and Light at the floor and Dark and Light at the recommended tier are not the same experience. Dark and Light expects 16 GB of system memory.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Dark and Light?
Dark and Light leans on the processor more than the graphics card, its minimum CPU, a Intel Core i5 2500K, is what most builds trip over. A strong multi-core CPU paired with a mid-range card is the right shape here, the minimum GPU is a GeForce GTX 960 or higher, not a top-end GPU.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Runs well | 1.31x |
| 1440p | Below the bar | 0.74x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.33x |
A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.
Common GPUs
| Graphics card | Verdict |
|---|---|
| GTX 1060 6 GB | Runs well |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Playable |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Playable |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Playable |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 3060 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4060 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 8 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 3070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 12 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 4070 Laptop | Runs great |
| RX 6600 8 GB | Runs great |
Each card is compared against Dark and Light's published GPU requirement, assuming an otherwise-capable PC. Laptop rows use the real mobile chip's benchmark, a mobile GPU is always slower than its desktop namesake.
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DOOM EternalFrequently asked questions
Can my PC run Dark and Light?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Dark and Light?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K; GPU: GeForce GTX 960 or higher; 8 GB RAM.
How much storage does Dark and Light need?
Dark and Light needs about 50 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Dark and Light?
The RTX 3060 runs Dark and Light comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Dark and Light?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Dark and Light is the GPU.