Can I Run Darksiders?
Released in 2019, Darksiders is an action adventure game built by Airship Syndicate. Publishing duties went to THQ Nordic. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. Its Metacritic score stands at 77. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. With more than 10 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. Completionists have 30 achievements to work through. 13 languages are covered by the store listing. Full controller support is present, so nothing needs configuring before a pad works. Being 7 years old, it was built for the hardware of its day, so a current machine usually has headroom over the published figures. It keeps shared screen play alive, so a second player needs only a second controller. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | AMD FX-8320 (3.5 GHz) / Intel i5-4690K (3.5 GHz) or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core i7-3930K (3.2 GHz)/AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (3.2 GHz) or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 |
| RAM | 8 GB |
| Storage | 15 GB HDD |
| DirectX | Version 11 |
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Setting and environment
Players spend their time in a fantasy world, moving through dungeon floors. It is played from an isometric view. The publisher supplies 5 storefront screenshots of these environments.
Why Darksiders is demanding
The ask Darksiders makes is moderate. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 lands near our RTX 3060 reference, so a typical gaming PC is the right yardstick. Darksiders takes about 15 GB of disk space. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB. Minimum and recommended sit far apart here, which usually means Darksiders scales hard with the hardware you give it.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Darksiders?
Darksiders is light on hardware. Its minimum, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960, 4 GB RAM, about 15 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.
Bottleneck: GPU
Projected by resolution
| Resolution | Projection | Headroom |
|---|---|---|
| 1080p | Comfortable | 1.7x |
| 1440p | Borderline | 0.96x |
| 4K | Below the bar | 0.43x |
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 great |
| GTX 1060 Laptop | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 4 GB | Runs well |
| GTX 1650 Laptop | Runs well |
| RTX 2060 6 GB | Runs great |
| RTX 2060 Laptop | Runs great |
| 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 Darksiders'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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Frequently asked questions
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What are the minimum system requirements for Darksiders?
The minimum requirements are CPU: AMD FX-8320 (3.5 GHz) / Intel i5-4690K (3.5 GHz) or better; GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960; 4 GB RAM.
How much storage does Darksiders need?
Darksiders needs about 15 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Darksiders?
The RTX 3060 runs Darksiders comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Darksiders?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Darksiders is the GPU.