Can I Run Darksiders Genesis?
Darksiders Genesis is an action adventure game from Airship Syndicate, released in 2019. THQ Nordic published it. It offers a single player campaign and cooperative play. The game ships for Windows alone. It carries 30 achievements. Cloud saves are enabled. At 7 years old it targets an older hardware baseline than most buyers now own. Metacritic places it at 77. Steam lists support for 13 languages. Its Steam review count passes 10 thousand, a large enough sample that odd hardware behaviour would be known by now. It handles controllers properly rather than leaving the player to bind buttons by hand. Split screen on one PC is supported, a feature most releases have quietly dropped.
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. The publisher supplies 5 storefront screenshots of these environments. The view is from an isometric view.
Why Darksiders Genesis is demanding
Demand in Darksiders Genesis is ordinary. The publisher has NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 in mind, which our tables place around the RTX 3060. System memory expectations are modest at 8 GB. Darksiders Genesis takes about 15 GB of disk space. The distance between minimum and recommended is wide, so Darksiders Genesis at the floor and Darksiders Genesis at the recommended tier are not the same experience.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Darksiders Genesis?
Darksiders Genesis 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 Genesis'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
Can my PC run Darksiders Genesis?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Darksiders Genesis?
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 Genesis need?
Darksiders Genesis needs about 15 GB of HDD storage.
Can an RTX 3060 run Darksiders Genesis?
The RTX 3060 runs Darksiders Genesis comfortably, clearing the title's GPU requirement with room to spare.
What is the bottleneck for Darksiders Genesis?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Darksiders Genesis is the GPU.