Cyanide’s Styx: Master of Shadows is currently available for pre-order on Steam and as you may have guessed, the official minimum requirements have been revealed. PC gamers will need a dual-core CPU and 3GB of RAM in order to run the title. Moreover, Styx: Master of Shadows will support DX9 GPUs and will need 8GB of free HDD space. You can view the complete list of its minimum specs below. Kudos to ‘Sikandar Ali’ for informing us!
Minimum:
OS: WINDOWS VISTA SP2/WINDOWS 7/WINDOWS 8
Processor: AMD/INTEL DUAL-CORE 2.4 GHZ
Memory: 3072 MB RAM
Graphics: 1024 MB 100% DIRECTX 9 AND SHADERS 4.0 COMPATIBLE AMD RADEON HD 5850/NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 OR HIGHER
Hard Drive: 8 GB available space
Sound Card: DIRECTX 9 COMPATIBLE
Additional Notes: INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED FOR THE GAME ACTIVATION
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
Contact: Email
Nice to not see a made-up ram recommendation this time.
Steam dayONE!
OH STFU!
lmao…just showing my support for my fav devs! come on boy!
Looking forward to it .
I finally bought a FX8350, mobo and 8GB RAM 1866 (I’ll put 8GB more soon)…tomorrow I’ll be upgrading so no need to look at the minimum anymore. 😀
My GTX560Ti OC 1GB is still kicking but not for so long so I better save some for the new upcoming GPU’s.
970/980’s coming in soon…
You bet. 😉
Congratulations .
Thank you mate. 😉
Man, I’m on the fence about getting this FX. If you be so kind of posting your experience I with some AAA title and the OS I would be totally grateful (I know that there are countless benchmarks around the web but, I find more easy to trust a user 🙂 )
Oh, and congrats!
Yeah no problem, some friends already have it (FX8320 and the 8350 as well, others the FX6300 X6) and they told me that the CPU is good even with games as CPU intensive as Planetside 2.
At least one of them with the FX8320, a GTX780 and 8GB RAM 1600, the lower frames he get is 30FPS in massive battles and while recording. You can get more with Intel in Planetside 2 of course but for the price I rather get 8 cores than just 4 mostly for the upcoming games.
I’m going to keep using my Windows 7 Ultimate with SP1 until Windows 9 arrives for sure (I don’t like Windows 8 at all but I tried it and when it comes to performance is actually pretty cool compared to Windows 7, mostly in memory usage/management with programs).
Tomorrow will be a long day, taking off the old parts, cleaning, putting the new stuff in place, then installing everything again…downloading games, trying them (at least the ones I suffered the most with my dual core until now), etc.
I’ll post some results for you with some games if not tomorrow, the next day…my bottleneck was quite massive and the change should be quite radical. The GPU and HDD will be my new bottleneck but without the micro-stuttering and slowdowns I had.
I’ll try Planetside 2 (massive macro-stuttering, unplayable), Survarium (slowdowns and frame rate stuttering when people shoot), Fifa 15 (I can run it at 70FPS but the gameplay is like watching it in slow motion with those 70 frames because my dual core is working at 100%, imagine how awful is that…), and then a lot more like rFactor 2 (massive physics in action all the time), pCARS with IA’s which now is impossible to play, some open worlds like Sleeping Dogs, Saints Row The Third…some RPG’s, Neverwinter at the citadel which the frames goes below 0 lol but in levels it goes up to 80’s…, etc.
Grim Dawn is also heavy in the CPU even while being an isometric game like Diablo. (I have to start from scratch again…)
And, thank you. 😉
Thanks a lot for the reply m8, hope you have a good gaming!
Well mate as I promised…this CPU is a beast and paired with just my GTX 560Ti OC 1GB is giving me from tiple…yes, TRIPLE to quadruple performance (FPS) in the games I’m trying.
My motherboard (AsRock FX990 Extreme 3= 92€) put my CPU (FX8350) at 4.3Ghz, and my memory (8GB Kingston Hyper X Fury Blue) at the right clocks but I let everything in auto because I don’t do OC.
Well examples:
-Survarium: before with my old CPU (Athlon 64X2 6000+ 3.0ghz and 4GB RAM 667 333mhz) ran at 20 to 30FPS with slow downs and microstuttering all over the place…almost unplayable because when people shot in the game the frames goes down like mad.
Now getting 70/80FPS with no slow downs whatsoever and I tried the game on purpose while Windows (7 Ultimate SP1) was updating the system while playing. (never did something like that lol).
-Fifa 15 Demo: before the game showed me 60FPS+ but while playing the CPU worked at 100% non stop and the gameplay was like watching a slow motion video like at 2FPS.
Now with everything to the max, 1080p I’m getting constant 120FPS with no slow downs whatsoever, replays works at 60FPS. (unlocked the frame rate in the options menu #PC Master Race…lol)
-PES 2014 Demo: this game ran at 60FPS before but I had slowdowns because of the CPU and now I get the same because the game is locked to 60FPS but the gameplay is as fluid and responsive as it can get.
——
I’m installing rFactor 2, downloading pCARS again, Neverwinter, The Hunter, Hawken, Planetside 2 (really looking forward to see this one in action), War Thunder.
And then I will download more such as Metro Last Light, The Witcher 2 again to see if I gain some frames, The Witcher Enhanced Edition, Grim Dawn, Batman Arkham City which ran okay but I want to see now.
I have a lot of games…my internet is not so good so be patient as I am, I’ll keep posting to you so you can see.
Also tried Cinebench but a really old version that I had, and gave me 7.2 in CPU and in Open GL 56FPS (constant no slow downs).
Temperatures of the motherboard here at Spain which is pretty damn hot right now: motherboard at around 40/45ºC, the CPU with stock cooling that I want to change as soon as posible in idle sits at 37/40ºC then it goes up at about 55/60´s but as soon as you stop using it the cooler works like a jumbo jet engine and goes down quite fast. (stock cooling is a Cooler Master one and my case has great ventilation. HAF 932 Advanced from Cooler Master with all fans in the chassis)
What makes me laugh now is that the CPU while doing whatever task, is like is nothing for it…I barely see the CPU working at 19% sometimes at most.
In Fifa 15 it went up to 46% usage while my previus couldn’t even handle the game lol.
Windows score gave me CPU= 7.8, memory= 7.8, GPU 7.9 (before with the other CPU gave me 7.6) and I still need to change my HDD for a SATA 3 and SSD but now is a SATA 2 and gave me 5.9 (my new bottleneck).
This is a beast mate…I’m trully impressed with it and happy.
When I see you commenting at some article I’ll update you with the results from other games.
See you. 😉
That’s greeeaaaat 😀
It should feel my needs completely (and by that I mean I should be able to safely save a lot of $$$, lol). I’m planning to match the FX with a Nvidia this time (long time AMD user), and the mobo will be the same as yours.
The temp thing is another concern too, those stock coolers from AMD are cheap as it can be, plus I live in a natural hot country (Brazil) so I better include a better cooler right now.
Again, thank you so much for the reply m8, looking foward for your future tests. 🙂
No problem…I live at Spain but I’m actually from Uruguay and lived in Sao Paulo for 3 years as a child. 😉
We should celebrate with Caipirinha once you also upgrade your PC. haha!
About the temps, yeah the stock cooler is not that great and makes a lot of noise. Better get a Noctua or Cooler Master…or even water cooling for it. I am looking for the CM V8 GTS or Noctua NH D14.
PS: I’m downloading games as we speak through Steam and Origin…what a pain. xD
That’s cool! 😀 I’m preparing the cachaça and the lemons already! 😛
The internet, that’s another thing that I NEED to upgrade. My current one it’s just for work/study and some minor entertainment (videos, music, podcasts, etc) but even them it’s disapointing :/
If it’s about price then get an AMD FX, you pretty much won’t be able to tell in games over Intel(some would say frame-rates are more stable with Intel i5/i7) but if you do a lot of video editing or rendering then go with Intel.
If I recall correctly, your system had a huge bottleneck right? If so, then you are gonna be getting much better performance now with that 560 Ti.
Yeah I know I’ll get some more performance out of it because I know people with the same GPU but paired with core i5’s or Phenom’s CPU’s and as an example in Saints Row the Third while I get barely 30FPS with slowdowns playing in high medium, they get between 50/60FPS.
I notice the bottleneck in those games that beg for more cores, the games that don’t require too much of the CPU (as some examples: Remember Me maxed out I get 80FPS average, Castlevania LoS 2 80FPS maxed as well) run pretty damn good even while my system is quite dated. (well by tomorrow I can say “it was”)
I have an Athlon 64X2 6000+ 3.0Ghz, 4GB RAM 667 (333mhz) with an AM2 (non plus) motherboard.
The 560Ti is a good GPU no doubt of it…it will kick some more until I have money to upgrade it.
That’s great man…its always exciting to upgrade from a crappy old CPU to an awesome fairly high-end one! Hours of benchmarking and OC’ing that follows…good times!
I recently (Jan ’14) upgraded my PC…well basically built a whole new one….a fairly high-end machine, but the funny part is, I have only played one game fully on it, Wolfenstein: TNO! I barely play games these days…have a lot of of good game in my “Games to play” list…:)
Hehehe, I’m really happy because I play a lot and I am even more and more into multiplayer with friends…and a lot of good games are coming that require more power.
The thing is that I lost my job a while back and couldn’t upgrade so I had to deal with what I have. I could upgrade my case a couple of years ago (Cooler Master 932 Advanced) with a 850W 80 plus bronze PSU (overkill for what I have) and the GTX560 Ti OC 1GB (before I had a 8600GT) and the HDD. But nothing more…
Imagine my suffering! haha.
Still have some unfinished games on Steam, some that I never played and ones that I want to see how they perform now with the new stuff. Good times coming. 😉
It seems that the 560 is gonna be the minimum GPU requirement for next-gen only games similar to how the 8800GT was the minimum GPU last gen.
It’s a good thing for me since I’m still sitting on a 560, Still is a good card , but I do need to upgrade.
I’m afraid it will also be in the recommended requirements.
Consoles have a weak GPU, and right now no one wants to add some shiny effects on the top. Maybe Nvidia and AMD will do something about it, but they can’t “upgrade” for PC every title out there.
This game looks awsome…
a gtx560 just for MINIMUN???
must be wrong since it supports dx9
also, sure it’s graphics are nice, but…they aren’t that great…
DX9 support could just be for the Win XP users. I hear they’re still around although I always forget until someone reminds me.
I like what I’m seeing. I’ll probably try it.
The GPU requirement seems a bit excessive. It’s an Unreal Engine 3 game and I remember playing other UE3 games just fine on my 5850 on NOT low settings. And I’m a stickler for framerate, I always made sure I ran at 50+ fps on my old 60 hz monitor.
Maybe the wide open areas are hard to “stream” / cull. There is a lot in every scene no matter where you turn the camera due to the vertical architecture of the levels.