DustFall System Requirements — Minimum Specs

DustFall's system requirements are light by 2026 standards: any 64-bit Windows 10 machine with 4 GB of RAM, a GTX 960-class graphics card and 2 GB of free space. The official listing for app 5018940 gives one minimum tier and one recommended tier, both for Windows only. Below is the full set exactly as published, followed by a plain read of which line is most likely to hold you back. For the store and platform picture, see platforms.

Minimum and recommended specs

Component	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system	Windows 10, 64-bit	Windows 10, 64-bit
Processor	Intel Core i5-6400 or AMD FX 8320	Intel Core i7-6400 or AMD FX 8320
Memory	4 GB RAM	8 GB RAM
Graphics	NVIDIA GTX 960 or AMD Radeon R9 280	NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB
DirectX	Version 11	Version 11
Storage	2 GB available space	4 GB available space

Note the processor line in the recommended column: it is printed as Intel Core i7-6400, a model number that does not match the usual desktop naming, so read it as listed rather than as our correction, since the official page is the source of record. Everything else in both tiers is standard mid-2010s hardware, and both tiers require a 64-bit processor and operating system.

Which part is most likely to bottleneck you

Both tiers ask for 64-bit Windows 10 and DirectX 11, so the operating system and the graphics API are not the constraint. The two numbers that separate a machine that runs the game from one that struggles are the graphics card and the 4 GB memory floor: the minimum names a GTX 960 or R9 280, roughly budget hardware from 2015, while the recommended tier jumps to a GTX 1060 6GB and 8 GB of RAM.

The processor line is where the official data leaves room for interpretation. DustFall's underground is a simulated pixel field in which terrain flows, burns, explodes and collapses according to the store description, and physics-style terrain simulation of that kind is normally the processor's job rather than the graphics card's, which would make the CPU the first thing to check on an older machine. That reading is ours rather than a developer statement, because the store page never says which component limits performance, so treat the bottleneck claim as to confirm and measure it on your own hardware.

Storage, DirectX and the small print

The remaining lines are unusually forgiving:

• Storage: 2 GB available at minimum, 4 GB at recommended.
• DirectX: version 11 in both tiers, with no DirectX 12 requirement.
• Operating system: Windows 10, 64-bit, in both tiers.
• Architecture: a 64-bit processor and operating system are required in both tiers.

A 2 GB footprint makes DustFall easy to fit on a nearly full drive, and because DirectX 11 is the only API version listed, you do not need a modern DirectX 12 GPU to meet the official bar. What the listing does not publish is any note about display resolution, frame-rate targets or upscaling support, so those are not documented yet and should be judged from the store page and your own testing.

The pages that fill in the rest of the picture are platforms for stores, languages and the lack of controller support, release-date for price and timing, and the beginner guide if you want to know what you are installing before you buy.