Dictator93
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Hey Durante, do you OC your 970?
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Dark Souls III - PC Performance article
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Hey Durante, do you OC your 970?
Yes. It runs at ~1350 MHz in-game.
Dictator93
Member
Thx. I am curious where something like my Titan X @ 1425 mhz will plateu resolution-wise. If I can hit 2880X1620 @ a predominately 60 fps (small fps drops with a lot of alpha effects infron of the camera is A-OK by me for this game), I would be pretty happy. I think, like other soul's games hopefully, that all the pixel density really helps the art. Now only if I had a higher resolution display...
roadrunn3r
Member
google 970m
check the benchmarks
establish that it's slightly slower than a desktop 960
check the 950 benchmarks on the previous page of this thread
conclusion = 1080p high settings
It's not that hard people.
borborygmus
Member
A 970m is probably close to a desktop 960. You may be just on the limit of being able to get 60fps on High at 1080p, but of course this is just an educated guess.
Sanctuary
Member
I'm assuming you never played Demon's Souls then? Because it was the earliest game, and it used an MP system.
Just like the 364.51 drivers, Nvidia's then beta 364.72 (now the latest) are still buggy as hell and caused repeated crashes for multiple users. I experienced driver crashing a few times a day with each, and had to revert back to the February drivers; which have been perfectly stable. So no, it's not just all on FROM now.
Jesus, they still didn't fix this shit? Come on, Nvidia.
I did play Demon's Souls. It's my least favourite souls game.
Sanctuary
Member
Take the "bricking" with a huge grain of salt. These are the exact same problems people were reporting with the drivers--that were pulled--they were to replace too.
http://wccftech.com/nvidias-latest-game-ready-driver-allegedly-killing-gpus-plagued-issues/
With the 364.51 I'd get a lot of black screen and a loud stuttering/humming sound issues with the occasional hard system freeze, and with the 364.72 I'd get a tan (first time I've ever seen this) screen without stuttering, but I'd still have to reset my PC regardless.
Kamina
Golden Boy
Do you know anything about the SLI behaviour?
I'm interested if two 980s can do 4k downsampling @ 60fps
Now I'm a bit nervous about updating drivers.
Are 364.72 useful for single card users or does it just add an SLI profile for DS3?
Any benchmarks for single card users with and without 364.72?
CamelCloud
Member
How's the 980 Ti doing?
Amen.
Glad to see some of these early impressions. Whenever I finish my PC build, there should be no problems with getting a consistent framerate.
I'm not sure if this benchmark was posted yet, but a 750 Ti seems to doing okay even when paired with a really weak AMD FX-4100.
This seems pretty promising for my A8 6600k. Kind of worried for my 260x though. I'm willing to drop as low as 720p 30, and there shouldn't be a 20fps difference between it and a 750ti. Seems like the minimum requirements are for low at 1080p.
The last new game I got was Just Cause 3 and I was horribly burned on that so I'm scared..
daninthemix
Member
PC Gamer's review is up. How long for Durante's settings guide?
Sometime this week.
Sounds like it's more of an evolved version of the Dark Souls 2 engine that incorporates some Bloodborne stuff, at least according to Durante.
Dictator93
Member
I would imagine bloodborne's engine and dark souls 2's engine are kinda of just iterations of the same core engine branch. I do not think they are taking one thing from the other, but probably, there is a historical continuity where after every project things are reintegrated into the main branch.
Why maintain and create separate "engines" for games that play the same and have extremely similar technical requirements?
I think the bloodborne engine, aka the ds3 engine, is just a later version of that stuff from DS2. Not separate things which then had a "pick and choose" integration.
Saw until the first boss: on my 5820K@4.2 GHz, GTX 970 Twin FROZR V (Game Ready 364.51 drivers), 16 GB 2666 MHz, game installed on my Sammy 850 EVO, at 1080p maxed I predictably have butter smooth 60 FPS, but I had a weird freeze of a couple of seconds, in the forest.
I'm starting to broadcast it, BTW:
https://www.twitch.tv/teokrazia
I'm starting to broadcast it, BTW:
https://www.twitch.tv/teokrazia
Sanctuary
Member
Reviewer for ACG. He also said that turning down the graphical options had no noticeable effect on this.
Sanctuary
Member
Except that Blighttown ran flawlessly on PC.
It's a new challenge for a modern Dark Souls!
Karak
Member
Ya that's me with the swamp report lol.
I assume that will get some patches. Many games have that one area where there is just too much going on and almost feels like some kind of bug. Lots of really crazy special effects going on there and a pretty solid view distance too and some of them you can't actually turn off. Just turn down. More than almost anywhere else expect for a couple boss fights.
I assume that will get some patches. Many games have that one area where there is just too much going on and almost feels like some kind of bug. Lots of really crazy special effects going on there and a pretty solid view distance too and some of them you can't actually turn off. Just turn down. More than almost anywhere else expect for a couple boss fights.
Karak
Member
Ya I noticed that(have all 3 versions) Hoping for a patch.
daninthemix
Member
Not on my 970 it didn't.
With DSFix?? I didn't have any problems on a 7870 with a Phenom II X4 955.
On topic: Have there been any extensive benchmarks from the Japanese PC release?
Damn this sucks, didn't know.
Japan gets the PC version same time as us, so nope.
I've tried to switch to 2560x1440, through DSR, but my system can't handle it.
Frames fluctuate between 48 and 60 FPS, there's some stutter and controls responsiveness take a very noticeable hit. I can't even go for 2351x1323
It seems that the only downsampling option that I can afford is 2103x1183 [but at that point, better stay at 1080p and enjoy every performance margin
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Frames fluctuate between 48 and 60 FPS, there's some stutter and controls responsiveness take a very noticeable hit. I can't even go for 2351x1323
It seems that the only downsampling option that I can afford is 2103x1183 [but at that point, better stay at 1080p and enjoy every performance margin
].I've tried to switch to 2560x1440, through DSR, but my system can't handle it.
Frames fluctuate between 48 and 60 FPS, there's some stutter and controls responsiveness take a very noticeable hit. I can't even go for 2351x1323
It seems that the only downsampling option that I can afford is 2103x1183 [but at that point, better stay at 1080p and enjoy every performance margin
And your card is...?
Edit: nvm just saw above that it's a 970. Crossing fingers for my 980 Ti
Karak
Member
A pretty serious hit. But word is they are patching performance. I gave them links a couple days ago."
Good to hear that. Thanks for the review and for keeping us posted, Karak.
A brief test:
https://youtu.be/r5asjEmODsI
https://youtu.be/r5asjEmODsI
Okay, thanks!
Self_Destructive
Member
When is the PC Gamer article coming Durante?