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Dark Souls internal rendering resolution fix (DSfix)

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Zeliard

Member
What the fuck, I can't even load the game up past the intro. It just sits on the first loading screen forever. This is without Durante's fix. Anyone else get this issue? Turned off Fraps and D3D Overrider as well.
 
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Felix Lighter

Member
Full screened windowed mode works much better. I'm cheering up a bit!

I have a utility that makes full screen windowed mode work for almost every game. Anyone with an AMD card with FPS issues try that and see if it improves.

Still getting drops though :(

Why did I go with AMD? I'm a fool.
 
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Deepo

Member
Just so I'm sure I've said this clear enough:

Thank you so very very much for doing this, Durante. I hope you get stinking rich from donations and a job at FROM or something like that :)
 
Skyfireblaze

Skyfireblaze

Member
Thank you so much Durante! :D I'm playing with a MSI Cyclone 6850 Power Edition and while I don't check my fps (else I get picky about it...) it runs fine from my personal feel on 1080p!

Now I just need to force myself to play the game, from what I played so far it seems quite awesome the problem is just I usually can't take horror games and the likes very well (even the caves in Oblivion and Skyrim crept me out many times) but I simply didn't want to pass on such a great RPG and with the ingame brightness set to 10 I think it will work for me xD

I wish I could donate but sadly I don't have any means of online payment besides Paysafecards :(

And I aswell think you should get a job somewhere for this and I hope you get the money you dearly deserve, ideally Namco should acknowledge your patch and give you a percentage of their income as the publisher but we know that won't ever happen :( And I don't blame FROM in the slightest, they should get all the money too just Namco can cut back here :p
 
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alysonwheel

Member
Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 3.7ghz, GTX560. Running it at 1440p on a 1080p monitor. Looks fantastic. Locked 30fps so far -- at least, no framerate drops that I've noticed.

Beautiful work.
 
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Zeliard

Member
ctrayne said:
I feel so left out with my shitty performance. Tired lower res settings in the DSfix, but nothing above stock resolution is running well.
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Heh, at least you're able to get into a gameplay setting. My game decides to stop working after character creation.
 
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TheExodu5

Banned
Just so no one gets too excited: the distant LOD effect appears to run using a 1024*720p framebuffer, or so I would assume. Backgrounds look very pixelated.
 
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GJS

Member
Beautiful. The difference when you go from playing upscaled to native is always great, it's like putting on a pair of glasses for short sightedness.
 
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antitrop

Member
Dandy J said:
Anyone notice that the game only runs at 2 fps rates? 30 and 15. If it ever drops from 30, it locks to 15.
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I remember hearing something about if the game detects that you're running below a certain FPS for some time it will boot you back to the main menu.

Has anyone run into this yet?
 
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Felix Lighter

Member
GhostRidah said:
Link please?
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http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/39550#content

I think there are several similiar utilities but this is the one I use. I always have it running and I just have to press CTRL-Enter after I launch a game in windowed mode at my native resolution and it adjust the window and hides the taskbar.

Never the less, I'm getting console like performance at 1920x1080 right now with an HD 7970 and I'm super bummed out.
 
Minsc

Minsc

Gold Member
luiztfc said:
Kinda of a stupid question, but does anyone know if it is possible to run Durante's fix with fullscreen?
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Yup, works fine that way for me.

ATI card here, and performance without the fix is poor, 30s, 20s, and even 10s. After running the fix, it stayed at a steady 30.

So if nothing else, the fix made my game go from unplayable to perfectly smooth (well as much as you can hope at 30fps) at an increased internal resolution too.
 
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zkylon

zkylewd
Durante you are a fucking genius.
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:D

Runs at a solid 30 FPS so far on my i5 2500k with a Nvidia Geforce 560 GTX Ti (not the 448 cores one) and 4 gigs of RAM. Gonna pospone my playthrough until you sort out the text issues, but amazing work man, I'll be sure to send a couple bucks your way.
 
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drizzle

Axel Hertz
Anybody using a Wireless Controller?

I can bring up the Games for Windows guide menu with the guide button, but the game doesn't detect any input.

I'm thinking they pulled an Ubisoft and don't have the proper drivers for the Wireless Controller?

Edit: Also, this game seems to suffer the same issue that Iron Brigade has (but almost no other Games for Windows live game has), in that it hard closes when asked to quit, without quitting the Games for Windows Live software, which just remains running for a while, preventing you to quickly restart the game.
 
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GhostRidah

Member
Felix Lighter said:
http://oblivion.nexusmods.com/mods/39550#content

I think there are several similiar utilities but this is the one I use. I always have it running and I just have to press CTRL-Enter after I launch a game in windowed mode at my native resolution and it adjust the window and hides the taskbar.

Never the less, I'm getting console like performance at 1920x1080 right now with an HD 7970 and I'm super bummed out.
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Thanks, will try that.

Same here with performance, no matter what resolution it just runs poorly, amd card here as well.
 
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randomwab

Member
Minsc said:
Yup, works fine that way for me.

ATI card here, and performance without the fix is poor, 30s, 20s, and even 10s. After running the fix, it stayed at a steady 30.

So if nothing else, the fix made my game go from unplayable to perfectly smooth (well as much as you can hope at 30fps) at an increased internal resolution too.
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ATI card here too. Mine wasn't unplayable before the fix, but after applying it I've had barely any framerate problems. Go figure.
 
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Felix Lighter

Member
drizzle said:
Anybody using a Wireless Controller?

I can bring up the Games for Windows guide menu with the guide button, but the game doesn't detect any input.

I'm thinking they pulled an Ubisoft and don't have the proper drivers for the Wireless Controller?
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I'm using wireless just fine.
 
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blainethemono

Member
drizzle said:
Anybody using a Wireless Controller?

I can bring up the Games for Windows guide menu with the guide button, but the game doesn't detect any input.

I'm thinking they pulled an Ubisoft and don't have the proper drivers for the Wireless Controller?
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try removing any other controllers/joysticks or whatever you have installed...I had to remove my wiimote before it would work
 
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drizzle

Axel Hertz
blainethemono said:
try removing any other controllers/joysticks or whatever you have installed...I had to remove my wiimote before it would work
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Yes, that was my next guess. I'm testing the wired controller now, but the Wiimote sometimes messes up with controller detection on some games.

I guess it only likes the first controller on the machine, then?

Edit: yep, that made it work. The trappings of low budget porting.. :D
 
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Durante

Member
TheExodu5 said:
Just so no one gets too excited: the distant LOD effect appears to run using a 1024*720p framebuffer, or so I would assume. Backgrounds look very pixelated.
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I think they're running at 512*360 actually. I can probably fix that.

(I can't sleep, too excited. But I also can't do any useful coding at this point - sucks!)
 
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HomerSimpson-Man

Member
Minsc said:
Yup, works fine that way for me.

ATI card here, and performance without the fix is poor, 30s, 20s, and even 10s. After running the fix, it stayed at a steady 30.

So if nothing else, the fix made my game go from unplayable to perfectly smooth (well as much as you can hope at 30fps) at an increased internal resolution too.
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Wait, hold up, the fix is essentially a performance patch too! Wow.

Praise be Durante!

I'm really trying to hold off getting on PC for a little bit longer, still playing other games right now, but that game release smell is so strong with this one. Heck I only recently got a copy of Demon's Soul for my PS3.

Durante said:
I think they're running at 512*360 actually. I can probably fix that.

(I can't sleep, too excited. But I also can't do any useful coding at this point - sucks!)
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Goddamn!
 
iNvid02

iNvid02

Member
i think this is 5760x3240 downsampled to 1080p - it was hitting 75% useage of my 690

gonna wait for the text fix though, im guessing im gonna need that

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Peterthumpa

Peterthumpa

Member
Durante said:
I think they're running at 512*360 actually. I can probably fix that.

(I can't sleep, too excited. But I also can't do any useful coding at this point - sucks!)
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Isn't running on a lower resolution kind of an intended effect to give the illusion of DOF? I actually find the effect pretty neat if done correctly.
 
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Forever

Banned
So really, how exactly did one man manage to make all of From Software and Namco Bandai look like fools within half an hour?

This man better be drowning in job offers soon.
 
Alex

Alex

Member
Fantastic work, way quicker than I'd ever hoped as well, I just hope that we can eventually find some solution to the messages as I'd imagine it effects the online ones as well?

So really, how exactly did one man manage to make all of From Software and Namco Bandai look like fools within half an hour?
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They swapped excuses from ignorance to system parity, so who even knows at this point.
 
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gdt

Member
felipepl said:
Isn't running on a lower resolution kind of an intended effect to give the illusion of DOF? I actually find the effect pretty neat if done correctly.
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Too low for the higher res though.

Actually, I guess Durante can remove DOF if he wants too.
 
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Durante

Member
felipepl said:
Isn't running on a lower resolution kind of an intended effect to give the illusion of DOF? I actually find the effect pretty neat if done correctly.
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Yes. But I need to make it run at eg. 960x540 when the game is set to 1920x1080.

Forever said:
So really, how exactly did one man manage to make all of From Software and Namco Bandai look like fools within half an hour?

This man better be drowning in job offers soon.
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There are quite a few people out there that could do this. Won't say no to interesting job offers though :p
 
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