loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
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Dark Souls internal rendering resolution fix (DSfix)
- Thread starter Durante
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That's great thanks, but I've heard it's glitchy. Something about the jump distance and ladders? How does that impact the gameplay?
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
Don't slide down ladders, apparently you can fall off the world. I don't even know how to slide down (I guess maybe by pressing the run button while going down a ladder) so it's not even relevant for me.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
Hey guys, I have the latest DSFix and I restarted Dark Souls. I started noticing that during cut scenes or whenever the brightness of the game changes (at bonfires for example) I start to see black transparent squares across the screen, is this due to the HUD scaling options? I also saw strange overlays during the beginning cut scene when the camera reaches the players corpse right before or immediately after it passes through the player's jail gate. What's the fix for this?
Edit: I set enableHudMod to 0 and that seemed to fix the problem. I still would like to know if there is another way to fix this while enabling HUD modifications.
Edit: I set enableHudMod to 0 and that seemed to fix the problem. I still would like to know if there is another way to fix this while enabling HUD modifications.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
No one?
The HUD modifications are still incomplete in many ways. The problem is that each "special" situation requires specific handling, and identifying and dealing with those situations is grueling work with little payoff. I hoped to distribute it to more contributors when I released the source code, but apparently no one cares enough.
Boulotaur2024
Member
It was still helpful to some people like me who wanted to know the inner workings of a directx injector. I learned a lot from your code Durante, huge thanks to you for releasing it, although I never contributed to improving Dark Souls
Thanks, that's encouraging to hear!
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
Ah well, no big deal Durante, your work has already improved the game ten folds. I can live with the original HUD.
NarcissisticJay
Member
Durante, do you happen to know exactly what settings are needed with widescreen fixer and dsfix to enable 5760x1080 with the hud centered? I had it working perfect for 2 hours.. kept messing with it for whatever reason. Had to reset to default and cannot get it to work after hours of trying.
Its some perfect storm of dsfix, ds settings and widescreen fixer settings that I am unable to recreate
Its some perfect storm of dsfix, ds settings and widescreen fixer settings that I am unable to recreate
Sorry, I never used the widescreen fix.
To get VSync with unlocked framerate, you either need to run the game in fullscreen windowed mode, or use something like D3DOverrider to force triple buffering.
Finally after 2 days of trying to get GFWL to work (shit just refused to connect, forget everything good I've ever said about it) and 1 extra day getting it to run nicely on my Radeon 7850 I was finally able to get Dark Souls to run decently fine, it looks damn beautiful at 60 fps btw
I can't get the backup save function to work, tried leaving the defaults AND changing the values but the files just don't appear on my save folder. I'm affraid to lose all my progress if gfwl or my pc crashes. Any help with this?
Thanks Durante for all the hard work
I can't get the backup save function to work, tried leaving the defaults AND changing the values but the files just don't appear on my save folder. I'm affraid to lose all my progress if gfwl or my pc crashes. Any help with this?
Thanks Durante for all the hard work
Refreshment.01
Member
Greetings:
Any idea f what's causing this. The game is letterboxed in a 1920*1200 monitor, like if it was on 1080p or maybe less, yet the horizontal resolution is entirely covered (1920). In the DSfix settings the resolution is set to 1920*1200. And when taking a screensot it says is at 1920*1200.
So any ideas?
Any idea f what's causing this. The game is letterboxed in a 1920*1200 monitor, like if it was on 1080p or maybe less, yet the horizontal resolution is entirely covered (1920). In the DSfix settings the resolution is set to 1920*1200. And when taking a screensot it says is at 1920*1200.
So any ideas?
ambientmystic
Member
I think the game defaults to a 16:9 aspect ratio no matter what resolution you feed it.
If you're on a 4:3 or 16:10 monitor, you will see some letterboxing.
Refreshment.01
Member
Many thanks. SO there's no point in specifing over 1080p in a 1200p monitor i guess.
Finally after 2 days of trying to get GFWL to work (shit just refused to connect, forget everything good I've ever said about it) and 1 extra day getting it to run nicely on my Radeon 7850 I was finally able to get Dark Souls to run decently fine, it looks damn beautiful at 60 fps btw
I can't get the backup save function to work, tried leaving the defaults AND changing the values but the files just don't appear on my save folder. I'm affraid to lose all my progress if gfwl or my pc crashes. Any help with this?
Thanks Durante for all the hard work
Anyone else experiencing problems with the backup saves on DSfix? Following an advise from this thread to turn on loglevel 3 in the ini, but the log file still appears empty. I think I'm doing something wrong, and I'm afraid to lose my progress
Game looks awesome with DSFix and if you cna run at 60fps, it is also slick as hell. Cannot really go back after DSfix.
As for mods, I never felt the need to add any.
was wondering if Diablo OST could be implemented into the game since Diablo OG has the best OST evah...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDeygA8OmAM&list=PLB409D6D27F417A84
I remember playing on these levels specially as a sorcerer gave me the chills....
I also loved the guy in the hell level when he talks, can´t remember the name though......he tells you to do something...way cool
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDeygA8OmAM&list=PLB409D6D27F417A84
I remember playing on these levels specially as a sorcerer gave me the chills....
I also loved the guy in the hell level when he talks, can´t remember the name though......he tells you to do something...way cool
Man, I really didn't need all of this frustration tonight. I don't know anything about hacking games, but I'd really like to play Dark Souls. Hopefully someone can tell me what to do in laymen's terms.
I downloaded DSFix. Extracted it to Programs (x86) --> Steam --> Steamapps --> Common --> Dark Souls --> DATA. I'm told there are .ini files I have to fiddle with for whatever reason to do something of some sort. I'm not sure what an .ini file is or how to modify it. I read the OP but I don't see any explanation toward this end.
So, uh, help? Little more complicated than most PC games where you can just move sliders and such in the Game options. :-\
I downloaded DSFix. Extracted it to Programs (x86) --> Steam --> Steamapps --> Common --> Dark Souls --> DATA. I'm told there are .ini files I have to fiddle with for whatever reason to do something of some sort. I'm not sure what an .ini file is or how to modify it. I read the OP but I don't see any explanation toward this end.
So, uh, help? Little more complicated than most PC games where you can just move sliders and such in the Game options. :-\
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
inside the DATA folder where you extracted the files, you should see a file called DSFix.ini. Just open it with notepad and start setting up your settings.
It's a text file like a README......?
masterkajo
Member
I haven't played Dark Souls myself (I am about to purchase it right now actually). But I am trying to help a bit since I will have to do this myself tomorrow (or after the Steam sale).
An .ini file is an INItialisation file for a program. When the program starts it loads the values for its variables from the .ini file. Usually you can change things like resolution, mouse behaviour, key bindings, and lots of other stuff.
In this specific .ini you should probably change the resolution (height, and width) to your desired native desktop monitor resolution as well as unlock the framerate (don't know the variable name. look for something with framerate with crtl+f). If you are not familiar with the stuff I would probably not touch anything else. These two things are the most important to improve smoothness and graphical quality.
Hope I could help a bit. Maybe I will post more when I have seen the ini myself and tried to play it.
Yes. You can open it with any text editor. It has a postfix .ini though.
Ok, Neiteio, I'll just stick to the basics and talk about the major things you need to change. Like Kajo said, the ini file is just a list of instructions for the game. Treat the ini like a normal text file, but when you alter it the changes show up in game. For example, here is the framerate section in my dsfix.ini:
Everything with a # before it is ignored by the game and is for the user. In this example, the
The major settings you will need to modify are the internal rendering resolution, AA, fps unlock and fps limit.
Here is my dsfix of those areas to get you started:
edit:
There is also a section to scale down the hud:
Everything with a # before it is ignored by the game and is for the user. In this example, the
is the instruction for the game and the setting it should use. In this case the setting 1 unlocks the fps. So, when you want to change something, you change the setting next to the instruction. As you can see there is a list of the possible settings included.
The major settings you will need to modify are the internal rendering resolution, AA, fps unlock and fps limit.
Here is my dsfix of those areas to get you started:
edit:
There is also a section to scale down the hud:
WOW! You are AWESOME! (Sincerely)
Explaining that the # denotes instructions to the user and that only the parts without # are what the game reads clarified things A LOT. I went and changed the HUD value as you suggested, and saved it. Let's see how it goes now.
PaineReign
Neo Member
Just bought Dark Souls, started using this, having 2 big graphical glitches, wondering if there are any known solutions.
Weird water glitch - basically the water is not a reflection of the character, but re-rendering the scene, but slightly offset. Basically I see my character standing next to me in the water.
Also I have a large black bar on the right side of the screen. Not present in menus (main screen, character creation, etc) and does not block hud elements. The game just is not being rendered in this location.
two pictures showing off the glitches. Any suggestions would be great!
(note: in the pictures, the character I am actually controlling is the one with the rendered legs. The glitch must be dealing with the shader)
Weird water glitch - basically the water is not a reflection of the character, but re-rendering the scene, but slightly offset. Basically I see my character standing next to me in the water.
Also I have a large black bar on the right side of the screen. Not present in menus (main screen, character creation, etc) and does not block hud elements. The game just is not being rendered in this location.
two pictures showing off the glitches. Any suggestions would be great!
(note: in the pictures, the character I am actually controlling is the one with the rendered legs. The glitch must be dealing with the shader)
Sure you turned off the game's AA?
PaineReign
Neo Member
WOW! You are AWESOME! (Sincerely)
Explaining that the # denotes instructions to the user and that only the parts without # are what the game reads clarified things A LOT. I went and changed the HUD value as you suggested, and saved it. Let's see how it goes now.
Happy to help. Now go out there and get repeatedly bludgeoned to death by angry metal men with weapons the size of a small town car.
BabeSlayer
Member
alright just bought the game on steam (double dipped like a boss love it on my xbox360 figured i'd show it some love on my PC see how much better it looks and stuff) but I understand I need to "fix" the game to play it properly? Can someone walk me through what needs doin?
Ensure Anti-Aliasing is turned off, DSFix doesn't work with it and will cause crashing.
still crashes after the intro/cutscene
TheVampire
Banned
I just tried this for the first time today and using unlockFPS 0 makes it crash on start up.
Is there any solution for this?
Is there any solution for this?
The PC port is atrociously buggy, I had to rename the folder the movies are in to stop them playing to get it to stop crashing (don't worry, its only the title, credits with no story and the opening cutscene).
CyanideFuse
Member
I have downloaded the resolution fix (thank you Durante) but I have a strange problem with the game not showing full screen - there is a lot of black space to the right and bottom of the game screen. Here is a link to a screen shot
I have kept the DSFix ini as-is with the resolution in the file set at 1920 x 1080.
I have set the in-game menu settings to 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) with full screen.
I assume I am missing setting something else to make it stretch to full screen?
Thanks for any guidance.
EDIT: Disabling anti-aliasing in-game fixed this as pointed out by Misterinenja.
I have kept the DSFix ini as-is with the resolution in the file set at 1920 x 1080.
I have set the in-game menu settings to 1920 x 1080 (32 bit) with full screen.
I assume I am missing setting something else to make it stretch to full screen?
Thanks for any guidance.
EDIT: Disabling anti-aliasing in-game fixed this as pointed out by Misterinenja.
Misterinenja
Member
CyanideFuse
Member
I'm a ******* idiot. I will blame a lack of sleep on my slow uptake of disabling anti-aliasing in-game and not the text file.
Thanks.
WOW! You are AWESOME! (Sincerely)
Explaining that the # denotes instructions to the user and that only the parts without # are what the game reads clarified things A LOT. I went and changed the HUD value as you suggested, and saved it. Let's see how it goes now.
Messing with .ini files for the first time in your life brought a smile to my face. You had the eureka moment when how it works all came together.
You've just taking the first step into a new life friend, and I know you must be some kind of a masochist because you're playing Dark Souls. THIS IS YOUR DESTINY
This is almost right. You can switch between unlocked 60 (or whatever you set in the ini) and unlocked 30. This is different from what the game does by default (where you can only get 30 or 15 FPS), since you can still get e.g. 28 FPS with unlocked 30.
Oh, and the key can be configured in DSFixKeys.ini.
Once it fully loads it was fine for me too. Getting it to load consistently though... (it actually blue screened my PC tons of times before I found out the above issue, which was a fun trip back to 2001).