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Dark Souls GFWL to Steamworks Migration is now live.
- Thread starter Jimmyfenix
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What I said a few weeks ago is that all the features of DSfix except for framerate unlocking will probably still work, and that framerate unlocking will most likely break. It seems like that's exactly what happened.
Yeah, the later versions of DSFix allowed you to set a hotkey to toggle between framerates. You only needed to switch when sliding down ladders and for a handful of jumps so it's not a big deal at all.
Unfortunately, GFWL saves are a little fucky. They require both the original game save as well as the GFWL profile at the time the save was last updated. If you don't have both, you can't recover your save.
edit: Wait, when you say a fresh Win 8.1 install, do you mean that you formatted your HDD when you switched from 7? If so, you're probably out of luck unless you made backups.
jacksepticeye
Member
Yeah DSfix seems to break the game running at the old settings but it's great to hear GFWL is gone for good.
EDIT: Oh it's just the framerate unlocking that crashes it, sweet! I can handle that
EDIT: Oh it's just the framerate unlocking that crashes it, sweet! I can handle that
Madrugador
Member
Finally, I'm playing this as soon as Durante fixes it... again.
Raptomex
Member
Can the framerate unlock issue be resolved?
Is it possible for anyone to get 60fps unlocked again?
Beelzeboss
Member
My first time having GFWL work smoothly was deleting it from Dark Souls.
I'm really glad everything worked out and all my characters are okay.
I'm really glad everything worked out and all my characters are okay.
Will it prevent launching the game? I have the game crashing atm, just copied essential cfg files, now removing all non essential dsfix, dscfix, sweetfx files and re-applying.
(will change the dsfix unlock fps though)
Krusenstern
Banned
The framerate unlock is not Durante's doing unfortunately.
Durante, skip intro does not work for example. Just to let you know
Yes. You have to change the framerate unlock from 1 to 0 in the DSFix.ini. Then the game will launch.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
This and Vergil in DMC4SE makes the best birthday present \o/
Oh well, time for a tenth playthrough then!
Oh man, I remember this now. And this is unfortunate. Hopefully the guy that worked on it previously will update if possible.
Most likely nwks could do it again, the question is how much effort it is and whether he is (a) still around and (b) willing to do it.
Unlike all other features of DSfix I implemented, which are based on API interception and therefore relatively stable across updates (unless the rendering behavior changes drastically), the FPS unlocking is based on binary patching of the program code, which breaks with pretty much every minor change causing a recompile of the game's executable.
Raptomex
Member
I think it's supposed to. Using Steam.
Just need Biohazard 5, Dead Rising 2/Off the Record, and Grand Theft Auto 4/Tales from Liberty City to move.
VisceralBowl
Member
Now, will DSFix actually get us banned this time?
I'll wait two weeks and see.
I'll wait two weeks and see.
Lost Planet 2 is more important than all of those
Madrugador
Member
VisceralBowl
Member
What?
60Hz doesn't mean 60FPS.
Raptomex
Member
Refresh rate isn't framerate
VisceralBowl
Member
If he's referring to the '60hz' option in the menu, it doesn't change the framerate.
this
Lost Planet 2 is more important than all of those
Oh man that would be a sure bet for Capcom to get back in my good graces
But regarding this fix, after switching to the beta the game doesn't load up.DARKSOULS.exe process loads up but otherwise nothing happens.
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
I have moved from the US to Canada since the last time I logged into GFW Live and now it won't let me log in as a security measure. I got an email from MS citing "unusual" account activity and it says they put additional security challenges in place for my protection, but I was not given the opportunity to answer any security questions, it just said I couldn't log in with that ID because of network connectivity problems. (Maybe I'm having two separate issues at once?)
Anyone have any advice?
Even from the grave, MS's fucking abortion is shitting on my face.
edit: got it sorted out. simple problem of security emails going to spam folder.
Anyone have any advice?
Even from the grave, MS's fucking abortion is shitting on my face.
edit: got it sorted out. simple problem of security emails going to spam folder.
Raptomex
Member
No I meant "what?". I was going to ask that.
Go into Documents/NBGI/DarkSouls.
You should see two folders, your old and new gamer tag. Move all the files from your old gamer tag folder to your new gamer tag folder.
I had the same issue this morning, and this worked without a hitch for me.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Also having that problem. Tried verifying the cache. Nothing.
JudgmentJay
Member
Good question. Also, is the community going to be split until February between those using Steamworks via the 2.0 beta and who are still using GFWL? I imagine there's a large percentage of players who are completely oblivious to the Steamworks transition.
Disable the unlocked framerate in DSFix.ini
You shouldn't have needed fraps to determine that
Literally only just created a character yesterday, lost my save file and wasn't too bothered about going through a process of retrieving it, so just created a new char, had to go through opening scene again locked at 30fps.
Definately not one of those people that cannot tell the difference by eye though
- I notice 60-74fps (my monitor max that I had set yesterday)