Oh man the language thing is a godsend. Was getting so annoyed at reading the MM-DD-YYYY format...
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Dark Souls internal rendering resolution fix (DSfix)
- Thread starter Durante
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Nope, never heard of this. What do I do?
Backfoggen
Banned
Ok I got to ask this: Does the game just start up instantly for everyone here? I always have to wait 1-2 mins till it actually gets working, with or without the patch. During that time it just kind of freezes. Pretty annoying.
Sometimes it just crashes for 2-3 times on startup until actually getting going.
Past the GFWL log in? Or you mean just after you chose the save file you want to load and the start of the game? That's instant for me.
For me, it just stays in windowed mode for like 20 seconds and goes fullscreen.
Backfoggen
Banned
When I start the executable. It's just a black windowed screen that doesn't do anything for 1-2 mins, then suddenly boots the game.
Ah, yes I get that too. I can see the bonfire flame on the left corner though. I guess the game starts in windowed mode and then goes to fullscreen mode.
That's normal. I'm not sure what it's doing at that time, but I can tell you that it renders around 500 frames at 10 FPS, issuing a single draw call per scene/present cycle.
(I've had to scroll over that part of the log file far too often
)Yeah, that's one of the main reasons I implemented it. DD-MM-YYYY forever!
legacyzero
Banned
Durante, how have you not received the best tag on GAF, yet??
You rescued this game. It went from a "I'll wait for $5 deal" to "DAY ONE" in 23 minutes time.
You rescued this game. It went from a "I'll wait for $5 deal" to "DAY ONE" in 23 minutes time.
Felix Lighter
Member
I was using a utility to enable borderless windowed mode but having an ini setting that forces it on start up is much more elegant solution. This thing is really become feature rich. Thanks again, Durante!
Andrea23
Member
That's normal. I'm not sure what it's doing at that time, but I can tell you that it renders around 500 frames at 10 FPS, issuing a single draw call per scene/present cycle.
(I've had to scroll over that part of the log file far too often
Yeah, that's one of the main reasons I implemented it. DD-MM-YYYY forever!
There is any chance that you can add triple buffering to your DSFix, in the future? I apologize for the pedantry, but i think that many performance problems for players equipped with AMD GPU would be solved in this way.
Thanks again Durante for the effort : ).
You running FRAPS? I think F9 is the default video capture key.
Sutton Dagger
Member
That's was a great read, plus the comments on the article are well written and constructive.
About triple buffering: I still don't fully understand how the game manages its FPS limit / presentation interval, and until I do I won't be able to do anything about things related to vsync.
I was about to mention how the cursor toggling is a one-time operation that takes a couple of microseconds at most. This, however, makes much more sense.
The game definitely has some customized logic for limiting its framerate. It's pretty clear since the fps drops from 30 to 15 right away, skipping right over 20. I think they scale the time-keyed events by a factor of 2 to make up for the halved framerate. Because of this, I don't think triple buffering is possible at all. 60fps may be possible...but triple buffering? Doubt it.
Haunted
Member
Great stuff, just getting better and better.
You mentioned in the GI interview there's still a lot you want to do with the game. What's next on the agenda?
Cheers man, you always manage to up yourself. The language selector is priceless, I'm gonna try it.
This happens to me also.
I don't really want to talk about it publicly because then if it doesn't work out people will be disappointed. For example, I spent at least 5 hours combined tonight and yesterday night implementing something that simply doesn't work -- I have oodles of log files, rendertarget dumps and retired code to show for it though! The windowed fullscreen and language stuff is just something I did on the side.
Haunted
Member
Hm, already feeling the eye on you, eh?
Fair enough, I probably should've PM'd you in the first place. >_>Hm, already feeling the eye on you, eh?
i too share your curiosity, but yeah i think hes within reason not to say.
I downloaded 0.5 as soon as it came out and I'm now using 0.6. Haven't had any issues like what you're afraid of myself.
I'd never say 0, but... let's just say closer to 0 than the chances that a cosmic ray will hit your computer and flip a bit, causing Dark Souls to somehow delete all your saves.
Zero.
You can backup your saves just copying the folder NBGI in your documents, if you have Dropbox that's even better, you can drop it there and save it "in the cloud"
legacyzero
Banned
Absolutely nothing wrong with not making promises. Keeps hopes and expectations low. Nobody even expected for anything to be fixed in the first place. So yep. Well within reason.
darkpaladinmfc
Member
I have an i7-875k and GTX 580 and I'm getting 15 FPS with internal res at 2560x1440 and 1080 DOF :/. My GPU usage peaks at about 80%, if I reduce the rest to 1920x1080 I get 30 FPS. Is this normal?
Depends where you are, I have a GTX 590 and an i7-2600k OC'd to 4.8ghz and with the same resolutions as you I was getting some FPS drops in Blighttown, but constant 30 everywhere before that.
darkpaladinmfc
Member
I'm near the Taurus Demon, even when I run around in doors the framerate is bad.
Ok so in this exact place I get 15 FPS, even without the 4xMSAA and SSAO. I think Durante said earlier he was on a 660Ti, so really I should be able to match that IQ, unless my CPU is really dragging me down.
2560x1440
4xMSAA + SSAO
Ridiculous.
My hardware isn't much different, i5-750 + GTX 580. My best image/performance settings are 1920x1080 internal res, 1080 DoF, 4xMSAA, and SSAO off. This gets me 30 fps most of the time.
The Hermit
Member
how do I know for sure that the SSAO is working?
Cannon Goose
Member
Shadows under your character's feet is the easiest tell.
0.5 seems more crash prone, 0.6 might fix it but is too new to be sure
27 hours according to Steam and the game hasn't crashed once. Been upgrading every version along the way since the first minute of release.
It's just your PC.
Psy-Phi
Member
Hmm haven't had a single crash in the game yet, but i didn't start using Dante's until he put up 0.3, with 0.6 though I haven't seen a single summon sign and no notes on the ground either. I doubt that caused it, but just a couple of hours ago when I got home and was still using 0.5 I saw quite a few notes on the ground. Now I can only see the ones I've left, it's very weird.
Perhaps I just keep getting put on a crappy server or something?
EDIT: and of course, after complaining after dealing with it for over an hour, things start showing up. Wonder why it happened still, but oh well. Now to get SSAO working.
Cannon Goose
Member
Mine was crashing with the first two versions but has been rock solid ever since 0.3.
Felix Lighter
Member
Almost 30 hrs and not a single crash. I've used every release as they were made available. Maybe I'm just getting lucky.