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Dark Souls internal rendering resolution fix (DSfix)
- Thread starter Durante
- Start date
Haunted
Member
The mods were quick to settle on a tag, it just took an admin to get around and do it.Oh wow I did get a tag after all.
Guess I'll have to do another release today in celebration
Well deserved.
Alcoholikaust
Member
Congrats Durante on the tag-
The Hermit
Member
I'll try that later man.
Also, it took way too long for you to get that tag considering what you have done. Congratulations though!
Well, without the fix, it *IS* a perfect port of the console game. It is nearly 100% accurate to the original experience.
Rawket Lawnchair
Member
OK, so I finally set Dark Souls up (without Durante's fix) after all.
Disabled Optimus altogether, added Steam.exe and DarkSouls.exe to the dedicated GPU, installed the latest nVidia beta driver and now the game uses the GT555M and runs at constant 30FPS (1920x1080) with a 2-second dip to 23 FPS whenever I light a bonfire. As it is (with the internal resolution thing), the game looks playable and OK to me considering my hardware - it's not visually perfect obviously, but bearable and far better than my PS3 version.
Any tips and supplementary stuff I should do if I decide to apply Durante's fix again? Did it yesterday but the GT555M somehow could not handle it and the FPS dropped to painful levels even when playing at 1600x900.
Disabled Optimus altogether, added Steam.exe and DarkSouls.exe to the dedicated GPU, installed the latest nVidia beta driver and now the game uses the GT555M and runs at constant 30FPS (1920x1080) with a 2-second dip to 23 FPS whenever I light a bonfire. As it is (with the internal resolution thing), the game looks playable and OK to me considering my hardware - it's not visually perfect obviously, but bearable and far better than my PS3 version.
Any tips and supplementary stuff I should do if I decide to apply Durante's fix again? Did it yesterday but the GT555M somehow could not handle it and the FPS dropped to painful levels even when playing at 1600x900.
Anton Sugar
Member
Is M/KB that bad?
Terrible.
Rawket Lawnchair
Member
I couldn't stand it. Using my 360 wired controller and works exactly like Demons and Dark work on PS3, haven't seen a major flaw for now.
Yeah, I suppose it could be tolerable with good mapping but the screen prompts only show 360 controller buttons and the mouse acceleration is whack.
Alcoholikaust
Member
M/K makes the game a struggle to just control. Considering it on my NG++ haha.
Considering....
Considering....
Someone over on the steam forums posted a workaround that alleviates some of the truly mind boggling issues with the mouse controls in the game:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2910072
Haven't tried it yet, but sounds promising.
Not just that, but the camera actually follows the mouse cursor instead of reacting to its movement and I can not fathom why they thought this was a good idea as opposed to allowing traditional freelook .
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2910072
Haven't tried it yet, but sounds promising.
Not just that, but the camera actually follows the mouse cursor instead of reacting to its movement and I can not fathom why they thought this was a good idea as opposed to allowing traditional freelook .
zephervack
Member
Congrats on the Tag Durante, better late than never.
Unless Nvidia makes changes to the Optimus software it's unlikely that Durante's mod will ever work at a good clip on your laptop.
Congrats Durante. That took way longer than it should have.
I want to thank the people who suggested looking at the power management options in regards to the low frame rate I was getting with my 670. Switching from "Adaptive" to "Prefer Maximum Performance" cleared up the issue completely. Now running at 3840 x 2160 with DOF set at 2160 with barely a hitch. The framerate still dips at some bonfires, especially the first one after the Undead Asylum where it drops to 15 sometimes, but overall I'm getting a nearly constant 30. If you are having issues this is probably the first place you should look.
I want to thank the people who suggested looking at the power management options in regards to the low frame rate I was getting with my 670. Switching from "Adaptive" to "Prefer Maximum Performance" cleared up the issue completely. Now running at 3840 x 2160 with DOF set at 2160 with barely a hitch. The framerate still dips at some bonfires, especially the first one after the Undead Asylum where it drops to 15 sometimes, but overall I'm getting a nearly constant 30. If you are having issues this is probably the first place you should look.
Well, without the fix, it *IS* a perfect port of the console game. It is nearly 100% accurate to the original experience.
Haha touché, true that
Oh wow I did get a tag after all.
Guess I'll have to do another release today in celebration
I'll take one on/off HUD toggle to go :>
The thing, though, is that if:
(a) you install Durante's mod
(b) you have an Xbox controller
(c) you don't have an Optimus laptop
the port is actually really great. Rock-solid, stable, hasn't crashed on me once. GFWL basically seems to get out of the way, though obviously Steamworks would have been better. The three caveats are big ones, but if they don't apply to you then this is by far the best version of the game.
(a) you install Durante's mod
(b) you have an Xbox controller
(c) you don't have an Optimus laptop
the port is actually really great. Rock-solid, stable, hasn't crashed on me once. GFWL basically seems to get out of the way, though obviously Steamworks would have been better. The three caveats are big ones, but if they don't apply to you then this is by far the best version of the game.
True, back when "port" usually meant trying to recreate the arcade experience on a home system people would have killed for a port like thisWell, without the fix, it *IS* a perfect port of the console game. It is nearly 100% accurate to the original experience.
Sorry, not in the next release.
Felix Lighter
Member
I've had no crashes and no GFWL issues but many of us have had peculiar performance issues, while the game only uses a tiny fraction of the available resources, on very high end machines.
Backfoggen
Banned
Fans are truly fixing this game.
zephervack
Member
I have been following development of the Flawless widescreen tool, he seems to have been able to size the HUD down but he cant figure out how to move it, I think he gave up on it.
Hopefully Durante can come up with something, would be amazing. Downsize it and move it.
Haha, s'all good. I'll go for a smaller HUD
Oooh that would be godlike, I'd kill for a small hud mode. Don't know how difficult it would be to resize / adjust the ui elements, hopefully not too difficult.
HUD is pretty high on my list of things to do next, I can't promise anything though.
For now, version 0.7 adds save game backups and intro skipping (the latter is batshit crazy, so use only if you are really impatient!).
For now, version 0.7 adds save game backups and intro skipping (the latter is batshit crazy, so use only if you are really impatient!).
What're you doing with the HUD?
StarCreator
Member
These functions are still being performed in a D3D wrapper?
Any problems getting flagged by GFWL using these? I have to admit this gives me pause since it seems very out of scope for a graphics patch.
Felix Lighter
Member
What are you doing? Increasing the framerate by some crazy amount until the intros go away?
Cannon Goose
Member
What makes skipping the intros so unstable?
Edit: OH FUCK THE FRAMERATE
If you want to experience Dark Souls with an uncapped framerate then try the intro skipping option! I was able to rotate the camera extremely fast before it told me my framerate was insufficient and booted me to the menu.
Edit: OH FUCK THE FRAMERATE
If you want to experience Dark Souls with an uncapped framerate then try the intro skipping option! I was able to rotate the camera extremely fast before it told me my framerate was insufficient and booted me to the menu.
efyu_lemonardo
May I have a cookie?
does the game perform at an acceptable level on pc yet? In terms of resolution and iq?
Also, how performance intensive is it with the patch applied?
I was going to buy this at launch, but apparently steam doesn't have it in my region. I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble to get someone from the US to purchase and gift it to me in exchange for cash.
my specs:
Windows 7 64
core i7 720 qm (1.6-2.8 Mhz quad core)
8 GB ddr3 @ 1333 Mhz
Geforce GTS 360M - 550 Mhz Core, 1323 Mhz Shaders
w/1 GB gddr5 @ 1800 Mhz
Also, how performance intensive is it with the patch applied?
I was going to buy this at launch, but apparently steam doesn't have it in my region. I'm wondering if it's worth the trouble to get someone from the US to purchase and gift it to me in exchange for cash.
my specs:
Windows 7 64
core i7 720 qm (1.6-2.8 Mhz quad core)
8 GB ddr3 @ 1333 Mhz
Geforce GTS 360M - 550 Mhz Core, 1323 Mhz Shaders
w/1 GB gddr5 @ 1800 Mhz
I find it absolutely incredible that you can implement a save-backup feature using DirectX injection. How does this work, exactly? I thought the main idea behind your fixes is that they intercepted calls to the DirectX API? Does the DirectX API actually have game save functionality?
Not really.These functions are still being performed in a D3D wrapper?
It's not so complicated. At startup, I register a callback that checks every time interval whether it should make a new backup, and simply copies the save file. It's a wrapper, but it can contain any code.
I tell the game that time is passing 100 times as fast as it actually is, during the intro. The hardest part is detecting reliably when the intro starts and ends.
And that's what happens when it doesn't detect the end of the intro correctly.
Backfoggen
Banned
Do I need to press a button? It's not doing anything for me.
When it's working correctly, it should simply make the intro pass almost instantly, and not do anything else.
The moment a process loads your DLL you can do anything you like in it. Typically it's used for initialization, but you can literally do whatever you want. It can even be a security vulnerability in a bunch of cases -- see binary planting.
Cannon Goose
Member
It's weird how when the intro skip breaks and let's me play with the game going super fast, the frame rate counter says it's going at 8fps.
zephervack
Member
Thanks for the new fix.
Save game backup is a God send, im already using Game Save manager but it is a pain the ass to open all the time and run it, and usually I just forget.
Save game backup is a God send, im already using Game Save manager but it is a pain the ass to open all the time and run it, and usually I just forget.
MvmntInGrn
Member
Intro skip doesn't do anything for me, very glad to see the save backups though!
That's because the frame rate counter routine can't get the real time either
Wolf Akela
Member
Skip intro doesn't skip the logos for me either. No effect on framerate too.
My PC disappointingly didn't go up in flames either.