Eastern Set is the best-looking armor in the game - the chest piece, at least - but stat-wise it's surpassed by a lot of others, sadly. :<
Dark Souls could use some transmutation stones
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Dark Souls internal rendering resolution fix (DSfix)
- Thread starter Durante
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Eastern Set is the best-looking armor in the game - the chest piece, at least - but stat-wise it's surpassed by a lot of others, sadly. :<
Dark Souls could use some transmutation stones
Felix Lighter
Member
You are awesome.
That seems to have worked. For whatever reason RadeonPro causes a crash on startup, but I may have inadvertently set something extra to cause that, so I'll take a look. CCC works just fine, though. Got through the Depths and Gaping Dragon without a hitch.
I originally was running RadeonPro when 0.1 was released, but stopped using it because it didn't seem to be doing anything at the time.
In the RadeonPro Profile for Dark Souls under the Tweak option check the "Force agressive API detection Level" box. That seems to prevent the crash on start up.
alysonwheel
Member
Can you overclock your CPU? I have a Core 2 Duo, 4gb RAM and a GTX560, so very similar to yours. The CPU is overclocked from 2.5ghz to 3.8 and I'm running at 1080p (810 DOF) with SMAA, SSAO and 8x AF at a constant 30fps with only the occasional Blight Town-related struggle.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Unfortunately, overclocking isn't an option for me. I shouldn't have to overclock so high to get a playable framerate on this game when literally every other game I bowl straight over with almost no problems (except for TF2, piece of shit)
Moral Panic
Member
Post the settings you are using, maybe you are enabling something by accident.
RustyNails
Member
Yeah, they're pretty close to Witcher 2 caliber. FROM should be ashamed of the fact that they were hiding such beautiful art in their game with their lame port.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
renderWidth 1920
renderHeight 1080
dofOverrideResolution 540
disableDofScaling 0
filteringOverride 0
smaaQuality 0
borderlessFullscreen 1
disableCursor 1
dinput8dllWrapper none
captureCursor 0
enableBackups 0
backupInterval 1500
maxBackups 10
overrideLanguage none
skipIntro 1
d3dAdapterOverride -1
logLevel 0
forceWindowed 0
forceFullscreen 0
presentWidth 1280
presentHeight 720
enableVsync 0
fullscreenHz 60
Grimm Fandango
Member
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
In the interest of science I removed the DXfix entirely to see how performance fared in Pixel mode.
I got the exact same framerate even with the game only rendering 720p and resizing up to 1080p. Literally, zero difference. Standing in the location pictured here:
Is an absolute slideshow. It's entirely unplayable like this.
I got the exact same framerate even with the game only rendering 720p and resizing up to 1080p. Literally, zero difference. Standing in the location pictured here:
Is an absolute slideshow. It's entirely unplayable like this.
Felix Lighter
Member
wrong thread.
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
I don't know if it is a CPU thing, really. It's not even close to maxing out in the trouble spots, and the CPU usage doesn't raise or lower when I look at the area that doesn't have tremendous slowdown.
I had the 'screen fills with bright blue and white' thing happen to me.
I invaded someone, and I killed them right as they kill me. We're both in our death animations....
YOU DIED
TARGET DESTROYED
<momentary explosion of blue and white>
Returning to your world with newfound humanity
It was actually pretty awesome.
I invaded someone, and I killed them right as they kill me. We're both in our death animations....
YOU DIED
TARGET DESTROYED
<momentary explosion of blue and white>
Returning to your world with newfound humanity
It was actually pretty awesome.
Sax Russel
Banned
Ready to set out on my New Game+ adventure. I'm not much of a NG+ kinda guy, in most any game, but SSAO and high quality blur are enough of a carrot for me to give it a go =D
CheesecakeRecipe
Stormy Grey
Clean-Installed the latest beta (WHQL has an issue with my card - it makes it run only on idle clocks) and saw no improvement.
The GPU looks like it dipped down in frequency there but it was just from me alt-tabbing previously as I wanted to move the windows out from under each other. GPU is going full steam ahead and using 40% of itself at the absolute most, CPU is barely being touched as well. (The spike you see in the front was from the initial load-up, in game it never reaches even close)
There is nothing I can see that would be causing this problem.
Would you mind posting up the tweaks you made? I'd like to see them in action.
old quote.. but my god.. This was my F'ing problem.. :/
A game that performs worse at 1080p than it does at 3840x2160.. ha..ha..
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Maybe I should try a ridiculous resolution and see if it runs better. O:
EDIT: Nope. D:
If it's one of AMDs/NVidias newer cards, it just might.. lol.
Mister0079
Member
Hey guys, what would give better performance: internal res at 1280x1024 with the game resolution at 1024x768 or both at 1280x1024.
And too the same button on the xbox360 controller
. There is a home button that works with xbox360 controller, but that one also is for opening gfwl.You could map L3 to some keyboard key (even a fictional one like F18) using an external tool (eg. GlovePIE) and then map that to the HUD toggle.
i was even thinking of making a timed macro, to turn on and off the HUD if i am switching items.
I was wondering if we can somehow customize our hud? for example just show health and endurance or something. anyway f it. PLAY THE GAME! IT ROCKS
McNerdBurger
Neo Member
Thank you so much Durante.... can't believe how pretty it is now. Just ran into the
for the first time, nearly shit my pants. I managed to beat it first try with arrows, which is a good thing since I didn't find any bonfires in the depths. What an epic gaming experience. If I had died, I'd be singing a different tune though
gaping dragon
Easy way to toggle HUD ON/OFF with xbox360 controller.
1) Download this controller emulator (thanks for the tip Grimm Fandango)
Joytokey
2) Extract it and open the program.
3) Left downside corner push create. Name your configuration for example Darksouls.
4) On the right side click on button 9. A new window open, click in the yellow box and press right ctrl (right controll) and then press ok.
After that just start Darksouls and now you can turn the hud on and off easy with the right analog stick button.
To make it easier for you in the future just add a shortcut to the program on your windows bar.
1) Download this controller emulator (thanks for the tip Grimm Fandango)
Joytokey
2) Extract it and open the program.
3) Left downside corner push create. Name your configuration for example Darksouls.
4) On the right side click on button 9. A new window open, click in the yellow box and press right ctrl (right controll) and then press ok.
After that just start Darksouls and now you can turn the hud on and off easy with the right analog stick button.
To make it easier for you in the future just add a shortcut to the program on your windows bar.
I'm gonna try donating some, Durante. I love your work, and if you don't get anything out of this from Namco/From, I hope your skills as a graphics programmer have grown so you can land that awesome job.
If not, maybe all the media coverage could be something you can put on your resume? Whatever happens, I hope everything works out for you!
If not, maybe all the media coverage could be something you can put on your resume? Whatever happens, I hope everything works out for you!
darkpaladinmfc
Member
Remove the # sign before the line.
Ok fixed the hotkeys, thanks!
Another thing: If I have my res set to 3840x2160 in Anor Londo and turn on SSAO, my FPS drop heavily. The moment the turn the resolution down, say to 1440p, it runs super smooth at all times, even with SSAO. I'm on an i5-2500k @ 4.5ghz and a 580.
Will try to play around with resolutions a bit more till it looks AND runs great.
Another thing: If I have my res set to 3840x2160 in Anor Londo and turn on SSAO, my FPS drop heavily. The moment the turn the resolution down, say to 1440p, it runs super smooth at all times, even with SSAO. I'm on an i5-2500k @ 4.5ghz and a 580.
Will try to play around with resolutions a bit more till it looks AND runs great.
darkpaladinmfc
Member
2880x1620
1080 DoF Res
1 DoF Blur
2 SSAO
4 SMAA (barely noticeable)
x16 AF in Nvidia Inspector (not sure if it's working though)
Perfect 30fps with a GTX 580.
1080 DoF Res
1 DoF Blur
2 SSAO
4 SMAA (barely noticeable)
x16 AF in Nvidia Inspector (not sure if it's working though)
Perfect 30fps with a GTX 580
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Skyfireblaze
Member
I have to post again to say that you are simply amazing Durante, it's like you ported Dark Souls from this gen to next gen all by yourself! The SSAO you implanted and especially the DOF, you blow me away again and again
Now if I only could play the game, it's been two weeks and I still cannot beat that taurus demon even though I watched various video tutorials and read countless guides, I guess Dark Souls is just a bit too much for me, I mean I never even could beat Super Mario Bros. Lost Levels either
I beat him without getting hit once, and with a method that requires almost no manual dexterity.Now if I only could play the game, it's been two weeks and I still cannot beat that taurus demon even though I watched various video tutorials and read countless guides, I guess Dark Souls is just a bit too much for me, I mean I never even could beat Super Mario Bros. Lost Levels either
Just climb up the ladder, use some kind of distance attack once or twice, climb onto the ladder again before he jumps up, wait on the ladder till he jumps down again. Repeat as often as necessary.
The SSAO is full-res, so it scales linearly with the resolution. That means that it takes 2.25x times the performance at 2160p compared to 1440p.
blainethemono
Member
Do you get drops when doing backstabs/ripostes or from throwing spells with lots of particles like fireballs and stuff? I have the same settings (2500k @ 4.5, 8gb, asus 560 ti top) and i get drops from 15-25 a lot of the time unless I just use 1920x1080.
Exact same parts as you (even the same OC), I only get framedrops at bonfires:
1440p
1080 DoF
DoF blur 1
SMAA 1
SSAO 1
16x AF in Nvidia inspector
StarCreator
Member
You probably want to provide screenshots to show what you mean if you can't find a match for the myriad of screenshots posted in this thread.
The patch also has a function to skip those logos (by increasing the speed of the game when it's trying to show them), so you should either not see them at all or see them whiz by extremely fast.
Backfoggen
Banned
It's normal in some areas. (Blighttown and New Londo Ruins)
darkpaladinmfc
Member
You should be able to do 2560x1440 with SSAO and either 1080 or 810 DoF.