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Dark Souls 3 PC performance thread
- Thread starter JaseC
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I can also run it borderless at 60hz and it removes the stutter, but then I get general frame drops unless I drop my settings a lot. I can't stand a non-constant frame rate, so I just dropped it to 30 to get no general drops at max settings.
JudgmentJay
Member
I'm not sure if it's asset loading... just guessing. But yeah, that stutter isn't related to auto-saving. The auto-save stutter was far worse.
Dance Inferno
Unconfirmed Member
I have a R9 280X and was trying to figure out why I couldn't get a consistent 60 FPS at 1080p when benchmarks show it getting 45-50 FPS at 1400p and since I've maxed out other games like Witcher 3 that are much more graphically impressive than Dark Souls 3. After fiddling around with my computer I finally realized that by downloading the new AMD drivers I also got their new Crimson app, which wiped my previous overclock settings. I re-OC'ed my card and saw a nice bump in FPS, but I still wanted a solid 60 so I changed the following settings:
- Shadows to Low
- Motion Blur to Off
- Depth of Field to Off
Now I have a nice, silky smooth
60 FPS. I must say, it makes a huge difference in how the game feels and plays.
- Shadows to Low
- Motion Blur to Off
- Depth of Field to Off
Now I have a nice, silky smooth
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EatinOlives
Member
EDIT: nvm
Just flipped back and forth between them and there's hardly a difference, hell, the in game version might be a tiny bit better.
Jelle
Member
I'm also running a 970 on Win 10 with a lot of stuttering and drops to 45-50 at times. I have an i5 2500k OC'd to 4.5 Ghz with 8 GB RAM and an SSD. My 970 is factory overclocked with some additional overclocking in Afterburner.
Haven't tried the latest patch yet, but got used to the stuttering and drops anyway. Still find it weird seeing a lot of people getting stable 60 fps on their 970s.
I think it's a mechanic with your character
Oh, could it be
hollowing
lordfuzzybutt
Member
Yeah, you only cast shadows when you are human. LOL.
I don't know why I laughed though.
I never had them until the latest update.
How do you do that?
Nvidia CP -> Manage 3D settings -> Global Settings tab -> Power management mode, but as I understand it, the power management bug was fixed in 364.96 and the performance issues people are having with older cards are unrelated.
Ah cheers, nvm then. I thought the patch improved things, but I played again last night and really noticed the auto-save stutter worse than when I played an hour in the morning, both post-patch.
Deleteeeeee
Member
Dragonslayer Armour
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
That area has the worst performance in the game from my experience, but nothing that bad, from 60 to around 50 in parts, maybe 55 on the boss itself.
I'm getting more stable framerate after overclocking my CPU. I rarely drop now and when I do, it's usually due to the save issue. This is way better than when it used to drop randomly no matter what I did. Playing on Max settings
CPU: i7-3770k upped from 3.5GHz to 4.5GHz.
RAM: 16GB
GPU: GTX 980Ti
CPU: i7-3770k upped from 3.5GHz to 4.5GHz.
RAM: 16GB
GPU: GTX 980Ti
same here. unsure whether it was the game or not... but i don't think i've ever had a game crash on me before on this PC
Deleteeeeee
Member
I am running an amd 965 and a 2gb gtx 960 so my performance is usually in the mid 40s anyway.
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Deleted member 325805
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Sounds about right then, I drop 10 frames in certain parts of that area as well, although only small parts are that bad, it's usually less. It just seems to be an issue with the area itself.
I've been thoroughly enjoying the game, overall.
However, it's a little disappointing when a game such as The Witcher 3 runs at more than 100fps @1440p on my Titan X SLI + 5960X system... Meanwhile, this game struggles to maintain 60fps.
Not to mention, it looks like something straight out of 2009.
And trust me, I've put my time in. I'm on NG+3 now, with more hours surely to go. It's just strange that numerous sections feel poorly optimized (for SLI).
Such is life.
However, it's a little disappointing when a game such as The Witcher 3 runs at more than 100fps @1440p on my Titan X SLI + 5960X system... Meanwhile, this game struggles to maintain 60fps.
Not to mention, it looks like something straight out of 2009.
And trust me, I've put my time in. I'm on NG+3 now, with more hours surely to go. It's just strange that numerous sections feel poorly optimized (for SLI).
Such is life.
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Deleted member 325805
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Just FYI Demon Souls released in 2009, so you're saying you see no difference between that and Dark Shouls III?
Oh, they raised the graphical bar to Uncharted 2 now!
But yeah, the games really have gotten better visually, at worst they stay consistent with how you remember prior games looking, relative to the competiton perhaps, or memory just fades and it matches your memories roughly enough.
Whoa...this game has character shadows?
It's the only thing that seemed missing, marring the otherwise phenomenal presentation.
Yeah, I noticed the shadows just today. If they were missing at some point, they're certainly back now.
Performance overall seems a little smoother (today was the first time I've gotten to play since the patch dropped). I did get one save-stutter, or what appeared to be one, but it may just have been a loading-stutter, because it didn't seem to repeat itself later on when I picked up items or read messages. Loading-stutters are still happening now and then, but not nearly as bad as the old save-stutters.
What the fuck? Is this intentional?
I never did what's in the spoilers and I still lost my shadow when dead
The recent 88mb patch brought them back.
New to souls? Of course it's intentional because you turn Hollow so that means no player shadow.
Yes, they were removed with the April 18th update, but have been brought back with the latest patch that landed on the 28th. They're definitely there as of now.
RickyRozay
Member
is this really a thing? I'm on 364.51 and I'm not sure if its happening or not.
My system is GTX 660, i5-2500 and 8GB Ram. Twenty hours everything was fine (if you ignore varying framerate even on lowest settings but nothing too bad). Now I'm in
and everytime I die and respawn at the bonfire the framerate drops down to 10 or lower. Doesn't go higher than that. Have to close the game in order to get the framerate up. That's until I die again though.
Irithyll Dungeon
Been trying for days to troubleshoot this. I get a steady 25-30 fps until I do a fresh restart, right after my FPS goes back up to 60. I can't seem to find the culprit. Any ideas?
EDIT: Yeah, it seems if I run the game a 2nd time after a restart, my framerate halves. I find this totally perplexing.
EDIT: Yeah, it seems if I run the game a 2nd time after a restart, my framerate halves. I find this totally perplexing.
You'd probably be aware of the bug if it were affecting you. It results in the driver forcibly dropping the GPU core clock from its boost level to idle level, which dramatically affects performance.
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Deleted member 325805
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I had the exact same thing with Mad Max, I honestly can't remember how I fixed it but have you done a full DDU reinstall of the latest drivers? That never hurts.
Is your motherboard Gigabyte? I've heard of people having this issue due to a dodgy BIOS with this manufacturer. If so you may want to flash the latest.
I assume you've checked your CPU and GPU temps as well? And are you using GpUz/HWMonitor to monitor your clocks when this happens?
And have you upgraded to Windows 10? I had all sorts of performance issues after a simple upgrade until I did an old fashioned clean install and it has been great since.
I've moved from ATI cards but back in the day I had a similar problem. Alt+tab back to desktop and then returning to the game would resolve it.
New NVIDIA driver: GeForce Game Ready Driver Version 365.10 - WHQL