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Dark Souls internal rendering resolution fix (DSfix)
- Thread starter Durante
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Revolutionary
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Yeah, it would be great if all the stupid texture mods are contained in one, to avoid having to wade through a sea of stupid shit on the Nexus in a few months.
Haunted
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jim-jam bongs
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I was just planning to code something like this today, but this guy beat me to it: http://darksouls.nexusmods.com/mods/45/. It's a simple app that lets you config Durante's mod with a visual interface rather than notepad (or notepad++ in my case 
). It also saves your configuration, so you don't have to redo everything over whenever Durante updates.
). It also saves your configuration, so you don't have to redo everything over whenever Durante updates.paperspace
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What drivers are you on?
What, what, what!? I actually want to go back to Nvidia. How is that possible? Aren't some people running this game with GTX460/560 with a locked 30fps? How can the so much faster 670 have problems?
paperspace
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There must be something wrong that causes you to have low framerate. With that kind of setup you should have no problem running the game with a good framerate. Hope you sort it out.
paperspace
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My specs are:
i7 3770K @ 3.4ghz
GTX670 - the newest drivers.
I have SMAA at 4 and SSAO at 3. Internal res set to 2560x1600. Thats the only graphical changes. I get 24FPS when I sit at a bonfire though.
For people having issues note that it is suggested to turn off intro skipping, backup saves, and texture dumping. (haven't even tried this myself yet)
Your card could be too fast, causing it to drop into low power mode, and not getting back out of it since Dark Souls reduces its own load to 15 FPS to match. Try setting the power management policy for Dark Souls to "High Performance" (or whatever it was called) using Nvidia Inspector.
.:Wesker:.
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I have a 670 and this was the first thing I did. Fixed my problems.
paperspace
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Hey Durante, is there anything like that for amd cards? and would you know if a 6970 (well technically a 6950 unlocked to 6970) would have that problem? Runs smoothly at 30fps, but when the fix is applied, it jumps back and forth from ~60 to 30fps even while standing in place.
I have to set it to huper thread? Tell me how please!
paperspace
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Okay i will go check. For the power you want to go to nvidia control or amd is catayalist (spelling) thing.
Yeah, turn that to Off, and set your power plan to High Performance.
I suggest people wanting to save themselves a horror show not to try giving the human skin textures the hollow skin textures' id
Go on, post screenshots !
View at your own risk: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=97629308 (I've clearly not replaced the normal map textures)
chris100185
Neo Member
Now we just need someone to make the master sword and Hylian clothing armor.
Can you imagine hollow Link 0_o
finally tracked em down..
the original buttons are here.
Wait, did Dark Souls have sixaxis gestures?
Yes, for the in-game gestures. I think you had to hold a button and do a motion.
fuzzyreactor
Banned
how come when i put 60fps files in my resolution wnet back to poo
lol there are nude patches already: http://darksouls.nexusmods.com/mods/72/ (NSFW)
But not all is terrible, this flora overhaul mod looks pretty good actually: http://darksouls.nexusmods.com/mods/56/
But not all is terrible, this flora overhaul mod looks pretty good actually: http://darksouls.nexusmods.com/mods/56/
zephervack
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Took longer than expected, also, I cant believe the 60fps fix is working with live now, cant wait to try it out.
^ It seems that the flair effect is affected?
How does one reset a Nexus password?
Just make sure you have a highly capable PC.
How does one reset a Nexus password?
fuzzyreactor
Banned
help?
WorstUsernameEver
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You know, I liked Vurt's mods for Fallout: New Vegas and Morrowind, but now he's basically recycling the same tree models over and over even when they don't really fit....
I just released version 1.5.
Better SMAA/SSAO integration and renderstate management (fixes ordering of SSAO), loading of .dds textures and an FPS option are included.
As I say in the blog post, after disabling all power management options for my GPU and CPU I can maintain 60 FPS at 1080p, 810 DoF with DoF blur 1, SMAA 4 and SSAO 2 -- at least in the areas I tested.
Better SMAA/SSAO integration and renderstate management (fixes ordering of SSAO), loading of .dds textures and an FPS option are included.
As I say in the blog post, after disabling all power management options for my GPU and CPU I can maintain 60 FPS at 1080p, 810 DoF with DoF blur 1, SMAA 4 and SSAO 2 -- at least in the areas I tested.
I'm honestly not a fan of most of the style changing texture mods released so far. The game has a very unique look. Personally I just use mods that improve the font/HUD resolution or the resolution of very low-res in-game textures (such as spiderwebs) while being faithful to the source material.
Yes. (But in theory, so does using DSfix at all -- just a smaller risk, but it's also against the TOS)
Thanks, great effort!
I think this power management could really be the reason, because watching the stats of my graphics card, it's barely used. Can you tell me how to disable power management for the CPU?
alysonwheel
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Well, now I have a choice to make:
1280x1080, 540 DOF, no SMAA or blur or SSAO, locked 60fps (unless I do something dumb like go to Blight Town), or 1920x1080, 810 DOF, everything turned on, and either locked 30fps or brainfucking constant switches between 30 and 60.
Argh.
(Amazing work, it's insane to see it consistently pulling out 60fps at all on my E7200.)
1280x1080, 540 DOF, no SMAA or blur or SSAO, locked 60fps (unless I do something dumb like go to Blight Town), or 1920x1080, 810 DOF, everything turned on, and either locked 30fps or brainfucking constant switches between 30 and 60.
Argh.
(Amazing work, it's insane to see it consistently pulling out 60fps at all on my E7200.)
I go an i52500k @4.2ghz and a 660TI and it still drops quite frequently to 30 f.e. in the Darkroots Basin with these settings:
1080p
540DOF (1 scaling)
SMAA 4
SSAO 1
Using the 60FPS Fix from the other guy, durantes isnt working for me. My system is NOT running at full force with those settings, my temperatures all stay quite low, so I#m guessing max usage is around 50 to 75. Game should be running with 60FPS without any problem at normal circumstances. It's a pity it isn't and hopefully someone finds a fix because its *so* *much* *better*. But I have to say the constant switching between 60 and 30 is just so bad you don't wanna play it that way.
1080p
540DOF (1 scaling)
SMAA 4
SSAO 1
Using the 60FPS Fix from the other guy, durantes isnt working for me. My system is NOT running at full force with those settings, my temperatures all stay quite low, so I#m guessing max usage is around 50 to 75. Game should be running with 60FPS without any problem at normal circumstances. It's a pity it isn't and hopefully someone finds a fix because its *so* *much* *better*. But I have to say the constant switching between 60 and 30 is just so bad you don't wanna play it that way.
One question, if I do install the 1.5 but I don't modify the 30 fps limit, will I risk getting banned?
Thanks Durante, you're my hero!