Core i5 2500k, totally not overclocked cause this room in the summer is just WAY too warm for it.
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Dark Souls internal rendering resolution fix (DSfix)
- Thread starter Durante
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Core i5 2500k, totally not overclocked cause this room in the summer is just WAY too warm for it.
keep up the good work!
ThatsMytrunks
Member
Tawney Bomb
Member
Was uninterested in this due to it's issues, now I will probably buy it and GW2 is literally right around the corner. Oh man..
Get a better cooler, 2500k oc'd to 4.5 is easy as fuck to do and with a good cooler it barely raises any temps.
I've got a decent machine, if old and I have weird spikes.
I can max out most multiplatform games at 1920x1080 and get it at a smooth 30 FPS (Sleeping Dogs and Darksiders 2 being the more recent examples) and while performance is generally smooth in Dark Souls, it suddenly drops to 15 or 20FPS whenever any HDR seems to appear. It's really inconsistent.
Haven't tried it without the Durante fix though so maybe that's causing the issues. I'd be surprised though - game doesn't seem too taxing.
I'm also running a mobile GPU which, while fast compared to most, Nvidia drivers are a little out of date with no profiles for recent games so that might fix it for me too with any luck.
Aye, but the ambient in here is about 78-82 most days. Looking to get a Noctua ASAP, but ... textbooks just owned by funds. We'll see.
Ghost_Protocol
Member
So everything relatively closeby looks outstanding, but environments in the distance are super pixelated. I assume that will be one of the next things on the list?
Peterthumpa
Member
One thing I've noticed... both the messages and the menu places where there's dynamic texts are not displaying correctly, or in other words... static texts like button prompts, stats and so on are ok. Only texts that changes over and over (like the messages) are having this problem.
At least I think so.
Durante
He's so good.
(Today, 03:00 PM)
Seriously man this shit is crazy. Definitely jumped my interest on Dark Souls.
He's so good.
(Today, 03:00 PM)
Seriously man this shit is crazy. Definitely jumped my interest on Dark Souls.
The Elite
BOSS
That's the DoF fix I mention above. Should be relatively straightforward.
Empty Space
Member
Game looks great and now I'm genuinely conflicted. I swore I wouldn't buy the game at launch, because of the fixed resolution, but that's hardly an issue now. I wish there was some way to show that if I do buy the game right now it was becasue of this fix.
Ciastek3214
Junior Member
I DO NOT NEED!
(he does not need)
A PATCH FROM FROM!
(a patch from FROM)
DARK SOULS IS FUCKING
(fucking)
MODDABLEEEEEEEE!
I DID NOT MEAN!
(he did not mean)
TO BLOW YOUR MIND!
(blow your mind)
BUT THAT SHIT HAPPENS TO ME!
ALL THE TIIIIMEEEEE!
WELL TAKE A LOOK
(take a look)
TELL ME WHAT DO YOU SEE
(what do you see)
WITHOUT THE FIX
FROM DURANTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Melody here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdKoXXg6FFE
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Nice!!
HomerSimpson-Man
Member
Behold, the Noctua nh-d14, easily one of the best if not the best heatsink and fan assembly on the market:
Put that in you system and don't give a damn about the heat again! Well, that is, if you can fit it in your case....
Felix Lighter
Member
The framerate drops are weird when they come, the framerate drops right to 15. If I alt tab leaving the game window still fullscreen visible in the background the framerate jumps back to 30. Something weird is happening and I think it may be related to when the white phantoms appear.
My GTX 590 is running at idle temperatures in the middle of the game, very interesting.
I have one of those, running my i7-2600k stable at 4.8ghz.
It was totally a pain in the ass to install, though.
HomerSimpson-Man
Member
Yeah, me too, but damn, it's a beast ain't it? I thought I was going to have to get a huge as full tower when I got it in the mail since I was using a mid-tower.
iNvid02
Member
i have my d14 running in the slower/quieter mode and it still owns the heat, great cooler
Behold, the Noctua nh-d14, easily one of the best if not the best heatsink and fan assembly on the market:
Put that in you system and don't give a damn about the heat again! Well, that is, if you can fit it in your case....
man, that thing is huge. no room for that lol
It seems like the higher you set the internal res, the more the words disappear. Before I tried something higher than just matching my max screen res (1440x900), the words were just half way cut off, and all button prompts appeared just fine.
GhostRidah
Member
The 360 wired controller is working great more me, just need to get this fps issue fixed.
I have one of those. And yeah, it was totally a bitch to install. But oh god it's a good heatsink.Behold, the Noctua nh-d14, easily one of the best if not the best heatsink and fan assembly on the market:
Put that in you system and don't give a damn about the heat again! Well, that is, if you can fit it in your case....
Crazy FPS drops at 1920 x 1080 on HD 7970. Damn
hahaha wtf
HomerSimpson-Man
Member
Seriously, it's a monster. I can't recommend it enough if your system can accommodate it. You're not going to need another fan/heatsink for future builds, it's a complete beast.
It's damn near overkill for overclocking a Sandy-bridge chip.
I'm done for the night. Runs at a pretty consistent 30fps at 2560x1600 supersampled on my i5 750 @ 2.67 Ghz and GTX 580. Blighttown performance is better than consoles but there's still slowdown in certain locations.
For the most part, the textures hold up nicely. I look forward to some sort of fix for the depth of field.
Thanks again Durante!
Ugh, I love Noctua, but I hate hard to install heatsinks.
Especially this, bane of my existence.
I had to take the heatsinks off of my ram just to put that fucker on.
Especially this, bane of my existence.
Mah boi!
I have one and thought it was the easiest to install heatsink I have ever used. I bought low profile ram knowing I was adding it and made sure it would fit the rest of my MOBO before ordering.
vitaminwateryum
corporate swill
I know it's been said plenty already, but excellent work Durante. I had initially cancelled my pre-order from GMG because of this but picked it up on Steam after seeing your work.
AndyMoogle
Member
Depends on the CPU. I have to raise the voltage quite a bit to get it stable over 4.2 GHz.
Water cooling is a little too hardcore for me. My understanding is that maintenance is required and I like to avoid that wherever possible. A monster heatsink is as far as I'll go.
Metalmurphy
Member
Fuck, I don't have a clue about how doing this without touching the executable, you're an alien.
Also, supersampled screens:
Now we're talking!
So goooood!
Felix Lighter
Member
It's very weird. They aren't your normal drops due to too much going on. Something triggers them suddenly and the game drops right to 15 fps and stays until something triggers it to go back to 30. Alt-tabbing to another window and tabbing back usually triggers it to jump back to 30 fps, sometimes it will just happen on it's own. I can stand completely still when the drop to 15 occurs, not move an inch alt-tab to Chrome and then back and right back up to 30. It's crazy and frustrating because 90% of the time it's perfect. If that problem is solved with a driver or something I will be ecstatic.
CambriaRising
Member
Just get a hyper 212 Evo. It's the best bang for the buck.
He really did save a disaster.
It's progressed to an incredible point. Water cooling used to be the realm purely for enthusiasts with a massive radiator and tank and all sorts of crazy shit.
This is what water cooling looks like these days.