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Dark Souls internal rendering resolution fix (DSfix)
- Thread starter Durante
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set forced texture filtering to 0
Ah. I figured the one we use, which I've read is basically like 1xSMAA, was just like a free version, and the creator kept the better version to himself in hopes of selling it or something.
paperspace
Member
Sax Russel
Banned
Just caught up on this thread, SMAA integration, oh man, Durante is my lord and saviour, all hail.
SMAA ultra probably adds 10% GPU usage on my setup (7850 running at 2560x1600), making it run at 75% on the bridge of New Londo.
Funny thing is that, if I turn off forced 2X AA on catalyst, the game goes to an amazing 22FPS (as reported by DXTory, which I still don't understand since it's supposed to be either 30 or 15, but whatever) standing on the same place. You can clearly notice the slowness. If I turn 2x AA back on, everything is well and I get rock solid 30fps.
If I set the resolution up to 3840x2400, game slows down A LOT, to around 15 FPS. I'm thinking I can't run at that resolution. Forcing 2x AA on the Catalyst Drivers only made it even slower and added 10% GPU usage at 15fps.
Another funny thing I noticed: When I first load the game, sometimes the FPS drops slightly when entering an area for the first time, but once I pan the camera arround, it never slows down in that area again, even if I leave and come back. Maybe it's something to do with loading textures from my slow ass SATA2 drives.
Didn't see a damn difference by turning SMAA to disabled, high or ultra . Other than small jumps in GPU Usage % that is.
Here's a SMAA Ultra, 2560x1600 rendering, forced 2x AA on Catalyst, forced 16x Aniso on Catalyst screenshot. I guess I'll try playing the games with those settings, but this is running at 75% GPU, which I believe is a little near the edge. With no SMAA, I didn't even get slowdowns on the Bonfire Particle Effects. Didn't test it yet with SMAA.
I think the dots on the belt thing on the back are kinda ugly. Setting the resolution higher helps, but then it's unplayable. Click for native res:
Best thing about all of this is the Developer/Publisher logo skip.
Funny thing is that, if I turn off forced 2X AA on catalyst, the game goes to an amazing 22FPS (as reported by DXTory, which I still don't understand since it's supposed to be either 30 or 15, but whatever) standing on the same place. You can clearly notice the slowness. If I turn 2x AA back on, everything is well and I get rock solid 30fps.
If I set the resolution up to 3840x2400, game slows down A LOT, to around 15 FPS. I'm thinking I can't run at that resolution. Forcing 2x AA on the Catalyst Drivers only made it even slower and added 10% GPU usage at 15fps.
Another funny thing I noticed: When I first load the game, sometimes the FPS drops slightly when entering an area for the first time, but once I pan the camera arround, it never slows down in that area again, even if I leave and come back. Maybe it's something to do with loading textures from my slow ass SATA2 drives.
Didn't see a damn difference by turning SMAA to disabled, high or ultra . Other than small jumps in GPU Usage % that is.
Here's a SMAA Ultra, 2560x1600 rendering, forced 2x AA on Catalyst, forced 16x Aniso on Catalyst screenshot. I guess I'll try playing the games with those settings, but this is running at 75% GPU, which I believe is a little near the edge. With no SMAA, I didn't even get slowdowns on the Bonfire Particle Effects. Didn't test it yet with SMAA.
I think the dots on the belt thing on the back are kinda ugly. Setting the resolution higher helps, but then it's unplayable. Click for native res:
Best thing about all of this is the Developer/Publisher logo skip.
MvmntInGrn
Member
Wonderful. Think I'm going to give up AO to downsample instead, just looks so clean.
Windom Earle
Member
I am experiencing some micro-stuttering when entering new areas. Any tips?
It might not be noticeable unless you know what you are looking for, especially when downsamping. When you do that it naturally gives a version of suerpsampling aa to the image.
Adding SMAA on top of downsampling will give an extra level of smoothness, but not necessarily needed.
Its probably harder to notice in motion rather than still shots, but look at straight lines such as your sword, armor, or architecture and the difference should be apparent.
Not only is he doing this by himself but he is only a hobbyist, with a separate day job, other obligations, and I'm sure wants to play the game as well.
Settle down, listen to Catabarez, and appreciate some of the time and effort that went into this. Better yet, donate.
Cannon Goose
Member
Finally got off my arse and donated. Durante definitely deserves it for his hard work and support.
Ingueferroque
Banned
Whats wrong with you man.
As mentioned by someone earlier, I, too, am getting some banding shadows. Pay attention to the gate - it looks like a diagonal pattern is going across it.
I'm on a GTX 570 with the latest drivers (301.42). I'm not sure if it's a result of the fix, but I have a feeling it's not. I'm just curious if anyone is having the same issue. I'm running the game at 2560x1440, with DOF at 1080 if that is of any help. AF at default, no SSAO. SMAA at 2.
I'm on a GTX 570 with the latest drivers (301.42). I'm not sure if it's a result of the fix, but I have a feeling it's not. I'm just curious if anyone is having the same issue. I'm running the game at 2560x1440, with DOF at 1080 if that is of any help. AF at default, no SSAO. SMAA at 2.
Hunter-Zero
Member
Gah, performance in my rig is shit, framerate dips all around the place, and it should not be so bad (Phenom x2 550 black edition plus Radeon HD 4870), even without the fix runs bad...maybe driver issues? oh well...some tips would be appreciated
It's the latest version available from the developer (git revision 80a26e9). Note though that it only uses SMAA1x.
No, it's all directly available from his git repository.
Changing the keybindings is on my list of things to do.
I think I'll remove that completely for 1.0
Phonomezer
Banned
Can I make a screen cap request please?
I need a shot similar to this but, obviously, in a higher res:
Just a shot of a "street scene" in Undead Burg looking uphill with the background.
I need it as a reference for a project I'm working on, you'd really be helping out!
Thanks *.*
I need a shot similar to this but, obviously, in a higher res:
Just a shot of a "street scene" in Undead Burg looking uphill with the background.
I need it as a reference for a project I'm working on, you'd really be helping out!
Thanks *.*
indigo-cyclops
Member
So Durante will 1.0 bring 60fps?
If I'm following correctly he said that trying to unlock the frame rate really screws up the 'speed' of the game, making it unplayable. So I think he's no longer pursuing it. Honestly it doest need 60, it's a really smooth 30 in the end.
Someone feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken.
Andrea23
Member
I agree.
The only thing that still bothers me is this strange way the game handles the double/triple buffer
. I really hope that sooner or later Durante (or someone else?) will be able to find the magic trick.zephervack
Member
As mentioned by someone earlier, I, too, am getting some banding shadows. Pay attention to the gate - it looks like a diagonal pattern is going across it.
I'm on a GTX 570 with the latest drivers (301.42). I'm not sure if it's a result of the fix, but I have a feeling it's not. I'm just curious if anyone is having the same issue. I'm running the game at 2560x1440, with DOF at 1080 if that is of any help. AF at default, no SSAO. SMAA at 2.
I have this exact same problem, I thought that maybe my color depth was set to 16bit but after checking the game's ini file I can see that it is set to 32. Hopefully someone can find out why
the banding looks particularly bad on my spider shield.Grimm Fandango
Member
Can I make a screen cap request please?
I need a shot similar to this but, obviously, in a higher res:
Just a shot of a "street scene" in Undead Burg looking uphill with the background.
I need it as a reference for a project I'm working on, you'd really be helping out!
Thanks *.*
Will these help? I can get higher res ones if needed or I can reposition myself for a different angle.
http://i.minus.com/imBSg5SJsk8E6.bmp
http://i.minus.com/i9fRQCgWGqBUU.bmp
http://i.minus.com/i1VzjTHn1E7NS.bmp
Why is Chrome prompting me to save those
StarCreator
Member
They're BMPs, since that's what DSFix's screenshot utility outputs presumably. Not sure if Chrome supports display of BMPs inline, and it also depends on what content-type the webserver is passing for them.
Well, I can see that but why would it prompt me to save rather than displaying them
zephervack
Member
Grimm Fandango
Member
It's the armor worn by Silver Knights in Anor Londo. A chest contains the set.
http://darksouls.wikidot.com/silver-knight-set
I actually only wear the chestpiece but I donned the whole set for the picture.
jediyoshi
Member
Just some default preference from chrome, firefox could be set up like that too, it just displays them by default.
As mentioned by someone earlier, I, too, am getting some banding shadows. Pay attention to the gate - it looks like a diagonal pattern is going across it.
I'm on a GTX 570 with the latest drivers (301.42). I'm not sure if it's a result of the fix, but I have a feeling it's not. I'm just curious if anyone is having the same issue. I'm running the game at 2560x1440, with DOF at 1080 if that is of any help. AF at default, no SSAO. SMAA at 2.
I think Dark Souls is just rife with ugly banding shadows, to be honest. They're pretty much omnipresent in the outdoor areas of Anor London.
zephervack
Member
Hmm now thinking about it, it might be the dynamic contrast system they use, I didnt notice them until Blightown...
C:\Users\*YOUR USERNAME*\Documents\NBGI\DarkSouls\*YOUR GFWL ID*\
They should be in there along side the regular saves.
I was confused until I realized "NBGI" is "Namco Bandai Games Incorporated".
Probably for the best. I feel the setting itself is fairly nebulous since I can't quite figure out what the impact is of setting it to 1 or 2...if there is any impact it's extremely minimal when combined with whatever other settings we're running (be it SSAA, OGSSAA, SGSSAA, and driver forced AF).
Thanks, but it seems like it hasn't backed anything up then :/
In any case, I gotta format my PC and I want to back up my saves, if I copy everything up from that folder and then past it back up will GFWL mind?
So all we're lacking is for someone to step up and make an injector?
data.exe
Edit:
Also, you can add these values to enable AO and AA.
Ambient Occlusion Compatibility: 0x00000003 (Fallout 3)
Antialiasing Compatibility: 0x004000C0
zephervack
Member
Sorry for the ignorance but why?
I remember activating scanline mode on zsnes back in the day and it looked horrible, do you not like the clean look emulators give?
Maybe im not understanding correctly what you want hehe.
Gonna hijack his answer with a reply that points to a previous message of his that explains what he means!
He's talking about the "Natural Vision" shader for emulators:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=40884688&postcount=186
While I think it's mostly good (look at the differences in the flames), I still think it's a bit too blurry (check out the White armored dude. Too blurry!)
zephervack
Member
Oh wow, yeah that looks good, removes most of the pixelation and still looks pretty clean.
There are different approaches to CRT shaders. Scaline emulation is only one aspect (one that I don't personally care for).
I don't think a lot of pixel art was meant to be seen in raw form...pixel art was designed with CRTs in mind. Pixel art becomes much more legible once you factor in what a CRT does to an image. Also, the NTSC standard had a big impact on how colors were displayed on a CRT TV...emulators don't take this into account.
Examples:
Final Fantasy VI
raw (native 5:4 aspect ratio):
blaarg's NTSC shader - RGB setting (4:3 aspect ratio):
extreme closeup raw:
extreme closeup NTSC shader (notice how this is far more legible...notice the apparent increase in shadow detail as well):
Zelda:
Not a released shader, AFAIK, but an impressive work in progress nonetheless:
Suikoden II:
raw (notice the dithering):
Natural Vision shader:
zephervack
Member
God I love emulators, preserving gaming of yesteryear for the future generations as close as the source material as possible.
This is amazing work, I hope you get around to doing this.
We're talking about using d3d injection to implement shaders in applications besides Dark Souls. Not quite thread worthy (at least, until we have something to work with)...this seemed like an appropriate place to discuss it, since the means are similar.
Anyways, won't veer off topic further. I'll hold on to my thoughts and work up a proper thread at some point.
Just postprocessing an entire output image is the simplest kind of "injection" (most of the methods aren't really injection, that's the reason for the scare quotes). When I release the DSfix sources it should be possible to get that up and running fairly easily.
Jackben
bitch I'm taking calls.
Don't be a dick. It made sense in the context of graphics conversation which is related to the mod.
That would be pretty awesome!
I'll have to research shader programming in the meantime.