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Durante's Dark Souls PC Performance Article Now Available on PC Gamer
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Garrett Hawke
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From Software Magic (despair)
Blighttown was the magical place where you could see it happen.
Jokingly aside, I bet it's draw calls.
LabouredSubterfuge
Member
It's amusing to me because the default game looks like someone's applied a really shit SweetFX filter to it.
You're supposed to click them in order to enlarge them but they just finished redesigning the website so some things are not working right.
Yeah it essentially looks like Bloodborne, but with black levels brought up even more.
In darker areas it's not as annoying, but in daylight scenes it's jarring.
Quick google of a (relatively) bright scene in Bloodborne (and d00d3n screen as a quick comparison), you can see how the contrast is a bit stronger.
When i look at daylight scenes of DkS3, it looks like someone fucked with my screen settings.
I don't have the game, so maybe it's just the one area though.
Well, most of the game is not all that CPU intensive.
What exactly is going on in the particular areas that are is almost impossible to say without an internal look at the engine.
Something's not right with that BB screenshot. The blacks were never crushed when I played it
roadrunn3r
Member
I wonder if it would be just better to disable HT in i7 CPUs given how the games behaves with 4 cores.
d00d3n
Member
I am curious, what areas performed especially badly in the PC version?
The first I found on Google, I'm sure you can find a better one.
Even in that one the difference is evident though.
nkarafo
Member
I'm a bit confused about the CPU performance.You got 4 core CPUs with HT (8 threads) and 2 core CPUs, again with HT (4 threads). But what about i5 CPUs? (4 cores - 4 threads)?
Edit: I'm going to lock the game @ 50 fps (on my 50hz compatible TV). I assume i won't have any problems with bugs and timing issues? I mean the game performs well on anything between 30 and 60 fps?
Edit: I'm going to lock the game @ 50 fps (on my 50hz compatible TV). I assume i won't have any problems with bugs and timing issues? I mean the game performs well on anything between 30 and 60 fps?
So pretty much like Dark Souls 1. Blighttown will fuck your framerate (if you're not already playing at 30) no matter what.
I can deal with that. Especially if performance is consistently bad in those areas. It would suck if when I'm in said area it keeps going from 30 to 60 all the time, but if it's just "it runs at ~30 for the entire area", I can easily deal with it.
Should be very close to 4 cores 8 threads.
I actually didn't test specifically at 50.
But my game runs at roughly 50 at the settings I actually play at (1440p on a 970) most of the time, and I didn't notice any issues.
About black crush, I always found From's in-game brightness setting is worthless. People who follow it end up with black crush, because even at the lowest setting you can still see the thing you're not supposed to see, but everything gets way too dark. At default settings, dark areas get dark, and outside areas are well lit.
When you're in a dark area at the lowest brightness settings, it feels right because you actually need to use your torch or the hand lantern in Bloodborne, but I find it unlikely that the intended look for the game was for it to be so dark at every moment that you're always losing detail.
When you're in a dark area at the lowest brightness settings, it feels right because you actually need to use your torch or the hand lantern in Bloodborne, but I find it unlikely that the intended look for the game was for it to be so dark at every moment that you're always losing detail.
Durante's screenshot looks really nice, what DSR settings would you guys recommend for downsampling to 1080p from 1440p? Because unless I'm downsampling from 4K I feel like it looks worse than native.
This is why I downsample the old school way instead of through DSR. Nvidia made it infinitely better then it used to be too as there is no longer a need to play with timings.
nkarafo
Member
Hey, thanks for the response.
50fps gaming at 50hz has saved me a lot of grief as my card (960) can't handle 60fps/1080p in many modern games, with high/ultra settings. 50hz/fps means i can have a similar experience to 60fps gaming (not much difference) while my rig works less for it. Those 10fps can save a reasonable GPU grunt.
After the terrible experience being a European gamer during 4th/5th gen, i never thought 50hz would ever be that useful to me, lol.
Cannon Goose
Member
Great article, I'm very happy to see that the AA and SSAO is good in this one compared to Dark Souls 2. Sounds like 1440p on a 970 with G-sync will be a great experience.
Gsync save my 970 at 1440p, can get about 50 FPS maxing out all these next-gen games st that resolution.
Totally! It's really a great option to have. For me it meant I could play GTA5 at 4k rather than 1440p (or at least I thought it did. Then I encountered the grass and had to rethink, lol)
Same boat. What CPU do you have? 3470 here and praying... :S
Awesome article, great read.
Cannon Goose
Member
i5-4690K @ 3.5GHz.
FaintDeftone
Junior Member
Looks like my 970 and i7 4790k will do the trick just fine, but I'm buying the game on PS4 for the potentially larger player base. Still, I may end up double dipping if I enjoy the game as much as the others just so I can play at higher framerates.
Pretty sure 1 and 2 sold more on PC.
The communities will likely be comparable at launch with PC having the longer tail.
The player bases on PC were fine, the only issues I ran into were hackers in DS1 while it was on GFWL.
there will be hackers no matter what. i was going through parts of ds2 a few weeks back and got invaded by an invincible teleporting wizard who seemed to be manipulating lag to backstab me.
The guy who got me in DS1 went around killing all of my NPC's, hopefully that doesn't happen in DS3.
The game is going to be GPU dependant outside of one specific area that has some issues.
Kamina
Golden Boy
Okay, and those areas with issues are showing drops regardless of the resolution or settings?
Pretty much.
Apparently those areas drop down into the low teens on the consoles. From just can't help themselves.
Kamina
Golden Boy
Fuck really? Do we have any sourcess?
I am currently considering whether to buy for PS4 tomorrow or for PC on Tuesday
This'll be the first time I go PC Day 1 on a Souls game, really looking forward to it.
Will still be getting PS4 later down the line though for community variety.
1 especially is still a lot more active on the console versions.
Variety of player-base is a factor too; the Japanese Souls community is insane, most of them will be on PS4.
Will still be getting PS4 later down the line though for community variety.
1 especially is still a lot more active on the console versions.
Variety of player-base is a factor too; the Japanese Souls community is insane, most of them will be on PS4.
JudgmentJay
Member
The source is the hundreds of thousands of people who are already playing the game. I played the area in question for the second time last night. It's bad. 1.03 is supposed to improve performance though right? We'll see.
TemplaerDude
Member
Book marked! Fantastic article, Durante. Will be referring to it in a week or so I'm sure.
That sucks. There is a fix for the previous game but people were worried if it would interfere with Steam Guard (which ended up never being turned on). Hopefully there will be an adequate solution this time around as well
ASilentProtagonist
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Same.