FYI: As of right now my plan is to stream part one of DS2 tomorrow night (Saturday) at around 6 pm. (I'm still outta town.)
Will update on Twitter as it gets closer....
Holy crap thank you!
Actually that's a bit oudated now. Durante just released
his new tool that lets you downsample easily in any Direct x9 game and it has his suggested Dark Souls tweaks pretty much built into it. Just do the following:
1) Download and extract it.
1A) (Optional) tweak the .ini file to turn on additional settings.
2) Right click on the tool's .exe in the folder and select "Run as administrator"
3) Active White List
4) Go to Steam Options and turn off In Game Steam Overlay
5) Boot up Dark Souls and set everything to max including the highest resolution option it gives you (Durante's tool downscales this automatically).
You can also tweak the .ini file in Durante's tool if you want to boost things higher but it looks pretty great at default settings.