Dark Souls II runs extremely good even on old hardware, while Dark Souls 1 runs and looks like crap on pretty much every rig, so you shouldn't have any problem with either. Unless your laptop is like 3+ years old I guess. What are your specs?
What the hell are you talking about?
30 fps cap. Actually feels lower than that too but I guess that's just me. Yea you have a dsfix but that might not be a viable option for an old laptop. DS 2 conversely runs at a very smooth framerate even on old machines.
...A decade is definitely pushing it. Maybe cutting edge a decade ago could handle it, but in my case, I'm running both of these games on a computer that's about six years old now. I had issue in particular fighting against Seathe and Sif. The crystal particles and especially Sif's fur slowed my FPS down to single digits. Blighttown ran at 20 fps max, depending on where I was pointing the camera. For whatever reason, DS2 runs a hell of a lot better than the first game.
You're gonna have no problem with either game
Just remember to specify that you wanna run them through the dedicated video card, it might default to the integrated one for some reason.
You're gonna have no problem with either game
As for the games, I think they're both great but Dark Souls is easily superior to the sequel. Matter of fact, it doesn't really feel like a sequel to me, more like a different take on the same formula. It does bring about some improvements (streamlined weapon upgrade system, covenants, ...) but it lacks the sheer brilliance in level design of the first game and sometimes it feels like encounters are designed to be difficult rather than interesting (focus on ambushes and multiple enemies fights, while the first game, with some exceptions, emphasized 1vs1 fights, which is where the combat system really shines), while I never got that impression playing the first game. So yeah I'd definitely suggest the first one.
"A decade" was just a way to throw in a round number instead of saying "8 years" two times in a row. Still, considering my PC was mid tier even as new and DS1 doesn't exactly squeeze multicore CPUs, I wouldn't be surprised to learn that some of the latest, high end single core CPUs from 2004 would be more than capable to run the game.
That's bullshit you may have heard somewhere, while I'm talking about my direct, personal experience.
The cheap hits aren't helping much. I don't remember that much garbage happening when I was fighting these guys, but I was using sorcery and had pretty high ATN and ADP, and so high AGI to roll through the bogus hitboxes. Didn't even realize they were that bad until now.
A little adversity is good for the stream. Crossbow enthusiasm aside I hope she sticks with the weapon type she has the most fun with instead of trying to follow some hypothetical fully optimized choices. Just upgrading the GS will probably do the trick.
Just did the fight dual-wielding last night. Noticed no problems on the hammer attacks, shield is definitely bullshit.
I've found myself more often baiting attack combos in Dark Souls 2 and waiting for them to finish waving their weapon around in midair. It's like those annoying broken sword hollows from the first game were the template for half the enemies.
Are spoilers for the later parts of the game allowed in this thread?
) and I put a lot of points in adp very early, because I really noticed my agility being low.
Completely agree. They really dropped the ball this time around.
Oh, definitely. Levelling ADP feels like they wanted to not have a junk stat (in the form of RES), but since Dark Souls (or the Souls games) are technically supposed to be an action game, something like nerfing dodge to not be WYSIWYG is kinda dumb in hindsight. Since it happened to go the other way for most DS vets, it's more become a stat you need to sink points into to get it back to how you wanted it.
I did this too. Seemed totally harmless, and I felt the game might reward having some discretion.
