daninthemix
Member
Uncontrolled ejaculations all round.
Confirmed: Dark Souls PC to migrate from GFWL to Steam in Nov (Details in OP)
- Thread starter Grief.exe
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Queen of Hunting
Unconfirmed Member
durante might have to change some things after removing gfwl ?
Krusenstern
Banned
Unless FROM themselves will add some decent graphics options this time around. Even if they straight up copy Durante's fix. I'm sure he wouldn't mind.
But somehow I don't think they will add graphics options and we will need Durante one last time.
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Deleted member 125677
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apparently not, need to replay
achievements usually aren't retroactive
also, pls don't be a SF situation or mess up DSfix
zephervack
Member
I wonder if the netcode was coded using GFWL aswell and if it is, hopefully this fixes the connections issues.
Leon Belmont
Member
Just remove that virus called GFWL and add better graphics options and I'll be happy 
Steam has cloud saving too, that's not something unique to GFWL.
PetriP-TNT
Member
420 Blaze the sun
masterkajo
Member
Well... time to play through it again. Looks like no other game has even a chance of dethroning this from the top of my most played games.
SkeptiMism
Member
Still haven't played the game because I've been patiently waiting for the GFWL to be removed from it, so yeah, I'd be pretty happy if it got actually removed soon.
I've heard Durante's GeDoSaTo patch makes you play the game in offline mode, is this true?
JudgmentJay
Member
DS1 uses DSFix, not GeDoSaTo. But no, you can play online.
It does something similar though last I checked: you need to disable the Steam overlay to prevent issues, so you won't be seeing what messages you get in-game or what achievements you earned. For someone that prefers a game to be a cut off experience this isn't really an issue but for those that want to see achievement notifications ping or keep talking with friends it can be an issue.
Holy shit yes! I can finally start my first playthrough!
Heck they should make him DLC or something. Even games that haven't had his work are doing it. It's all the rage these days
Heck they should make him DLC or something. Even games that haven't had his work are doing it. It's all the rage these days
Goldenroad
Member
Great timing. I'm 30 hours into the PC version (after having played the 360 version 3 times), and just finished getting all the Lord Souls and just started the DLC last night. So, do you think I should wait to finish it off without the GFWL bs, or is this change just gonna end up corrupting my save file and making everything go wrong anyway?
Even at higher resolutions and framerates, Dark Souls doesn't require a very beefy GPU.
If Namco doesn't make the saves compatible, then I'm sure someone else will find a way.
poopninjamvc3mk
I sucked six dicks to get this tag.
If it doesn't run like trash online like AE/USF4 or Bioshock2 then I'll finally get the pc version.
Dr. Buni
Member
That is good to know, but at the moment, I am playing stuff with a integrated graphics card and Dark Souls doesn't really run smoothly this way.
I would personally love it if GFWL was removed from GTA 4 and the expansions.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
considering that Dark Souls also came out on the PS3, i doubt that the code is directly tied to GFWL, and if anything they at least have code that isn't directly tied to an xbox/MS platform.
DSFix consists of literally modifying a text file. It's really incredibly simple to use and only requires that you make the changes you want and to save the file afterwards. Took me one edit of the file during my whole +40 hour playthrough.
daninthemix
Member
Yo Grief, how do you always have the heads up on these patches and such?
Also, did anyone ever get the HUD scaling to work without glitches?
Also, did anyone ever get the HUD scaling to work without glitches?
Episodes from Liberty City doesn't use GfWL. GTA4 has the achievements for them but it doesn't work like that.
I guess if you bought it from the XBL store (which you're hosed now that that's shutdown)...
Brerlappin
Member
Another reason to replay DS1? Sure, why not
Episodes from Liberty City does use GFWL, both physical & digital versions.
I could never hit constant 60fps on my old 7850, seems other ATI users have had similar problems.
Also, there's stuff like Sif's fight, when the amount of fur shaders to render can bring down even a beefy GPU, AFAIK.
AndyMoogle
Member
GFWL already ruined my save, so I'll have to start over either way.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
The moments that knocked my framerate down from 60 fps seemed to be more due to optimization issues than cpu/gpu bottlenecks. For instance, the moment when my game chugged the most - weirdly enough - is the web tunnel between the quelaag's lair and the Demon Ruins, when there was literally nothing on the screen but my character and the web tunnel. I was running the game at 1080p with a 4770k, gtx 770 and on an SSD, so it wasn't like my pc had some glaringly obvious reason to have a drop ever, but especially in that particular section.
An optimist like me would say that since DaS2 steamworks implementation was solid, we can hopefully expect the same from this.
alexandros
Banned
Same, I don't buy GFWL games.
Frank Jaeger
Member
Do I get an automatic conversion of the GFWL achievs to STEAM?
Not my Steam copy. It never asked for GfWL. I'm talking the separate bought version, to be clear. Unless you're running the multiplayer it never asks for GfWL. I never had to enter a CD-key, mess with GfWL/Sign into a profile. I simply booted EfLC.exe and... was in either of the expansions.