Dark Souls 3 PC performance thread

Oracle Dragon said:
A bit of extra tweaking to the graphicsconfig.xml file, and now that I'm running in glorious 816x510 my poor 560Ti can manage 45-50 fps, 60fps in some select few places. It still takes huge dives down to 16-18 in certain areas. every single other thing set to low, of course ;)

If you ever wondered what Dark Souls 3 may have looked like if it was released as a 360 game, feast your eyes!

https://youtu.be/Q1ZQ7sHoxV4



This card is close to mine in terms of performance, I can't even get close to this FPS in 720p, it must be the extra VRAM doing it? :(
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Where is the graphicsconfig file located?
 
potatohead said:
Ffs!

No Steam cloud saves on this game....... god dammit.

Wanted to continue playing on my laptop, but my save from my desktop didn't get moved over god damn lol.

I guess I'll have to look for a way to do it manually for now, that sucks.
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It's fucking ridiculous for sure, but you can just upload it to Dropbox if you'll know you'll be switching to the laptop.
 
With a GTX 780 I was running super smooth with everything at max @1080p except for shadows on high. Everything was fine until I went into the menu and turned shadows to Max and as soon as I exited the menu the game crashed. Just wanted to see if I could maintain 60 with everything turned all the way up. It's now crashed twice since, even with shadows back down to high.

Turned the game off. Not gonna deal with it until there's a fix that doesn't require turning lighting to low
 
Necromanti said:
I don't know how you can bear it. I've been spoiled by how good DS2 looked and ran on PC.
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I know :( I didn't expect it to run so badly on the 560Ti, I was very hopeful when I saw the minimum was a 750Ti, and I have great success with other games. I'm a huge DS2 fan and of course the 560Ti runs it like a dream. It's obviously and older game, but I didn't think DS3 looked THAT much better to go from 60fps max everything in DS2 to unplayable low detail 1080p in DS3.

Honestly if I knew I would have to lower it so much, I probably would have waited until I bought Pascal. As an added bonus the game would probably be $30 CAD by then... but since I already bought (and can't return) it, I may as well play down there in ugly town ;)

knitoe said:
Where is the graphicsconfig file located?
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In C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsIII. Just open it in notepad. Not very many options though, there may be hidden ones that are found later but for now it is pretty basic.
 
Does the lighting setting just reset randomly? I do the temp fix and it works for a bit, but then I get summoned and immediately crash.
 
Oracle Dragon said:
A bit of extra tweaking to the graphicsconfig.xml file, and now that I'm running in glorious 816x510 my poor 560Ti can manage 45-50 fps, 60fps in some select few places. It still takes huge dives down to 16-18 in certain areas. every single other thing set to low, of course ;)

If you ever wondered what Dark Souls 3 may have looked like if it was released as a 360 game, feast your eyes!

https://youtu.be/Q1ZQ7sHoxV4



This card is close to mine in terms of performance, I can't even get close to this FPS in 720p, it must be the extra VRAM doing it? :(
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awesome to know this is possible :D
 
Oracle Dragon said:
I know :( I didn't expect it to run so badly on the 560Ti, I was very hopeful when I saw the minimum was a 750Ti, and I have great success with other games. I'm a huge DS2 fan and of course the 560Ti runs it like a dream. It's obviously and older game, but I didn't think DS3 looked THAT much better to go from 60fps max everything in DS2 to unplayable low detail 1080p in DS3.

Honestly if I knew I would have to lower it so much, I probably would have waiting until I bought Pascal. As an added bonus the game would probably be $30 CAD by then... but since I already bought (and can't return) it, I may as well play down there in ugly town ;)
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Yeah, I thought I'd have better luck since I managed to get ~45 FPS in GTA V with most things maxed out at 1080p despite going beyond my VRAM limitations, so I though there'd at least be some scalability in terms of settings rather than all or nothing. Now to wait 2-3 weeks for my new computer to arrive...

Try not to go hollow.
 
My controller problem (Non existent controller spinning the camera around) has been fixed. If anyone else is having issues and has Vjoy installed, uninstall it. It worked for me.
 
Rizzi said:
Does anyone else's framerate drop when there's smoke on screen?
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Lots of alpha effects such as fog and smoke can cause framerate dips because they can be quite taxing on the GPUs. Dark Souls has always been a series that uses lots of alpha transparent textures and other effects that tax systems.
 
For whatever reason, the game told me that my framerate is insufficient to play online when I tried to set my settings at max.

The fix: Unplug my headset before booting up the game and changing my settings to max, plug it back in afterwards. Uh, sure, why not.

4790k
980
20 gigs RAM
SSD
Win10

Played up to firelink shrine and the game seems to maintain 60. Not surprising, but, there ya go.
 
Opening area 57-60fps with a gtx770 and Xeon 1230v3.

Everything on High/Max. except shdaows and blur/dof on medium. But I don't have time now. It's 7am and I'm off to work^^
 
Kieli said:
They've recently released a patch that purportedly allows users to achieve 1080p/ultra at ~30 FPS on 750ti.
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That's the version of the game people are running (Steam games default to the most recent public branch and all of DS3's beta branches are password-protected). Only From's dev branch has a newer build.
 
I'm running fine at 60 fps smooth with:

Max settings
i7-3820 @ 4.2Ghz
GTX980
361.91 drivers
8GB RAM
Windows 8

I don't seem to have the stutter with the auto save that others are having. I'm not experiencing any crashing related issues to lighting either. Thankfully.
 
gtx 960 with a i5 4690 here (8gb of ram too)

Experiencing awful stuttering, even at 30 fps. Not sure what is causing this issue.
 
Updated all my drivers prior

i5-6600K
GTX 970
16gb ram


Game runs perfectly for me on highest, no problems with the steam controller either.
 
damn, just got back to it and its still throwing to desktop
 
Jtwo said:
damn, just got back to it and its still throwing to desktop
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Put lighting down to Low. Relaunching the game can reset the lighting to the auto-detect settings meaning you might've fixed the issue, turned the game off for a break, gone back and getting crashes on load again.
 
Zomba13 said:
Put lighting down to Low. Relaunching the game can reset the lighting to the auto-detect settings meaning you might've fixed the issue, turned the game off for a break, gone back and getting crashes on load again.
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yeah, thats what happened, the settings reverted

now im just mad at this axe guy

have the game locked at a solid forty and it looks well enough. my girlfriend just started the ps4 version but i havent seen it yet since its downstairs.
 
Well shit, I had shadowplay on (the recording app from geforce experience; I wasn't even recording). Turned it off and immediately got rid of the stuttering! Now I'm getting 50-60fps. I have some settings turned to medium
 
Another data point:

- Windows 7, GTX980 with 361.91 drivers, i3550, 16GB RAM, game on SSD
- Default graphics settings, not sure what they are
- NO crashes at all!
- Stuttering every time the game saves, though
- Game mostly runs at 60fps apart from the stutters, at least one exception near the big fire in the undead village
- Also got sound bug where ambient noise gets abruptly muted once some "foreground" sound starts playing
 
im not getting any crashes but my game stutters every now and then, I don't think its from the auto saves. doesn't matter what settings or res I use.
6700k
980ti
32gb ram
latest drivers
 
xkramz said:
How are gtx 970 holding?
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Mine is running like a dream.

I7-6700k
Asus gtx970

No crashes yet to speak of. Hardly any stutter which surprises me. And that 60fps goodness. Not sure I can go back to 30fps of a console now to be honest.

Like I said, running like a dream.
 
Jtwo said:
yeah, thats what happened, the settings reverted

now im just mad at this axe guy

have the game locked at a solid forty and it looks well enough. my girlfriend just started the ps4 version but i havent seen it yet since its downstairs.
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ugh! no!! it happened again and the lighting was definitely on low the game just crashes all the time!!! nooo!!!!
 
ymgve said:
Another data point:

- Windows 7, GTX980 with 361.91 drivers, i3550, 16GB RAM, game on SSD
- Default graphics settings, not sure what they are
- NO crashes at all!
- Stuttering every time the game saves, though
- Game mostly runs at 60fps apart from the stutters, at least one exception near the big fire in the undead village
- Also got sound bug where ambient noise gets abruptly muted once some "foreground" sound starts playing
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I've a 980 Ti and they were set to High by default, IIRC.
 
Played the first areas and the first boss. No slowdowns or bonfire crashes with my 970 and 4670k at Max 1080p. Normal temps(65 degrees celcius GPU).

Finally i'm not the one having wierd crashes in a game.(oh did i just jinx it)
 
JaseC said:
I've a 980 Ti and they were set to High by default, IIRC.
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What settings are you currently running on JaseC?

I'm playing with everything set to the highest setting and 1440P and everything is 60FPS smooth no crashes(though I'm playing as a Knight) however the saving stutters are annoying as hell.(Latest drivers, however I used Driver Uninstaller before I installed the new ones)

Are you getting them as well? we have the same card hence why I'm asking as I thought there was something wrong with my system.
 
Dalibor_San said:
What settings are you currently running on JaseC?

I'm playing with everything set to the highest setting and 1440P and everything is 60FPS smooth no crashes(though I'm playing as a Knight) however the saving stutters are annoying as hell.(Latest drivers, however I used Driver Uninstaller before I installed the new ones)

Are you getting them as well? we have the same card hence why I'm asking as I thought there was something wrong with my system.
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I haven't actually played the game; I just pre-ordered it for the soundtrack (I don't have faith in Scamco to offer it separately as DLC) and pre-loaded it to make this thread as I enjoy doing PC performance threads. I wouldn't exactly say that Dark Souls isn't my cup of tea as I did spend several hours with the PC version of the original a few years ago, but, yeah, sinking my teeth into 3 definitely isn't within my purview at this juncture.
 
Hmm, can't get my Xbox One controller to work at all with this game. :/

edit: Nevermind, it was because my Fighting Commander 4 was plugged in. LET THE DARK SOULS COMMENCE.
 
Had about five display driver has stopped working crashes tonight. I haven't seen one of those in years now.

First was right after kneeling to level up the first time. Then randomly after that at or near the Firelink bonfire (again right after leveling) and near the tower bonfire. I had three in the span of about 4 minutes just now before I quit out of frustration.

Still on the 361.91 drivers since I haven't heard anything but bad things about the past few Nvidia releases, esp for dual-monitor setups.
 
Well, at 1080p and max settings I'm getting solid 60 FPS but only in the begining of the game. Need to get to more demanding locations to see how the game performs there. At 1440p I'm getting 52-58 FPS but again, this is just starting location in the game so I guess eventually I will get a drop to mid 40s at 1440p. For now I will be play the game at 1080p and I'll try to play at 1440p after a few patches and driver updates.

4790K @4.4 GHz
Zotac 980 AMP! Edition @1375 MHz
16 GB
Windows 8.1 Pro
364.72
 
Running everything on high at 1080p. Getting a solid 60fps with very few dips in framerate, mostly isolated to when I enter boss arenas.

6600K 3.5 GHZ
16gb
R9 Nano
Windows 10
 
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