Dark Souls 3 PC performance thread
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corrosivefrost
Member
Yeah -- these are what I was talking about with the framerate tanking and the FPS counter showing values in the 30s/40s. It's absolutely game breaking for me when it happens, as it's USUALLY occuring in combat. When it happens outside of combat, I can deal with it, even if it's annoying, as it's not causing me to die. In combat it's unforgivable and unacceptable.
LurkerPrime
Member
Far as I've noticed, Steam's FPS counter reports solid 60 fps except for those save hitches everyone's talking about.
Damn, I'll wait for a patch then, I have the same CPU but a far weaker GPU.
Dommel
Member
Yes, the very frequent saving also drops the sound for a second in my case.
i7-5820K
980GTX on 362.00 (not sure if I should upgrade to 364.x ? )
16GB
The graphic settings part of the menu becomes very unresponsive when trying to change or select anything.
There's slowdown and stuttering when I try to run on High when my PC should be able to handle Max @ 1080p.
zombieshavebrains
I have not used cocaine
I started in Fullscreen and got a bunch of crashes. Since then, I've been playing in windowed mode with no crashes. Might want to try it and see if it fixes it.
Runs overall pretty fair on my system, considering... i7-2600K @ 3.4GHz, GTX-680 2GB. Performance is pretty inconsistent. Generally stays around the mid-30s at High settings, but occasional drops into the 20s, and spikes up near 50 depending on what I'm looking at. I know that card's pretty long in the tooth, but I'm holding out for Pascal X80ti later this year.
Some horrific spots in Firelink, though. Standing up behind Lothric's throne, and looking towards the door gets me drops into the teens. Turning around to look at the wall, and I'm at 50+. Crazy variance there. Most of Firelink is in the 20s for me.
All this is at 1440p, by the way.
I haven't been back in with lower settings to see if it stabilizes yet.
I did notice some really tiny microstutter whenever it saves, but right after I killed Gundyr (on my first try!!), it was suddenly hanging for about a half a second or so, repeatedly, until I left the area and proceeded up towards Firelink. I don't know if it was loading something or what, but it was pretty damn bad.
I'm also noticing some odd visual glitches at the edge of the frame when turning the camera, like it'll draw the area, and then suddenly more of the area will pop in. I'm guessing that's some kind of limitation of the engine, but I never noticed it in Bloodborne.
I'll go back in with super-low settings and see what it gets me.
Some horrific spots in Firelink, though. Standing up behind Lothric's throne, and looking towards the door gets me drops into the teens. Turning around to look at the wall, and I'm at 50+. Crazy variance there. Most of Firelink is in the 20s for me.
All this is at 1440p, by the way.
I haven't been back in with lower settings to see if it stabilizes yet.
I did notice some really tiny microstutter whenever it saves, but right after I killed Gundyr (on my first try!!), it was suddenly hanging for about a half a second or so, repeatedly, until I left the area and proceeded up towards Firelink. I don't know if it was loading something or what, but it was pretty damn bad.
I'm also noticing some odd visual glitches at the edge of the frame when turning the camera, like it'll draw the area, and then suddenly more of the area will pop in. I'm guessing that's some kind of limitation of the engine, but I never noticed it in Bloodborne.
I'll go back in with super-low settings and see what it gets me.
DanWensing
Banned
anytips for what? Your fans? Msi afterburner and check whats going on.
potatohead
Member
I'll do that later, the GF is using the TV right now.
zombieshavebrains
I have not used cocaine
Crashed in windowed mode and Windows said the display driver stopped responding.
It works for me and I'm on Windows 10.
DanWensing
Banned
That sucks, hopefully Win10 is not the problem.
I'm on Win7. Dunno fam
I solved it. I just unpluged my Fanatec Pedals (racing simulator). Now DS4Windows is working perfect!!
Make sure you have any other controller unpluged!!
MikeE21286
Member
Running on low (kinda expected)
I blame Nvidia for not announcing Pascal cards lol
I blame Nvidia for not announcing Pascal cards lol
dynamitejim
Member
Anyone know how to LAUNCH the game windowed without changing it in the settings first?
Crimsonclaw111
Member
On GTX770 4GB and i5 3570k @ 4.0 it runs well, everything max except a setting or two at 1080p and 60fps.
TURN LIGHTING ON LOW
TURN LIGHTING ON LOW
Necromanti
Member
Which camera issue?
Lighting on Low stops my CTDs. I was able to get a few hours in crash free, turned lighting back up and the crashes came back. Lighting back down, crash free since. It's the only option I'm changing. Maybe medium will work. Only setting I haven't tried. It seems to perform about the same regardless.
AMD 1100t
Titan (newest driver)
8 GB
Win 8.1
AMD 1100t
Titan (newest driver)
8 GB
Win 8.1
recursive
Member
I had the opposite problem. My SLI 980ti setup wouldn't downclock at the temp limit (87c) and my cards would run up to 90C. Had to rollback to fix it.
Lancelot
Member
I have it, and hate it. Besides that, game's perfect.
Iorv3th
Member
Having problems with big picture and this game. If I launch in big picture I can't get the steam overlay to pull up. (trying to play with the steam control and modify it to get it right).
I also had the steam fps counter dissapear.
Also am now having the game tell me I can not play online because it noticed framerate issues. This was after I went into advanced settings (it auto set everything to high) and lowered shader detail (on a 970). After that it gives me the framerate error and even when I set everything back it still says that.
When the steam FPS counter was working it was showing pretty solid 60 with some minor drops to 59.
No crashes at all though
i7 2600
MSI 970 - Newest drivers
16GB DDR3
7200RPM WD Black
I also had the steam fps counter dissapear.
Also am now having the game tell me I can not play online because it noticed framerate issues. This was after I went into advanced settings (it auto set everything to high) and lowered shader detail (on a 970). After that it gives me the framerate error and even when I set everything back it still says that.
When the steam FPS counter was working it was showing pretty solid 60 with some minor drops to 59.
No crashes at all though
i7 2600
MSI 970 - Newest drivers
16GB DDR3
7200RPM WD Black
Getting them pretty frequently. Very disappointing. Not sure who to be angry at Nvidia or From because Nvidia drivers have been pretty shit lately.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
SWEETNESS, got the same card but with the i7-4790k. What drivers do you have?
The camera just spins around endlessly as if someone is holding down a stick of a controller. Thing is I've tried disconnecting all my controllers and even my mouse and KB in game and nothing is stopping it. I'll try a few more thing but I may have to try reinstalling the game.
texhnolyze
Banned
The Witcher 3, MGS V, and The Division was flawless.
Mad Max PC is quite literally perfect.
Orthogonal
Member
Doesn't seem to be universal, but lots of people reporting it. It's my only complaint, 60fps buttery smooth otherwise.
Had one death I attribute to it so far.
I'd say Nvidia. I tried running it on an original Kepler Titan just out of curiosity and it crashed left, right and center. No crashes in over 2 hours on my main Titan X, though. Go figure! ;-)
RenderJosh
Member
i5 2500k stock, GTX970 (364.72), 8GB RAM
First launch of the game (and 3 hours straight in it, not online since it was impossible to connect right after launch), game to the max/1080p, was having some really unruly framerate that kept going from 60 to 50 if not 40. It was strange this setting the game on Minimum setting didn't change anything. I also noticed a pretty aggressive LOD during my session, and also texture streaming issue after teleporting to a bonfire (for 1-2 seconds maybe, but definitely noticeable, but the fact is it's just strange for such a game).
After reading things about GPU not using its full potential, I decided to go to the NVidia Panel, and I forced the Thread Optimization on "True", and Power Management on "Maximum Performance". After rebooting the game (and connecting online, if it might change anything but wonder how it would), LOD is a lot less agressive, no more texture streaming issue and I finally got a stable 60FPS everywhere. Maybe a drop to 59 here and there, but this might be a framepacing issue here. Pretty happy now, but there's definitely something wrong with either the driver or the game.
PS : I also got some little slowdown when UI pop on-screen, like many others.
First launch of the game (and 3 hours straight in it, not online since it was impossible to connect right after launch), game to the max/1080p, was having some really unruly framerate that kept going from 60 to 50 if not 40. It was strange this setting the game on Minimum setting didn't change anything. I also noticed a pretty aggressive LOD during my session, and also texture streaming issue after teleporting to a bonfire (for 1-2 seconds maybe, but definitely noticeable, but the fact is it's just strange for such a game).
After reading things about GPU not using its full potential, I decided to go to the NVidia Panel, and I forced the Thread Optimization on "True", and Power Management on "Maximum Performance". After rebooting the game (and connecting online, if it might change anything but wonder how it would), LOD is a lot less agressive, no more texture streaming issue and I finally got a stable 60FPS everywhere. Maybe a drop to 59 here and there, but this might be a framepacing issue here. Pretty happy now, but there's definitely something wrong with either the driver or the game.
PS : I also got some little slowdown when UI pop on-screen, like many others.
