Dark Souls 3 PC performance thread
- Thread starter JaseC
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Hey guys, if anyone else has crashing with "Your computer is running low on memory", monitor losing connection, other general weirdness, and setting lighting to low doesn't do anything, maybe try the following suggestion (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/4edfpm/pc_tech_support_megathread/d1z9ot9)
For reference I have 6GB of RAM, which I was worried might be the issue, but the games been running fine at around 40 - 60 FPS on max settings (GTX 780) aside from the crashing, which I think this fixed.
For Windows 8 (and probably 10):
-search "This PC"
-right click "This PC" and select Properties
-select "Advanced System Settings" in the sidebar
-Select the advanced tab
-under Performance, click "Settings"
-select the Advanced tab
-under Virtual Memory, select "Change"
-de-select "Automatically manage paging file size for all drives".
-Select your primary drive (probably Cand select Custom Size
How much you set for the virtual memory here is up to you, people had results with at least 2048MB but I set that as the initial size, and set the maximum size to 4093MB. I had two drives so I set both of them to have this initial and maximum size.
This alone did not fix my crashes, so I also tried the borderless window fix even though it didn't seem like it would do anything. Turns out, for me it did! I was able to play for a whole hour (gasp) without crashing, and I stopped just because I have other things to do. First time I've quit the game on purpose lol. Before that I would literally crash after at most five minutes in game in Lothric, usually with a low memory warning or with my computer completely shutting down and restarting on its own (not a good sign).
The third party app I used for bordered windowless was WindowedBorderlessGaming. It came in a zip, and running the executable was enough to get the game to run in windowed borderless mode. Like I said, since then I haven't had any issues (granted I've only played an hour since then)
JaseC, could we mention this fix in the first post? I was getting pretty discouraged when the only fix I could find was setting Lighting to low, and was very relieved to find this fix buried in the reddit tech support megathread! It sounds like there are other people having this issue, though not as many as the lighting problem.
edit:
Give this a shot, hopefully it'll fix the issue for you as well!
You are a lifesaver, man. I was almost about to give up/wait for a patch, until I checked this thread and saw your post. Fixed all of the problems I had(low memory), thank you!
ISee
Member
I'm on an 3570k (oc to 4.3) and so far it's not bottlenecking me.
i5-4690k and 980 (Win 10, SSD and High Performance mode)
Running at 1440p and getting weird stutters every now and then (assuming it's the auto-save stuff). More egregious is the stutter that happens when exiting menus - game drops to 40FPS for a hot second and then corrects itself.
GPU is not running at my max overclock for some reason and usage is always 99%. Is that right? I seem to mostly hit 60FPS but have dropped down to the mid 50s a few times. Luckily, G-Sync monitor makes that negligible but I thought I'd have better performance at Max settings.
Running at 1440p and getting weird stutters every now and then (assuming it's the auto-save stuff). More egregious is the stutter that happens when exiting menus - game drops to 40FPS for a hot second and then corrects itself.
GPU is not running at my max overclock for some reason and usage is always 99%. Is that right? I seem to mostly hit 60FPS but have dropped down to the mid 50s a few times. Luckily, G-Sync monitor makes that negligible but I thought I'd have better performance at Max settings.
I have a GTX 870 and appear to be GPU limited. My framerate is fluctuating between 40-60 around the first bonfire at 1080p.
I've never tried overclocking before, but I'm tempted to at the OP's suggestion. I have MSI Afterburner; how much higher would y'all recommend I overclock it to?
I've never tried overclocking before, but I'm tempted to at the OP's suggestion. I have MSI Afterburner; how much higher would y'all recommend I overclock it to?
Smooth Operator
Member
Fingers crossed for my I5-2500k stock / GTX670
potatohead
Member
That texture.
Haha I was kind of shocked when I saw that, only bad one up close I've seen though.
Still hoping for a forced AA solution or AA injector, anyone?
Do we know for sure whether a patch is coming soon or not? Keep hearing rumors of some "version 1.1" or whatever but I can't tell if that's just confusion.
I haven't actually played yet but it sounds like somewhat of a gamble whether or not it works. Regardless of if I wind up having issues or not I'd love to see it fixed for the sake of those who do.
I haven't actually played yet but it sounds like somewhat of a gamble whether or not it works. Regardless of if I wind up having issues or not I'd love to see it fixed for the sake of those who do.
Yeah other than that I've seen nothing similar so far, but this one really catches the eye, because it's not for away from your character
So here's my rig:
i7 6700k
8 GB DDR4
R9 390 8 GB
Can run everything max at 1080@60 fps. So now I'm wondering, how can I juice this up with Afterburner/Rivatuner/Radeon Settings.
I tried using Radeon turned pretty much everything on, max resolution possible and I got around 45 fps or something, but I want to to 60. I don't know what to prioritize though. Downsampling? 8xEQ? Anisotropic 16x? I have very little idea what these mean lol
i7 6700k
8 GB DDR4
R9 390 8 GB
Can run everything max at 1080@60 fps. So now I'm wondering, how can I juice this up with Afterburner/Rivatuner/Radeon Settings.
I tried using Radeon turned pretty much everything on, max resolution possible and I got around 45 fps or something, but I want to to 60. I don't know what to prioritize though. Downsampling? 8xEQ? Anisotropic 16x? I have very little idea what these mean lol
High Fry Frow
Member
Doesn't SweetFX's SMAA work just fine?
It's probably better than the FXAA provided in-game.
Go for downsampling, that'll give you the best image quality (in my opinion).
LucidMomentum
Member
i5-4790k @ 4.3 GHz, EVGA GTX 980 Ti SC 6GB with minor overclock (+50 / +100 or so), everything maxed at 2560x1440, 60 FPS with occasional 59 fps drops and drops to 40 fps when looting corpses sometimes.
Other than that, runs perfect and it doesn't tax my system very much. Haven't check temps and what not but it's no louder than everyday use / light gaming.
Other than that, runs perfect and it doesn't tax my system very much. Haven't check temps and what not but it's no louder than everyday use / light gaming.
They probably did this to make traveling to the shrine faster, otherwise they would have to load the whole area.
Iorv3th
Member
Do you mean 780? I think you will have to turn lighting down. I believe it's a problem with 600 and 700 cards.
I noticed that too. Maybe it's loading all of the outside area before letting you go out and when you warp to the shrine it just initially loads the shrine so you can get in faster without waiting on loading times? I have no idea.
That texture.
It looks like one of the early areas of Demons Souls.
Reizo Ryuu
Member
Yes, I made two other posts about this in this topic, it sucks.
sssstententen
Member
6700k, 980ti here on 1440p as well, exact same situation down to the weird drops when looting/reading a network message. Its strange, but I'm gonna have a tough time playing this on PS4 with my friends after how great this feels.
potatohead
Member
Lol Demon's never looked that bad
Those are like PS2-budget-title level textures XD
Hope it gets patched, it's really jarring seeing it in game lol.
Ryu bogard
Member
I am running the game on the high setting pretty smooth but there are some random hitching/slowdowns happening. even when there is nothing on screen.
970
i5 6600k
16gb ram
970
i5 6600k
16gb ram
I'm running an old ass 680 and an old ass i5 and its sticking to 60 fps. It's running so well I decided to just rent the Xbox one version.
potatohead
Member
I haven't tried it yet, I usually fuck up my settings royally when I use SweetFX somehow.... lol.
Sword Of Doom
Member
No problem, glad it works.
Is there a noticeable difference between Low and max lighting? Haven't had any time to compare
Stevey
Member
It doesnt look as good as max, but it looks fine.
Heres a screen I took, everything maxed except lighting at low.
That texture.
Yeah, there's a ton of low detail hanging just out of your normal field of view.
I wonder if this is a result of having the levels be so goddamn huge.
Regardless, this is easily the ugliest souls game. Although it's "mute everything fuck color greys and red forever" direction doesn't do it any favors everything looks so rough and the texture quality on max sucks. It feels like I'm playing a poorly optimized game from 2010.
QuantumSquid
Member
GTX 970 and i5-4460 here, I get solid 60fps at 1080p with everything set to "High", SSAO on, AA on, etc. I believe that is what constitutes max settings?
My only issue is some micro stutter every so often, and brief moments of lag when I do certain things like retrieving my souls.
My only issue is some micro stutter every so often, and brief moments of lag when I do certain things like retrieving my souls.
I'm getting the same problem with the freeze/stutter while it saves, even though my game and the saves are on an ssd. Anyone know a fix for this? Just something we have to deal with?
GAMETA
Banned
That texture.
ICO, is that you? hahahaha
Stevey
Member
A lot of settings go above high to max.
I get a few weird drops when I pick stuff up or open menus.
JebaÄBiedÄ
Banned
770 4gb
i5-3570
1080p/60fps/medium
no drops. good enough.
i5-3570
1080p/60fps/medium
no drops. good enough.
Collateral22
Member
Any reported crashing with the game? Friend of mine keeps having it go to a black screen and crashing at different points.
Hierophant
Banned
Sorry if this is the wrong place for this but I'm tossing up between PS4 version or PC version.
Radeon R9 270
i5-4670
What's the highest I can run it at 60fps?
Radeon R9 270
i5-4670
What's the highest I can run it at 60fps?
Stevey
Member
Try setting lighting to low.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
Reporting back. I'm 5 hours total on playtime. No issues since I posted this, other than some textures loading in slowly and very rare stuttering.
GAMETA
Banned
IcyRhythms
Member
Anyone tried downsampling @4K on a 980 Ti? What sort of performance are you getting?
I tried running the game at 4k DSR on my 970, it's not as bad as I thought, runs perfectly smooth in character creation (Obviously) in game it's pretty rough, probably unplayable to some but not all, it runs about as rough as the console versions at their worse, for me anyway.
It's enough to still be fine for messing around and taking screenshots and the CC but I wouldn't recommend going through the whole game this way.
Bjoern the Smexy
Member
It may not be surprising but my old fart of a gaming laptop cannot play this game.
My specs:
Intel i5 460 M @ 2.53 GHz
nVidia GeForce GTX M460 (1.5 GB VRAM)
8 GB RAM (DDR3)
The character creator runs fluidly at 45-60 fps (depending on how close the camera is to the character). But as soon as you're put into the game it crawls to 10 fps. It doesn't even matter if I set everything to highest or lowest setting. Nothing makes a difference, except for resolution, but even then it only makes a difference of 1 or 2 fps. Which is very strange.
When I turned the camera though suddenly my FPS counter jumped up to 45 fps. I noticed that whenever there is some sort of volumetric fog or smoke on screen the game drops to 10fps or slightly below. If it weren't for these clouds of fog/dust/smoke the game would probably run smooth as fuck on my old rig.
Got the game for PS4 instead. I'm a bit sad because I can't play with my closest friends now. But that just means that I'll die a lot on my own then.
I was still able to make the best character ever, though. He looks like he belongs on an ancient Greek coin:
Which is even more true if you see him from the front:
I love these character creators.
My specs:
Intel i5 460 M @ 2.53 GHz
nVidia GeForce GTX M460 (1.5 GB VRAM)
8 GB RAM (DDR3)
The character creator runs fluidly at 45-60 fps (depending on how close the camera is to the character). But as soon as you're put into the game it crawls to 10 fps. It doesn't even matter if I set everything to highest or lowest setting. Nothing makes a difference, except for resolution, but even then it only makes a difference of 1 or 2 fps. Which is very strange.
When I turned the camera though suddenly my FPS counter jumped up to 45 fps. I noticed that whenever there is some sort of volumetric fog or smoke on screen the game drops to 10fps or slightly below. If it weren't for these clouds of fog/dust/smoke the game would probably run smooth as fuck on my old rig.
Got the game for PS4 instead. I'm a bit sad because I can't play with my closest friends now. But that just means that I'll die a lot on my own then.
I was still able to make the best character ever, though. He looks like he belongs on an ancient Greek coin:
Which is even more true if you see him from the front:
I love these character creators.