potatohead
Member
I tried this on my 760 and the game told me to fuck off basically and shut itself down
Dark Souls 3 PC performance thread
- Thread starter JaseC
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I tried this on my 760 and the game told me to fuck off basically and shut itself down
Kamina
Golden Boy
Disabling Hyperthreading improved that for me.
i7 4790
SLI 980s
At work now, but i played like 20 minutes before coming to labor. The game fluctuated between 42-60 frames in the first areas with the high preset 1080 on:
I5 4460 3.3 ghz (no OC)
8 gb ram
Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 2 gb
Windows 8.1
I tried the medium preset and the lows were now at 48, then tried the low preset and was spot on 60, but the water puddles looked really fugly. At the end i tried the max preset(with only high textures because 2 gb video card) and the lows went to 40 in the most intense lightning effects. So i guess i will give it a go with 30 locked on max or high.
Had zero crashes even in the bonfire areas, but i don't remember now my installed drivers. The only major problems was that my 360 controller didn't function at all, so i guess i will check the device manager and see if another previous detected controller is the fault.
I5 4460 3.3 ghz (no OC)
8 gb ram
Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 2 gb
Windows 8.1
I tried the medium preset and the lows were now at 48, then tried the low preset and was spot on 60, but the water puddles looked really fugly. At the end i tried the max preset(with only high textures because 2 gb video card) and the lows went to 40 in the most intense lightning effects. So i guess i will give it a go with 30 locked on max or high.
Had zero crashes even in the bonfire areas, but i don't remember now my installed drivers. The only major problems was that my 360 controller didn't function at all, so i guess i will check the device manager and see if another previous detected controller is the fault.
Minimum 2048mb, max 4093mb has worked for a couple of us itt
Beerman462
Member
i5 6600K @ 4.4GHz
16GBs DDR4 @ 3GHz
7970 3GB @ 1000/1450
At 1920x1080 with high settings I was getting 60fps with dips as low as 49fps.
I changed everything to med except max textures and high SSAO and held 60fps alot better still get small infrequent dips to maybe 56fps.
No crashes.
16GBs DDR4 @ 3GHz
7970 3GB @ 1000/1450
At 1920x1080 with high settings I was getting 60fps with dips as low as 49fps.
I changed everything to med except max textures and high SSAO and held 60fps alot better still get small infrequent dips to maybe 56fps.
No crashes.
DealWithIt
Member
1440P 60fps max but only low motion blur. ( what setting for motion blur do people prefer? The game seemed slightly "doll like" with no motion blur)
980TI 75% load 16 gb ddr4
The only performance problem I've noticed is that summon signs sometimes cause the game to stutter for a moment. It's not a major problem but it is annoying. Generally impressed with the look of the game at high resolution plays very nicely. If you're thinking about making the jump to higher resolution I can tell you it was worth it for me.
980TI 75% load 16 gb ddr4
The only performance problem I've noticed is that summon signs sometimes cause the game to stutter for a moment. It's not a major problem but it is annoying. Generally impressed with the look of the game at high resolution plays very nicely. If you're thinking about making the jump to higher resolution I can tell you it was worth it for me.
This. . .is exactly what just happened to me. What the hell. Everything ELSE stays the same except the lighting.
TatteredHat
Member
Is the FOV ridiculously low in the PC port? Feels like I'm not seeing nearly as much as I was on the PS4.
Iorv3th
Member
Nobody has found a way yet. Will probably have to be patched.
nismogrendel
Member
2500k
980gtx
16gb ram
Anyone with similar specs? How does it run?
I'd like to do 2560x1600 resolution
980gtx
16gb ram
Anyone with similar specs? How does it run?
I'd like to do 2560x1600 resolution
I have:
GTX970
i5-4670k@3,4 GHz
8GB ram
Getting unplayable amount of framedrops, goes from 50-60 (Just that is bad in and of itself, it's almost never up in 60 on any setting) to 1-20 frames about every 10 sec at times, this is in tutorial area so it shouldn't be too demanding so something wrong.
Playing in 1080p btw.
GTX970
i5-4670k@3,4 GHz
8GB ram
Getting unplayable amount of framedrops, goes from 50-60 (Just that is bad in and of itself, it's almost never up in 60 on any setting) to 1-20 frames about every 10 sec at times, this is in tutorial area so it shouldn't be too demanding so something wrong.
Playing in 1080p btw.
GAMETA
Banned
this is how bad the stuttering is on my PC.
Pleas skip to 0:50, I don't usually do videos so I didn't have a software to edit it
https://youtu.be/uh5xZDr9Msw?t=46s
Pleas skip to 0:50, I don't usually do videos so I didn't have a software to edit it
https://youtu.be/uh5xZDr9Msw?t=46s
Stevey
Member
this is how bad is the stuttering on my PC.
Pleas skip to 0:50, I don't usually do videos and I didn't have a software to edit it
https://youtu.be/uh5xZDr9Msw?t=46s
thats really bad, what are your specs?
this is how bad is the stuttering on my PC.
Pleas skip to 0:50, I don't usually do videos and I didn't have a software to edit it
https://youtu.be/uh5xZDr9Msw?t=46s
yup this is the amount I'm getting.
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Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
I have to say I'm noticing a fair amount of pop in now that I'm in
the poison swamp area
JudgmentJay
Member
So I was finally able to get DS3 to not crash at 4k, and much to my surprise I was getting a locked 60 FPS. AA, DoF, and motion blur are off and lighting is set to low. All other settings max. Turning AA on didn't make a real difference in image quality and it didn't affect FPS so I just kept it off.
Large PNG of the third area
Large PNG of the third area
GAMETA
Banned
GTX 770 2Gb, 16Gb RAM, i7 4770
What's strange though is that it occurs only when transiting different areas or accessing the menu. =/
VidulaSaix
Member
Its the auto save. Noticed it myself. Not as bad as that video, but it does happen.
loganclaws
Plane Escape Torment
Same pc here, at 1080p max settings I got 60 fps constant without any dips in the first area.
Setting the config file to read-only may work. You'll find it in C:\Users\[account name]\AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsIII.
GAMETA
Banned
wow, I didn't notice it before, but yeah, seems to be related to the auto save indeed... stuttering is not a game breaker for me, but damn, it's annoying. =/
VariableTerry
Member
i5 2500k, 8GB RAM and a GTX570.
It's definitely rough. Running everything on the lowest and even had to turn down the resolution and it still ranges wildly from 15-50 fps. CPU and RAM are at decent levels while playing, it must be hitting the GPU really hard. The very first area was the worst, especially when looking at the sky. Still playable though. I should be able to tweak the settings to get it a little better looking while maintaining the current framerate. It's weird, I think this is the first game to really give it trouble. Witcher 3 and Fallout 4 weren't an issue for it. Finally starting to considering a new video card.
It's definitely rough. Running everything on the lowest and even had to turn down the resolution and it still ranges wildly from 15-50 fps. CPU and RAM are at decent levels while playing, it must be hitting the GPU really hard. The very first area was the worst, especially when looking at the sky. Still playable though. I should be able to tweak the settings to get it a little better looking while maintaining the current framerate. It's weird, I think this is the first game to really give it trouble. Witcher 3 and Fallout 4 weren't an issue for it. Finally starting to considering a new video card.
Yes, I had this and it was super annoying. But after I restarted the game it disappeared. Try it. [Edit: and now it's back again... it's horrible]
Apart from that game runs great, no stuttering or crashes so far. GTX 970 here, max settings on 1080p and I have stable 60 FPS in the first area of the game. Also I had no crash at first bonfire that many people report.
So are half the textures in the game supposed to be muddy, blurry garbage? I have the Lothric Knight's armor and all the metal bits look so messy and terrible I can barely tell what I'm looking at. Nevermind stuff like the textures on the cliff during the scene after the second boss fight (who had way less HP than I was expecting)
Nyteshade517
Member
yeah...the autosave stutter is the only issue I've had with the PC version so far (Cemetery of Ash and Firelink Shrine areas)...no bonfire crashes, memory errors, etc that I've seen here
i5-4690K
290X (16.4.1 Driver)
16GB RAM
Game installed on HDD
nothing overclocked...all settings at the highest except DoF and Motion Blur off (preference)...1080p/60 FPS at almost all times so far
i5-4690K
290X (16.4.1 Driver)
16GB RAM
Game installed on HDD
nothing overclocked...all settings at the highest except DoF and Motion Blur off (preference)...1080p/60 FPS at almost all times so far
GTX970
i5 2500K ocd to 3300
SSD
16 gb ram
NOTE: Upgraded to nvidia's latest drivers last night, had to rollback to the first week of March drivers as the game constantly crashed (was global, did in the Division too so the low lighting trick does not apply here).
Running at 2560 x 1440 medium with occasional hitches, otherwise looks great and mostly stable frame-rate.
Could be better but I'm happy.
i5 2500K ocd to 3300
SSD
16 gb ram
NOTE: Upgraded to nvidia's latest drivers last night, had to rollback to the first week of March drivers as the game constantly crashed (was global, did in the Division too so the low lighting trick does not apply here).
Running at 2560 x 1440 medium with occasional hitches, otherwise looks great and mostly stable frame-rate.
Could be better but I'm happy.
Iorv3th
Member
Have mine set at that, does nothing. The stuttering when picking up items etc has to be something else.
Duebrithil
Member
Towards the end of my last night's playing session the game was constantly crashing near the firelink shrine bonfire.
I don't know if it makes any difference but I only had pants equipped on my character + shortsword and shield. Graphics settings were maxed out at 1080p using a gtx 780ti, 16GB or RAM and i7 3770.
Once I lowered lighting to "High" instead of "Max" this seems to have done the trick and I actually managed to take a steps away from the bonfire without crash! Success! Tonight I will see if the crashing persists.
Convinced there's some major memory leaks at play here.
I also hate how this seems to be how most modern PC games work for me - I enjoy the game itself for a short time and then I'm being converted to a fucking beta tester for bugs...I guess that's what you sign up for when purchasing new games on day 1...
Edit: Has anyone on a fairly similar system checked RAM (not VRAM) usage during DS3?
I don't know if it makes any difference but I only had pants equipped on my character + shortsword and shield. Graphics settings were maxed out at 1080p using a gtx 780ti, 16GB or RAM and i7 3770.
Once I lowered lighting to "High" instead of "Max" this seems to have done the trick and I actually managed to take a steps away from the bonfire without crash! Success! Tonight I will see if the crashing persists.
Convinced there's some major memory leaks at play here.
I also hate how this seems to be how most modern PC games work for me - I enjoy the game itself for a short time and then I'm being converted to a fucking beta tester for bugs...I guess that's what you sign up for when purchasing new games on day 1...
Edit: Has anyone on a fairly similar system checked RAM (not VRAM) usage during DS3?
VariableTerry
Member
<3, this is awesome, will try this out tonight!
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
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 C
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!
Thanks so much for posting this. Upping my virtual memory seems to have fixed it. Didn't even have to mess with borderless window mode.
Stevey
Member
Strange.
According to Afterburner, the game is using more than 2GB VRAM for me at 1080, maybe thats got something to do with it.
Nice, I'll try it too, as my card is close to the ones listed. (GTX 470)
Runs pretty badly at 720p everything low... :|
Running just a bit better would make me happy,
before I purchase a new video card later this year.
Huckleberry
Neo Member
Game runs at a steady 60fps @ 1440p, except when it's autosaving. It stutters like crazy while the flame icon is onscreen and for a few seconds after. I've got everything on Max except Water Surface and SSAO, which I've got on High.
Specs: i7 3770k @ 4.2, 980Ti, 32 GB RAM.
I realize they've got bigger fish to fry with CTDs and performance issues, but I really hope they can smooth out the autosaves because this game is otherwise gorgeous.
Specs: i7 3770k @ 4.2, 980Ti, 32 GB RAM.
I realize they've got bigger fish to fry with CTDs and performance issues, but I really hope they can smooth out the autosaves because this game is otherwise gorgeous.
Exact same specs, and exact same issue. Its barely impacting my enjoyment of the game though, its minor.