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Dark Souls II PC |OT| Give us smooth, Give us silky
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SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
Oh hi! 
Will do, thanks Grief. I might need some help since I don't know if I can put everything on the most decent settings since as most of you know, my upgrade was not a big one but I'm happy with it. I'm not going to bother people regarding this since I'm really amateur when it comes to tinkering with settings and I don't want to waste people's time with this issue. I'll be testing and learning step by step...
1080p and 60 FPS are my bare-minimum sticking points, I can turn down other options but I would prefer to have the clear resolution and smooth frame rate. One of the reasons console gaming is such an issue is generally they can't provide either of those options!
From there, you can turn off things like AA, AF, high-res textures, shadows, and AO. I find Ambient Occlusion (AO) generally takes the highest performance hit for very little effect on screen. By that I mean, it is very easy to notice the lack of AA, but AO is less likely to be noticed if you aren't directly looking for it.
Same here. The same for a friend of mine. AMD both.
Jazzkokehead
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Hey man, I don't know if this will help, but I got my controller working.
I'm using x360ce, once you have your controller set up in x360ce.exe, open up x360ce.cfg and under InputHook, add the line:
HookCOM=1
Now the right stick moves the camera, instead of attacking like before.
If you're not sure how to use x360ce or where to find it, here's a link.
Hope this works for you!
Nvidia. I even rolled back to previous drivers.
OldAsUrSock
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VPNs are pretty fast from my experience. 50Mb download with no VPN 450Mb with one.
dynamitejim
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So smooth and silky! Working fine on my 7870 XT. Load times are sooooo much better.
SargerusBR
I love Pokken!
I'm surprised that i'm running everything at max setting + SweetFX and still at solid 60fps, it only drops to 45-50 while in cutscenes or fog walls.
That's really good to know, thanks. I'll be sure to make further research or send you a PM with my Specs if that's not too much to ask. As for my Monitor I have no idea if it's good or what makes a Monitor good. I went for a decent price and I trusted my local store who have a very kind and helpful manager. I see lot's of people mentioning high-end Monitors with resolutions of 1440p and all that which is really out of my league.
I did a search on Google and my Monitor is this one: ASUS VS247 or ASUS VS247H-P I don't know what's the difference.
The only issue I have is not being able to downsample in clone mode. When both my TV and monitor are connected I can't, have to switch to just one monitor to enable...will this help with that, or is there any way to enable a workaround in such a case?
DS2 must be downsampled, so I'll deal with it regardless.
Totally possible. Sometimes injectors (Afterburner, Fraps, even the Steam Overlay) cause issues with games.
You generally don't see it in modern games as they are so common on PC, but could be an oversight by a still inexperienced From.
Generally starting these programs after the game is loaded fixes the issues.
Lower FPS during fog walls I can deal with.
YianGaruga
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Have you tried with and without the checkmark in "Enable Compatibility with modified Direct3D runtime libraries"? I don't know what it does, but that was often the cause of Dark Souls crashing for me.
It works perfectly fine for me just like most other games.
I've got nothing like that running, and I've disabled steam overlay.
Same issue. Looks like it hates AMD's AA. I guess we will have to settle for downscaling, but I'm too lazy to set it up with regedits.
Durante pls save us AMD users with your almighty downscale tool!!
Also Sweet FX doesn't want to work at all for me. not seeing any difference when enabling it.
Really no reason that it shouldn't work, but people are running into problems with xinput controllers today.
paperspace
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Cool thingy: the game remembers the window position so if you setup fullscreen windowed (via ShiftWindow) it will start in borderless window each time
Really no reason that it shouldn't work, but people are running into problems with xinput controllers today.
I'm going to guess that, like the first game, DSII supports Dinput and Xinput which can cause issues. I think in many cases a second controller is being detected and it's messing up the mappings.
I'll give it a shot.
By the way, what SweetFX settings should I be using for this game? Never used it before and the default settings are giving me weird pink artifacts.
So make sure the Hide DS4 controller option is selected
Check Durante's tweak article on PC Gamer.
cripterion
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The 360 pad is supported right?
Cramoss
Member
Ooh thanks for reminding me of that, but still getting the artifacts even with his settings. Oh well, I'll figure it out later!
Was playing on default visual settings, downsampled just fine, looked good. Quit and did the Inspector changes by Durante and now the game is crashing at startup every time and reverting the inspector changes didn't help. FUCK
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Nevermind, had crazy high resolution on that only kicked in during restart, fixed it on the config file.
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Nevermind, had crazy high resolution on that only kicked in during restart, fixed it on the config file.
zephervack
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Holy shit this is huge, based Durante!
see my post above.
6870 here. There's obviously some kind of issue here with the game - gahhhh
Well guys, I have a class that starts just before the game releases so I will be LTTP on this one. Unfortunate, but not too big a deal as I have already warned my girl friend about my 'absence' tonight and have tomorrow off.
PC Gamer article incoming.
Get hyped.
PC Gamer article incoming.
Get hyped.
UMBASA.
Working fine for me, no issues at all with DS4Tool 1.2.2
I am curious, would we all agree that the PlayStation 4 (forget Xbox One for a moment) is capable of handling this: http://youtu.be/vjZvXpOMGxY Dark Souls II TGS 2013 Trailer at native 1080p | 60 FPS ?
Edit: Also, the TGS 2013 gameplay demo, supposedly on PS3 (looks like it's running at 30 FPS, not 60, even taking YT limitations into account)
http://youtu.be/IWI-TRZQpwI
This TGS 2013 version of DSII (both the trailer and the gameplay demo) looks to be 100% real-time on some PC, and PS3 for the demo, yet not some pre-rendered nonsense.
I guess FROM decided that it was too much to run this version of the game on 360/PS3 at 720p | 30 FPS without major dips in framerate. Thus, the version we have now, which looks best on PC.
Keep in mind its very doubtful this somewhat more sophisticated version of DSII is making use of the DX11 / SM5 feature set.
To me, it just looks more like a solid DX9 / Shader Model 3 based graphics engine, but more than what the 360 / PS3 could handle at even 720p | 60 FPS.
So without building a demanding, state-of-the-art 'modern' graphics engine, could or could not the PS4 be made to handle the original version of DSII at 1080p | 60 if done by a competent team coding it ?
Regardless of the fact that FROM Software is not going to actually ever do something like that, and also not taking into account XBone's weaker GPU which has roughly half the pixel fillrate of PS4's,
Edit: Also, the TGS 2013 gameplay demo, supposedly on PS3 (looks like it's running at 30 FPS, not 60, even taking YT limitations into account)
http://youtu.be/IWI-TRZQpwI
This TGS 2013 version of DSII (both the trailer and the gameplay demo) looks to be 100% real-time on some PC, and PS3 for the demo, yet not some pre-rendered nonsense.
I guess FROM decided that it was too much to run this version of the game on 360/PS3 at 720p | 30 FPS without major dips in framerate. Thus, the version we have now, which looks best on PC.
Keep in mind its very doubtful this somewhat more sophisticated version of DSII is making use of the DX11 / SM5 feature set.
To me, it just looks more like a solid DX9 / Shader Model 3 based graphics engine, but more than what the 360 / PS3 could handle at even 720p | 60 FPS.
So without building a demanding, state-of-the-art 'modern' graphics engine, could or could not the PS4 be made to handle the original version of DSII at 1080p | 60 if done by a competent team coding it ?
Regardless of the fact that FROM Software is not going to actually ever do something like that, and also not taking into account XBone's weaker GPU which has roughly half the pixel fillrate of PS4's,
same
legacyzero
Banned
Oh my Buddha.
My good GAFfers, I don't think I ever asked this, but... can I get the biggest, warmest, great hug or the highest of fives, please? In .gif form or any other form is fine!
Because:
...Things just got REAL. HYPE is here, Coffee is done. Please let me join the Party with you all, fine people!
HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?!
Right? Fuck yes. The blanket of lag from the PS3 version is gone. It feels so much better.
..Dare I say I haven't noticed any strange hitboxes yet. I'm not going to claim they're any better than the console version. It might just feel that way because everything is so much smoother. And I haven't gotten to the worst offenders.
HD7950, No VPN, works fine. Whatever the issue is, it's not exclusive to AMD cards, and it might have something with using a VPN. I haven't heard anyone with early access to the game mention crashing.
d00d3n
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Sadly, running around in the intro area was not very representative. There is a huge persistent fps drop in Majula when you get close to the big hole in the ground. There were also minor temporary fps drops in the intro area when opening fog gates. The fps drops were there even with 4x SGSSAA and removing the sli settings from Dark Souls 1 resolved the issues (back to 60fps).
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