Dark Souls internal rendering resolution fix (DSfix)
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morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Read the read me.
Ah, of course the one line I missed is the one that started with "IMPORTANT". Thanks for the minimal sass
I picked up again the game. Last time I played thd Durante's mod was version 0.6.
Now the question.
I have a 5:4 (1280x1024) monitor and the game is displayed letterboxed, with the two black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, resulting in an effective game resolution of 1280x720.
Is there a way, with the new version of the mod, to disable the letterbox and make the game really* render at fullscreen?
*I mean no stretching.
Thanks
Now the question.
I have a 5:4 (1280x1024) monitor and the game is displayed letterboxed, with the two black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, resulting in an effective game resolution of 1280x720.
Is there a way, with the new version of the mod, to disable the letterbox and make the game really* render at fullscreen?
*I mean no stretching.
Thanks
StarCreator
Member
No, not with DSFix alone.
Finally got this running at a decent framerate. Is there any way to make the game default to offline mode? It's irritating to get the prompt telling me the framerate is insufficient for online play.
Otherwise, fun fun game. It's grueling as hell, but every time I squeeze my way out of a difficult fight after luring those black knights or those headless stone golems, it makes me appreciate obtaining one of their rare drops all the more. Especially since it makes my 3-hit-kill runs of low-level zombies to one-hit kills that allow me to sweep a level that took me almost an hour to mere minutes.
I also like how even though it feels like you're cheating by spamming arrows at a much higher level mini boss that's stuck in a corner somewhere, you know you're still going to get your ass royally kicked later on anyway.
Otherwise, fun fun game. It's grueling as hell, but every time I squeeze my way out of a difficult fight after luring those black knights or those headless stone golems, it makes me appreciate obtaining one of their rare drops all the more. Especially since it makes my 3-hit-kill runs of low-level zombies to one-hit kills that allow me to sweep a level that took me almost an hour to mere minutes.
I also like how even though it feels like you're cheating by spamming arrows at a much higher level mini boss that's stuck in a corner somewhere, you know you're still going to get your ass royally kicked later on anyway.
No luck as in, can't find the ini file that dictates internal rendering or can't get the game to run decently?
My machine can barely run the game, so I had to change the internal to the same res as what my monitor is capable at max. Was the only way to get it running at near 30fps with some additional texture mods.
zephervack
Member
Been using 1.9 for like 50 hours, 0 complaints, performance is actually better than the base game.
I seem to have figured it out - I was curious what other people had set for their specific PC specs though!
John Rabbit
Banned
on this note, all the HUD meters (like for poisoning and boss health bars) display incorrectly for me. they're shrunken and sometimes duplicated. anyway to fix this?
StarCreator
Member
Read the readme.
Implementing all the out-of-the-ordinary meters requires significant effort that no one is willing to put in, so you have no option but to revert to the standard UI for them to display correctly. This is why there is a hotkey to do so.
Would be nice, I'm trying 3840x2160 with a 810 dof pyramid but the game drops to 15 fps in many places... don't know if it's my drivers or anything but I recall those drops being much less frequent last time I played.
edit : did some tweaking, 540 dof, ssao scale 2 instead of 1, 95% of the dips gone. Good shit.
StarCreator
Member
ok so I'm getting confused by the two different settings zones.
My monitor is native 1920x1200. So I set the DSFix ini to that. Then, in the in-game settings I turned off AA as instructioned, and set display resolution to 1920x1200 but then the game gets letterboxed. In what world does that make sense? If I set the resolution to 1920x1080 it fills the screen but looks kinda whack.
any advice/explanation?
My monitor is native 1920x1200. So I set the DSFix ini to that. Then, in the in-game settings I turned off AA as instructioned, and set display resolution to 1920x1200 but then the game gets letterboxed. In what world does that make sense? If I set the resolution to 1920x1080 it fills the screen but looks kinda whack.
any advice/explanation?
Yeah, at such a high downsampling resolution I'd suggest using the SSAO scale feature. Any GPU will suffer trying to do full-res SSAO with that resolution (on top of everything else).
The game doesn't support aspect ratios other than 16:9, and I couldn't fix that so far.
Ah ha, from the man himself. Cool then I'll just do the 1080p within the game and then fool around with doubling that on DSFix.
Dictator93
Member
Any luck on 120hz support yet durante?
Too bad my computer keeps killing video cards. Ill only have 1 gtx 470 in the future now
Lost Fragment
Obsessed with 4chan
So I toggled on 60 fps mode on a whim, not thinking it would perform that well on my machine since I have problems with particle effects from fog gates, fire, etc, taking me down to 15 fps. The centipede demon fight is pretty unfun because of this, and PVP is out of the question in a lot of areas because of all the fog gates.
It runs better with the fps unlocked, and things that would bring me down to 15 fps before now only bring me down to 30.
It runs better with the fps unlocked, and things that would bring me down to 15 fps before now only bring me down to 30.
Yeah I think it's just how the game's vsync works, as in it drops straight to 15 from 30 and to 30 from 60. Two frame v-sync?
I'm getting WILD screen tearing with framerate unlocked. anyone else see this? breaks my heart, because it looks great at 60hz when the screen doesn't tear.
as is, running rock solid 30, internal rendering at double 1920x1200, downsampling to native res and damn if it is doesn't look great and run smooth as butter.
as is, running rock solid 30, internal rendering at double 1920x1200, downsampling to native res and damn if it is doesn't look great and run smooth as butter.
You need to run either in borderless windowed fullscreen mode, see the .ini for that.
Or if you want "real" fullscreen for some reason you can use D3Doverrider to force triple buffering.
StarCreator
Member
I'm trying to get this working but it doesn't render anything with the fix enabled. I just get a white screen
running on windows 8. nvidia card.
What are the settings you're trying in dsfix.ini?
Errr default settings i guess. I must have fucked up something along the way.
going to need more info if we're going to help.
Figured it out myself! For whatever reason the game doesn't seem to work with DSFix and windowed mode... on my computer. Running it in fullscreen works fine.
So beautiful. *sheds a tear*
Funchameleon
Banned
So, what the hell did the patch that just dropped do, apart from break DSfix's frame rate unlock?
If you're having issues disable that, by the way
If you're having issues disable that, by the way
Sir Ilpalazzo
Member
So, what the hell did the patch that just dropped do, apart from break DSfix's frame rate unlock?
If you're having issues disable that, by the way
That sucks. The game runs unplayably badly for me unless I have the framerate unlocker on. I guess it's time for a Dark Souls break.
So, what the hell did the patch that just dropped do, apart from break DSfix's frame rate unlock?
If you're having issues disable that, by the way
Seems like a performance patch.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Damn, I can't even boot the game after the latest patch with the framerate unlocked. They better not be intentionally trying to disable it.
Hopefully base Durante can fix things soon.
Hopefully base Durante can fix things soon.
See the game was thought with shitty framerate, Durante is undermining that vision!
I'll have a look at the patched executable at some point, but I can't promise anything. Did it break anything other than the framerate unlock? The rest of the features should be somewhat resilient.
(At least I think there is
)
There's a setting for the path in the .ini
(At least I think there is
)Metalmurphy
Member
I hope they're not intentionally trying to patch the fps unlock... I mean, it wouldn't shock me if they were...
d00d3n
Member
When was the new patch released? Coincidentally I installed Dark Souls steam version and DSfix today before going to work (6 hours ago or so). My testing only consisted of running around like a fool in Undead Parish for five minutes, but I'm almost certain that 60 fps worked just fine. The game started without a hitch and was definitely running at more than 30 fps.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
First report of a patch was about 3 hours ago. So, yeah, it probably got patched sometime between when you installed it and now.
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
Someone who knows they haven't had their DATA.exe updated, make sure you do not log into Steam. Copy out that file before starting Steam and send it to Durante.
For the love of god.