Dark Souls internal rendering resolution fix (DSfix)
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morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
It auto updates. Try starting Steam in offline, right click Dark Souls and telling Steam not to update it.
You might have to play it in offline mode until there is a fix.
I haven't done any extensive testing yet, but so far it seems like it, yes.
I'm still looking for an original DATA.exe
I have one Durante, not sure what I can use to send it over to you though.
You can get the old file back by checking the Windows version history in the right-click menu of the file.
Maybe someone send you a PM.
PM'd
You should remove the link. Its not exactly "legal".
Subterranean
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Surprised the hell out of me to see the update come up for Dark Souls. I thought they just gave up on it.
Me too. That's why I didn't even put it on "no auto-update" on Steam. I simply didn't expect them to do anything.
Does anyone have any idea what the patch actually changes? (Outside of messing up the FPS unlock I mean
)Oh and btw, thanks for the .exe, got it now!
scorpscarx
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Are there noticeably more people online or noticeably less from the launch, I put in like 150 hours right after it came out on PC then stopped because no one was around.
I immediately noticed a change in sound. In the forest, I could hear wind rustling through the trees for the first time. The whole place was always very quiet for me until now.Does anyone have any idea what the patch actually changes? (Outside of messing up the FPS unlock I mean
paperspace
Member
Are you playing in stereo?
Ah, maybe they fixed the downmix to stereo. That would be good, since some people don't have hardware that offers an easy workaround.
Holy shit you're right, they finally fixed the sound! It sounds kinda weird now haha.
Pretty sure, yes, though I'll have to verify next time I boot things up. I wear headphones, so the change in wind effects was very startling at first.
Cannon Goose
Member
FXAA is broken, yo.
That's with FXAA set to 4 in the config.
I think the sound mix has been fixed though. It's a little hard to tell.
That's with FXAA set to 4 in the config.
I think the sound mix has been fixed though. It's a little hard to tell.
That sucks. I'll look into it.
Lasthope106
Member
The game was fine as it was. Can't believe the incompetence of BAMCO. They should have gotten in touch with you Durante, to discuss ways for your fix to not break. Does anyone in that fucking company read neoGAF?!
morningbus
Serious Sam is a wicked gahbidge series for chowdaheads.
I'm just amazed someone at From is still working on this port.
StarCreator
Member
At this point even if the developers wanted to there's no way they'd be allowed to. It would pretty much be a public admission of incompetence. Corporate would just want them to go on as if DSFix didn't exist.
Was Dark Souls PC even distributed in Japan, and are there any Japanese sites talking about DSFix if so?
Metalmurphy
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Japan can get it through Steam.
Metalmurphy
Member
I'm guessing his fix also broke with this?
As the FPS unlock included in DSfix is pretty much just the latest version of his fix with some further improvements, yes, absolutely.
Felix Lighter
Member
It's rare to be thankful for poor developer support but in this case, I'd rather they just left it alone unless they were able to completely eliminate online exploits and unlock the framerate themselves.
HungOverOnATues
Member
Please tell me that they fixed the online connectivity problems. Please.
If you read up on the Steam forum post detailing how the multiplayer works, you'll find that it's just a really quirky P2P method that grabs a random pool of online players and shares their summon signs, messages, miracle resonance, bloodstains, live bonfire images, etc. Fixing the issues would probably mean changing the way it decides who's no longer onlgine and thus no longer eligible in the pool. There are also problems with peoples' summon signs showing up after they've left the area.
Summoning in DkS is torture.
Luckily they're ditching the P2P thing in DkS2.
It only broke the framerate unlocker AFAIK. I always played at 30 anyway for fear of weird collision detection and deadly ladders.
HungOverOnATues
Member
While the p2p nature of the game is definitely a big factor, DkS online on the PC is much like it was on consoles at launch, but since 1.05 on consoles it's actually worked pretty well all things considered. There are a good number of summon signs on consoles and summon attempts work most of the time now whereas on PC you get "Summoning Failed" 9 times out of 10.
It seems like it fixed the 5.1 surround sound bug where certain channels were just not played if you're audio wasn't set to 5.1
Metalmurphy
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Game is locked to 30fps now.