LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Can you explain the backbuffer Durante? Is that what I want to change to my native monitor res? It's at 1284x720 or something right now. Otherwise I set it to 2560x1440 on the upscaling.
Dark Souls internal rendering resolution fix (DSfix)
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If there's ever a 60 FPS solution, it'll be a lot more involved than that. People have already unlocked the framerate, but the game's speed scales to it.
Hey, I'm having the "set everything to high!" on Catalyst issue. Rendering at 3840x2400 (yes, overkill) and filteringOverride 2, I'm getting 70% GPU usage, which is fine. There's some stuttering, but it's probably loading from the HDD or whatever.
However, sometimes, it just drops to 15 FPS (and GPU usage goes to 40%) and stays that way, for no reason.
Now, people have said "put everything on max on catalyst lawl" but I don't quite liked doing that because that setting would be applied to all my games and I hate the blur that AA introduces in the mix.
Which .EXE I should make a profile for? DATA.exe ou DARK SOULS.exe?
Also, does anybody know which specific setting fixes the issue?
However, sometimes, it just drops to 15 FPS (and GPU usage goes to 40%) and stays that way, for no reason.
Now, people have said "put everything on max on catalyst lawl" but I don't quite liked doing that because that setting would be applied to all my games and I hate the blur that AA introduces in the mix.
Which .EXE I should make a profile for? DATA.exe ou DARK SOULS.exe?
Also, does anybody know which specific setting fixes the issue?
I do think an FPS might be possible.
The game clearly runs at proper speed at both 30fps and 15fps, which means there's some logic in the game somewhere to scale the keyframed animations for 15fps to work. I think 60fps may be doable if that logic can just be inversed. Might be stuck with 30fps animations regardless of the game's framerate, though (similar to Halo PC).
Felix Lighter
Member
Data.exe
BloodyBonzai
Neo Member
Only things I can think of include try using default values in NVIDIA control panel. Try using D3DOverrider, or if you are using D3DOverrider try it without. Close out of any tools such as Afterburner or Precision and see if that makes a difference. I have no idea if doing any of these will fix the problem.
If you go into the PC Settings screen, does it show your monitor's refresh rate as 60Hz?
Yes sir, it does.
I would stick with Filter override "1" Dude this fixed it for me and it still Looks GREAT, unless of course your running some kinda SLI/CF Setup with top end cards, in that case disregard this
BloodyBonzai
Neo Member
Any idea on how to do that, might help those stuck at a constant 15fps.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I'm not sure either but I'm also overriding it in with RadeonPro. Can't even find the right setting or this filter override setting.
NVM, I'm blind and was opening the wrong file ><
What do you use to see your GPU usage as you play?
Felix Lighter
Member
MSI Afterburner is what I use.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Mod still works great but unfortunately, regardless of res, it still has the odd slowdown to 15 and seldom hitch below 30. It's inconsistent and I want that fixed more than anything now that the res is good enough.
I can go to lower than native res and it still does that slowdown too so my rig is not some inferior garbage heap as much as the games programming is utter garbage.
Upping the res to 2440p made my GPU usage go to 54%. No more. Frustratingly terrible. Horrendously optimized or utter incompetence on From's part.
I can go to lower than native res and it still does that slowdown too so my rig is not some inferior garbage heap as much as the games programming is utter garbage.
Upping the res to 2440p made my GPU usage go to 54%. No more. Frustratingly terrible. Horrendously optimized or utter incompetence on From's part.
Felix Lighter
Member
It's the greatest mystery of our times. It's the only problem I currently have. I desperately want to know what triggers the drop because it's definitely not an issue of too much going on graphically.
EternalGamer
Banned
Ok, I have a quick question:
My monitor is 16:10 so my ideal resolution is 1920x1200. However the game obviously runs in 16:9 as I get letterbox even when I set it to this mode.
I'm a bit confused as to how I should configure all the resolution settings in the mod and in game.
Should it look like this:
Internal Rendering:
2560 x 1440
presentWidth 2560
presentHeight 1440
Then in game:
1920 x 1080
Or should I just go ahead and tell it to render in game at 1920x1200?
Also when I selected "forceFullscreen" the game crashes everytime whether or not I have the ingame menu set to "full screen." However, if I don't turn on Fullscreen in the .ini I can set it to fullscreen in game just fine. Suggestions?
My monitor is 16:10 so my ideal resolution is 1920x1200. However the game obviously runs in 16:9 as I get letterbox even when I set it to this mode.
I'm a bit confused as to how I should configure all the resolution settings in the mod and in game.
Should it look like this:
Internal Rendering:
2560 x 1440
presentWidth 2560
presentHeight 1440
Then in game:
1920 x 1080
Or should I just go ahead and tell it to render in game at 1920x1200?
Also when I selected "forceFullscreen" the game crashes everytime whether or not I have the ingame menu set to "full screen." However, if I don't turn on Fullscreen in the .ini I can set it to fullscreen in game just fine. Suggestions?
Yeah I have been looking around on various forums seems alot of people having the drops to 15PS issues regardless of hardware.
For those who claim they are running it a 30fps without any drops at all I would like to know your set ups.
Process Explorer is also really good. It graphs an even longer period of time and you can also check out CPU usage for the same periods.
Unless there has been an update past V3 that i have not noticed you will notice there is a Big section in the Cfg for Durante's fix that says those setting are not to be used yet....
EternalGamer
Banned
Wait, what setttings should not be used? I read the readme and I only changed the things it suggested changing.
Ive played about an hour sor far and have only seens a couple drops besides bonfires going off, one was when a whole bunch of pots were being broken + blood + first bosses hammer in close proximity, other was exitingfrom the archway with torchlight on it ( only did it once) i think it was the first opening to the outside,
running it at 3840x2160 downsampling to 1080p 32 bit, option "1"
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alysonwheel
Member
I'm on an E7200 oc'd to 3.8ghz, with a 560. My monitor is 1080p and I'm downsampling from 1440p.
For the most part I'm locked at 30. Occasionally I dip -- Fraps claims to 25 at the lowest -- but it's a beautifully smooth experience for the most part, and far better than on the PS3. Going to trade my PS3 copy in now, I think.
My max CPU usage while playing was 100%, max GPU only 74%; like me you'll probably be CPU-limited.
In the actual Dsfix.Cfg file were you should be changing the settings for the fix, you will notice....
EternalGamer
Banned
Ah, gotcha. I somehow misread that.
I'll change them back. Although I guess technically they are already turned off since "forced Window" wasn't turned on (as when I turn it on it crashes).
But I guess I should still be using 1080P 16bit in game even though I have a 16:10 monitor?
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Well you can use 32bit if you think your compy can handle it.
Heheh, i must admit although i didnt miss the Note, i did have the inescapable urge to turn them on, which only resulted in a crash
.Also as far as the Resolution's go on a 16:10 monitor, if i were you i would try using 16:10 Res settings in DS and the DSfix.cfg, just to see how it goes, althought if i am to understand there is a problem running 16:10 resolutions at the moment.
Felix Lighter
Member
You know not only did this mod make the game better, it also brought more gaming media attention to the title than lifting the review and preview embargo.
Misterinenja
Member
Hmm should 30fps lock be on by default? Because I swear it bumps way over that at times. It's a bit distracting actually.
How do I enable the steady 30fps lock?
How do I enable the steady 30fps lock?
EternalGamer
Banned
I think it should be?
It's a i7 920 with CrossFire Radeon 6870s.
Although it seems to be having a bit of a frame rate dip now and then as is. Maybe I need to adjust some settings in AMD Catalyst or re-install Radeon Pro (which I uninstalled and used D3D Overrider instead to fix Darksiders 2 V-sync problems).
If you havent tried yet i would reccomend leaving all CCC/radeon pro options on use application settings, or just slightly improved, as i have everything except enable surface format optimisation set to Use app settings, and running internal render at 3840x2160 Looks Fantastic
BloodyBonzai
Neo Member
The only 100% way is by leaving all your settings on default and using no MOD. As well as having the necessary hardware to maintain a constant 30fps.
Actually, I'm still using version 1 of the fix, as the others give me way worse framerate. (with v1 I get steady 30fps @ 1440p)
Use fraps OSD, I doubt it would be going over what it's locked at, how exactly would that be distracting anyway? is it speeding up ? i would love the fps to be higher lol
Make sure you have AA off in-game.
stop making me want to buy this game immediately
After catching up on a lot of the thread, I just took the plunge and bought this. You hear this Durante? I bought this 100% because of you!
BloodyBonzai
Neo Member
Awesome pic man, what resolution you running as well as are you downscaling from what? And are you getting a constant 30fps with those settings, and which version of the MOD you using?
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Alice was fixed by simply changing 1 line in an ini file that looked exactly the same as every other UE3 title's ini file. This is slightly more complicated than that it would seem.
BloodyBonzai
Neo Member
Ya I touched on the topic of these complications in later posts.
That is seriously gross. I mean, cool, but ew.Low resolution assets.
Riiiiight.
Low resolution assets.
Riiiiight.
LOL, does that happen to be a quote from somewhere? "low res assets"?
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Version 0.3 released? More quicker updates than any provider out there!