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[Cannon Goose]

For anyone who is using Realtek onboard audio and is having trouble getting the downmixing fix to work, try doing same steps in the Realtek HD Audio Manager (The orange speaker symbol in the system tray).

I had to set mine up like this to get it to work:

 

[FastRedPonyCar]

Minor gripe but the F5 screen shot doesn't seem to function once you alt/tab out of the game then back in.

This is with version 091

 

[Taruranto]

Probably a stupid question, but bear with me please:

I love the ability to switch between full-screen and windowed mode with F8, it makes the wait between one failed invasion and another much more tolerable.

However, i noticed that, more i press F8 more the window gets smaller:

Also, another issue: I noticed sometimes the text looks weird, like the upper half of some letters is missing. Any reason for that?

 

[dino1980]

Im having a bit of problem with SSAO. The problem is that it vanishes alot of times when I turn the camera. I think its some problem with the DOF, when I turn down DOF to 800 the problem seems to happen less frequent.

Video of the problem


Video of the problem

The settings;
Native Res: 1920*1080
DOF: 1080
SMAA: Ultra
Frames: Steady 30fps

 

[NBtoaster]

Why can't I get AA or AO working with a custom profile?

Looks like this, done on data.exe:

 

[dino1980]

Why can't I get AA or AO working with a custom profile?

Looks like this, done on data.exe:

Dont know about AA, but with AO have you set the internal resolution for example to 1080 for a 1080 lcd-screen? For me AO works bether with DOF set to 810 or lower.

 

[zephervack]

If Durante gets aspect ratio/FOV adjustment working, dare I dream of surround/eyefinity goodness?

Game already works in surround and eyefinity, played like 20 hours so far with Durante fix and flawless wide screen, yesterday they managed fix the hud, check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbvHfdFYPoA

 

[derFeef]

Game already works in surround and eyefinity, played like 20 hours so far with Durante fix and flawless wide screen, yesterday they managed fix the hud, check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbvHfdFYPoA

It's beautiful.

 

[Durante]

Any chance of getting SSAO and downsampling to play nicely together?

Well, the only way to do that is implementing SSAO in DSfix.

... guess what I've been doing these past few days (when not working, sleeping or debugging stupid bugs).

 

[derFeef]

Durante is the awesome. Is this going to work on AMD cards too?

 

[zephervack]

Well, the only way to do that is implementing SSAO in DSfix.

... guess what I've been doing these past few days (when not working, sleeping or debugging stupid bugs).

Omg Durante, we are not worthy, please tell me this will work on AMD

 

[Durante]

Durante is the awesome. Is this going to work on AMD cards too?

Yes. It's just like if the game itself implemented SSAO.

However, I still have a bit of sporadic artifacting on flat surfaces to work out, and I never did SSAO before, so I'm mostly just blindly tweaking parameters.

However, i noticed that, more i press F8 more the window gets smaller:

That's hilarious, but I'll still fix it

Edit: also I should mention that of course this has quite the performance hit (like any SSAO), especially at high resolutions.

 

[dino1980]

You are unbelivable good at this Durante

 

[Backfoggen]

Well, the only way to do that is implementing SSAO in DSfix.

... guess what I've been doing these past few days (when not working, sleeping or debugging stupid bugs).

How is it performance wise? Faster than Nvidia SSAO?

 

[Durante]

How is it performance wise? Faster than Nvidia SSAO?

Because of the 30 FPS limit I can't really tell, sorry.

 

[Livanh]

anyone else having a problem of dks crashing when alt tabing out? to be more precise, switching to desk works, when i try to resume to dks it crashes.

 

[rybrad]

For anyone who is using Realtek onboard audio and is having trouble getting the downmixing fix to work, try doing same steps in the Realtek HD Audio Manager (The orange speaker symbol in the system tray).

I had to set mine up like this to get it to work:

I use the digital output in Realtek (optical cable), does that mean I can't or don't need to do this? I don't see any configure options for it but I hate to think I may be missing out on sounds.

 

[NZNova]

Game already works in surround and eyefinity, played like 20 hours so far with Durante fix and flawless wide screen, yesterday they managed fix the hud, check it out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbvHfdFYPoA

I had better luck today when I futzed around with my surround settings some more. But when I try it on my surround setup with flawless widescreen it displays across 3 monitors but the HUD is all kinds of fucked up, still. Is there something I need to do to enable the fix you're talking about? I've updated everything in there that I can see, it's not showing me any further updates for the DS plugin, is there something I'm missing?

( see http://i.imgur.com/qcC0W.jpg )

 

[zephervack]

I had better luck today when I futzed around with my surround settings some more. But when I try it on my surround setup with flawless widescreen it displays across 3 monitors but the HUD is all kinds of fucked up, still. Is there something I need to do to enable the fix you're talking about? I've updated everything in there that I can see, it's not showing me any further updates for the DS plugin, is there something I'm missing?

( see http://i.imgur.com/qcC0W.jpg )

Your screenshot is exactly how I have been playing for the last 20 hours, they literally fixed the HUD last night, so im guessing they will release a new version of the plug in sometime today.

 

[Zeliard]

Well, the only way to do that is implementing SSAO in DSfix.

... guess what I've been doing these past few days (when not working, sleeping or debugging stupid bugs).

Haha, fantastic stuff dude

 

[Felix Lighter]

SSAO on my AMD card. I never even considered the possibility. Amazing. Durante, I hope you are continuing to get donations because you've gone so far beyond the original scope of the fix, it's ridiculous.

That reminds me do Totalbiscuit release his video? I'm sure he can drive some more attention to the fix.

 

[NBtoaster]

Dont know about AA, but with AO have you set the internal resolution for example to 1080 for a 1080 lcd-screen? For me AO works bether with DOF set to 810 or lower.

Resolution is 1080p, output is 1080p.

Probably a driver issue, might just wait for the integrated SSAO.

The game doesn't even use much vram...

I mean on consoles. There is absolutely no way for a lot of detail to resolve, such a waste.

 

[Big Takeover]

Yes. It's just like if the game itself implemented SSAO.

Stud

 

[IronRinn]

Fucking hell, Durante, your work in fixing this game is simply ridiculous. RIDICULOUS.

 

[Sullichin]

Can someone tell me what I should be looking at with the last screens Durante posted. I know it's SSAO but I can't tell a difference.

EDIT: Well I can tell when I tab back and forth between the two images. Not sure if I would ever notice this in the game

 

[derFeef]

Can someone tell me what I should be looking at with the last screens Durante posted. I know it's SSAO but I can't tell a difference.

EDIT: Well I can tell when I tab back and forth between the two images. Not sure if I would ever notice this in the game

You won't say "omg this SSAO is amazing". It's about the depth and sense of space that is getting improved.

 

[The Hermit]

Oh shit, you are already working on the SSAO... Jesus christ man, please have my babies.

Durante= God

 

[dino1980]

The version 1.0 with SSAO is out.

 

[Andrea23]

wat :O

 

[goodfella]

OMG :O

The version 1.0 with SSAO is out.

:O :O :O

 

[Backfoggen]

You know this mods popular when people post that a new version is out before Durante does.

 

[dsk1210]

Just made a donation for you Durante, keep up the good work.

I never expected you to keep working away at this to improve as much as you have.

Get the hud Shrunk and there will be another donation from me.

 

[dsk1210]

Sorry double post.

 

[Dictator93]

Maybe not completely related. But if I reformatted my harddrive for a windows reinstall would my save be OK? Is it cloud-based? If not, where is it?

Thanks for any response.

 

[Kyodan]

Maybe not completely related. But if I reformatted my harddrive for a windows reinstall would my save be OK? Is it cloud-based? If not, where is it?

Thanks for any response.

Save is in C:\Users\USER NAME\Documents\NBGI\DarkSouls

Just copy/backup that folder. The folders inside should be named after your characters respectively.

Cloud saves are not in effect, however, you can follow this topic on the Steam forums on how to get your saves up on Dropbox (which is what I do and it works like a charm): http://forums.steamgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2909364

 

[zephervack]

Oh yes, cant wait to get home!

 

[Felix Lighter]

Like Durante posted the SSAO effect isn't quite there but it's encouraging to see the progress. Right now when I enable SSAO, weird diagonal lines appear on certain surfaces. The ability to remap key shortcuts for the mod features is great addition.

 

[Backfoggen]

Getting some weird lines with SSAO on

Edit: Ok I should read the description before trying the mod lol.

 

[Dictator93]

Save is in C:\Users\USER NAME\Documents\NBGI\DarkSouls

Just copy/backup that folder. The folders inside should be named after your characters respectively.

Cloud saves are not in effect, however, you can follow this topic on the Steam forums on how to get your saves up on Dropbox (which is what I do and it works like a charm): http://forums.steamgames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2909364

Thx a lot for the response. Are we sure this has no problems with GFWL?

 

[Kyodan]

Thx a lot for the response. Are we sure this has no problems with GFWL?

None that I've experienced at all. I'm able to use the same save at work and home.

 

[AlphaDragoon]

Gonna be amazing when Durante gets the SSAO the way he wants it. I tried doing AO in Inspector and it bogged my system down, but his integrated AO makes no drop in framerate whatsoever.

Awesome work.

 

[Sax Russel]

AO never worked for me through inspector, so this is going to be great =D, enough reason to do a NG+ even!

 

[dino1980]

Took some picture of different AOs

No AO

Durantes AO

Nvidia (Oblivion FLAG)

Nvidia (Fallout FLAG)

 

[Dictator93]

Took some picture of different AOs

Thx. Was looking for this.

Strange though, i thought the SKyrim AO was always heavier, but apparently it is the FO3 AO that is.

 

[Anilusion]

Would it be possible to make the game downsample 5.1 to stereo using the audio render, for those who cannot fix the ambient sound with their sound card settings? Would be amazing if it was possible to add that option to DSFix.

 

[StarCreator]

Would it be possible to make the game downsample 5.1 to stereo using the audio render, for those who cannot fix the ambient sound with their sound card settings? Would be amazing if it was possible to add that option to DSFix.

Durante has said several times in thread this is beyond his area of expertise.

He has also stated he plans to release the source code to DSFix once the code has been cleaned and optimized, so perhaps someone else can look into this once this happens.

 

[zephervack]

Would it be possible to make the game downsample 5.1 to stereo using the audio render, for those who cannot fix the ambient sound with their sound card settings? Would be amazing if it was possible to add that option to DSFix.

Durante has said several times in thread this is beyond his area of expertise.

He has also stated he plans to release the source code to DSFix once the code has been cleaned and optimized, so perhaps someone else can look into this once this happens.

Whats the issue and how do I know if I have it? Is it only for people that play with Speakers?

 

[Inanna]

0.9 crashes the game if you alt-tab then go back to the game. How do I fix it?

 

[paperspace]

0.9 crashes the game if you alt-tab then go back to the game. How do I fix it?

Get 1.0 and/or use filteringOverride 0

 

[StarCreator]

Whats the issue and how do I know if I have it? Is it only for people that play with Speakers?

The game outputs ambient sounds to the surround channels and not the main left/right. There's no downmixing when you only have two speaker channels, so these sounds are simply missing entirely for anyone not using a surround setup.

See this video to find out what's missing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku1ZBwB7Ghs