Dark Souls internal rendering resolution fix (DSfix)
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Psy-Phi
Member
Trying to make sure everyone was on the same playing field, so to speak, most likely. No advantage to those with a higher frame rate, if there would be any advantage with it. That's the only reason I would imagine, to keep it fair (in less words).
It maintains proper 16:10 aspect ratio, width as 1.6 times the height.
5760x3600 and 7680x4800 are also 16:10
AMD? The drivers are very buggy and disable/put the videocard on low power mode if it's not used enough.
Enable, manually, 2xAA and 16xAnisotropic and other bells and whistles on the Control Panel of your videocard (Catalyst if it's an AMD) and it should be fixed.
I'd try on Nvidia cards too.
Alex
Member
A clearly looks more cinematic.
I don't know. I think the textures are made at the highest resolution possible on the production phase, and then downsampled as needed (not enough storage space to put the textures at their full resolution on the disk, not enough memory to load them at that high resolution, shitty performance because of the engine or shitty graphical performance on old hardware). Sometimes, if everything falls into place, there's no reason to downsample them AS MUCH, thus, we end up with better textures than the system can actually display.
And then we all get fucking amazed when it's ported to PC/it's emulated later on.
At least that's how I think it works - I know I make everything graphical at a much higher resolution when working on Photoshop, even though I'm amateur at best, and then downsample when needed.
Final Fantasy XII
Most of textures were killed by low res.
As of Dark Souls PS3. Sometimes you can see those amazing textures but mainly you see them as somewhat blurry textures.
Ptoblem is resolution overall not native vs non native res. Same thing with Witcher2. In 720p mode you don't see anything amazing in texture work but if you change to 1080p and above your eyes will melt (razorsharp textures).
As Dark Souls Armors textures looks very good Witcher ones are just stunning.
Dennis4k had some photo of geralt on sky.
I want new consoles already ! 720p is fucking terrible res right now.
Yeah, I hope Durante is successful with the DOF in either getting it fixed/removed. It's like a constant reminder of the port quality seeing the default resolution on half the screen.
They definitely didn't need to go to the trouble, but I'm happy they did. If you zoom in to the texture on ps3 you are too close to the texture and it's blurry. Zoom out and the low resolution can't display the texture quality properly and you get a blurry mess. Seems like a waste of time unless they planned on archiving the textures for future projects.
They definitely didn't need to go to the trouble, but I'm happy they did. If you zoom in to the texture on ps3 you are too close to the texture and it's blurry. Zoom out and the low resolution can't display the texture quality properly and you get a blurry mess. Seems like a waste of time unless they planned on archiving the textures for future projects.
B is looking far too sharp and sterile for my tastes.
Alex
Member
its really well compressed, even the cgs look decent.
considering the diablo 3 cgs, which looked like real player from the 90s.... it was like nonstop artifacting
heliconsoul
Member
Just want to pop in and say this is incredible work. I hadn't touched the game since about December last year so hopping back in with this fix is amazing.
Durante you're a genius.
Durante you're a genius.
I guess it's called SuperSampling:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersampling[/url] said:
suprised my 4870 could handle this at 2560×1440
WAT?!
HD4870 can do that?!
HELL YEAH!!!
BloodyBonzai
Neo Member
Go into NVIDIA control panel and select Force alternate frame rendering 2 under SLI rendering mode.
My understanding is that it's similar to Wind Waker where the game uses a lower resolution version of the image to simulate blurring of objects that are out of focus. Setting that resolution to the normal rendering res would remove the effect entirely, I think.
Durante believes he can get to the DoF res and let us set that to whatever we want as another configuration option.
EternalGamer
Banned
What internal resolution are you using in the hack? Do you have the sampling set to 1 or 2?
I don't know if Durante did, but I certainly called the guy out for being a liar. And when people kept regurgitating his nonsense like it had any basis in reality, lost my sanity and banned myself from the thread :lol.
ipitydatfu
Member
do you know what the Ubisoft guy's thread is called?
Oh next gen console games will probably still be 720p, but because of the hardware they'll probably be able to get better textures on there, so at least PC ports will benefit. We might even start to get some of that benefit as soon as games start getting made for the Wii U, since it supposedly has much more memory.
BloodyBonzai
Neo Member
Aright, so I have it figured out. If you are getting 15fps max or run into areas where your fps drop to 15 fps max, it is because your video card is maxing out and cant keep up with doing 30fps. Even though both my GPUs were running at 60% in SLI, I was only able to get 15fps max in the opening area using 5120x3200 in the MOD with 2560*1920 in-game using texture filtering #2. I had to drop it down to 3360x2100 in the MOD and 1680x1050 in-game however it would jump between 15fps max and 30fps max showing that I was on the verge of being able to handle that setting and maintain 30fps, but of course in more demanding parts of the game I def would not be able to. So anyone getting 15fps max you need to turn down your settings to get 30 fps max.
Just AA. I keep the blur on.
Honestly, I'd probably just turn it off if I could. Not a big fan of it outside of CryEngine 3 and UE4's DX11 implementation.
The README.txt says to turn off blur so that's why I asked. Is that a typo or true? Durante?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=486141&page=33
It's buried somewhere in the shit pile that is that thread.
Gah! This mod is looking awesome, but apparently has a problem for us unlucky people with 2 videocards (an integrated and a dedicated one obviously).
With this mod, my framerate is capped at 15; I suspect it uses the integrated one. I tried to force the game to use my dedicated card (nVidia control panel), but no avail.
Without the mod, it's running at 30 fps. I tried the same resolution with and without mod.
And it didn't matter if I ran at 800x480 (or something shitty) or 1920x1280; 15 fps always.
Anyone with a solution / kick in the right direction? I tried the suggestion in the OP, but no go
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With this mod, my framerate is capped at 15; I suspect it uses the integrated one. I tried to force the game to use my dedicated card (nVidia control panel), but no avail.
Without the mod, it's running at 30 fps. I tried the same resolution with and without mod.
And it didn't matter if I ran at 800x480 (or something shitty) or 1920x1280; 15 fps always.
Anyone with a solution / kick in the right direction? I tried the suggestion in the OP, but no go
.A couple of shots at 5760x3240 for fun. Almost playable honestly, but the frame rate fluctuates a bit. Great job Durante!
e: Something must have gone bad... The game crashed the first time I tried to launch with this resolution, so maybe it didn't work as it should. It looks a bit worse than 3840x2160, hah! Oh well, still looks good
e: Something must have gone bad... The game crashed the first time I tried to launch with this resolution, so maybe it didn't work as it should. It looks a bit worse than 3840x2160, hah! Oh well, still looks good
No, it says that the AA method FROM uses in the game itself does nothing but blur the image.
I think Valve does motion blur the best in Source games. It's so subtle that you don't know it's there... which is how it should be.
Thanks for the no-hud tip. Success!
I just showed these screenshots to The_Technomancer and he said he was buying Dark Souls. No questions asked.
Today mediacore price PC can do 1080p without a problem for most of games. Next gen hardware will be future proof for a year or two and 1-2 more years since it's closed platform.
1080p will be standard next gen. 60FPS is where lie problem.
Higher memory for 720p is waste if time. You need higher res to see detail (see Dark Souls). And i don't want to be a dick but look at Batman AA for Wii U.
BloodyBonzai
Neo Member
I solved what the issue is a few posts up from yours: Aright, so I have it figured out. If you are getting 15fps max or run into areas where your fps drop to 15 fps max, it is because your video card is maxing out and cant keep up with doing 30fps. Even though both my GPUs were running at 60% in SLI, I was only able to get 15fps max in the opening area using 5120x3200 in the MOD with 2560*1920 in-game using texture filtering #2. I had to drop it down to 3360x2100 in the MOD and 1680x1050 in-game however it would jump between 15fps max and 30fps max showing that I was on the verge of being able to handle that setting and maintain 30fps, but of course in more demanding parts of the game I def would not be able to. So anyone getting 15fps max you need to turn down your settings to get 30 fps max.
And this is why I hate SLI/Crossfire/Dual GPU setups.Gah! This mod is looking awesome, but apparently has a problem for us unlucky people with 2 videocards (an integrated and a dedicated one obviously).
With this mod, my framerate is capped at 15; I suspect it uses the integrated one. I tried to force the game to use my dedicated card (nVidia control panel), but no avail.
Without the mod, it's running at 30 fps. I tried the same resolution with and without mod.
And it didn't matter if I ran at 800x480 (or something shitty) or 1920x1280; 15 fps always.
Anyone with a solution / kick in the right direction? I tried the suggestion in the OP, but no go
I'd guess those are drivers problems.
See? How is that even possible? Your videocard is only using 60% of it's capacity, but can't keep up?
I was talking about depth of field. I don't mind Dark Souls's motion blur.
Gah! This mod is looking awesome, but apparently has a problem for us unlucky people with 2 videocards (an integrated and a dedicated one obviously).
With this mod, my framerate is capped at 15; I suspect it uses the integrated one. I tried to force the game to use my dedicated card (nVidia control panel), but no avail.
Without the mod, it's running at 30 fps. I tried the same resolution with and without mod.
And it didn't matter if I ran at 800x480 (or something shitty) or 1920x1280; 15 fps always.
Anyone with a solution / kick in the right direction? I tried the suggestion in the OP, but no go
Did you go into the INI file and change the resolution there or are you changing it in the game? Try changing your INI resolution to 1080p or something lower.
insane0hflex
Member
Yeah I just went browsing through the NeoGAF thread and couldn't really stand much more for searching for it.
I guess its just ignorant people being ignorant, especially when they kept linking back to that same forum post. It's disgusting.
I for myself, thought that the internal res fix would be something like an ENB mod for Skyrim - where it took Boris about a month or so to develop new cool post processing effects for Skyrim (like DoF, SSAO, etc), and then probably make a d3d9.dll to implement the fix. I was super stoked to see that Durante made a fix for it yesterday =) , otherwise I would have placed all my hope with Boris
Did you try your INI settings at something less than 1080p?
Felix Lighter
Member
I was looking through that thread:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=40875765&postcount=2199
Hope.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=40875765&postcount=2199
Hope.
BloodyBonzai
Neo Member
Go lower and see what happens.