Dark Souls Framerate...?

[RainbowCherry]

Well, in anticipation of Dark Souls 3, I've bought Dark Souls. I've installed DSfix, I briefly removed my NVIDIA driver stuff to get DSfix to run, nothing works. I've disabled Anti-aliasing and motion blur, unlocked FPS in the ini files of DSfix, and there's nothing I can do. What did you do to get this to work, framerate or, hell, the game at all?

I may as well point out, the framerate is so bad I get booted offline.

 

[That Zephyr Guy]

Dark Souls 1 is known to have very horrific optimization. Could I ask you what your specs are? It's possible that you might not be able to run the game properly.

 

[RainbowCherry]

Dark Souls 1 is known to have very horrific optimization. Could I ask you what your specs are? It's possible that you might not be able to run the game properly.

I know, it's a shame it's not backwards-compatible...


Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4170 CPU @ 3.70GHz
RAM: 8GB
System Type: 64-bit Operating System, x64 Processor
Drive: TOSHIBA DTO1ACA200
Graphics Card/Display Adapters: NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 (Disabled: Microsoft Basic Display Adapter)

 

[That Zephyr Guy]

I'm fairly certain your graphics card isn't enough to run it. You can probably run DS2, but DS1 is... ironically... far more intensive because of how bad the port is.

I say this because I followed the same steps you did and it works fine on my computer - but before I upgraded to a GTX 760 it gave me the same fuss.


Btw, if I'm wrong and you manage to get it working, I wouldn't mind doing some coop.

 

[RainbowCherry]

I'm fairly certain your graphics card isn't enough to run it. You can probably run DS2, but DS1 is... ironically... far more intensive because of how bad the port is.

I say this because I followed the same steps you did and it works fine on my computer - but before I upgraded to a GTX 760 it gave me the same fuss.


Btw, if I'm wrong and you manage to get it working, I wouldn't mind doing some coop.

Well, that's a shame. Gonna stack Dark Souls 2 PvP, then. I'll have a go at messing with NVIDIA, I guess, though. Thank you!

 

[Jawile]

Yeah unfortunately Dark Souls is a pretty awful port, haha. I bought it during last summer's Steam sale but got a refund after a day because of the awful framerate and keyboard and mouse controls are so uncomfortable with this game.

 

[RainbowCherry]

I got it to work! Huzzah! Got steady framerate by disabling Vertial Synch in the graphics card, unlocking FPS and setting it back to 30. Time to make a Darkmoon Falchion scrub build again.