RTX 2080 Ti FPS Issue

[Stabby]

Hi. Firstly let me say this is my first post on Steam so please be gentle. I've recently upgraded my graphics card to an RTX 2080 ti. I've tested a few other games and running them at 4k is no problem at all. However, I have an issue with Dark Souls 3 which is driving me mad!

I set the game to max settings and play at 4k. For some reason, the game hovers around 54 to 56 FPS. The other thing that is baffling me is changing the settings from low to max doesnt seem to make any difference whatsoever to the framerate.

My specs are:

Windows 10 64 bit
I5 8400
RTX 2080 ti
MSI B360 Motherboard
480GB Sandisk Ultra 2
Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 2400MHz C16

I am a bit of a noob, so i'm sorry if it is something obvious however, this is driving me crazy.

I appreciate any help.

Thanks

[⛧•Gustavo•⛧]

54 fps must be soooooo lag OMG

[khamalxdd]

Nvidia 3d program settings, find ds3.exe, set power to prefer maximum performance
Lower end cpu,use razer cortex cpu boost if have
Physx set to auto, as you gpu is stronger than cpu

Moreso I would ask why you can gota 40% faster gpu without upgrading cpu

[Stabby]

Originally posted by khamalxdd:

Nvidia 3d program settings, find ds3.exe, set power to prefer maximum performance
Lower end cpu,use razer cortex cpu boost if have
Physx set to auto, as you gpu is stronger than cpu

Moreso I would ask why you can gota 40% faster gpu without upgrading cpu

Thank you very much for your reply. Yes I realise the CPU isnt as powerful as it could be however, I refuse to believe that this is the issue. I've tested a boat load of games at 4k including, Battlefield 1, GTA5, Lords of the Fallen, Fallout 4, Skyrim and they all run at 60fps at 4k. The issue with Dark Souls 3 is so weird that it seems to be an issue with the game rather than my system. The fact that it hovers around 56fps seems odd. The fact that changing the game settings from max to low also makes no difference is odd. I've tried the fix you suggested and it doesnt make any difference. Any help people can provide would be greatly appreciated.

[Xengre]

Originally posted by Stabby:

Originally posted by khamalxdd:

Nvidia 3d program settings, find ds3.exe, set power to prefer maximum performance
Lower end cpu,use razer cortex cpu boost if have
Physx set to auto, as you gpu is stronger than cpu

Moreso I would ask why you can gota 40% faster gpu without upgrading cpu

Thank you very much for your reply. Yes I realise the CPU isnt as powerful as it could be however, I refuse to believe that this is the issue. I've tested a boat load of games at 4k including, Battlefield 1, GTA5, Lords of the Fallen, Fallout 4, Skyrim and they all run at 60fps at 4k. The issue with Dark Souls 3 is so weird that it seems to be an issue with the game rather than my system. The fact that it hovers around 56fps seems odd. The fact that changing the game settings from max to low also makes no difference is odd. I've tried the fix you suggested and it doesnt make any difference. Any help people can provide would be greatly appreciated.

You can check CPU/GPU usage and will probably find those aren't the cause. Your CPU has a score of around 11k points on Passmark and 2.3k for single threaded performance (which is basically at the apex of single thread performance of any consumer class CPU atm). Your CPU is not the issue unless there is thermal throttling going on. Check thermals, try an older GPU driver, make sure you are in full screen exclusive (not borderless), check power settings as mentioned above and see if any of this helps.

[Stabby]

Originally posted by Xengre:

Originally posted by Stabby:

Thank you very much for your reply. Yes I realise the CPU isnt as powerful as it could be however, I refuse to believe that this is the issue. I've tested a boat load of games at 4k including, Battlefield 1, GTA5, Lords of the Fallen, Fallout 4, Skyrim and they all run at 60fps at 4k. The issue with Dark Souls 3 is so weird that it seems to be an issue with the game rather than my system. The fact that it hovers around 56fps seems odd. The fact that changing the game settings from max to low also makes no difference is odd. I've tried the fix you suggested and it doesnt make any difference. Any help people can provide would be greatly appreciated.

You can check CPU/GPU usage and will probably find those aren't the cause. Your CPU has a score of around 11k points on Passmark and 2.3k for single threaded performance (which is basically at the apex of single thread performance of any consumer class CPU atm). Your CPU is not the issue unless there is thermal throttling going on. Check thermals, try an older GPU driver, make sure you are in full screen exclusive (not borderless), check power settings as mentioned above and see if any of this helps.

Thank you very much indeed for the helpful advice. I'll let you know how I get on. All the best.

[Scheneighnay]

What are your monitor's specs?
I had an issue with my Vega 64 and a freesync monitor where I would be stuck at 48 fps no matter what on everything- turns out Radeon Chill wasn't working right and was limiting frames to the bottom of my monitor's freesync range instead of the top.

Even outside of Gsync and frame limiters, if your FPS is a clean fraction of your monitor's refresh rate it could narrow the problem down.

Also Dark Souls games are very light on CPU useage, so that's definitely not a concern.

[Stabby]

Hi, just thought I would post an update on this matter as it has been driving me crazy. Since my original post i've been tinkering with my PC. I've changed my CPU to an I7 8700 and added 32gb 2666 ram as I previously has 16gb 2400. Non of this made any difference to my original problem. I've been scouring the internet for similar issues and nothing would make any difference whatsoever. As you can imagine I was pulling my hair out. However I refused to give up and thought I would try Souls Unsqueezed as a final resort. Here is a link to the Steam page I used as a guide.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=663922936

I installed the main file and then installed the Dark Souls 3 mod/fix. I didnt change any of the settings other than the resolution to match my TV which is 4k. I've booted up the game and now it runs at a silky smooth 60fps.

As I mentioned, this has been driving me crazy mainly because I can play other games such as Gears 5, GTA5, Witcher 3 at 4k 60fps, so there was no reason at all for Dark Souls 3 to run poorly. Anyway, thanks for reading and I hope this helps.

[AGH!Bear]

did you ever try reinstalling DS3, or reinstalling windows?

Yes, your system seems fine, but DS3 does some things with windows system files, it seems (I don't really know details I just know that I was getting errors on some system files when trying to run DS3 when I first got it where I had to delete them and get Windows to redownload them, and they never gave errors or caused problems with other games). I may not be quite getting at the actual issue I'm describing but just eternally forever and always, sometimes a fresh Windows install fixes arcane issues!

If you've already tried this then ignore

Yes, I did see that unsqueezed addressed your issue, as Special K stuff really does for many things, it's just, there really is no reason regarding your hardware that the game should act funny like...also, perhaps preferable that a game works without mods if possible.

[dBg]

Get nvidia experience and optimize your game

[Stabby]

Originally posted by el diestro:

Get nvidia experience and optimize your game

Thanks for your reply. I tried that and it didn't make any difference. It didn't make any difference changing any of the settings.

[Stabby]

Originally posted by skeptibearicalbuddhist:

did you ever try reinstalling DS3, or reinstalling windows?

Yes, your system seems fine, but DS3 does some things with windows system files, it seems (I don't really know details I just know that I was getting errors on some system files when trying to run DS3 when I first got it where I had to delete them and get Windows to redownload them, and they never gave errors or caused problems with other games). I may not be quite getting at the actual issue I'm describing but just eternally forever and always, sometimes a fresh Windows install fixes arcane issues!

If you've already tried this then ignore

Yes, I did see that unsqueezed addressed your issue, as Special K stuff really does for many things, it's just, there really is no reason regarding your hardware that the game should act funny like...also, perhaps preferable that a game works without mods if possible.

Hey buddy, thanks for the detailed message. Yes I deleted and reinstalled DS3 a number of times. I tried an SSD and HDD. Neither of them made any difference. I didn't reinstall windows. It's such a strange thing because changing the settings within the game also made no difference whatsoever to the frame rate. I've been trying to get this sorted for the past 2 weeks trying different fixes so I'm just glad it seems to be working. Thanks again for your reply.

[dBg]

Originally posted by Stabby:

Originally posted by el diestro:

Get nvidia experience and optimize your game

Thanks for your reply. I tried that and it didn't make any difference. It didn't make any difference changing any of the settings.

3d settings on Nvidia config
Search vert sync and turn on

[dBg]

I run my game in 4k with a 1070 and a tv 4k... got between 30-45 fps.

[Scheneighnay]

Originally posted by el diestro:

Get nvidia experience and optimize your game

meme-tier bloatware that doesn't help anything.

Definitely some issue working with the display, I wish they would've actually responded to the display specs I asked for. Some kind of sync bug.

[Stabby]

Originally posted by Scheneighnay:

Originally posted by el diestro:

Get nvidia experience and optimize your game

meme-tier bloatware that doesn't help anything.

Definitely some issue working with the display, I wish they would've actually responded to the display specs I asked for. Some kind of sync bug.

Hi, apologies for not answering your original question. My TV is a Samsung QE65Q7FNA. Thanks. Chris.