Game crashes in graphics/video settings

[Eldritch Moon]

As soon as my pointer touches the field of the "graphics/video settings" tab in the system menu of the game the entire thing crashes. I am not even clicking on anything.

The game seems to start fine and I can go back and forth between the other settings tabs, but the graphics section crashes my game immediately.

I have verified the integrity of game files.

I have disabled steam overlay

I have modified the ini/xml to start the game in windowed mode

I have tried compatibility

I have tried to adjust my desktop screen resolution

I have tried to follow some guides on tweaking global nvidia settings

Do i really have to refund this now? It was incredibly expensive...but come on.

I just finished Dark Souls Remastered 30 minutes ago and was over the moon happy, so excited to boot up DS 3.

I was playing DS 1 remastered in 4k on Ultra settings without any problems or any crashes whatsoever, played like complete and utter butter.

So why is this making we want to slit my wrists right now

[quacksouls]

Consider trying these:

• Post the spec of your PC.
  
• Before you launch DS3 and during play, close any program you don't need.
  
• Update your DirectX driver.
  https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/179113/how-to-install-the-latest-version-of-directx

[Eldritch Moon]

deleting the shadercache seemed to do the trick. Works perfectly now

[🐸♰Revy]

Originally posted by The Loneliest Monk:

deleting the shadercache seemed to do the trick. Works perfectly now

How do you delete the shader cache? I've been trying to fix my ingame stuttering and would like to know

[Eldritch Moon]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/275850/discussions/0/1471967615873193078/

[🐸♰Revy]

That solution is for No Man's Sky specifically which couldn't apply to this game, I think, since I don't really see a shadercache folder in the DkS3 installation directory, but thanks.
I found the actual way to do it is to go to your steamapps>shadercache folder and delete Dark Souls 3's shader cache which is numbered 374320. Can't say it changed too much for me in terms of stutters but maybe it'll help somebody.

[Eldritch Moon]

woops, sorry about that. Thought that it would link you directly to a solution for how to generally deal with deletion of shadercache stuff. but you can easily find it if you just google it, which you have obviously done. But for me, it helped to delete shadercache for steam in general, not just for a particular game.

Hope it helps, if not, i sincerely hope you find some other solution to your problem, happy gaming friend

[Eldritch Moon]

It should be located in /steam/steamapps. There should be a folder claled "shadercache", just delete it, restart steam and let steam rebuild it, that helped me a lot. Hope it does something for you

it helped me a bunch, and the only thing that did it for me

[Big Boss ビッグボス]

I know that I am very late. But the solution is:
Go to Nvidia control panel,
under display settings,
select change resolution,
click on customize.
Now uncheck all the custom resolution you made and uncheck the option called: Enable resolution not exposed by the display. Done








I have tried every method including deleting shadercache folder. none of them works except for the one I found T_______T



I don't know why this is the only game with the weirdest bugs in the gaming history.
We can't even enjoy playing this game at 8K?

I created many custom resolutions 5K, 6K, 7K, 8K, etc and it's working for every single game even on Dark Souls III but for some weird reason after a period of time the game just randomly crash when I go to the graphics settings. But thank god now we have the final solution for this problem which is disabling custom resolution.



Maybe this will help someone in the future, I did my best

[maxwell.bently]

Originally posted by Jack ジャック .༄༽.:

I know that I am very late. But the solution is:
Go to Nvidia control panel,
under display settings,
select change resolution,
click on customize.
Now uncheck all the custom resolution you made and uncheck the option called: Enable resolution not exposed by the display. Done








I have tried every method including deleting shadercache folder. none of them works except for the one I found T_______T :nanami_cry:



I don't know why this is the only game with the weirdest bugs in the gaming history.
We can't even enjoy playing this game at 8K?

I created many custom resolutions 5K, 6K, 7K, 8K, etc and it's working for every single game even on Dark Souls III but for some weird reason after a period of time the game just randomly crash when I go to the graphics settings. But thank god now we have the final solution for this problem which is disabling custom resolution. :praisesun:



Maybe this will help someone in the future, I did my best :nanami_cry::mp_like:

This was exactly it for me as well, as soon as I turned DSR and all its custom resolutions off I could access the graphics menu again. I know it's way way late but maybe this will help someone who was going thru it

[1mysteryfinn]

Does anyone have any idea how to do this on windows parallels? Since I'm on mac i dont have nvidia

[Maxwhale]

Originally posted by iNarius ベルセルク.༄༽.:

I know that I am very late. But the solution is:
Go to Nvidia control panel,
under display settings,
select change resolution,
click on customize.
Now uncheck all the custom resolution you made and uncheck the option called: Enable resolution not exposed by the display. Done








I have tried every method including deleting shadercache folder. none of them works except for the one I found T_______T :nanami_cry:



I don't know why this is the only game with the weirdest bugs in the gaming history.
We can't even enjoy playing this game at 8K?

I created many custom resolutions 5K, 6K, 7K, 8K, etc and it's working for every single game even on Dark Souls III but for some weird reason after a period of time the game just randomly crash when I go to the graphics settings. But thank god now we have the final solution for this problem which is disabling custom resolution. :praisesun:



Maybe this will help someone in the future, I did my best :nanami_cry::mp_like:

I have no custom resolutions, deleted files, edited the config file (it re-corrected itself), verified files even though I had just installed it, it says in the file it's running at 1920x1080 but is in a slightly off resolution causing odd black smearing (I've had this issue in other games, but I could edit my resolution .-.), so unfortunately I cannot find any work around. Just a bad port unfortunately.

[enter the enry]

Originally posted by 1mysteryfinn:

Does anyone have any idea how to do this on windows parallels? Since I'm on mac i dont have nvidia

I created a notepad file, named it "GraphicsConfig.xml" with this :

<config>
<ScreenMode>WINDOW</ScreenMode>
<Resolution-WindowScreenWidth>1280</Resolution-WindowScreenWidth>
<Resolution-WindowScreenHeight>720</Resolution-WindowScreenHeight>
<Resolution-FullScreenWidth>1024</Resolution-FullScreenWidth>
<Resolution-FullScreenHeight>768</Resolution-FullScreenHeight>
<Auto-detectBestRenderingSettings>OFF</Auto-detectBestRenderingSettings>
<QualitySetting>CUSTOM</QualitySetting>
<TextureQuality>MEDIUM</TextureQuality>
<Antialiasing>OFF</Antialiasing>
<SSAO>MEDIUM</SSAO>
<DepthOfField>MEDIUM</DepthOfField>
<MotionBlur>MEDIUM</MotionBlur>
<ShadowQuality>MEDIUM</ShadowQuality>
<LightingQuality>MEDIUM</LightingQuality>
<EffectsQuality>MEDIUM</EffectsQuality>
<ReflectionQuality>HIGH</ReflectionQuality>
<WaterSurfaceQuality>HIGH</WaterSurfaceQuality>
<ShadeQuality>MEDIUM</ShadeQuality>
</config>

and copied it to \AppData\Roaming\DarkSoulsIII

for me they worked!