LOD/Draw distance BUG fixed with a mod!!!!

[greg.slaiher]

Hi all,

So DS3 is one of my fav, the only thing which drove me crazy was this awful LOD bug...
It is now TOTALLY fixed by a mod, u can find it here:
https://www.nexusmods.com/darksouls3/mods/315

A big thx to the modder, this problem was really annoying (particularly in the woods, where u could see every tree's texture pop just in front of you character, when walking around) and is now PERFECT!!

[xBonzaii]

Nice find, thank you! I'm really disappointed in From Software. Such a major bug, that is significantly detrimental to image quality, they never even bothered to fix. Especially considering the mod's author describes that he simply changed some values.. :/

I will not be buying Sekiro: SDT anytime soon. Lingering problems like this are inexcusable. I've barely played DS3 and I was ready to uninstall because of this bug.

Now I can finally get through this game, and have a more enjoyable experience.
Not only does this mod fix the issue, but the game looks better, especially at higher resolutions. :)

[Nami]

yeah i aint risking a ban

[xBonzaii]

Originally posted by Smurf Diamond V:

yeah i aint risking a ban :lunar2019laughingpig:

Playing in offline mode has given me no issues so far..

[Joe]

Just got the game 2 days ago. Right now I'm at the castle area just after fire link shrine. As I run across the bridges the walls on the other side change their texture about 4 times. It's really annoying. Is this mod likely to fix stuff like that? The reason I ask is because I only want to bother if it's going to make a difference. Otherwise it's probably not worth the risk of getting banned.

Is there also a guide somewhere for installing this mod?

Edit: nevermind I've sorted it now. Needed to install ds3 mod engine. I just followed the steps from the nexus page. Very little texture popping now!

[RedComet]

I know that this is an old thread... But this LOD bug is still present.
When you first load into this game, there is no LOD/draw distance bug, but once you fast travel or die, the LOD/draw distance bug kicks in...

The best way to check is to go to road of sacrifice then go to the main menu, then load your character that should be in road of sacrifice and you will see almost no texture poppin issue with trees... But if you die or you fast travel, the LOAD/draw distance bug kicks in, and if you look at the trees as you move in road of sacrifices, there will be crazy texture poppin issues. This happens everywhere of course

So yes this is more a bug than anything else. And from what I have read, From software just need to change some values in their files. We need to be vocal about this so that From software fixes this glitch...

This mod effectively fixes this issue BUT you can get banned by using this mod, this is beyond ridiculous.

[nomorevideos]

Originally posted by RedComet:

I know that this is an old thread... But this LOD bug is still present.
When you first load into this game, there is no LOD/draw distance bug, but once you fast travel or die, the LOD/draw distance bug kicks in...

The best way to check is to go to road of sacrifice then go to the main menu, then load your character that should be in road of sacrifice and you will see almost no texture poppin issue with trees... But if you die or you fast travel, the LOAD/draw distance bug kicks in, and if you look at the trees as you move in road of sacrifices, there will be crazy texture poppin issues. This happens everywhere of course

So yes this is more a bug than anything else. And from what I have read, From software just need to change some values in their files. We need to be vocal about this so that From software fixes this glitch...

This mod effectively fixes this issue BUT you can get banned by using this mod, this is beyond ridiculous.

It's not a bug, it's literally how the game was designed. Also who cares about bans? If you wanna pvp just make a second account and family share the game to that account.

Originally posted by Zombie Slayer:

Just got the game 2 days ago. Right now I'm at the castle area just after fire link shrine. As I run across the bridges the walls on the other side change their texture about 4 times. It's really annoying. Is this mod likely to fix stuff like that? The reason I ask is because I only want to bother if it's going to make a difference. Otherwise it's probably not worth the risk of getting banned.

Is there also a guide somewhere for installing this mod?

Edit: nevermind I've sorted it now. Needed to install ds3 mod engine. I just followed the steps from the nexus page. Very little texture popping now!

The forest areas, swamp and some other areas like the demon ruins have major issues with pop-in. I ended up installing the mod halfway or so through the game when I first played it. It's just horrible. Instead of giving PC players a proper LOD slider it still looks like aids at max ingame settings. If they had an option to double/triple the LOD distance this wouldn't have been an issue.