Dark Souls only uses 1 CPU core!

[Rock1m1]

This is just unacceptable in so many levels. We are wasting parallization of our CPUs and essentially 75% of the CPU gains D:

This is more of an issue in DX 9 based games natively, not DX 11 which supports parallization to a degree (not as big as DX 12). I am guessing From is using a DX 11 as a wrapper over a DX 9 engine.

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/dark_souls_3_pc_performance_review/6

[Quickshooter]

good thing i bought the JPN PS4 version 3 weeks ago
the PC version is really bad... butchered release from Crapco bandai and the clueless FROMSOFT who doesn't know how to program a game for PC

[Rock1m1]

I really think they should have ditched whatever engine they are using, which is clearly ancient and should have made a modern engine for modern hardware to make the most of it. Essentially 1/4 cores for Intel i5 CPU for example will sit idle.

[DAVOS CENSORSHIP 2030 FTW!!!]

Yeah i guess i'm gonna wait for the GOTY/Whatever version from these clowns and hope they got everything sorted out lol. Not wasting my shekels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCsVOO_3EUU

[Piglet]

Ok anyone who measures cpu usage with win task manager needs to take his IT lessons again.
Use HWInfo +Riva Tuner Screen Server (RTSS) - this will give some dependabe info

[Ackerlight]

Originally posted by Rock1m1:

This is just unacceptable in so many levels. We are wasting parallization of our CPUs and essentially 75% of the CPU gains D:

This is more of an issue in DX 9 based games natively, not DX 11 which supports parallization to a degree (not as big as DX 12). I am guessing From is using a DX 11 as a wrapper over a DX 9 engine.

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/dark_souls_3_pc_performance_review/6

Go away with assumptions ..Here Durante speaks about DS III and the Engine
http://www.pcgamer.com/durantes-dark-souls-3-port-analysis/1/

[Andrius227]

What are you talking about?
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=665915165

I don't know how many cores this game is using, but the highest core is running at around 60%, which means that the game doesn't need a lot of cpu power.

[Mr Chappy]

Originally posted by Hengstenberg:

Originally posted by Rock1m1:

This is just unacceptable in so many levels. We are wasting parallization of our CPUs and essentially 75% of the CPU gains D:

This is more of an issue in DX 9 based games natively, not DX 11 which supports parallization to a degree (not as big as DX 12). I am guessing From is using a DX 11 as a wrapper over a DX 9 engine.

http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/gpu_displays/dark_souls_3_pc_performance_review/6

Go away with assumptions ..Here Durante speaks about DS III and the Engine
http://www.pcgamer.com/durantes-dark-souls-3-port-analysis/1/

+1

[bulldog0890]

Originally posted by Quickshooter:

good thing i bought the JPN PS4 version 3 weeks ago
the PC version is really bad... butchered release from Crapco bandai and the clueless FROMSOFT who doesn't know how to program a game for PC

its fine. theres been way way worse. this is probably the best pc souls they've put out

[Mr. Unethical.]

Measuring CPU usage in task manager when the game goes into low power mode. LOL!
Seriously though. The PC version has some small issues here and there. Mostly resolved with some driver settings and setting the game to high priority mode to stop it from trying to save power and reduce CPU performance.

Meanwhile, the console versions are capped to 30fps and still are marred with their own problems. Not at all regretting my PC purchase! :D

Meanwhile 3 of my friends in my online community are super butthurt about their PS4 purchase! :D Life's great.

[Andrius227]

Originally posted by Cao Cao:

Measuring CPU usage in task manager when the game goes into low power mode. LOL!
Seriously though. The PC version has some small issues here and there. Mostly resolved with some driver settings and setting the game to high priority mode to stop it from trying to save power and reduce CPU performance.

Meanwhile, the console versions are capped to 30fps and still are marred with their own problems. Not at all regretting my PC purchase! :D

Meanwhile 3 of my friends in my online community are super butthurt about their PS4 purchase! :D Life's great.

No one mentioned task manager, or did i miss it ?

Anyway, yeah it's a good port. Runs very well. Would love SLI support, but i still get 60fps @1440p on full maxed settings even with just one gpu so whatever.

[Piglet]

Originally posted by Andrius227:

No one mentioned task manager, or did i miss it ?

yep you did

[natpick]

i read about the 1 core usage in ds3 so i checked and it is using 3 of my 6 cores at any given time so im not sure really.for reference i use AMD FX(tm)-6100 Six-Core Processor not great but does the job.

[Air]

If it did, my whimpy little FX-6120 would be struggling here.

DS3 performs just fine for me as far a CPU usage goes, it's DS1 that stuggles in terms of that(in DS1, my GPU never reaches 100% usage because the game only uses one or two cores.)

[Mr. Unethical.]

Originally posted by Andrius227:

No one mentioned task manager, or did i miss it ?

Maybe a little assumption on my part but when I check with task manager after tabbing out, the game always appears to be using one core heavily and barely using other cores at all.

Using an overlay to check resource usage on the go and I see pretty parralel readings across all cores.

So I assume that any findings of "using 1 core" is purely some fool using task manager.

edit: http://www.overclock3d.net/gfx/articles/2016/04/12162452587l.jpg

From their article. Task manager...

[Andrius227]

Originally posted by Cao Cao:

Originally posted by Andrius227:

No one mentioned task manager, or did i miss it ?

Maybe a little assumption on my part but when I check with task manager after tabbing out, the game always appears to be using one core heavily and barely using other cores at all.

Using an overlay to check resource usage on the go and I see pretty parralel readings across all cores.

So I assume that any findings of "using 1 core" is purely some fool using task manager.

edit: http://www.overclock3d.net/gfx/articles/2016/04/12162452587l.jpg

From their article. Task manager...

Task manager does work if you just put it on a second monitor or if you play the game in windowed mode. But yeah, alt tabbing out to check task manager is not gonna work.

Also i just checked, my cpu usage is actually LOWER when i play ds3 than when i'm alt tabbed to the desktop... Probably because i have so much open in the background that use more cpu than ds3...