Fix FPS and more Dark Souls 3 BIG TOPIC

[PistolaoBR]

So... I took liberty to share my experience with everyone out there who is having problems runing dark souls 3, please feel free to add some of your fixes too:

0. STUTTERING
Move the GameOverlayRenderer.dll and GameOverlayRenderer64.dll from the Steam installation folder to another folder and make GameOverlayRenderer.log as Read Only.
P.S Disabling overlay on steam in game configuration is not the same as this...
Hurge thanks to:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/374320/discussions/0/365163686085830287/

1. CRASHES

1.1 This happens because the fog effect, glowing light effect, hair and capes physics is broken, to fix this go to the dark souls 3 settings, and put effects quality, shadow qualit and, light quality on low.

1.2 Some people reported that disabling steam overlay stoped the crashes, or the infinie loading screen bug, try it yourself if the settings on low didnt worked
-> steam app -> Settings -> In-Game Settings TAB -> Uncheck the box next to "Enable Steam Community In-Game" and click OK.


2. LOW FPS IN NVIDIA CARDS
Seems that the game dont use all the nvidia GPU power, to force to use more power this is what you need to do:

2.1 Use the new driver 365.10 or newer, made to fix problems with dark souls 3 and the new doom:
http://www.geforce.com/drivers

2.2 If you still want some FPS try this: edit the dark souls 3 profile on nvidia control panel, and disable everything FXAA and Texture filtering, choose the maximum performance on every option, and only let enable the trible buffering, vsync, segmented optimization, max of pre-renderized fps = 4, VR pre-renderized fps = 1


3. LOW FPS IN CPUs INTEL OR AMD

3.1 After started the game, press ctrl+alt+del go to task manager, on the folder details, press right mouse click on darksouls3.exe and define the priority as high as it can...

3.2 Seems that dark souls 3 mainly a single-threaded game, so to increase the FPS of that main thread (bad pc port as allways), go to your computer bios and disable the intel H.E.I.S.T or SPEEDSTEP or in case of AMD the cool n' quiet option.

3.3 CPUs with quad-core, hexa-core and octa-core CPUs should disable Hyper Threading, and those with dual-core CPUs should enable it


4. LOW FPS IN PCs WITH LESS THAN 8GB RAM
Use Razer Cortex to finalize unecessary apps and processes runing on the background
http://www.razerzone.com/cortex
P.S. This is only necessary if you have 6GB of ram or less, and some cases in a pc with 8gb fo ram with a windows that have a lot of junk runing on background.
P.P.S. Only use the booster part, dont use the other ones like changing windows configuration, may destroy your O.S, and dont use the save data backup, may get your accout banned.


5. GAMEPAD IS LOWRING THE GAME FPS
Disable the vibration on the game settings helps a little bit, but does not solve it.


6. GAMEPAD NOT WORKING
Update your drivers, see if the gamepad is working propely on control panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Printers n devices, remeber than you must use analog mode on the gamepad to be recgnized by the game.
P.S. If you are using logitech F710 wireless gamepad put it on Xinput (front switch must be on X, not on D).
P.P.S. Dont use third party software to emulate keyboard keys on your gamepad, this is getting people banned from online play and is considered cheating... Don't know why that is cheating, but it will get you banned...


7. KEYBOARD MOVEMENT LOCKS IN ONE DIRECTION
Press that direction 2x times quickly


8. MOUSE BUTTON + UP ON KEYBOARD DONT DO LUNGE OR KICK ATTACKS
Use only the keyboard to do that, like put the bindings below:
key 1 = light attack
key 2 = strong attack
key 3 = blocking
key 4 = special weapon skill
Than use w+1 and w+2 to do lunge and kick attacks.
P.S. Dont use input apps to do that with one key, its also considering cheating and will get your account banned from normal servers... Man they really got sensitive with banning people on ds3...

For more information also see:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/374320/discussions/0/361787186440020893/

Finding the game too hard: look at this tips:
http://steamcommunity.com/app/374320/discussions/0/357285562496143073/

[setsunanilover]

no news from bandai of a patch or somethin

[CHANGE YOUR PASS ***** HACKED]

Publicado originalmente por Susan Tuna:

no news from bandai of a patch or somethin

We'll have it fixed by 2018 on Scholar of the First Flame.

[Jeen0]

Publicado originalmente por Majestic:

you keep repeating the same buzzwords.
Also, how in hell is messing with the clock emulating the IPC? Are you defective?
And yes, intel (since core duo iirc) has higher ipc, it doesn't take your questionable test to know it.

Now, ps4 has framerate issues, but not the (seeemingly) random microstuttering I have on PC.
Ps4 is running on a 1.7ghz amd tablet cpu and 5200rpm hdd.
I'd give it to my pc if I weren't running an i7 and ssd.

Yes, people with skylake cpus have that too, unless you'll act like they're lying, look at the reddit megathread: a vast range of configurations (if not almost all), have that problem.

Lastly, look at some youtube tests with the fx8350, it's giving basically the same performance as i5s in Ds3 (goes into the "doesn't matter" category you talked about earlier). I also remember you, (in case you want to nitpick 1-2 fps in more demanding areas) the bench charts you find online only show up to judex ghundir and don't go past that.

Why the hell are you here if it's running so well for you? Go and play the game

[Kitsune]

Publicado originalmente por Majestic:

Yeah I did. I also ran that game on two cores at 2ghz, and it produced the same framerate. It's CPU un-intensive. Meaning CPU matters less. Meaning it's a terrible example to prove your argument that CPU doesn't matter in DS3. I'm not saying the game engine is perfect, i'm saying a modern i5 has no issues and your FX does.

LOL, now i know you're in full denial. Actually suggesting your CPU surpasses an i7-4770k.

I can't even...the amount of dunning-kruger.

I got an i5 4460 and a GTX970 and I got the same problems while others with the same hardware dont have them. Shut up already. The game is badly optimized, its not the fault of the hardware. I know people with a 950 who can run the game better than me like wtf

[McC1oud]

Any driver advice for Quadro cards? My games run slick for about 3 mins then the game starts to chug harder and harder. I can load an area and stand there and watch the frame rate rise over that duration, it basically has the appearence of a memory leak.

[Jeen0]

Publicado originalmente por skd 狐:

Publicado originalmente por Majestic:

Yeah I did. I also ran that game on two cores at 2ghz, and it produced the same framerate. It's CPU un-intensive. Meaning CPU matters less. Meaning it's a terrible example to prove your argument that CPU doesn't matter in DS3. I'm not saying the game engine is perfect, i'm saying a modern i5 has no issues and your FX does.

LOL, now i know you're in full denial. Actually suggesting your CPU surpasses an i7-4770k.

I can't even...the amount of dunning-kruger.

I got an i5 4460 and a GTX970 and I got the same problems while others with the same hardware dont have them. Shut up already. The game is badly optimized, its not the fault of the hardware. I know people with a 950 who can run the game better than me like wtf

seems like ver. 1.01 had no stuttering, it was introduced with patch 1.03 and worsened with 1.03.1
Did the comparison on some streamers who were running it fine before release (1.03) and now have your same reported issue
They fixed bonfire crash for some, improved the swamp area, but introduced new bugs

[Kitsune]

Publicado originalmente por Onobake:

Publicado originalmente por skd 狐:

I got an i5 4460 and a GTX970 and I got the same problems while others with the same hardware dont have them. Shut up already. The game is badly optimized, its not the fault of the hardware. I know people with a 950 who can run the game better than me like wtf

seems like ver. 1.01 had no stuttering, it was introduced with patch 1.03 and worsened with 1.03.1
Did the comparison on some streamers who were running it fine before release (1.03) and now have your same reported issue
They fixed bonfire crash for some, improved the swamp area, but introduced new bugs

Yeah it seems so. But still no word from Bamco or fromsoftware in that regard. Great support

[bloodymonarch]

Remove family sharing so cheaters can't just waltz around bans. That would be nice.

[Jonny Sparta]

970sli /8370/16gig/wn7x64

Well I finally got a stable 60 fps. just thought i'd report what i think fixed my fps. there are still frame drops all over and it's still buggy... but i can play it, and im pretty picky.

I went after fixing low hardware usage as i figured that was the problem. gpu and cpu usage were way too low.
So beta nvidia driver 364.96

Disabled Cool n quiet in bios, and 'turbo mode' to ON instead of AUTO to force more usage.

EVGA precision X 16 -> replacing afterburner as my OC control for its KBOOST function which they say 'forces maximum usage reguardless of gpu load"

Disabled SLI in NV control panel. Dispite nvidia driver notes, i never saw more than 25-30% gpu usage so.... i don't know. I think it was kboost that fixed me but im not sure. hope this helps someone :)

[Kaltharos]

System Specs:
NVidia GTX 980M 4GB DDR5
Intel i7-4720HQ
8GM RAM

OS:
Windows 10 64 Bit - Always updated

VGA Driver:
361.75

No crashes, no frame rate issue (well there is but it's just a very slight drop and quickly recovered again at some area)

Been using 361.75 Driver since the release of the game, while everyone is having a lot of issue, i never had any issue at any setting at all. Seems like this is the best driver for playing DS3 with Nvidia.

[PistolaoBR]

Dude, come on man, if you dont have any problems with the game, good for you, but there is people with major issues here, and nvidia did released the beta driver just to play the new doom and dark souls 3.

[Hekk]

Publicado originalmente por Kal-:

System Specs:
NVidia GTX 980M 4GB DDR5
Intel i7-4720HQ
8GM RAM

OS:
Windows 10 64 Bit - Always updated

VGA Driver:
361.75

No crashes, no frame rate issue (well there is but it's just a very slight drop and quickly recovered again at some area)

Been using 361.75 Driver since the release of the game, while everyone is having a lot of issue, i never had any issue at any setting at all. Seems like this is the best driver for playing DS3 with Nvidia.

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[Pneu de Barco]

someone can tell if the 364.96 driver has better perfomance than 364.91?

[Hateful]

Publicado originalmente por Olá Marilene!:

someone can tell if the 364.96 driver has better perfomance than 364.91?

You won't know until you try. It seems like a lot of diffirent drivers are working for all users. For me it is 364.96, for him it's 314.22, for third it's 362.00, etc. Have to experiment to find out.

[Stom]

phenom II x4 940 (3ghz quad core)
nvidia 560ti, on drivers 314.22
8gb RAM, game installed on SSD
win7 x64
720p, all low

In Firelink Shrine, I can reach a max of ~45fps if i'm looking at floor/sky, 30fps looking anywhere else not moving, but game chugs to about 14-20 (or lower) when moving and turning camera in certain areas

funny enough, in my random boredom testing i found that disabling my ethernet adapter in device manager nets me an average of +3.1 fps
I benchmarked both standing still and circling the main shrine area

this is in offline mode btw, with every possible background program/service also disabled, virtual memory set to 10+GB, steam overlay dll file disabled, max performance, cores unparked, cool n quiet disabled, etc etc.

cpu usage never goes above 50-60%, gpu usage never hits above 60%

(under minimum reqs yes, but I'm under minimum for DOOM 4 beta and I ran that just fine)

they just announced another patch today, no idea when it comes out and it doesn't look like its going to fix anything
https://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls3/comments/4gciic/dark_souls_iii_v104_patch_notes_april_25th_2016/