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ExplodinPiggies Apr 12, 2016 @ 8:51pm
Better FPS by changing processor affinity.
At the "Foot of the High Wall" Bonfire I was getting around 28 FPS when looking towards the Undead Settlement, after changing my processor affinity from 11 processors to 5 I now get 55 to 60 FPS.

To set affinity go to the Task Manager, right click on DarkSoulsIII.exe and click Set Affinity which should be right under Set Priority in the list and a window will pop up letting you choose which processors are allowed to run DS3.

Leaving CPU 0 - CPU 4 checked and unchecking the rest gave me the best FPS increase.

i7-5930k @ 3.5 GHz
16GB ram
GTX 980ti
Windows 10
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The Gunslinger Apr 12, 2016 @ 9:00pm 
Tried this with a FX 8320 and it did nothing.
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Pharazon Apr 12, 2016 @ 9:12pm 
Sweet, this worked like a charm for me. Thanks :D
Last edited by Pharazon; Apr 12, 2016 @ 9:13pm
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nosgoth01 Apr 14, 2016 @ 7:10pm 
Didn't worked :(
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nosgoth01 Apr 14, 2016 @ 7:15pm 
OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!! I checked only the first 2 processor and now its running at 60 fps!!!

You're a genius! I can't thank you enough!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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uhhoh Apr 14, 2016 @ 7:20pm 
Wait, why does this work? Limiting the amount of cores allowed to operate? Surely that would decrease performance - i'll try it anyway, but...
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Litzner Apr 15, 2016 @ 6:37am 
Originally posted by uhhoh:
Wait, why does this work? Limiting the amount of cores allowed to operate? Surely that would decrease performance - i'll try it anyway, but...

This operation is akin to disabling hyper-threading, so if you are not running an I7 it will not make much of a difference. But there is a history of some things not liking the way the I7 distributes the load across all cores when hyper-threading is turned on.
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Nunkuruji Apr 15, 2016 @ 9:39am 
I have a feeling this positively affects the problem with ACPI power management of the processor, in the same way this solves the issue as well.

http://steamcommunity.com/app/374320/discussions/0/365163686086231546/
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uhhoh Apr 15, 2016 @ 9:40am 
Originally posted by Litzner:
Originally posted by uhhoh:
Wait, why does this work? Limiting the amount of cores allowed to operate? Surely that would decrease performance - i'll try it anyway, but...

This operation is akin to disabling hyper-threading, so if you are not running an I7 it will not make much of a difference. But there is a history of some things not liking the way the I7 distributes the load across all cores when hyper-threading is turned on.

I use an I7, but disabling any of the cores lowered my FPS extremely.
Last edited by uhhoh; Apr 15, 2016 @ 9:40am
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