[SOLVED] A Weird Resolution Issue

[Ballz Aldrin]

One that I haven't been able to figure out for a year, for some reason, somewhere along the line the game started launching in the wrong resolution amd anytime I tey tk change the resolution or switch to windowed and back to full screen it does absolutely nothing and then just changes itself back. Even with that rendering auto detect best settings thing off, ironically it's the one setting there that will change and stay changed.

I've tried alt enter, alt tabbing, reinstalling, verifying, reinstalling and verifying, tried those little launch code things.

It's unplayable wtf is the issue here


EDIT: Downloaded SpecialK and it fixed the issue

[Lylliana of Mirrah]

delete the setting file inside appdata\roaming\darksoulsiii

[Ballz Aldrin]

Originally posted by Darkspirit Lylliana:

delete the setting file inside appdata\roaming\darksoulsiii

Cant seem to find this in the games folder. In fact if I search appdata the only folder that comes up is for STALKER

[ChainedScythe]

Originally posted by desider:

Originally posted by Darkspirit Lylliana:

delete the setting file inside appdata\roaming\darksoulsiii

Cant seem to find this in the games folder. In fact if I search appdata the only folder that comes up is for STALKER

In your windows search bar type in %appdata% exactly like that or you go open your explorer and tick the hidden check box and find the appdata folder in your user/(name)/appdata

[Ballz Aldrin]

Deleted everything in that folder, still launching in full screen but only displaying in like the upper corner. Any other suggestions? I emailed support like 6 months ago or whatever and never got a reply

[Ballz Aldrin]

Did you guys actually ever have this issue before and fixed it?

[ChainedScythe]

Originally posted by desider:

Did you guys actually ever have this issue before and fixed it?

Haven't had the issue, did try once to Win key + right arrow to my 4K tv but the resolution wouldn't go higher than 1080p. My suggestion is that it is some background app or process causing the issue. Could even be your display driver. Maybe try a full reinstall of Windows and start with updates then drivers then steam, and finally Dark Souls. If it still is happening then you've chalked it down to drivers or the windows installation itself. I am a little confused though, your issue is that you change the resolution but it changes back or doesn't change at all? Have you tried disabled things like VSR or whatever AMD/NVIDIA use for supersampling and downscaling?

You could uninstall again but delete all traces of the game, like the game folder in steam and the appdata folder.

[Ballz Aldrin]

So the game launches, appears to be full screen at first, but then only displays in the upper left hand corner. I try and change the resolution or putting it in windowed mode, it paused briefly like it's about to process the change but doesn't actually do anything and then just flips back to the original setting. I'll see if I can send a picture of what I'm talking about in a few.

What's ridiculous is that when I first got the game I had no issues whatsoever playing it on my laptop, but I guess after my screen broke and I've been playing on a monitor instead it's been doing this. Can't say for certain it wouldn't be doing this regardless but maybe thats the issue?

I'll check my drivers and what's going on in the background but I bought a year of CCleaner a few months ago and I've kept everything up to date as well as limiting what I have running in the background.

[ChainedScythe]

Originally posted by desider:

So the game launches, appears to be full screen at first, but then only displays in the upper left hand corner. I try and change the resolution or putting it in windowed mode, it paused briefly like it's about to process the change but doesn't actually do anything and then just flips back to the original setting. I'll see if I can send a picture of what I'm talking about in a few.

What's ridiculous is that when I first got the game I had no issues whatsoever playing it on my laptop, but I guess after my screen broke and I've been playing on a monitor instead it's been doing this. Can't say for certain it wouldn't be doing this regardless but maybe thats the issue?

I'll check my drivers and what's going on in the background but I bought a year of CCleaner a few months ago and I've kept everything up to date as well as limiting what I have running in the background.

I had a look online for some similar posts and some of them suggest checking your windows scaling. Set it to 100% or 150% and see if it does anything.

[ChainedScythe]

Alternatively you could try using your display driver to force the game to run at 1920x1080p resolution if your monitor can support that or change the monitor resolution otherwise. You do have a laptop too, so maybe if it has integrated graphics and a discrete gpu it is interfering?

[Ballz Aldrin]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1533DR9mw3NMNcmBBZf9GdtOLX-mPM8JA/view?usp=drivesdk

Here's what it looks like, the game plays in that small little quarter of the screen too. My resolution in display settings is 1920x1080 in game and in windows. I checked the scaling and it was already at 125x I tried 100x just to see and did nothing. All my drivers are up to date.

I think you might be right about the windows installation bc I played like 15 hr with a friend on this laptop with 0 issues. Put it down for a while and accidentally updated to windows 11 and ever since then I've been having this issue but ONLY with this game, Valorant runs fine, csgo, Sekiro, literally any other game runs fine so it just baffles me as to why this one game in particular is doing this

[Ballz Aldrin]

Its like the whole right half and bottom section are just black if it wasn't too clear from that pic

[ChainedScythe]

Originally posted by desider:

Its like the whole right half and bottom section are just black if it wasn't too clear from that pic

Windows 11 is definitely something given how Microsoft loves breaking 10 things to fix one. Yeah probably just re-install 11 or preferably 10.

[Sm0k3f47h3r]

win11 lol, rofl even

[Ballz Aldrin]

I hate it so much I had no idea you there was that go back option in settings until fking yesterday, and I am well past the 10 day window which is insane the would put a 10 day limit on reverting back. I didn't even mean to it just said windows had to update and when it booted back up it started installing windows 11.

I probably will just back up everything and reinstall windows 10. I'll update this thread when my ADD ass finally gets around to it if it fixes it so amyone else having this issue knows what the problem is.

Thanks for the help so far

[Ballz Aldrin]

Ok well I finally found a solution googling around. I downloaded SpecialK and launched my game through there and it ran perfectly fine, there's also something called SoulsUnsqueezed I downloaded the auto installer for but I'm not sure if it actually did anything.

Apparently this has been a common issue since release and just never got fixed. Hope this helps somebody else.