This game runs really badly

[RedComet]

I'm sure this game is good and all, but there are way too many technical issues...:
-Periodical mini stutterings for no reason
-Framerate drops in certain area (like in front of the cathedral in the first area...) or randomly for no reason
-Textures loads really really slowly

I tried to play with low settings at 720p, but those problems wont go away
I still played this game for 3 hours today, but really I think that I will give up...
This is the only game that I won't play because of technical issues.

However I am really curious, am I the only one who thinks that this game doesn't run well at all?
I'm really surprised that almost no one mention these issues
Even the first dark souls with DSFix at 30 fps was a way better experience for me...

Specs :
GTX 1060 6GB
ryzen 2600X
16GB RAM 3000 MHz

EDIT : My computer is pretty clean, I use it only for gaming purposes so I doubt that there may be "questionable files" on my computer and as I said, I have technical issues only with this game.
I played : devil may cry 5, monster hunter world, dirt rally, doom 2016, league of legends, rocket league... And I never had issues with these games.
Monster hunter world was badly optimized but it never stuttered for no reason and when the framerate drop, my GPU usage is at 100% UNLIKE dark souls 3 where my GPU usage and my CPU usage is always under 100%

EDIT 2 : These problems do not bother me anymore; I think that most people just don't notice it. I beat the final boss anyway and it is a good game but with bad optimization IMO

[Khamal]

50-60 fps is normal
Is ds3 on your ssd or hdd?
Set your nvidia to 3d settings program prefer maximum performance
Turn off blood effects in game settings

[[DOLT]Braidedheadman]

I've had situations where levels don't load their textures right away, sometimes taking a minute ore more (player, mobs, and other objects appear floating). When it does happen (rarely enough, so not terribly put out by it), I'm often alt-tabbing to watch something on Netflix or Youtube on a second monitor while I wait for summons/invasions. This only started when I recently switched to Windows 10, however, so my suspicions are with the Win10 drivers.

I've never had FPS drops though.

[SamYes]

and shutdown all unnecessary applications

[SamYes]

I guess he has problems with cleanliness on Disk registry

[Lady Iudex]

That's weird man. You seem to have better hardware than I do and I run at full settings just fine.

[🅺🅰🆁🅰]

i have 1060 3gb with i7700k and never had any of this issues
time for a format i'd say

[Sneaksie Thief]

or turn all settings to low and play on the lowest res that looks normal

[nomorevideos]

Originally posted by ن٥ﻻ ﻉ√٥ﺎ ٱ:

i have 1060 3gb with i7700k and never had any of this issues
time for a format i'd say

I used to be able to run DS3 without major issues, only ever got frame drops and stutter in certain transitionary areas like going from the church bonfire through the cemetery or from whateverhisnameis's bonfire up the stairs to highwall.
Now whenever I pick up an item or open/exit the menu it'll auto save and cause the game to halt for a good half second. It is on a secondary SSD and I actually made a mistake and put it on a SATA 3 gb/s connection, but the game doesn't access the data on the SSD a lot to begin with and it still stutters even with 0% transfer rate/usage. Makes no sense to me why there's so much stutter now, I used to be able to play this game pretty smoothly. I am not on 10, it's not a messed up update issue.

Windows 8.1
i7 4770
1060 6GB 430.xx
16GB DDR3

[Powaplaya27]

Based on your hardware it sounds like you have system issues either with your windows system,drivers,software installed or hardware.

I suggest using sfc : /scannow to see if you have any windows registry errors. If you search online you can find out how to do it and how to use commands to fix any corruption if needed.

[Powaplaya27]

Btw,I'm using a 4770k at 3.9 ghz with 16gb ram 2400hz and an 2080RTX ti in 4k 60 fps.
I realise our hardware is different but letting you know DS3 runs fine - impressively so actually.
Sorry you are having some issues somewhere - I know how frustrating it is.
(Had a Geforce 1080 GTX which had a bad bit of Micron memory/ram I didn't know was the cause of very random crashes for over a year.So much trouble shooting my end finally nailed it to hte graphics card RAM.Very hard to test/find software to trouble shoot graphics card RAM.

[Maximus]

my ds3 used to run at 2k max settings. now 1K medium i get the odd stutter. no idea what happened. i havnt bothered to troubleshoot it yet

[Ferrarius_Christi]

It's your computer, not the game.

I own 4 different home computers with different specs, the only one that had issues with dark souls is a dual core with 2gb ram.

[DustDevil]

Originally posted by nomorevideos:

I used to be able to run DS3 without major issues, only ever got frame drops and stutter in certain transitionary areas like going from the church bonfire through the cemetery or from whateverhisnameis's bonfire up the stairs to highwall.
Now whenever I pick up an item or open/exit the menu it'll auto save and cause the game to halt for a good half second. It is on a secondary SSD and I actually made a mistake and put it on a SATA 3 gb/s connection, but the game doesn't access the data on the SSD a lot to begin with and it still stutters even with 0% transfer rate/usage. Makes no sense to me why there's so much stutter now, I used to be able to play this game pretty smoothly. I am not on 10, it's not a messed up update issue.

Windows 8.1
i7 4770
1060 6GB 430.xx
16GB DDR3

I would of said that having a hard drive that is nearly full can cause stutters when saving and if you have plenty of room left then your ssd could be on its way out but as you mentioned it still stutters with 0% usage it might not be this.
All I could suggest is that you check to make sure your drivers are upto date.
You could also try Defragging your computer if it hasn't been done in awhile.
Maybe even backup your saves and try a fresh install.

[nomorevideos]

Originally posted by GaryP:

Originally posted by nomorevideos:

I used to be able to run DS3 without major issues, only ever got frame drops and stutter in certain transitionary areas like going from the church bonfire through the cemetery or from whateverhisnameis's bonfire up the stairs to highwall.
Now whenever I pick up an item or open/exit the menu it'll auto save and cause the game to halt for a good half second. It is on a secondary SSD and I actually made a mistake and put it on a SATA 3 gb/s connection, but the game doesn't access the data on the SSD a lot to begin with and it still stutters even with 0% transfer rate/usage. Makes no sense to me why there's so much stutter now, I used to be able to play this game pretty smoothly. I am not on 10, it's not a messed up update issue.

Windows 8.1
i7 4770
1060 6GB 430.xx
16GB DDR3

I would of said that having a hard drive that is nearly full can cause stutters when saving and if you have plenty of room left then your ssd could be on its way out but as you mentioned it still stutters with 0% usage it might not be this.
All I could suggest is that you check to make sure your drivers are upto date.
You could also try Defragging your computer if it hasn't been done in awhile.
Maybe even backup your saves and try a fresh install.

Would "of" said.
Anyway, my driver was 430.86, but I had this for the past half year or so, I played DS3 with it before without issues. It just seems weird to me that without changing anything on my side it would suddenly run this bad. I doubt the game had a wonky patch or something, since for others it can run fine. I am also 100% sure it didn't run like this before, because when there's items and I pick them up the stutter is REALLY noticeable. It's definitely not normal and in Remastered or 2 it autosaves a ton too, but there's never any impact on the frame rate. I am currently updating my drivers and if that doesn't work I'll use DDU and revert to 430.86.

Updated to the most recent drivers and restarted my PC, but it still persists. God bless the ♥♥♥♥, they can really into PC gaymen.

[Blamm1]

The problem is on your side. i was running fine about 60 fps with a potato pc with a gtx960 2gb and a 2,6ghz intel on low setting