This version fixes the Depth of Field (DoF) effect, the last huge “bug” of the mod in my opinion.
- Added an .ini setting for overriding the DoF resolution
- I also provide the option to completely disable DoF scaling. However, I don’t recommend that. I think the game looks better with DoF, and it’s the way From Software intended it. Also, disabling the DoF this way may actually reduce performance.
See a screenshot showing off the fixed DoF here.
Consider donating if you like the mod.
Please please remember to read the README.txt!
Great work durante, looks much better now.
I don’t know if it’s possible but would you be able to add your TPXAA as an option to your mod?
Thank you.
Great job man, the difference is simply gargantuan.
Without your mod I would feel like I was playing an emulated PS2 game, but this fix makes it more like a PC game.
Keep it up, I will be donating soon!
Thank you very much
Just an idea, but do you know if there could be an easy way to unlock FPS defaulting either to 30FPS (if the Graphics Card can render above) or to 15FPS (if it’s below 30FPS), so even if there are drops due to hardware the slowdown wouldn’t be that dramatic?
I expect the physics effects in the game would get very wonky if the fps isn’t capped at 30.
i had this prolem when i try to use the fix,any suggestion???
http://np4.upanh.com/b3.s30.d1/ea42ed04c29dc5c6e75b2a9c4c5a132b_48491714.ds.jpg
Disable ingame AA
turn off AA in the options
DId you disable AA and motion blur as it says in the read me?
the motion blur works just fine with this fix
thanks all,guys
Sadly enough, none of your version work for me
. I use a ATI Radeon 5770. It keeps saying “stopped working” at launch.
Try updating the drivers?
Still broken for me.
Win 8 RC x64, Radeon HD5850, Core2Quad Q9400
Running both DARKSOULS.exe and DATA.exe as admin and in Win 7 compatibility mode fixed it for me woo!
turn “ON” all the Application Preference options in AMD Vision Control Center, don’t try to override AA or AF.
Win 8 is the error.
Are you using msi afterburner, evga precision? Something with on screen display monitoring? If you do turn it off.
I also have a 5770 and it works fine for me?
It’s because Win8 sucks :C
Hay, i have the same graphics car and i haven’t had any problems with any of his fixes.
Thank you very much Durante. Was this update also meant to fix the issue for Optimus users? If so, it has not been successful. Thanks anyway for all your hard work.
You save this game durante, thanks!
nice its working well
are u creating something to upgrade the performance as well ?
during my game everything looks nicebut the performance….its so laggy ^^ nomatter which resolution i use
Incredible great work!
I’ve donated a small sum cause you’ve menaged to vastly improve this game on pc.
Keep the good work up!
Damn nice work. If feel like continuing work, I think it’s time to hook up with Boris Vorontsov
The readme mentions the ability to adjust the resolution that DoF is rendered at, yet the Ini only has settings for turning it on and off. Also it isn’t entirely made clear which setting provides the best image quality.
I meant Versions.txt
For me distant objects are both blurry and very pixellated and I was excited when I saw you mention the ability to adjust the resolution of the DoF effect but when I opened the INI file I can only find an option to enable or disable it. No way to fix the pixellation, only a way to fix the blur.
can’t you read taken from dsfix.ini
# Depth of Field resolution override, possible values:
# 0 = no change from default (DoF pyramid starts at 512×360)
# 540 = DoF pyramid starts at 960×540
# 1080 = DoF pyramid starts at 1920×1080 (for high end systems)
# 2160 = DoF pyramid starts at 3840×2160 (if you have an utterly insane ultra high end PC)
# higher values will decrease performance
dofOverrideResolution 540
My bad lol. Quick question though, what does DoF scaling refer to? Does disabling it make the option above it meaningless or?
Hey buddy , where do i put this Depth of Field resolution override, possible values ?
Hello.
Do you have any plan for optimus version or any idea to turn on gpu high performance without GFWL issue?
Hey, did the 0.4 update break the ‘F9 to hide mouse cursor’ functionality?
Win7 64 here, 560 Ti running at 2560×1440 downsampled, dof 540, dof scaling enabled, filtering override 1
Edit: rebooting seemed to fix it.
Any plans on fixing the texture clamping? There’s faint white boxes around the intro screens and I believe some textures in-game
Yep. Some textures have this boxes too.
Good job
Add something that lets me run the game in Windowed mode with 4:3 aspect ratio.
If possible, that is.
Cheers.
+1
Need that too.
Amazing MOD makes a really huge difference in the visuals!!!
Awesome update, Do you plan on working to fix colour banding that happens in areas like the hydra at dark root basin?
Wow thank you so much this is fantastic!
Your one of the best graphical modders out there man keep at it!
15 fps ç_ç help me ????
Thanks again my friend. You turned a failed game into a gem. A grip of my friends were not gonna buy the game anymore until you came along and saved it. Great job.
Some players in the community are wondering if you will be increasing the UI resolution some time along the way. To me, that would be the last thing visually that would need to be corrected. Seeing a high resolution game with a very low resolution UI hurts the eyes a bit.
Once again, thank you Durante for your continued support and sense of urgency for the PC community. Keep kickin’ ass and chewin’ bubble gum.
I tried all fix and doesn’t work. When I run the game it shows “Dark Souls stopped working” : (
I don’t know what to do because AA/Motion are OFF and the DSfix.ini is OK.
Totally nosense issue :\
delete the fix, change ingame resoultion to 1024×768
then apply the fix should work now
then change resolution again
Different person but I have the same problem, I tried changing it to 1024×768 and it still crashed upon startup. I’ve used all the versions so far without issues, but now even when I try to reinstall the 3rd version it crashes.
Keep up the good work, this fix is awesome.
Nice job, thank you again!
Just want to report my impressions of it. I’m playing the game with the 0.4 fix and have set the internal resolution to 1366×768 (the same of my laptop’s monitor resolution), 540 DoF and no change to texture filtering.
My system:
Intel Core i5 M 540 @ 2.53GHz
NVIDIA NVS 5100M (1gb dedicated DDR3 RAM)
8 gb DDR3 RAM
I get 30 fps in the main menu but only 15 fps ingame (the previous fixes ran the same).
However, my CPU usage never goes above 40% and my GPU usage rarely goes over 70% (usually stays in the 60s AND no Intel HD graphics here). Total RAM usage remains at 1.8 gb. The GPU shares the RAM with the System. (no own vram).
I manage to run games like DX:HR and Skyrim on 40 fps with medium to mid-high settings and the system runs fully under load.
But it’s not the case with Dark Souls. The game doesn’t make full use of the hardware. The fans didn’t even start to run for the first 10 minutes.
I thought I could run this because it doesn’t seem that demanding. But no, only stays at 15 fps. Without the fix it struggles between 15 and 30 fps but nothing that is playable.
And to add something more: It doesn’t even reach 30 fps at the lowest possible settings (with and without fix). So i think the game itself is poorly optimized. Or is it really my laptop and I should throw it away?
Try to set the resolution on 480×320.You’ll get 30 fps.
The game will look like PS2 game,but HEY.30 FPS.
*like a PS2 GAME
the final challenge is fixing fps drop, great job
Could you make the mouse and keyboard controls work well. That will make a lot of people happy tx.
Yeah Durante, make sure you also create some higher quality textures, more game content and then cure cancer. kthxbye
Heh, it sometimes feels like that, but most people are reasonable.
Please let us a fps cap remover! Is impossible play in this way…
Great work…the texture is perfect…i manage to have 30fps on Phenom X4 965 and gtx 580! but i find a little bug..my camera is fixed on the head player! I manage to escape presing alt+f4…..enter right now and i come back in with a comment!
Thank you Durante.
I really appreciate your work!
5€ donated
Anybody getting tearing this game? Keeps a solid 30fps with this fix, but it just seems to tear now and then especially in cut scenes or when moving the camera quickly. Tried a variety of different Vsync settings (gts450).
Thank you very much for doing this for us!
Thank you!
It just keeps getting better.
Amazing job. Well done. And thanks alot.
thank you man. you rule.
just a question. is there ANY possibility to make a solution for this f’in 30 fps lock in the future update?
Is possible to fix the camera? When i move mouse just a little.. it’s FAAAAAAST. But when I move mouse quickly, the camera is slow.. WTF? Doesn’t make any sense
I know it’s the port, I just asking if it’s possible to fix that..
Just keep down to 1 mouse sensibility
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Just donated. Amazing work dude.
No wonder you think it doesn’t look good without depth of field. Because it doesn’t. But the reason is that the override doesn’t work. The back ground is still blurry with the option activated.
I own a ATI 5700 series graphic card and Dark souls worked like a charm yesterday, even with the mod on.
Today it’s a whole different story, I tried to use my already created character but the game crashed after a short while. I tried to create a new one, but the game crashes in the opening cutscene. I’ve tried all I can think of, removing the mod, reinstalling Dark souls, updating my drivers but nothing seems to work.
Any suggestions? I don’t have a clue where to look anymore.
Correction: The game crashes and the computer freezes and sometimes gets BSOD.
Reinstall Windows ?
Check if you enabled Graphics OverDrive in the Control Center (worked for me).
Request: Prevent cursor from venturing off the game window for multi-monitor setups
Thank you for this mod! However, I have a problem. I have a 4:3 CRT screen which I love very much. Will it be possible to force the game to play without letterboxes in 4:3 aspect ratio? Also, the game crashes if I try to go fullscreen with your mod installed.
800×600 still doesn’t work
+1
seems like any resolution lower than 640×720 will break the game.
i3 2120 3.3Ghz
560 Ti OC
Windows 7 32 bit
renderWidth 1920
renderHeight 1080
dofOverrideResolution 1080
disableDofScaling 0
30 FPS with filteringOverride 1
15 FPS with filteringOverride 2
Threw a couple of bucks your way for the work you’ve done so far. Hope you’re able to get around the Optimus thing going eventually. Good job!
Thanks for your hard work
Don;t know if anyone else has run into this, and I’m not sure if it has anything to do with this fix, but when I run the game all the menus and the HUD are the proper resolution, but 3/4 of the screen is black during any actual gameplay with everything happening in what looks to be a 640×480 window in the upper left corner.
I’ve tried everything I can think of to fix it, changing resolutions, turning windowed mode off/on, and even reinstalling, nothing fixes it. I’m at a loss on what else to do, its not playable this way.
Here’s a screenshot of what I’m talking about:
http://i.imgur.com/WyHLr.jpg
turn off Anti Aliasing bro
Are you *absolutely certain* that you disabled in-game AA and blur?
hi, please how to bind keys to gamepad?
thanks
This is awesome! Thanks so much for this. I really took you no time to do this as it seems. Great. I tried it out and played 2,5 hours straight through Blighttown, Blighttown Swamp, Queelag and Ceaseless Discharge. Just one or two stutters, worked like a charm.
The only thing I noticed was some lines around letters in the splash srceens, but thats fine by me
That one screenshot here seems to be the german version: Vielen Dank – Du macht eines der besten Spiele besser!
More fantastic work by you. Thank you very much.
I just want to point out one little thing that I think you should note in the next *.ini file. I tried setting a custom resolution for the DOF resolution, 1440, and ended up with the black box/white box problem. Please do note that if people do have this problem, that they should ONLY use the resolutions specified in the list: 540, 1080, 2160.
1080 works for me just fine, and the game is looking fabulous.
Please make a fix for Optimus users
like myself
Thanks so much for this.
Thanks for the fix man !
You should really put a adf.ly link on it, I dont mind to wait 5 sec for all the work you’ve put on this.
Nah I really hate ads, I just hope that those people who can afford it show their appreciation with a donation.
I would donate $10 if i could use this mod. But my computer uses optimus and I cannot play at more than 15fps with your mod
Are you planning to make a fix for us? I would greatly appreciate it. 
I’d do the same. I”m getting jealous of all the people able to use this fix and me having to play at default settings because of the stupid optimus problem.
DUDE, please remove your oldest version from the server!!!!
People are downloading the first broken release and spreading it all over the world.
REMOVE v0.1 now.
Also, put the newest version in every blog post of yours so they always get the latest.
That’s a good point.
I disagree, the first fix gives me much better performance on my low-end rig than the others because they are using brute-force methods to fix DoF/Messages that cuts my framerate.
I say they stay.
Maybe it would be more effective to just put a bolded note at the top saying the file is outdated? Then users would know to go get a newer version but the files would still be available…..
I have a laptop that comes with Optimus and I tried DSfix 0.1 to 0.4. With the mod no matter what I set in the NVIDIA control panel for both darksouls.exe and data.exe, it’s always using the integrated GPU to run instead. However without the mod it’ll use my delicated GPU to run like I assigned in the NVIDIA control panel.
If you could look into this I’ll be much appriciated and offer a few bucks for donation as well
.
Oops, spelling error. Dedicated GPU*
Thank you so much for this!
You know, at first I didn’t really get what the hubbub was all about. I thought the game looked fine as it was, but since the fix seemed harmless enough, I decided to give it a shot. After playing with it a while, I disabled it to see the difference, and there’s no way I could ever go back now. So again, thank you!
I used this but seeing odd lines on the intro logos. I do have AA and Blur off in option. The ingame looks fine, but doesn’t seem to improve quality nor performance. I’m using Radeon HD 5730 1GB
i keep crashing when i go down the elevator to go to new londo ruins (or whatever) please help
hi bro..anyway to fix AA in game?
or what is the best to force AA in game with Nvidia control?
cus i did in control panel but nothing!
I love you man, the game looks WAAAY better now!
Great work, thanks alot!
Running on my lappy, i7, AMD 6990M, at max
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So is the DoF fix enabled by default? Or do I have to mess with these settings?
Just donated 5 euros. Thank you Durante.
I realize this isn’t a graphical problem but can we get an option to altar mouse sensitivity since the in game one does nothing?
The issue is that it’s not a graphical problem. The method I’m currently using doesn’t really allow me to alter non-graphical stuff.
Thanks anyways! Donating to you once I get done moving in a week or two. You’ve single handedly saved this port.
Hi Durante. Im just wondering if you are planning to fix the Optimus problem soon? Because I have kind of been putting off playing Dark Souls to much in hopes that there will be a patch and i will get to enjoy beautiful scenery too. If you arnt i would just like to know and i will just play anyway.
Thanks,
Spencer
Hello, everyone!
I’m having a problem after installing this mod, I normally play on the 1440×900 resolution, but today my game suddenly starting having some FPS drops, whilst yesterday was an overall smooth experience. I tried installing this mode with the very same resolutions and ForceFullscreen for a better performance, but 10 seconds after the game starts running, the screen starts blinking and it keeps going all throughout the menus. Any help?
Hey Durante, could you please let us know if you will or will not do an Optimus fix?
I second that, it would be nice to know if you consider spending time on this or not.
Thanks a lot for the fix, i want to ask you if you can automatically turn off the mouse cursor when we use a gamepad or during gameplay because it’s very annoying to see it on the screen during the battles
Hey I’m having a problem when I tried using the mod for the game (Idk if it was the mod or not but that’s not really the problem) as soon as I installed the game and stuff I put the mod files in the installed location and all that. But when I was trying to play I couldn’t cause it kept being sluggish and would make my graphics card stop responding. I know it’s not the graphics card though cause I looked up a video on someone using the same one with like all my specs etc. And it was working fine for him. So I thought I would uninstall the mod and then try. But it won’t let me even after I deleted the files and everything it still shows the mod options for the resolution and stuff. I even uninstalled Dark Souls. Anyone know what the problem is? No matter what I do the mod stuff won’t go away
So i can’t see if that is the problem or not. Any suggestions would be nice. 
thanks.
No word on any optimus fixes…
Is it fixable?? I’d donate if it were working
You are amazing! Thank yoU!
Durante I readed on NeoGaf that you looking for someone to test potential Optimus fix I can test it I have laptop with GT540M and I have this issue I can totally test it
oh yeah you can contact me on my email danio94@gmail.com I can’t register becuse it is not accepting gmail
First of all thank you very much for your contribution. I’m playing the game with mouse and keyboard and i’m already pretty far into it. I noticed the “auto lock” option has no effect and the target i lock sometimes changes automaticaly if there is some other target in the vecinity … it’s very annoying. Can it be fixed somehow? And also the diference in mouse sensitivity between moving the camera while standing and moving it while running is HUGEEEEEE and. Can this be fixed? Thank you.
When i use 1280X1024 i have black bars. I have 19″ LCD 5:4.
It is possible to fix this?
And it is possible remove FPS lock?
Thx
Sir, you just made the world a better place to live in. Thank you very much.
Me after leaving Oolacile Sanctuary and heading in to the forest:
Yeserday: My god that’s ugly
Today: <3
This is why PC gaming is the best. People like you! Well done, sir!
nice work!
but there is little issue: symbols in floor-hints are invisible if game launched for example with cyrillic language
Ignore the ignorant troll from Forbes site saying the solution to the “Mouse and Keyboard” buggery is to buy a fucking controller.
People like that should stick to their beloved idiot boxes and leave PC gaming to people with half a brain.
If he said he found it to be an acceptable workaround I would not be upset. But no. He said not only that it was *The* fix, but that any PC gamer should have one.
I *DO* have an Xbox 360 Trackball controller. It is much better than the standard controls. But damn those things are fucking annoying. I have been gaming for longer than any console since the Atari 2600 was even invented. And I use Keyboard and Trackball for everything.
Thank you for the fix to the games graphical bugs. But to me it is still unplayable simply because PC games are not supposed to be console games played on the PC with a console controller. This is no-ones fault but the people who did this shitty port.
And thank you to anyone who bothered to read my wall of ranting. Did I mention I get pissed off when console morons imply PC gaming is supposed to be done with console junk for no reason other than their own preferences?
Your opinions are terrible and lack any sort of reasoning. The guy from Forbes is correct. Use a controller to play this game and get a clue, you dimwitted bigot.
Just donated 5$!, thanks a lot man, love your work on this. also to get the DoF effect do i have to manually have to turn it on? and how can i do that?
Great stuff this fix. Sent you 5€. I hope that From will acknowledge your work and maybe send you 5 bucks or something.
Can anyone shed a light on this particular problem I’m having:http://i.imgur.com/6VwK2.jpg (not my screenshot btw, but I’ve seen others with similar problems. It seems I cannot get rid of it anymore whatever I try (even reinstalling the game, removing the mod or deleting the config file from C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\NBGI\DarkSouls).
Also this has nothing to do with turning off the AA or blur ingame, it’s just that some setting got cached and I can’t seem to revert back to the original state.
For the AMD/ATI users, by accident I figured out why we are experiencing fps dips; the problem seems to be the Catalyst control center and/or ati driver. This might be an extreme measure but what I did to fix the fps dips (and fix my previous problem) is remove the complete ati driver (yes uninstall your card’s driver adapter as well in the device manager) and uninstall the catalyst control center, then let windows 7 reinstall your driver automatically and finally only reinstall the driver (not the catalyst control center). However this currently only works for my 4850HD (512MB).
I had the same problem with my AMD graphic card. Fixed by installing latest driver.
Hello,
I would like to note that DSFix DOES NOT work well with AMD’s Trinity series APUs (Running the A10-4600M). With DSFix on, more areas drop frames to 15 fps and lock it there while without it on, several areas will actually go 25~30 fps.
However, testing on an AMD 965 Phenom II X4 + HD6870 runs flawlessly. If its a matter of how the APU’s are designed, is there a possible way to fix it then? Or must we wait until FPS is uncapped?
I think it’s simply a matter of fillrate/framebuffer bandwidth. My Fix is working fine, the APU just can’t handle the resolution.
If framerate is out of reach, how about a Plan B ?
Wouldn’t framerate upconversion work better than ordinary digital TV upconversion since you have Z-buffer data? Oh and it should precede Depth of Field ?
*
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-frame-rate-upscaler-tech-interview
Very stable..the 0.3 ver was causing serious frame rate drop in many areas and still some things seemed blurry im using geforce 450 gts btw. in 0.4 all this problems are solved for me no framerate drop and blurry things anymore.
Thanks alot for the update and your hardwork.
I know this may be asking for a lot. You’ve already done enough. Any way you think you can get the Xbox 360 wireless controller to work? Apparently this is plaguing a lot of users, including myself. Why doesn’t it work? It’s killing me. The GFWL button brings up the GFWL menu but the controller itself doesn’t work for any of the game.
I don’t think I can do anything about this — it’s working for me so I couldn’t even test it.
I had the same issue.
Do you have another controller or joystick plugged in? Try to unplug it.
You should accept bitcoins for donations. :3
My computer is old and can’t run the game at higher resolutions, it would be cool if you could add support for smaller resolutions like 640×480 for those of us with crappy computers.
Ur 0.4 mod is awesome but u should make optional options in there. I aint anything bad but some texture on my computer is too sharp and hurting my eyes. Would help if i could turn couple of things bit lower but keep up the work u should send ur mod to dev`s so that they can learn how to port
Amazing work !
The last version make the game runs much better now, on my computer.
Do you think it will be possible to add SSAO support in next versions ?
I tried to force Ambiant Occlusion with Nvidia Inspector, but I still didn’t find the right profiles. Anyway, thanks, for the great job.
well, actually, I got SSAO working with Nvidia Inspector :
I made a profile with DATA.exe.
Ambiant Occlusion compatibility : Elder Scrolls V : Skyrim
Ambiant Occlusion setting : High Quality
Ambiant Occlusion usage : Enable
The effect is very subtle, but noticeable, mostly in dark places and interiors.
Interesting, I’ll try that.
My computer have this Specification : Intel Corei7 2.67Ghz. Ram DDR 4GB. Graphics Card : HD5770. And Motherboard : Gigabyte X58-USB3. When I play this game it slows down. I think I have some framerate problem. Thats why I resetup my computer But nothing good happen. I Have used your Disfix0.4 Version . It works and it show graphically beautifull. But I cannot play the game fast. When the Action stars the game slows. What I do? Please tell me and give me the solution that how i play this game , use your mod and play fast mean normal speed… please reply me soon Because am very much keen to play this game.
Brilliant!
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DUDE.
PLEASE, PLEASE figure out a way to disable the 15fps lock if you don’t get 30– this happpens all the time for me, and most of the time my fps is at 28-29 so I get auto-locked to 15, making the game a pain in the ass to play. I’m really happy I pirated the game to test it out, I’ll instabuy it ASAP if you fix this bug.
Thanks so much for the fix, but does anyone have a solution to the mouse control problem? When I move the mouse quickly, the camera shifts at the same slow speed, but when I just barely move the mouse around, it moves and jitters quickly.
Any plans to remove the 30 FPS cap?
I’d like nothing more than that, but for now it seems infeasible.
I have artifacts when using the 0.4 version.
it appears in the undead church as small “white dots” everywhere, on the walls, the floor, …
I tried revert to the 0.3 version but now those artifacts remain…
even after reinstalling the game there is no change.
Any idea?
ok lol it appears that those “dots” are normal.
I just checked some videos on youtube and it shows the same things.
I wonder why it didn’t struck me the first time though
Sounds like a broken/overheating GPU actually
using the latest version … FBS very bad after using it and after deleting
may sound stupid) but do i adjust anything in the ini file
the dll file (as said) it returns to 30 normal but the the mouse cursor toggle doesnot work anymore ….
quick questing
or just put in the game folder !! >>??
Has FPS problems running at 3840*2400 on a T221, previous patch did not..
Depth of field resolution seems to work alright.
Force windowed + present width/height at 3840*2400 and refresh rate at 75 hz causes the game to go into a window and then slowly scale upwards, and then ultimately crashes.
I know this probably isn’t a priority, but is it possible to put something in the mod that removes those logos at the start when booting the game?
http://ompldr.org/vZjhvaQ/sexycarim6.jpg
Pic related. The game looks awesome.
Some info I forgot: I have custom AA settings and vsync settings set in nvidia control panel (game is slow if the nvidia vsync is enabled)
I found an new issue that appears with adding this, but so far it only happens to me.
Constant “blinking” I don’t know how else to put it. The screen goes black but only long enough that you just notice but it does extremely often. It’s like blinking at 3 times the fastest speed.
Also, the problem stays even if you stop playing. Only way to stop it is by restarting my computer. Trigger is definitely Dark Souls WITH the dynamic link library.
Ambient Occlusion enabled via Nvidia Inspector:
http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/55/2012082600025.jpg
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/129/2012082600021.jpg
http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/4295/2012082600020.jpg
http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/3762/2012082600017.jpg
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/1457/2012082600008.jpg
http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/6366/2012082600004.jpg
settings:
http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/5493/dsssao.jpg
Great!
I Want Fix ati
for even better image quality, i suggest use a program like nvidia inspector use negative lod, like -1.0 you will fell like high res textures.
Good job man,but my system seems to work better with DSfix3 don`t know why,with DSfix4 my game just runs very slow, will be a great thing if u can solve the windowed mode.
Many thanks
It’s probably been said before and for all I know you’re working on it, but it would be nice if the HUD was scaled down. It covers way to much of the screen (not more than on the console-versions but it’s more noticeable with the higher resolution
It’s on my list.
Hi, great job you have done so far. I’m wondering if this dll can also work on other Direct X 9 video games ?
Or, this dsfix is only specific to Dark Soul ? I really love to use the Super Sampling for other video games. If you can make the same on Dx 11, it would be super super great !
Thanks, and keep up the good work.
Is there anyway you can affect frame rate drops on certain places, or try to fix it in future versions.
Also if anybody else knows, has developers said anything about patches.
Did they at least sent you a thanks for making their game playable
If i enable the mod the framerate locks at 16 even if i set everything in the dsfix high.
Thanks, and keep up the good work.
Thanks ! Keep up the good work mate !
Peter, Can you add the mouse cursor toggle to verion 0.1 ??
yeah . i know … but somehow its the one working for me !!
Help fps 15 in game need AMD HD 5000 series
Have you think about include an DirectX Triple-Buffer? like D3DOverride, or maybe the SSAO like the Nvidia profile does, it is possible? :O
Hi, first off thank you for this amazing fix you managed to come up with in just a few days after the release.
I’d like to know if you’re planning on adding injected SMAA as an additional feature of your fix, even if it’s done with a proxy .dll file (like it’s done in Skyrim, for example). That’d be the icing on the cake of a wonderful job.
Thank you again!
The mod’s great, but it still has a significant bug.
Intended HDR/sunray effects are diminished and inconsistent with the modded d3d9.dll in use. It’s most noticeable with sunlight visual effects. Sometimes the sunrays don’t work at all, sometimes they’re much weaker, and sometimes the it varies according to the camera angle.
I’ve tested this in multiple locations in the game, and once you realize it’s happening, believe me, the difference is very noticeable. These lighting effects still work, sort of, but they’re far less impressive looking with the mod.
All in all everything being higher-res is a net-gain trade-off, of course. But I can’t help but think this issue is probably something very simple and easily remedied, if Durante only realizes it.
I’m aware of that issue, but sadly it’s not a simple fix at all. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, and there’s no obvious pattern to it.
I will keep trying.
All anyone can ask.
Oh and btw, will motion blur ever be included? I sort of like that effect, and I miss it with this mod.
Motion blur works.
Oh, I thought we had to disable it and that the mod didn’t have included yet. Cool, nevermind then.
can any one give me the links of the dark souls pc official fourms >>>??
i found it but no pc version at all >>???
Hmm, all versions are crippling start game logos [namco bandai] and [from software], and when ingame, I see only blank [black] screen and huge white rectangle. Seems like serious texture problem. Any advice?
Ow and I have following specs:
- Core i7 2600K @ default clock
- Asus Sabertooth P67 rev 1.0 [or B2]
- 16 gigs of 1333 MHz Corsair Ram
- Asus GTX 580
- latest beta drivers from geforce.com
- 2x Intel 520 120 GB raid0 SSDs for system [1100 read/1000 write]
- legal Windows 7 x64 Pro
- am using latest beta drivers, tried also retail drivers, I’ve got the same result
Disable in-game AA.
(The artifacts in the startup logos are a known problem, and one I don’t plan on fixing. See it as a confirmation that the fix is in effect
)
thank You, worked like charm!
I have a Laptop with the i7 processor and a GeForce Gt 540m and I have been having some trouble with the mod. The game seemed to cap the fps to 15. It seems that the game forces dark souls to run through the integrated graphics card. I fixed this in the Nvidia settings making the dark souls.exe and data.exe run only through my GeForce card, doing this I get a solid 30 fps. But when I use your mod the game goes back to running at 15 fps solid. I have seen that a few people have the same problem. Is there anyway to fix it so I can use your high res mod. I am playing the game with a low res at the moment to keep the fps up, but I would love the game to look the way it was meant to.
Thanks for all the hard work so far.
Keep it up!
Thanks for the fix!! cant test it till day 31 tho xD limited edition on the way.
Could anyone please post some screens of different places? And one last thing, does thie fix work with Ati cards?
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It seems that Dark Souls is using some kind of internal double-buffered Vsync. Is DSfix able to disable this?
Maybe later, there are a lot of things I need to fix first.
The game is locked at 60Hz screen refresh rate, how can I increase it to 75Hz (my monitors native), any mod or is there a possibility for you to add it in near future? Thanks
As long as the framerate is fixed to 30, 75hz would be a bad idea.
I cannot get this to work.
I use the newest Nvidia Beta-drivers, set custom resolutions, added the mod files and get no better resolution. Fraps says “2880 x 1620″ but the game looks ugly as hell. Any ideas?
Sorry, no idea. Are you sure you put the files in the correct location?
I copied the files here:
D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition\DATA
Awesome mod and in a record time!
Good Luck solving the lighting effect problems. I really want to follow the develop of your work and how far goes.
Impresive man you are
Is there a fix for the no message coming?
Hello, first off I would like to thank you for essentially saving dark souls pc.
And I would also like to bring an issue with the mod I have noticed to your attention. Sometimes certain objects, or terrain will have an odd striping effect applied to them, I guess because of another issue with low res effects. So far it’s most apparent in Anor Londo like here http://i.imgur.com/cFQGI.jpg. The stripes will rove across the environment as you move. Turning the game back its original low res self seemed to diminish or remove these.
Sorry if this has already been brought up.
Thanks again for the fix!
I was unaware of this, have not seen it yet. I will investigate it when I do. Thanks for the heads-up!
you sir, are a genius, thank you very much for the time you put into this
About my SSAO screenshots :
I read some post on Neogaf, stated that I may have faked the SSAO, on my screenshots. I couldn’t reply on Neogaf, as it declines my email to open a new account.
This is absolutely not the case, SSAO works fine on my computer, but, perhaps, I should give more details about my configuration, and above all, about my card drivers.
So:
graphic card : NVidia Geforce 8800 GTX
drivers : Beta drivers, Geforce 304.79 [r304_00-124]
OS : Windows 7 64 bits
plus, Ambient Occlusion should also be checked on “Quality” in Nvidia Control Panel/ Manage 3D Settings/Global Settings/
I guess this is important as I remember this to be mandatory to make the Nvidia Inspector AO settings work.
I’m sorry for the people who couldn’t manage to make it work, I hope these informations will help. Can somebody glad enough make some test on their computers ?
If it still doesn’t work, I can still make a video (this would be more difficult to fake).
oh, I forgot, it only works in FULL SCREEN.
This could be a work around, Let us know how these two ideas work with Nvidia Optimus cards users…. as I am trying to figure out myself.
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2223176
but also try
http://netbooknetwork.net/2010/force-nvidia-processor-on-specific-programs-for-laptops-with-nvidia-optimus/
Would it be possible to get rid of the letterbox on 16:10 resolutions in a future version of this fix or is that something that can never be fixed?
It can be fixed, it’s on my “15 million things to do” list.
Dude , i really appreciate the work …. all i need now is a fix for the damn camera speed and the cursor icon showing up all the time and i can start playing this game…
Is there any possibilites that you could add a fullscreen windowed mode (windowed mode without borders) like in the recent Blizzard games? The reason is that I have a multi-monitor setup on my computer, which I use for using multiple applications at the same time. Having a fullscreen windowed mode would make it more convenient to switch between applications, while having the game running at 1080p at the same time
Thanks for all your hard work making this game better
Yes, that’s doable. I’ll add it to the list.
I cant use this on my laptop because apparently the resolution patch is forcing the use of my intel integrated graphics, I was wondering if we will see a fix for this. Several other users on steam forums/reddit noticed this and most have to have the fix disabled to play dark souls without poor integrated performance.
http://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comments/yqisi/low_framerate_issue_nvidia_mobile_gpu_help/
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2901276&page=3
thanks for the work, I love the fix on my desktop and it works great.
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When i try to open up DSfix (1, 2, 3, or 4) It says the program is not found and has no icon. I did that from my downloads folder and when i move it, the icon becomes 7- zip and still will not open. am i missing a program or something?
First of all thx for this great mod…but i got a weird issue with 0.4 and 0.5v.. game running very low fps at first start ..than i rest on bonfire or restart game sometimes it start at normal 30fps and all smooth…Also this adressed by another user in neogaf forum today..
Are you using an AMD GPU?
no its GTX 460 ..and cpu is e7200 3ghz overclocked…i try today again ..realy weird everytime i start a new game its auto 15fps..then i restart game or rest at bonfire than it run normal 30fps..btw im using 16:10 screen is it related?
very good！
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Just wanted to say thanks, works a treat for me.
What would be 15 fps without it, became 22 with. You are a saint.
Hey first off thanks for rescuing dark souls it looks beautiful, but i got a problem lol and im not much of a tech person but i can normally figure this sort of thing out,
Its displaying the screen in 1/4th the size of the screen with movement shadows all over the other part and glow effects on the black parts etc, happens on windows mode and on all resolutions, anyone else come across a similer problem? im pretty sure it was ok pre mod so got me scuppered
any ideas would be awesome cant enjoy the game atm with it like that TT
heh im an idiot managed to figure it out >< i read the readme but somehow missed the AA and blur motion settings needing to be turned off, i thought somehow my system was up the creek or that id just somehow stuffed it up
now all i gotta do is get a wired xbox controller
Thanks for the mod!
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i’m using .5 version of your fix… oddly its not here… i have 5870, and its working fine….
your a life saver with the option you gave to hide the mouse…. i hate controller, am playing with a mouse, it was hard to adjust to but an hour into the game i got my key binds to my liking but the mouse always nagged me… it didn’t feel as right with the mouse showing… thanks again
also thanks for fixing the DoF…
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Another Optimus user that would through money your way if you can get it to work with our cards.
Heres hoping.
Amazing work! The difference this mod makes is unbelievable and invaluable. Thank you so much for this!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a donation to make.
So I am still wondering whether to buy this game for PC.. with this fix, does it make the game worth getting yet? Or are there still things that the develop would need to do to make it worth the AAA premium price they are asking?