DSfix 0.5

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This is a maintenance release, and adds a few mouse-related features people were asking for.

  • Mouse cursor toggling with F9 should now be less finicky
  • You can toggle whether the mouse is allowed to leave the window with F10
    (this is useful in windowed mode or in fullscreen with multiple monitors)
  • Both of these settings can also be set in the .ini
  • The fix introduced in version 0.2 for cut-off text/buttons has been reworked to be much less invasive — if you have seen any degradation in performance or functionality from 0.1 to 0.2 this should fix it (I haven’t seen any changes)

This will probably be the last version for a little while, I have to go to work tomorrow ;)

Consider donating if you like the mod.

DSfix version 0.5 download

Please please remember to read the README.txt!

216 thoughts on “DSfix 0.5”

  1. Nice work, can you make a fps patch? or a proper mouse one, cuz the game looks so laggy with 30 fps and shitty mouse and keyboard support. Thank you man, you did a great job so far.

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    • This is not going to be possible without an insane amount of work. The way the animations work is tied to the frame rate, so unlocking it (if it can even be done) would involve reworking the animations. I don’t even think that is possible to do with our current tools, so unlocking the frame rate would be more trouble than it’s worth (To our poor overworked developer haha). To be honest, I think that the next project that the Dev should work on, if he wants to branch out is an Optimus fix. Nearly half the comments on the last few posts involve users requesting Optimus compatibility so that seems to garner more popular support. Personally the frame rate doesn’t bother me at all, I can understand the desire for high rez as vanilla is awful, but that’s just me.

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      • Durante,
        In the previous post’s comments a person posted:

        Braincruser
        on 2012-08-26 at 00:31 said:
        Here are the files.
        http://www.mediafire.com/?2er61udtb63iv22

        The only changes are:
        Then name of the d3d9.dll you used is now d3fx.dll
        And a Hex value inside the Data.exe that was changed from d3d9.dll to d3fx.dll.
        Before you copy this to your game please make a back up because to retrieve the original exe or remove the resolution fix you will have to reinstall the game.

        This completely fixed the problem for me (after I remembered to turn off in-game AA !) and I have a 650m card. It seems to be particularly an issue with nvidia optimus LAPTOPS. But this still apparently interferes with GWL and saving. Now, if only Braincruser can rerelease his optimus fix with your 1.5 fix….
        Thanks for your awesome work!!! – Both!

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      • Star Wars FU1,2, Transformers, LA Noir etc. May be somewhere buggy, but still better than 30fps lock. So this is not an argument.

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        • I don’t think you understand that the game will literally not be playable. That is the argument. Deal with it.

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    • Love this mod so much! thanks for adding the mouselock, hate using a third party app to correct this..

      I have a question. I took a screen shot of before and after and the difference is amazing. However, your screen shot looks to be a more zoomed out image. My texture sizes are exactly the same. I even tried crazy resolution sizes. They are clearer, but the same size. Am I missing something?

      edit: sorry for posting in wrong spot.

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    • ok so i installed the patch correctly and have forced it in full screen and put the res up to 1440×900 but now the screen flickers really fast and load times are retarded. so i disabled everything and the problem still exist’s any ideas or is it just me having a AMD card?

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    • I can’t get this patch to work. I install as directed into the DATA directory, set options in .ini file, and try to launch the game. I immediatley get a “darksouls.exe has stopped working” with an option to close or close and look for a solution on line. Anybody run into this or know how to fix.
      Thanks in advance,
      Ed

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  2. Thanks for the fix and all your hard work! Oh wait I can’t use it because nvidia Optimus is a piece of crap ;_;

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  3. It is possible to add Triple-Buferring of DX? and maybe SSAO like the profile of Nvidia or ENB? (Cause the guy of ENB hate the game cause he’s so noob playing and he wont make an ENB patch)

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  4. Durante,

    First of all, thanks a lot for this excellent fix! The fix seems to disable the Steam Community overlay for me, however, have you noticed this issue? I scoured neogaf and was unable to find anyone else with the issue, but since using the fix I’m unable to open the overlay anymore. Any ideas?

    Thanks again!

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    • The fix introduces following fixes:
      -Mouse cursor toggling with F9 should now be less finicky
      -You can toggle whether the mouse is allowed to leave the window with F10
      Have you set any of this buttons for your steam overlay. For example opening the steam overlay with F10 or etc?
      Only a guess, I’m not using steam at all.

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  5. Let me first thank you for your all your efforts. What you are doing here is extremely appreciated….
    I have a minor issue though; if I run the game on 1920×1200 full screen, it returns a 1920×1080 image with black bars at the top and the bottom (in game resolution is set to 1920X1200 @ 60Hz and DSfix is set to 2560×1600 and DoF @ 1080). It appears that the DSfix does not support 16:10 aspect ratio. I was wondering whether this is the case.

    Best.

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  7. For anyone having the “Optimus” issue without having a system with Optimus installed, make sure MSI Afterburner or similar programs with an OSD server are turned off. Alternatively, with MSI Afterburner, you can go into the OSD options and select the checkbox in the config menu to enable compatibility with modified Direct3D runtime libraries.

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  8. thanx bro

    but i wanna ask somthing and really HOPE U HELP ME OUT guys
    in DFix .ini…can i put resulotion more then 1920×1080 to make the
    image more better? but ofcourse im gonna make it 1920×1080 in game itself
    can i?

    i wanna know good way to make AA in the game through nvidia inspecter
    plz let me know how

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    • Create a new profile for Dark Souls and add DATA.exe as the executable. Now leave it blank except for two settings. “Toggle FXAA on or off” should be forced ON, and “NVIDIA Predefined FXAA Usage” should be ALLOWED. Apply and launch the game.

      Sadly we can only use Nvidia’s ugly-ass FXAA for post-process anti-aliasing until Durante changes his injector to either include a better PPAA such as SMAA, or makes it so it calls for other D3D injectors, since two separate injectors cannot be used at the same time.

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      • It’s entirely possible to use two injectors at the same time, as long as at least one of them allows using a secondary injector. ENBSeries allows this, but is not compatible with Dark Souls (the ENB notice shows up when launching the game, but has no effect on the visuals). It allows me to use both itself and the resolution fix, but once again, ENBSeries has no visual effect on Dark Souls, since Dark Souls is using unusual GPU function calls (or something like that).

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        • Interesting. Is there perhaps an injector that acts merely as a host or bridge for multiple injectors? What about using more than one additional injector via ENBseries?

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    • Yes you can crank up the resolution in the ini to make it look anti-aliased, and it will look better than FXAA, but the performance drop will be much greater. Only choose that option if you have a pretty high end system.

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      • that’s what i did my res is 1080 but in the ini I set it to 1440 which really made a difference in how the game looks but then i again ive got a core i7 920 and two gtx 560′s. i tried running at 2160 but even that was too much for my system

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  9. The mouse is really jerky for camera controls in the default game for PC users. Have any thought about being able to smooth out the problem? Or any future thoughts on it.

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  10. I personally don’t understand why the people want a higher res for games. It takes away so much from realism and immersion. I have no framerate issues with max dof and twice my res, but the game looks so .. shiny and crisp

    Please guys, consider “the bigger the better” attitude here.

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  12. Hey Daurente, I’m just wondering if there is any possibility of being able to disable certain effects that the game uses like DoF or HDR? Its a stupid question, but I’m still curious, the game has a habit of using certain effects that can be taxing on systems with a weak processor. Thanks.

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  13. Hey man, i just wanted to say, THANK YOU for doing this for us non-tech-wise guys, i have a question, is there any possibility i could get banned for using this fix online? It’s just that i’m new to this whole online gaming thing and i’m not too sure about using it to go online.

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    • It could happen, but I think it’s rather unlikely. It doesn’t seem like anyone would care enough to put cheat detection into this game which would mistakenly flag the fix.

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  16. When you get back from work, can you consider look into performance drop for AMD graphic cards? To work at full frequency, not in idle while game is running.

    Thank you.

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    • For the love of cheesus, THIS.
      I should be able to run this game on my Athlon II X4 645 (3.1GhZ) and my crappy ass budget card (Radeon 5450 1GB). Can’t because the card’s full potential isn’t being used (I run TF2 maxed out at a clean 60fps).

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  18. Still getting fps drops in front of heavy particles and other areas, at this point I think it might be my system but the first version still works just fine.

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    • That’s normal. Reduce the resolution. (Heavy particles require an inordinate amount of framebuffer bandwidth)

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      • I did, in fact I had set a lower than my native resolution (1600×900) but it happens anyway. I’ve also tried with the different anisotropic override settings, and if I disable it (put it to “0″) the game actually works even worse. Ironically, if I set it to “2″, it works at 30 fps, but still getting the drops in front of the particles.

        Just so you know, with the first release, I can set the framebuffer to like 2440×1080 and it works just fine at 30 fps all the time.

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        • I’m afraid we all have framedrops no matter the system. This is just inherent to a non-optmized non-native engine running on a different system than what it was designed for.

          Don’t take it personal, it’s just horribly ported. Your PC is fine.

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  19. This patch works fine for me, even using a laptop with nvidia optimus.
    The fps droped from 30 to 15, but in the older versions of the patch, I could not play, the fps droped to 8 or bellow.

    Your work is amazing! Keep Going! o/

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  20. I just want to say thank you for your hard, quick and dedicated work.
    You are the last bastion of hope for this game.

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  21. Very nice. Suggestion- why not put it on a locker like Mediafire (which can still be accessed from the US). Even if it’s a small file, I gotta imagine the bandwidth usage will start climbing as word of your fix spreads.

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  22. First off, I want to be one of the many people to let you know that you’re doing great. Your fix made this game worth buying and your dedication to (not to mention your speed in) updating it is quite astounding.

    I have noticed a small bug with the cursor hide function. It seems that when I alt+tab to another window while the cursor is hidden, the cursor remains hidden and is to my experience unusable. This is easily circumvented by revealing the cursor in game and alt+tabbing then, but I just thought I’d let you know.

    If it’s too much work to fix, however, it’s really no problem. The solution is very simple.

    Keep it up, Durante. You’re awesome.

    Oh before I forget; have you figured out why the sun disappeared yet? It’s a very strange glitch and I’m curious. I don’t even care if you fix it (to be honest I kind of like it; it’s like the clouds pass in front of the sun occasionally, which is pretty cool), I’m simply curious as to what would cause such a specific oddity.

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    • I’ve looked into the sun issue, and I really have no idea. It seems entirely random and I can’t see any pattern to it. I’ll certainly let everyone know if I ever figure it out.

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  23. Durante, I just want to tell you that I’m truly grateful for all the effort you put into this.
    I wouldn’t have bought Dark Souls if it weren’t for your fix. So thank you for being awesome, and keep ‘em coming.

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  25. My steam forum account still in query to authorize, so please anybody add that message to F.A.Q. thread:
    [Begin]
    There are fix for keyboard+mouse control, not ideal, but making game at least playable.
    It makes hotkeys for disabling mouse movement while lock-on, so camera wouldnt jump around like crazy in combat. Currently author trying to make it automaticaly, but it sould take time.
    Link:
    http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2904768
    [end]
    Also, i encourage ppl to bump thread about mouse lock-on, and please post there that info:
    [begin]
    Thx for that mod, it at least made game playable. One thing i want to ask, about improving mouse control:
    I understand, that now game takes any mouse movement as joystick or key pressed, regardlessly of mouse speed. So maybe it is possible to make mod for mouse movement of that kind:
    -mod would frequently turn-on/turn-off ingame mouse movement
    -slow movement of mouse would result in 1/10 ingame of actual movement (like instead of 10mm there would be transfered to game like 100short 0.01mm parts)
    -fast movement would result in 10/10 of actual mouse movement

    Thats the idea, but i not really know if it is possible to make, and if it would be playable.
    [end]

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  26. only problem now, like others, is the particle effects slowing down fps. usually doesn’t interfere with gameplay but when dragons are spewing fire or big magic blasts are going off it’s almost impossible to control the camera precisely because of the frame drops. similar problem is when wearing an enchanted shield i have, the effects dancing off my body will cause slow downs.

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    • this is definitely a cpu related issue. had my PhII955 running at 3.2GHz and particles were taking a toll. @ 4.2Ghz barely noticeable fps drop anywhere even with fire breathing dragon+.

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  27. @Mod Author

    Just got the game, installed this mod -> game is now FUCKING AWESOME..

    (Thanks)

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  28. Any chance to have device ( multimonitor settings ) selection in ini file ?
    I have 22” LCD monitor and 46” HDTV. When I want to play on my big screen I have to set HDTV as primary device and its little annoying . I know some d3d games that have option to select device on which game will be displayed in full screen mode.
    Can you add such option to DSfix ?

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  29. It would be cool a system of a DLL proxy to load an additional D3D9, like SMAA by example. ENB has some similar, you could ask for some assistance from Boris to help you with this.

    MLAA is a kind of ugly and FXAA isn’t even supported by Radeon cards through control center of catalyst. Supersampling seems good, with a cost of a huge performance hit (in a already poor optimized game).

    Amazing mod btw, thank you so much and sorry for my poor english.

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  32. I posted this in “DSfix 0.4″ but seems nobody will now search there …

    Note to author, please add this:

    #ifndef _DEBUG
    #define _SECURE_SCL 0
    #endif

    I found out that DSfix is built using Visual Studio 2008 (PE Header have linker version 9.0) and the code has many __invalid_parameter_noinfo(), see this: http://cowboyprogramming.com/2007/02/22/what-is-_invalid_parameter_noinfo-and-how-do-i-get-rid-of-it/
    This should slightly improve wrapper performance (but not game).
    Also, Microsoft disabled Secure SCL in release builds in VS2010 and newer.

    Without this this wrapper game is terrible to play on PC, so big thanks !

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  33. Rotating the camera with mouse

    Can the camera be made to respond much smoother to mouse movement? Now the mouse controlled camera is 75% slower than playing / turning with gamepad.

    In game options for mouse/camera sensitivity are a joke with kb+m. Camera stutters heavily if i look around with the character even if the framerate is okay, which you can clearly see while just walking forward without turning the camera: fps is fluid.

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  34. Can you try to fix the 16:10 letterbox? Please :)

    I know there are other tools that seems like they fix it, but they cause CTDs, or they make the image and hud look stretched.

    Thanks for the new version and have a good week ;)

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    • I really would like this fix as well. Oddly the first time I booted the mod (version 0.3) I had no letterbox. Then I fiddled with Nvidia control panel and it never worked again. Honestly even if the HUD was in the same place and the game rendered the full screen would be a big improvement. Thanks for the great work so far!

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  37. First – Nice work. But Its not working for me. No errors, no crashes, just not working, still have no high resolution options.
    I followed readme, tried many variants of .ini, reinstaled video drivers, dx9, try to find collision programs.
    Any suggestion?
    Dsfix.ini
    ===== start DSfix 0.5
    = settings: 1366 x 768, logLevel 1, filteringOverride 1
    = dof: dofOverrideResolution 540, disableDofScaling 0
    = force no override, 1366 x 768, vsync off, 60 Hz, adapter override -1
    = cursor: visible, not captured
    CreateDevice —— Adapter 0
    – requested mode:
    – - Backbuffer(s): 1280 x 720 D3DFMT_A8R8G8B8 *1
    – - PresentationInterval: 2147483648 Windowed: true Refresh: 0 Hz
    Reset ——
    – requested mode:
    – - Backbuffer(s): 1280 x 768 D3DFMT_X8R8G8B8 *1
    – - PresentationInterval: 2147483648 Windowed: false Refresh: 60 Hz
    Reset ——
    – requested mode:
    – - Backbuffer(s): 1280 x 768 D3DFMT_X8R8G8B8 *1
    – - PresentationInterval: 1 Windowed: false Refresh: 60 Hz

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  38. Is there a possibility to add option for skipping the developers logos at the beginning?

    Not only they load up every time you start the game (I could somehow stomach that) but they load AGAIN when you’re trying to quit the game. And they are still UNSKIPPABLE. Why would they do that? I mean come on… it’s almost more insane than 1024×720 and 30fps ;_;

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  42. Super gemacht, danke dafür.

    Hoffe ja immernoch das BANDAI in den nächsten Tagen selbst einen ausgiebigen Fix rausbringen. Das ist ja unterste Schublade wenn Dritte das Game für sie fixen müssen.
    Aber bin dankbar das sich dem jemand angenommen hat. :->

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    • —>
      “Well done, thanks a lot.

      I still hope BANDAI releases an extensive patch in the next few days. It is beneath contempt if a third person has to fix the game for them.
      But I am grateful somebody attended to this. :->”

      This was german. *music*

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  43. So, who thinks they can fix the mouse look? I’m not sure how you could do it, but their code for mouse control must be extremely simple since there is no scaling relative to mouse speed at all. It’s a constant value being added or subtracted from the camera’s vector.

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    • Yep. Now the camera moves like bouncing on stones on the ground.

      I’m only interested in fluid combat so played on lowest res, fps is good, but camera is jerky even there.

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  45. Found something about the fps problems on ati cards:
    It seems to be related to the fullscreen mode somehow. I tested this in New Londo Ruins and i can reproduce it there every time i run down to the water and back up to the entrance to the Valley of Drakes and usually after running back 1 or 2 times it drops to 15 fps down at the water looking to the ruins , but it doesnt happen in window mode and it goes back to 30 fps if i alt tab out and back in. I removed the resfix mod and it doesnt seem to happen without it.

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  46. About mouse control:
    I was told that some guy using gamepad emulator “PPJoy” and its work better than ingame controls.
    I asked him, but he already gone to sleep.
    I downloaded and installed PPJoy, but either i using wrong version, or havnt been able to understand configs.

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  48. I can’t play with the dll in the folder, but if i remove it, the imagem stays very dark, what should i do??

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  49. Ok tested it on another ATi machine and it the same there in blghttown first bonfire. 15 fps looking in certain directions in fullscreen, 30 fps in windowed.

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  50. You are the beacon of light to pc folks, now if you would be talking smooth camera controls and better fps for ati cards, dark souls would be a cakewalk

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  51. I also wanted to say THANK YOU! Your work made the game really look beautiful. With respect to the FROM Software bashing so popular today I also want to say thanks to FROM for porting one of the best games ever to the PC. I think despite of all the flaws a community initiated and low financed PC port had on release, this game – with your patch – is in the end a great contribution to PC gaming. Keep up the good work which made us all enjoy Dark Souls on the PC platform.

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  53. I hope you keep working on the mod if work allows, because I’m still having occasional fps drops to 15 even if I set all the settings and resolution to default.

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  55. Why I can not record my gameplay with Mirillis Action when I’m using this fix? :( Anyway, awesome job man and thank you so much.

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  56. I have 0.4 fix installed. I’m running an i7-2400K at factory clock, BFG 8800GTS 512MB card factory clock, and 8 GB of RAM on windows 7. Running at 1920×1080 resolution in Durante’s fix file, and in game it is turned to 1920×1080 32bit. Everything runs great except for a few areas (bonfires or lots of particle effects) where the FPS dips but I have never seen it drop below 15fps so I really think, as other’s have said, it has more to do with the game port than with the system. My noteworthy NVIDIA control panel settings are set to High Perfomance, FXAA disabled, AA disabled and AF disabled, Triple Buffering enabled. I was getting this weird blur line or jitter across my screen but found that enabling NVIDIA’s v-sync option got rid of that. If I try to turn up the resolution in the fix to be above my native then my game starts to bog down which, in this scenario, is due to my GPU becoming dated. IMO there isn’t much need to go higher than my native as the game looks absolutely amazing!!!!

    I think some people are just wayyy too worried about keeping the FPS at exactly 30FPS. Honsetly, in most areas I would hardly notice the FPS dip if FRAPS wasn’t on. My suggestion would be get it so FPS shows 30 most of time and that the game looks crisp, then shut off FRAPs and just enjoy the game.

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  58. The messages/tips don’t show on the ground. (thus you can’t summon signs…) But that’s my only problem with it.

    Thank you for this fix tho. :)

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  62. Whats the lowest resolution possible for 16:10 monitor? everything i put below 1024×768 it crashes

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  64. Guys i’m having problems with frame rate,its always 15 no matter what i do i tried on vanilla it was 15 with this mod still 15,please help i cant play it with 15 fps its killing me literally :( i was reading on neogaf that if you have 120 Hz monitor you can have this issue,but i have 60 Hz (i know it sucks) anyone ?

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  65. I’m trying to run this on a laptop with Nvidia GT 555m which is quite capable of running games like Crysis, Battlefield 3, Skyrim etc on high settings yet I get huge fps drop from this dll. my max screen resolution can be 1366×768. Could anyone suggest the best resolution for my screen to see if I can boost the fps?

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    • I don’t think the mod working for anyone with an optimus setup (ie nvidia cards in laptops). When I run it with the mod my laptop runs it with the intel graphics, which cannot handle the res or dof upgrades. Without the mod my laptop runs it with the gt540m.

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    • You cannot boost the fps since the fix doesn’t work with Nvidia Optimus. The fix uses at the moment the iGPU only.

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    • That’s probably because of the Optimus issue. For now, you should avoid using DSfix, sorry!

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  67. First let me say thank you man.Performance wise, i think it is a lot better than 0.4,less random framedrops(running on a core2duo with ati 4850 @1080p).Like you said it before, the framedrops are a game’s problem, where the game loads an entire area all at once.This issue can be mitigated by walking instead of running(it sucks i know)

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  68. Does anyone even read? i said i was running it without a mod and still 15 fps,if they don’t release patch i’l never support them this is unforgiving! i get it they are new at this,but that doesn’t justify laziness and not releasing patch.

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    • Support who? This person isn’t the person who made the game. Your framerate issues on vanilla isn’t his problem.
      Nonetheless, try providing some information about your system. Post your PC specifications, what graphics card you are using, processor, and what brand harddrive (hard-drives with lower speeds (such as the WD Green HD) have fps issues stemming from it) etc.
      At least this way someone might be able to tell you if it’s a conflict, or if your computer sucks.

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  69. In all future updates could you add a feature that breaks the game for anyone using the Dark Souls Trainer?

    I figure since From and Windows won’t do shit, and steam can’t do shit, you should be the one to save the game from hackers.

    Are there heroes left in man?

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  70. Hey the creator, remember to go v1.0 when everything are updated and fixed, will be waiting~ <3

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  71. Great work man.But i have a problem.When i apply the mod,the fps gets very low.Without the mod the game runs good enough for a good gameplay.But i hate the mouse cursor all over the screen…So i was wondering if you could upload a fix only for the mouse please,and not for the resolution because i have no problem with the current resolution.Could you do that please please,i really like this game.Thank you in advance

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    • Just set the .ini to this:
      renderWidth 1024
      renderHeight 720
      filteringOverride 0
      dofOverrideResolution 0
      disableDofScaling 0
      disableCursor 1

      This will enable only the cursor fix!

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  72. Hey thanks for your Effort!
    A Question! Is it possible to allow FXAA Injection tools. It uses d3d9.dll. Could you add FXAA support to your D3D9.dll?

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  73. Just wanted to thank you for your effort, it’s pretty awesome to be able to play Dark Souls at full res.

    I hope From Software takes note of your work and sees the light.

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  74. I have a computer with a Nvidia GTX 560 Ti. The game is fluid ad look great thank to your mod.

    You have my gratitude sir!

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  75. Thank You Boy!I’m Braziliam and I want to tell that you are big man!Thanks for improving the great game for free.

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  76. Not sure if my post was erased? If I could please get a little help, it would be greatly appreciated!

    When I apply this patch, when I load my game the game screen shrinks the image to a 1/4 of my screen but the icons remain at the corners, so im not sure what is causing this. Or am I missing something in the options?

    I can send a pic to show what the screen looks like if needed. Please help. The game is pretty much unplayable without this patch because of the horrible eye strain from the blurriness. Thank you!

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  79. ***BUG*** When I applied 0.5 DSFix my GameCompanion 1.3 application no longer allows Fake Fullscreen to work. (This is where I run windowed mode without the Windows borders)

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  80. Absolutely love this fix, been checking online from work everyday to see if there’s an update.

    By the way, I know the frame rate is going to be locked at 30fps, but is there a way to stabilize the frames to 30? Even with a beast machine the frames will drop randomly in certain areas. Even playing with consistent 30 FPS would really one up the console version.

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  81. Hey, just wanted to report that Lucid Virtu MVP doesn’t work with the DSfix either. I guess it’s like the Optimus issue, right?

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  82. I think you accidentaly broke something in 0.5.

    In previous versions I’ve been able to get solid 30 fps at 1600×900 on a E8400 (oc’d to 4k) and a 8800 gtx. Even 1920×1080 and dofOverrideResolution 540 works for most areas. But with 0.5 it drops to 15 fps practically everywhere, the only exception being tiny rooms with little going on in them.

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  84. Hiya Durante,
    I noticed a lot of people having issues with their AMD cards in regards to the 2d clocks kicking in, here’s a guide to fixing it.

    1. Open CCC
    2. Enable AMD overdrive in the Gaming tab
    3. Create a preset and name it ‘noPowerplay’ or whatever you wish
    4. Open explorer, browse to C:\Users\User name\appdata\local\ati\ACE\profiles – Make sure view hidden files/folders is enabled in folder options
    5. Open up the file with notepad or something
    6. Scroll all the way down to the bottom or search for ‘Overdrive5′
    7. Make sure Overdrive is enabled with this preset by looking at OverclockEnabledProperty, if it’s set to false, change it to true. Otherwise Don’t worry.
    8. Go down to ‘ClockCoreTarget’, and adjust the Want_0 and Want_1 values to whatever Want_2 is.
    9. Do the same for ‘MemoryCoreTarget’ and ‘CoreVoltageTarget’
    10. Save the file, before loading up darksouls (or any other game that moves to 2d clocks) right click on CCC in the system tray, hit Invoke Preset and choose the preset.

    These are the values for my unlocked 6950 and they will be different depending on the card.

    If you’re having trouble finding the values in steps 6-9 here’s an image. http://i.imgur.com/tj5gX.jpg

    If you want to swap between powerplay and this fixed mode, I’d recommend creating another preset before the entire process and naming it ‘Standard’ or something.

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  86. Awesome work. Frankly, I don’t know why there are so many people complaining about frame rate drops and lag. I play the game at 1920×1080 and even with DoF set at 2160 the game is still smooth – I have Dark Souls on my ps3 too and I know what are frame rate drops – I had a couple of very slight drops in Blightown with the above settings but nothing like on the ps3 version. My pc isn’t “ultra high end” – I have a Calibre x265 video card, a Core 2 Duo cpu at 3,06GHZ and 2GB of RAM and everything runs smooth and better than on my ps3 with a lot better graphics – I’ve passed a good chunk of the game and tested its performance with and without the fix and compared it to the ps3 version in several locations. I tried playing with the mouse for a couple of minutes though and it seemed kinda choppy – I guess there is some issue with the mouse acceleration in the game and that’s what some people may perceive as frame rate drops but I don’t know for sure as I play with a wireless xbox controller and I have no issues – finally good graphics for that awesome game. With that fix I just can’t call the game a bad port anymore – expect a donation later today, Durante!

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  87. I can NOT get this to work, i get a black rectangle with a smaller gray rectangle in it and no graphics. If i remove it it goes back to normal and works fine. I seem to be doing something wrong? I tried two different drivers.
    NVIDIA GTX 580
    Intel i7 3700k
    win7 x64.

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    • Same problem for me:
      GTX570 HD (drivers 301.42)
      Core i7 2600k

      The initial menu is ok, as soon as the game starts I get the rectangle.

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  89. durante, if you read this i think you should know that your patch makes the DATA.exe for the game run on integrated graphics automatically. for those still having performance issues with NVIDIA cards, try this

    “I run it fine on a 550M and an I7 intel at 30fps (fraps tells me so) at the resolution 1900 by 1080. I have motion blur and antialiasing off.

    I had issues, this worked for me.

    Nvidia control panel option were changed for both the .exe’s found in dark souls. I don’t know if it matters for both. This is what I changed.

    Multi-display/mixed-GPU acceleration [Single Display performance mode]
    Power management [Prefer maximum performance]
    Texture filtering-Anisotropic sample opti…. [On]
    Texture filtering- quality [Performance]
    Trilinear optimisation [On]

    I understand some of the options might not need to be changed, but this is what I run with and I get 30fps when ever I look at the counter, played up to the gargoyles on the roof boss and no slow down. Really hope this helps!” – Beat14, steam user forums.

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  90. Sorry for my terrible English.

    I have one idea and one problem.

    The idea:
    I have a gaming mouse. It has additional buttons. But in the game options is not possible to specify the mouse to control your character.
    It would be cool if the opportunity was.

    The problem:
    Does not change the mouse sensitivity. Regardless of the game, I change it in the settings or windose.

    Maybe it is because of the very mouse?
    mouse – Microsoft SideWinder X8

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    • using exactly same mouse and changing ingame settings and changing DPI through Windows\MS Device Center both change the sensitivity ingame for me. my sidewinder’s DPI-on-the-fly settings are at 1) 3000, 2) 1500, 3) 500. big difference in mouse speed from 3000 to 500. still does not correct the slight jumpiness to camera control though. sidewinder x8 works great with the game in every aspect EXCEPT the camera being too jumpy while moving character. which means until they fix the problem a gamepad is about the only comfortable option. 360 pad emulator works great through my saitek p990.

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  92. new Nvidia beta drivers released a short while ago (version 306.02)
    has anyone tried it w/ DS yet with DSfix?

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  93. Oddly I broke the barrier of 30fps reaching 34fps when i use setfsb to make overclock in my cpu.

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  94. Hello! I have 1680×1050 my monitor screen resolution. I would like remove a top and bottom black stripes on image in game. How can I do this?

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  95. Hello! I’m from Russia :) Sorry for my bad English. I’m a haw question, am surfing many forum, but i not understand, this fix support GFWL? I want buy license, but not sure support fix or not. Without fix playing in this game on PC, suicide :)

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  96. Thanks for answer, going buy silence ;) In version x-box 360 and PS3 was many disconnect in coop and PvP, freez and etc. How are affairs in PC? There is progress in the optimization of network games?

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  97. man hats down for you on a great job and please, please, please keep it up. you are the only hope of making this game amazing and playable as it was supposed to be. I hope that you will be appreciated for the remarkable effort and maybe pick up your MODs as an official patch for the game.

    Kudos

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  99. need some help, this patch from 0.4 used to work but now every time i add this fix to the game directory, it refuses to launch the game it just crashes. Using the steam version if that helps.

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  101. I tried to improve native k+m controls and i think i made a bit of a progress:

    Its not ideal, but mouse micro movements feel much smoother and you ll not swap enemies all the time, only with fast mouse movements or wheel rotation.

    Things that you ll need:

    http://www.filedropper.com/darksoulfix

    I) Install Mouse_fix from “mouse_disabler” folder

    Place dinput8.dll, dinput8_.dll, mousefix.ini into the game’s binary directory. (The place where DARKSOULS.exe is)
    (this may be something like C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Dark Souls Prepare to Die Edition\DATA)

    II) Install PPJoy:
    a) If you have win7 – run Driver Signature Enforcement Overrider.exe from “If_you_have_win7″ folder and start test mode. That necessary to install PPJoy drivers.
    like in this video [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScuYfagMixU[/url] – put Win7 in test mode, to install those drivers
    b) Start PPJoySetup-0-8-4-5.exe and follow istructions.

    Next – installing PPJoy,
    After installing PPJoy, launch it, than Add virtual joystick:
    [URL=http://www.image-share.com/ijpg-1694-201.html][IMG]http://www.image-share.com/upload/1694/201.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

    Than we Mapping it in such way:
    [URL=http://www.image-share.com/ijpg-1695-61.html][IMG]http://www.image-share.com/upload/1695/61.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
    [URL=http://www.image-share.com/ijpg-1694-203.html][IMG]http://www.image-share.com/upload/1694/203.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
    [URL=http://www.image-share.com/ijpg-1694-204.html][IMG]http://www.image-share.com/upload/1694/204.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

    Thats all, press done, we wouldnt need to config anything anymore further.

    To start game:

    1) Run RunMe.bat from GlowPIE and press RUN button ( Do not close it )
    2) Run Dark Souls
    3) In game press P to turn off basic mouse controls

    From now on to star game repeat from 1)

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  103. i don’t understand the problem you guys have with the controls.

    It plays fine for me. The only annoying thing is the target change , but its not gamebreaking.

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  104. Oh really?
    1) Whenewer i move mouse a little bit screen shaking – its not critical, but annoying as hell.
    2) Its impossible to fight with lock-on against 2+ enemies – camera nonstop swapping them.
    It is exactly gamebreaking problems with controls.

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  105. Hi Durante, thank you for your very useful mod :) I have one request for you: please add support for proxy dlls so we can use some post process anti-aliasing injectors to eliminate those nasty jaggies :) Keep up the great work!

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  106. Sometimes this mod causes the game not to load properly, either:
    - the DARKSOULS.exe and DATA.exe processes show up in procexp but the actual game window does not, after about 30 seconds both processes are killed
    - the game window shows up and the ‘DARKSOULS.exe stopped responding’ message comes up
    Removing the d3d9.dll solves both variants. Running on i5 3.1 quad, 8GB ram, 560Ti, 64bit Win7

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    • Yes, and they are incompatible since they both use d3d9.dll as hooks. Let us petition Durante to add proxy dll support to his mod :)

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    • That’s out of the scope of the current mod, since I’d need to actively modify the input behavior.

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  109. HEY MAN, youve done some FANTASTIC work, could you PLEASE make a FIX so that the MOUSE operates as it should?!!?!? YOU WOULD BE A SAVIOR for so many people!!!!

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  110. Works like charm except for a thing, I can’t equip rings or bolts/arrows without crashing the game. I deactivated this and It worked so it’s confirmed that the DSfix is causibg this. Any help is pretty much appreciated.

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    • I can equip those items just fine. If this was a general problem I think I’d have heard of it earlier, some people have completed almost the entire game with the fix.

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      • I can confirm that many people from twitch tv live streaming website have played the game with this fix and they have been able to equip everything just fine and many have even finished the game, I myself finished the whole game as well 3 times and there has been no problems at all.

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  111. Anyone else having problems with this after updating to the GeForce 301.42 drivers? I’m getting some crazy texture flickering/disappearing now.

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    • Derp, my fault, nevermind – think I nudged something when doing my regular PC cleaning. >.>

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  112. I have a problem with a GODDAMNED laggs on my laptop. I change option in the Control panel Nvidia, and this is go to nothing, game are still lag
    There is my system
    Intel (R) Pentium (R) P6200 2.13GHz
    4gb RAM
    Nvidia GeForce GT 520M
    And integrated Intel HD graphics

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    • If you’re talking about the symbols on the ground (and not the text once you activate them) then that’s an issue with your connection to the server.

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  114. hi,
    i don’t know why but with your mod fix, my fps constantly stays at 15. with an exception when im sitting at the bonfire. do you know why?

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  115. Just a heads up to anyone using ATI. Do not update to the 12.8 drivers, it will crash your game with the fix. Just spent a while figuring that out and uninstalling reinstalling back to 12.6

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    • The game crashes when you use the 12.8 drivers on your PC, not on mine. I updated to 12.8 prior to playing Dark Souls and the only problem I have is that when using DSFix I see a significant increase in quantity and duration of load times. Starting up the game takes a bit longer and there are frequent loading spats while playing that cause slowdowns where everything is sluggish and the frame rate plummets.

      Given all the reports about this being AMD specific and not driver specific I’m going to presume that the drivers aren’t at fault for this either.

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      • Hm. I seem to be crashing on 12.6 now too, I’m gonna try 12.8 again and see what happens, but ever since 0.3 I’ve been getting random crashed when I try to start the game and it’s from the fix cause no crash when I’m not using it.

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        • I actually figured out what was causing my crashing. I had the setting in the fix where it would open the game in windowed fullscreen and I guess that It didnt like that, but If I just load it in windowed then toggle it to windowed fullscreen it’s fine.

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  116. I wrote this on an earlier thread on accident (along with a very heartfelt thank you), but I just wanted to ask for one more thing of you – if it’s even possible. Would you be able to add a feature that can disable the (negative) mouse acceleration? It pretty much ruins the game’s lock on system because if you even move the mouse a centimeter while attacking, the lock switches targets mid attack, even to guys behind you, causing you to completely miss your intended target and more than likely take a sword in the back as a result.

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  118. I’m curious if this game can run with Core2 Duo 1.6GHz, 4GB of RAM and Intel GMA965 aka x3100?

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  121. I know someone mentioned this earlier but no one replied, does anybody know if it’s possible to enter a resolution under 1024*720 to speed up performance? so far everything I’ve tried has crashed the game after title screen. different resolutions above work fine. is this because the fix assumes you go bigger, or just because the game can’t accept rendering at a lower res. obviously this isn’t ideal, but I’ve tried everything else and my laptop can handle Skyrim, max payne 3, battlefield 3 all on high but for some reason this game just chugs along. after updating my amd drivers i’m just like 5 fps away from being able to stand it. so any ideas?

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  122. **PROBLEM WITH FIX**
    I run a 560Ti 2GB **GeForce R300 Driver (301.42 WHQL)**, 8GB RAM, 2.4 Quad Core, Steam Version of the game.. and with the fix my game either fails to launch (via steam library) or “stops working” on launch. I take the fix out, loads fine. I shut down Xfire, FRAPS, Precision/PrecisionX, and it still fails to launch or “stops working”. Any ideas ?

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