Dark Souls III Performance, troubleshooting and discussion.

Apparently nvidia users are reporting stutters as well. Game need patches.

 

Basically: install windows 7 - it's a step forward, as bizarre as it sounds

Else: What exact games did you test & see this happen with?

 

The patch didn't seem to change anything performance wise for me but I have a friend screaming about crashes every 2 minutes.

 

The games run great.
Only DS3 stutters occasionaly on Win10.
In co-op and sometimes when inventory updates.
Maybe it does need more patches and new driver support.

 

So a friend told me there is something in the Nvidia control panel for Virtual Reality pre-render frames. If you disable this or something it lets the game run better.

Now the question is, does AMD have an equivalent?

 

Flip-Queue Size i guess, you can use RadeonMod or edit registry yourself.

 

It's not the same. FlipQue is for regular pre-render frames. Nvidia has two, one for that, one for VR. The VR one needs to be shut off it seems. It helped my friend with a 970 get 60fps even in the catacombs.

 

IIRC AMD driver only got 1 pre-render setting.
Why VR setting in Nvidia driver affect non-VR game?

 

That I cannot tell you. But I can tell you it improved his performance a lot. He used to dip down to 40fps in the catacomb and now he is solid 60 in every area.

 

Are you running windows 10 in any build above 14279? Are you playing with a controller? I was having issues with newer builds of windows when playing with a controller, slowdowns, stuttering and sometimes games like Tomb Raider(2013) would drop to single digits and then back to 50-60 out of nowhere. I rolled back to build 1511 and performance was greatly increased.

 

How do I check my build and how do I rollback if I need to? I recently reformatted windows as it is because it crapped the bed. And yes I use a PS4 pad with DS4Windows

 

windows key+R, then type "winver"

You can get the build around the net, i don't think they still have it up on the microsoft site. I guess your problem may be the controller, there are some reports about this issue and no fix for it ATM. You'll want to get windows 10 ver 1511 build 10586.104", that fixed it for me.

 

I am on 1511. I have tried it all. Tweaked settings in RadeonPro, mixed settings in the game, different driver versions.

Driver 16.3.x gives better results than 16.4.x though

 

Weird man, I get 50-60fps at high settings with shadows at medium and motion blur off on Crimson 16.4.1. Your GPU should be able to get 60fps stable with higher settings. Check CPU usage to see how the game is handling it, maybe you need to check your components such as HD and RAM to see if something is starting to fail...

 

Like I've said in this thread, I have seen people with the same issue as me on i7 cpu as well. So I cannot pin point it to anything other than inconsistent optimization. And it turned out the 1.1 patch everyone was talking about was actually the 1.03 patch.

Hell I even turned down my resolution and nothing. I have modded my settings in radeon pro. Disabled things like tesselation, and changed flipque. I've also changed settings like mipmap to performance. So yea. I gave up trying to improve my performance. I've become happy I don't crash.

 

Works around roughly 60fps with all maxed out. Nice one this game. (don't have xfire on).

 

Why?

You could enable it and play at 1800p VSR 60.

1440p or 4K monitor there?

 

To eliminate the frametime stutters you simply have to use half refresh v-sync in the nvcp (nvidia) or radeon pro (amd).
This will lock the game to 30fps, but in a better way than any other framerate limiter like RTSS could achieve.
No more stutters during area transitions or camera panning, just like it was in dark souls 1.
I know this isn't really a solution for people who want 60fps, but it's the only way to eliminate frame pacing stutters if your system can't handle a locked 60fps.

I'm playing at max settings + VSR 1440p@1080p and the annoying stutters are COMPLETELY gone.

Digital foundry also mentioned this in their latest article:

 

But if I wanted to play at 30fps I'd have bought it on my PS4.

 

Since I run at 120hz, I might try this and see if it works for 60fps...