If so, Probably getting a better PC will solve it, but its a hit and miss.
I belive this is because this is a CPU task in the console but normally would be a GPU task in the PC. I have googled about 7 hours of this matter and so far I have gotten a small increse in performance by setting GPU to max performance, but the fog gates, sitting at bonfire and some explosions (stray demon) seem to drop FPS effectivly. Yes, I was guessing the problem correctly (probably) but i wanted to know if there was any way around it that people might have stumbled upon. They really improved the quality of the port, and Dark Souls 2 will run at playable fps on ultra, on a PC made of potato peelings. Just so you know, Dark Souls 2 is actually much easier to run. It'll probably drain the battery faster, but it should ensure the CPU is devoting as much performance as it can to games. You can try going into your Windows power management options and setting the minimum and maximum processor states to 100%. The game running the same at 720p as 1080p effectively means it's a CPU bottleneck (which it looks like you already knew). I haven't seen a tri-core optimized game in a while (last one I remember was Dragon Age Origins), and I suspect it's due to Dark Souls 1 being a straight 360 port (Xbox 360 has 3 active cores).ĭark Souls 1 is extremely CPU-heavy from all the background saving and stream loading. My old CPU was a Phenom II 955 quad-core, so 75% would be maxing 3 cores. My old one hits near 75% load consistently when the framerate dropped in Blight Town (haven't tested it since I got my better i3). It doesn't leave the CPU at idle though, not last time I checked. For one thing, fog gates seem to murder the fps, and the game seems to like flipping the cap down to 15 fps to avoid judder or stutter when the hardware is overtaxed. I should know, I played it on the PC for 300 hours. I think i heard something about that (in fact a game like starcraft 1 stresses the CPU more than dark souls).ĭark Souls has some odd performance, which often doesn't make much sense. I wonder if there is a way to keep the CPU at its higher clock rates rather than the IDLE. Im quite sure its not a graphics power problem.
Same goes for textures, sweetfx as antialiasing and HDR. I get the same exact FPS with 1080p and 720p. I am using Dsfix, game companion (thou full screen mode, as far as i know windowed or pseudo-windowed gets an increse).
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