No other game I have does this, only DS3. It seemed stupid to have HDD lock file check for afk all the freaking time. But still working the issue, thank you. I recently purchased Dark Souls 3 and I'm having some issues with small fps drops here and there. Coming back last week, still same issue. Specs. And this is on settings of medium with only high textures 1080p. 30 fps stable is very playable for me. Does anybode else on xbox experience this? While I have no fix for you, the GPU usage dropping during these 3-4 seconds points exactly to something else being the bottleneck during this time; not the other way around. If I run back and forth the drop will always come. The only way to "fix it" if u have a low/mid-end 2gb videocard is to lower the resolution. Dark Souls 3 is almost single threaded code. One of my CPU cores gets hammered, while the other seven sit and twiddle their thumbs. I could be in the middle of a regular trash mod fight, busy with a boss , just entering a new area … or even after clearing a area of trash mobs and just drinking an estus flask. Smooth the majority of the time. The idea is to edit the INI files of the game to reduce the amount of particles rendered and improve the performances of the game, I have no clue how to do that because I only … MB: ASUS RAMPAGE V EXTREME, ATX x99 (latest BIOS installed), RAM: G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 series 16GB DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000), Monitor 1: ASUS ROG SWIFT PG348Q 34" Curved 3440x1440 100Hz IPS G-SYNC, HD: Plextor M6e Series 512GB M.2 PCIe SSD (PX-G512M6e), Randomly in about a 10-15 min time frame, I would get FPS drop to 15fps or less … everything SLOWWSSS down for 2-4 seconds and then speedsup like crazy catch up the slow frames (like fast forward), Clean reinstall of Win 10, clean install of GPU drivers, clean install of DS3 (steam), On new install I have NO antivirus software installed, First disabling XBOX DVR crap and uninstalling XBOX anything from Win10 (thank you MS for this crap), Setting GPU to max performance in Nvidia Control Panel, Setting Power Plan in Win10 to Max performance, Setting Nvidia thread optimization to: None (it’s a single threaded game), On ultra wide (stretched): Tried playing the game normal 2,560 x 1,440p (not ultra-wide), same issue, On ultra wide (stretched): Tried playing the game full screen and borderless windows mode, same issue, On ultra wide (stretched): Tried playing the game 1080p! New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. I got my DS3 behaving "better" but there is still a slowdown ... which looks like on disk write. Cheers, thanks. Fast google, no one could really help about it. © Valve Corporation. I suspect it was some anti cheat thing, that constantly checks for AFKing. But will try. I dont have money for PC so im kinda out of options. I believe this the root of the problem (though not all of it). I honestly did not have enough time last night and was only missing with the capture too. Not sure if there is a memory leak tied to playing in 3440x1440p 100Hz or why exactly Win10 and DS3 misbehaves like it does. You cant make magic, but u can make the game run smoother and thats what this discussion is about. Alle Marken sind Eigentum ihrer jeweiligen Besitzer in den USA und anderen Ländern. Hello all. Just leaving my thought here for others. I have a freaking M2 drive. Thanks! The site may not work properly if you don't, If you do not update your browser, we suggest you visit, Press J to jump to the feed. Lastly even just playing with M&K and no other controllers attached the problems had remained. Usually such behavior means GPU overheating. The only way to "fix it" if u have a low/mid-end 2gb videocard is to lower the resolution. To help with troubleshooting, I'd try running a torrented version of the game to see if these issues persist. I can’t seem to link it a to data/game save in progress.. though I am not sure. (and a little thing to add once you got it running: a little tool called "souls unsqueezed" let's you render the game in real ultrawide instead of stretched, and it's glorious!). As another user above said, the only thing that seperates windows 7 and 10 is support for apis and WINDOWED performance. You cant make magic, but u can make the game run smoother and thats what this discussion is about. Heck, since the windows 10 anniversary update I've seen my performance get worse in some games. Blows away any other tool I had used before and so easy to use. This is why the current batch of AMD CPUs will never hold down a constant 60fps--the processor literally can't feed frames to the video card fast enough, so the video card stalls. Unplug my Ulta-wide and play on crappy 1080p native screen. Mm, will do ... weird if that is it since its only in DS3. Exclusive fullscreen should be identical. A community dedicated to everything about Dark Souls 3. I doubled my RAM to 32 GB 3000 Mhz ram. Mind sharing your setting? HD activity is near to nothing, even during FPS drop. Portugiesisch). My GPU is working 90-100% during the good part of the game, when I encounter the drop … my GPU drops to near no usage during the time frame. [Edit]. I keep the windows performance monitor up at the same time. Around 70/80 ... now always 60. But I will take more samples tonight to the bottom of this. GPU: No here is the weird part. All trademarks are property of their respective owners in the US and other countries. I noticed DS3 and Win10 just keep using ram like crazy. [Edit]. I had decided for one more on reason to reinstall Win10. I picked up dark souls 3 again recently. The tool you linked is really going to be fun for me when I add all those back. I have played Dark Souls 3 since release and I know the few problems with it, like I have to use NVidia Drivers 314.22 to play with my GTX 580. In the videoat 00:73, 01:38, 02:48, 03:47 fps drops appear. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. I’m a long time DS/demon souls fan. Español - Latinoamérica (Spanish - Latin America). I have a freakin M2 drive ... so god knows what can cause it to stumble. This might only help those with similar graphic cards as I am using (500 & 600 series and the GTX of those). Not say I know why, just that is is what helped the most for me.