Having some Dark Souls Issues on start up.

Hey guys. I am having some issues on the Dark Souls Steam program. I just bought it for the PC (PTD Edition). I did play it for awhile on the xbox console. Anyways, my problem lies right when I load the game. The start up is just fine, perfect, no lag at all. But when I load my character the FPS starts lagging like crazy. I used a recording device to test out how low it is and it stays around 6 to 8 FPS. I also went to this site here to try and help me but to no avail. http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Dark_Souls:_Prepare_to_Die_Edition

As you may or may not remember, I came across that site from a forum post on here that was created in 2012. But was abandoned in January 2013.

These are the System Specs that are on the computer. My brother made it from scratch.

System:

Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 225 Processor 3.10 GHz
Installed Memory (RAM): 8GB (7.50GB usable)
System Type: 64-bit Operating System.

^^^^^Thats the basic information. The video card is this: ATI Raedeon HD 4250
And my default resolution is 1920 x 1080. I am also running the computer screen as my actual T.V. Screen 40inch. If that might help.

Is there a way to lower my system type? I tried looking around yesterday for about 4 hours trying to fix this issue but I couldn't find anything.

So your basically telling me that the only problem is that I might not even meet the reuirements?

That's far better than what i have, yet i can run the game smoothly



Try screwing around in Dsfix ini and disabling anti aliasing
If you still get low FPS, try also disabling ambient occlusion (should not really have such big impact in Dark Souls, but it's your best bet after AA)

I did disable those in the game. I can't find it on the computer though.

Solarin52 wrote:I did disable those in the game. I can't find it on the computer though.

You should not change graphical settings ingame, that might conflict with dsfix settings
You can find dsfix.ini in the folder where Dark Souls is installed, you can easily find that folder by right clicking the DkS icon and clicking something along the lines of "Open file location" in windows 7
If you have XP or earlier, you click "properties" and then "find target"

Besides, for dsfix to work properly, you must disable ingame anti aliasing

I am looking at the DSFix notepad and I don't understand anything on what to do. I'm not that big of a computer know it all.

Solarin52 wrote:I am looking at the DSFix notepad and I don't understand anything on what to do. I'm not that big of a computer know it all.

That's pretty well explained, there are instructions below every setting
Just look for anti aliasing, and ambient occlusion, there are usually what have the largest performance hit

You could just use Ctrl+F and type in what you're looking for

There's a dsfix gui mod, that lets you mess with the settings in gui format that will edit the ini for you.

to be honest i think the problem is the gfx card.