My old Dark Souls video was one the funnest to make back in the earliest days of the channel.
Since we are at the beginning of the Return to Lordran fan organized event when people
coordinate to give this game a fresh push of online activity, I thought it might be
appropriate to try a different angle at tweaking this game to the lowest possible level for
a performance boost in low end computers.
This is the LowSpecGamer, a show were I find ways of decreasing graphics in game because
we want to play, no matter the sacrifices.
And today I am making Dark Souls 2 run… looking like this, or this… you will see
what I mean in a second.
Dark Souls is also one of those games where it is near universally agreed upon that you
need a controller to play properly which is why I am glad to say this video is sponsored
by the EasySMX Wired USB Game Controller, a budget friendly controller option for PC,
PS3, and Android.
Since it has either regular USB output or mini usb.
This has become my new travel controller since its very light, sturdy and very nice to use
and has full rumble.
If you are interested check it out in the link in the description, I will be using it
during this video.
EasySMX has been a long time supported of this channel so be sure to give them some love.
As you probably know Dark Souls is a bit of a wonky port that can be extraordinarily GPU
hungry and it offers very few options to make it better.
On the old video I explained how to use DSFix to play around the internal resolution of
the game to something your GPU can manage.
Interestingly enough if you want something a bit quicker there is another way to add
some extra settings to the game.
Dark Souls using DirectX 9 as its renderer, that means that we can use Hialgo boost to
play around with it.
If you are not familiar with Hialgo it is an old tool that you can install on a PC to
dynamically halve the internal resolution of game when you need it, and it works with
many DirectX 9 games, including Dark Souls.
All you need to do is run the software in the background, start the game and click yes
on the prompt.
While the resolution is changed when the program detects movement you can use the middle mouse
button to change the resolution manually, which turns out to be very useful when gaming
on something like an IntelHD.
If you want to change the button that triggers the resolution switch the config file is on your documents
folder, where a new folder will be created for each new game that uses Hialgo
In there you can also remove the watermark or FPS counter included in the software.
However, Hialgo also has another interesting functionality.
If you have seen this CSGO video I have linked in the corner I have talked about how Hialgo
allows you to change the resolution of the textures, which means possibly reducing them
under what the game usually allows.
This requires a change to a file located in your program files, hialgo, plugins, boost
and the file is called exceptions.ini.
There is a section dedicated to CSGO where you can change a variable that ends up changing
texture quality, but turns out you can add a section to control values of Dark Souls
by simply adding the name of the executable between brackets and then copying that LOD
control variable there.
If you get an "Access Denied" error, be sure to open notepad as an admin or use Notepad++
which will ask for admin rights when it needs it.
Dropping it to an absolute minimum of 1 has looks fantastically flat but has one mayor
disadvantage.
Dark Souls has a weird behavior were some of the signs and text in the game are rendered
as textures so a lot of the text will become unreadable at this level of detail… go figure.
I have been experimenting with this and I have settled for a value of 20, where text
is still readable when switching to full resolution.
Let me show you how this did on my IntelHD test setup.
Let me show you how this looks in normal resolution, so yeah…
15 fps?
And it looks degraded, very much, graphically, but it's still not enough, so if you cut
the resolution, you can at least maintain a semblance of performance
There is something to be said about the performance in this game in the sense of how bad it is,
how terrible this port was.
I'm using a computer, an overclocked IntelHD that I have used that managed to play GTA
or DOOM or even The Witcher 3 at highly reduced settings of course but…
Dark Souls, which is older and arguably not as good-looking, well…
"La Hoguera Está Encendida", so you may have noticed my game's in Spanish.
Funny story!
The game doesn't have a language changer.
It's in Spanish for some reason, even though this computer is entirely in English... and
I haven't been able to figure out how to change it.
At least, there's a variable on dsfix but otherwise… but you see, if you need, like, read, you
can disable the resolution switch and switch it back into 50% when you need the performance,
No, no, no, no, no!
Jesus Christ, there are so many of them!
Oh… ok.
So if I remember correctly there's a Dark Knight right around this area?
So, Can't help but wonder if we'd be able to fight him in these conditions.
I guess we're gonna find out.
No…
c'mon, c'mon, c'mon, come to me.
C'mon, follow me, yes, Yes!, C'mon, c'mon make a mistake.. yeah.
Oh god, no!
I'm the one that made that mistake.
Have you ever fought the Darknight at 15 fps?
Great experience!
Oh boy.
No, no, no, no, no, c'mon…
c'mon, I was doing so well so far….
Yeah Ok, that was good, that was really good.
Yes!
Ok, ok, that was… that was much better than I expected.
So, is this where the boss is?
This is definitely where the boss is, ok
C'mon, c'mon hit me….
There we go..
Let's get started, shall we?
I know this is was an easy boss but…
I'm going to see how the performance is going to deal with it.
Oh god
Yeah. That's working, that's working, that's working, ok, run run run, run, run.
Are there stairs on this side?
There are no stairs on this side, I don't remember, I didn't remember that- fuck.
Fuck, uh no!
Ok, get out of here, get out of there!
Fuckin…are you serious?!
Ok…
Aghhhhhhhhhh no, no, no, no.
But I still got the upper hand, I still can beat this guy, c'mon.
Yep, ok, I am being way more successful than I expected.
Oh god, I can't believe I haven't died once!
Since I hit the record button, I haven't died once.
I can't be that…
I don't know!
I haven't play this game in years.
Well, not years but a really long time.
Oh god, that was terrible, that was terrible and there it goes!
Seems like I spoke way too soon.
So yeah, thanks to this tool there is another option for playing Dark Souls in some way.
Thank you for watching, or donating or helping in all the many ways you do.
See you all on the next video.
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