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Dark Souls 3 just came out on PC and it's already got a few issues for PC players that we've looked into and some of them are resolvable and some not so much but this has been a common trend with Dark Souls and their PC ports over the years Dark Souls 3 is certainly better it's definitely a more honest attempt at porting to PC but it's still a port and it still has issues and one of those major ones is micro stutter and we saw this when trying to capture gameplay we normally use SLI or crossfire configurations for capturing gameplay video and so in the process of doing that we saw severe micro stutter which you see on the screen now and that happened only in the multi GPU configuration so a few things here first of all before getting too deep into the fixes for all these things check the description below click on the link and that has an article with everything typed out and clear order bullet points and everything so that you can clearly follow any instructions that may help you now looking at micro stutter specifically for this it would be best advised of course to first download the latest GPU driver because since this video has gone live it could have been fixes in the driver side and then download display driver on installer run it extract run it and boot to safe mode and remove the driver that corresponds to GPU install the new ones hopefully it works and if it doesn't well then the next best thing to do really unfortunately is to disable your second card until a point at which it's properly supported by either the Dark Souls teams or the driver teams from AMD and NVIDIA now the next thing is key bindings so this is kind of a funny one Dark Souls if anyone remembers in some of the original games you couldn't actually save key bindings initially in Dark Souls 2 it sort of had to be hacked and with Dark Souls 3 they had a key bindings tab it was there but even though you could change them you could not save them the button to save the key bindings didn't even work and the head is useless so there was a day 0 patch that fixed this what you need to do is go into steam or wherever you bought it and make sure you enable the option to grab the latest patches automatically not just manually or if you have a manually set then pull down a new patch for Dark Souls it should grab up hatch that from memory I think is about fifty megabytes it's definitely on 100 megabytes and that will fix the key bindings issue so you'll be able to save your key bindings properly in the menu is the next problem so well this one's less of a problem actually more of a location thing just to help you out so the Dark Souls 3 save file location is in the it's it's on the screen right now you can see where it is it's in users user name app data roaming Dark Souls 3 graphics config.xml is one of the top items there and then if you go in further there's a directory that's alphanumeric and that contains your savegame file you can pass that around to friends they will be able to play your game we did it in the office and it worked out just fine the graphics config thing that's in there as well so this is useful for a few reasons that are coming up and one of them is that well first of all you can do fine tuning and tweaking here not a whole lot it's all the same stuff that you see in the menus but if something goes wrong you could reset it here and the next reason it's important is because of crashing CT DS black screens flickering things of that nature if you see any of those then short of doing a driver uninstall which should definitely do and reinstall them short of that working one of the next best things to do is delete that graphics file and then go into steam or wherever verify the integrity of game cache to reacquire it you should back it up before you delete it and once it's reacquired it will be reset to the default graphics settings and hopefully those will not break your display device before you can get into the options and actually change them because that happened to us as well and then the normal CTD is a lot of them were fixed in that day 0 patch so hopefully pulling that patch down for really a various other reasons would fix the CTD s but that covers most of the stuff we've seen so far the big thing here that I haven't really mentioned yet because I don't have a fix for it is the FPS limit and FPS drops so right now the game is limited to 60 fps that was a thing with Dark Souls 2 as well and there was a hack that the community created I was able to bypass this and resolve it but Dark Souls 3 being brand new doesn't have that yet I have not found a way to unlock it perhaps someone has bind up by the time this video goes live if they have a way out there to unlock FPS you've found it then count below so everyone else will benefit from it I have not found a way to unlock FPS from 60 I've tried the control panels for nvidia and AMD and i've tried forcing out vsync and all that stuff it seems stuck at 60 and i believe the game engine timing is tied to the framerate so even unlocking it might not actually be a good thing to do kind of like with fallout 4 and that's really all just lower level game logic so that is all for our quick Dark Souls 3 sort of crash fix pc port post launch guide type thing hopefully that helps you out and if you want to read our review on the game or view it hit that channel and you can see our video review of the game and the article is linked in the description below if you'd like to actually read the review and see what we thought about the pc port all together because we recapped it pretty thoroughly there so thank you for watching as always patreon link special video to helps out directly and I will see you all next time