The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Dark Souls

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by hackness, Aug 23, 2012.

  1. hackness

    hackness Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    1,237
    Messages:
    2,367
    Likes Received:
    428
    Trophy Points:
    101
    Anyone able to get Dark Souls to run using their dGPU? No matter what I set in the NVIDIA Control Panel, it's always using the iGPU, driving me nuts :confused:.

    By the way I used the mod here to make sure it runs at 1080P, without this mod no matter how high you set, it's always running 720P, and the FPS caps at 30FPS...

    Edit: I found the issue... Using mod will prevent the dGPU from running the game and became iGPU only... Looks like I'll have to stick with 720p for now..
     
    hackness, Aug 23, 2012
    #1
  2. Black5Lion

    Black5Lion Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    3
    Messages:
    53
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    (off topic)oh....... for the whole last month i was trying to decide wither to get a sager or not i ended up not i still regret that decision......(off topic)

    but uhhh did you try it without the mod first? and try to make sure power saving mode isn't on..
    and please keep everyone updated if you fix it and/or what you do to (try to)fix it....

    (off topic)sorry just excited its such a great game! :D too bad console ppl like me still gotta wait :<(off topic)
     
    Black5Lion, Aug 23, 2012
    #2
  3. hackness

    hackness Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    1,237
    Messages:
    2,367
    Likes Received:
    428
    Trophy Points:
    101
    Yea it was the mod, it was looking much better in 1080p tho.
     
    hackness, Aug 23, 2012
    #3
  4. hackness

    hackness Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    1,237
    Messages:
    2,367
    Likes Received:
    428
    Trophy Points:
    101
    The authour released a mod that works with Optimus laptops:

    DSfix 0.8 | metaclassofnilblog

    DSfix 0.8

    Now the Dark Souls runs in 1080p and with solid 30FPS on mine! By the way don't enable Ambient Occlusion in NVIDIA panel, will cause the framerate to go unstable and jumps between 15 and 30 FPS.
     
    hackness, Sep 3, 2012
    #4
  5. mrhumble1

    mrhumble1 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    30
    Messages:
    41
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    You guys are gluttons for punishment. I gave Dark Souls a try on the 360 and it was just too damn hard.

    Good luck making it to that next bonfire!!!! ;-)
     
    mrhumble1, Sep 5, 2012
    #5
  6. Srikar

    Srikar Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    55
    Messages:
    398
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Finished ng+ on ps3. :D
     
    Srikar, Sep 5, 2012
    #6