In the top left of the System page, check that the game is on version 1.01 or later.

If you have manual patching enabled, launch Steam (or appropriate service) and force the game to pull down the latest patch. There's an option to change them – but the save button didn't work. It was almost comical when, after fighting through menu navigation by using “Q” and “E” (instead of escape/exit), we couldn't even save the corrected keybindings. The good news is that the game is fairly simplistic in its graphical presentation, so most configurations will still run the game reliably. This is what we did in our pre-release review process, as we couldn't get SLI working on dual 980 Ti cards. If micro-stutter persists in Dark Souls III, we'd next suggest disabling SLI or CrossFire and running on a single card. Remove driver which corresponds to your GPU This can be done by:ĭownload newest GPU driver for AMD or NVIDIA cardĭownload DDU (Display Driver Uninstaller)Įxtract & run, accept prompt to reboot to safe mode It's best to perform a clean installation of the new driver set, rather than just installing new drivers on top of the old. We'd advise first updating GPU drivers to see if the issue has been resolved since this posting. If you're seeing rapid flickering of graphics, almost as if it's being rendered stereoscopically and overlaid (but isn't), that might be “micro-stutter.” We encountered micro-stutter in Dark Souls III when using SLI and CrossFire configurations. Dark Souls III Micro-Stutter and FPS Drops

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