Unlike its predecessors, Dark Souls 3 is no longer held back by consoles with tiny 512MB total memory pools. If you want to read item descriptions, plan on doing so in the menu! Overall graphical impressions Even on an old-school mechanical HDD, the game does not leave you waiting for long, with load times between 4 and 8 seconds depending on the area. On an SSD, I measured load times between 1.5 and 3 seconds on death or when warping between bonfires. Load times are a topic I almost forgot to mention, simply because they are so minuscule. The game does not natively support borderless fullscreen windowed mode, but it has no issues running in windowed mode and can easily be made borderless using external tools.There are three built-in HUD options, “on,” “off,” and a very neat one that automatically fades out individual elements based on their importance.Steam in-home streaming works well with the game, with a relatively minor performance loss and standard latency increase.Some additional miscellanea which might be of interest: The “Auto” HUD setting is a great option for taking in the world of Dark Souls 3 with as few distractions as possible, while still having all information available when you need it.
I’m happy to report that none of these configurations caused any issues, and that the latter two featured correct and convincing positional audio cues. Since multiple recent ports had trouble with particular audio setups-at least initially-I decided to test Dark Souls 3 with two, four and six channel audio at 44.1, 48 and 96 kHz. For owners of a Steam controller, it should be noted that mouse and controller inputs are recognized at the same time, allowing for precise mouse camera controls while keeping all other actions bound to their default gamepad buttons. Controls, audio and miscellaneaīefore diving into the main topics of graphical options and performance, let’s quickly cover all the other points that contribute to the technical quality of a game.Ĭontrols are very similar to Dark Souls 2, which means support for Xinput-compatible gamepads as well as decent mouse and keyboard options that are fully reconfigurable from within the game. Nevertheless, after over 15 hours with the game and these in-depth tests I feel reasonably confident in stating that Dark Souls 3 plays very well indeed at 60 FPS. Of course, these are just three facets out of myriad small things which could potentially go wrong.
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