

I’ve simply never played a game before which was as performance intensive as Dark Souls 3, so I’ve never had problems like this before. I’ve downloaded a tool which tracks a lot of stuff on your PC (such as GPU and CPU temperatures) and this helped me identify my problems. This is the reason why I had performance issues with Dark Souls 3. If Dark Souls 3 still lags or your framerate frequently drops – proceed to the next step. If you see that you’ve reached your limits, try closing a few of unnecessary programs which hog those resources. Open your task manager (ctrl +alt + del) and look at the CPU and RAM. See if you somehow reach your hardware limits But please try to play on lower settings and see if this helps (the game still looks fine on low!). Dark Souls 3 is gorgeous and you want to breath in every single pixel. Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce GTX 750 Ti / ATI Radeon HD 7950ĭo you meet all those requirements? OK! Up to the next step! 2. Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 / AMD® FX-6300 OS: Windows 7 SP1 64bit, Windows 8.1 64bit Windows 10 64bit Take a look at the minimum hardware requirements of Dark Souls 3: This simply could be the reason right there. How to solve your Dark Souls 3 performance issues: 1. I’ll try to help you with a more general approach. Let me preface this by saying that there are a lot of guides like this outside, but many of those give you a few specific solutions which may or may not work.

There have been a few perfomance problems though and I want to share some tips in general how to resolve those problems.

Hey folks! I’m playing Dark Souls 3 at the moment and I must say I’m having a blast.
