Dark souls III - Not loading properly


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I just bought Dark Souls III via steam last night and downloaded it to my system. Today I attempted to launch it, only to have it load in a window, the music is playing in the background but it keeps kicking me to the desktop, while the process is still running. I manged to get into it one time, and set the screen res to the 4K settings and checked that all the other graphics settings were OK. When I exited the setting menu I received a pop up message that said my frame rate was too low to play online, please fix the issue then restart the game. The game will not restart for me at all, it is running in the background but when I attempt to bring it to the foreground it flashes white/black box on the screen and then dumps me back to the desktop (while still running in background). I just did a clean install of the newest Nvidia drivers, and had steam verify the file integrity. My system exceeds the recommended specs for this game, so idk where/what the problem is. Google searches point me to steam forums and posts regrading the game not loading at all (crashing on startup) and the solution mentioned there was to run the EXE in compatibility mode Win XP SP3 and run as Admin. I fail to see how this would help since the minimum requirement is Win 7. Has anyone else had issues with this?

 

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Another oddity: My monitor is currently plugged into the GPU via display port and whenever I load the game, and attempt to bring it to the foreground the monitor flashes DP in the corner for a few seconds.

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I've seen a fair few grumbles about crashing with the PC port.

 

I'm not sure what to do if it won't even start ~ Most of the tips I have revolve around turning down lighting quality to prevent crashes, or for whatever reason, starting as the Knight class as other classes are more prone to crash early game.

2 minutes ago, Audioboxer said:

I've seen a fair few grumbles about crashing with the PC port.

 

I'm not sure what to do if it won't even start ~ Most of the tips I have revolve around turning down lighting quality to prevent crashes, or for whatever reason, starting as the Knight class as other classes are more prone to crash early game.

Yeah like you said, the suggestions are all revolving around the game loading, which for me it will not. I have even removed it and reinstalled it just to see, but obviously it did not make any difference. What strikes me as odd is that no one on the steam forums has responded about this issue, and it doesn't appear to be an issue that has been experienced before.

3 minutes ago, jnelsoninjax said:

Yeah like you said, the suggestions are all revolving around the game loading, which for me it will not. I have even removed it and reinstalled it just to see, but obviously it did not make any difference. What strikes me as odd is that no one on the steam forums has responded about this issue, and it doesn't appear to be an issue that has been experienced before.

Sadly it's probably going to be a refund job until Scamco sort it out. Unless you bought from a key website. If directly on Steam I'd begrudgingly refund it for now unless you are happy to plod along trying to fix it.

 

You could try digging through this topic - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1206812 There's some tips and tricks in the first post.

Just now, Audioboxer said:

Sadly it's probably going to be a refund job until Scamco sort it out. Unless you bought from a key website. If directly on Steam I'd begrudgingly refund it for now unless you are happy to plod along trying to fix it.

Oops, I bought the key from cdkey.com because I was able to get the season pass for the same price that steam was selling just the game, idk what cdkeys refund policy is, but I doubt that once the key has been activated I'm going get my money back.

6 minutes ago, jnelsoninjax said:

@Audioboxer, I got it working! I manually edited graphicsconfig.xml and put in my 4K res settings, and suddenly it loads just fine!

Brilliant! Did it tell you how in that topic?

 

This is the kind of stuff you shouldn't need to be doing though, hence a shoddy port.

9 minutes ago, Audioboxer said:

Brilliant! Did it tell you how in that topic?

 

This is the kind of stuff you shouldn't need to be doing though, hence a shoddy port.

There was a comment in the topic you linked to me that said something about having to modify the xml file to run at a lower res then the game would allow him to set to, so I figured that I would look into the file and just see, sure enough it was all set @ 1920x1080 so when I changed in to the 4K, and saved it, the game suddenly loads! I made to the first bonfire with no issues (lots of complaints about crashing at that point) and made to the first boss, who enjoys killing me with one hit!

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2 minutes ago, jnelsoninjax said:

There was a comment in the topic you linked to me that said something about having to modify the xml file to run at a lower res then the game would allow him to set to, so I figured that I would look into the file and just see, sure enough it was all set @ 1920x1080 so when I changed in to the 4K, and saved it, the game suddenly loads! I made to the first bonfire with no issues (lots of complaints about crashing at that point) and made to the first boss, who enjoys killing me with one hit!

Heh xD What is your starting class? Some have it easier than others.

 

I know the game has been patched a bit since launch, I think the bonfire crashing might have been fixed.

1 hour ago, Audioboxer said:

Heh xD What is your starting class? Some have it easier than others.

 

I know the game has been patched a bit since launch, I think the bonfire crashing might have been fixed.

Knight, I believe. What would the best (or better) class be to start?

2 hours ago, jnelsoninjax said:

Oops, I bought the key from cdkey.com because I was able to get the season pass for the same price that steam was selling just the game, idk what cdkeys refund policy is, but I doubt that once the key has been activated I'm going get my money back.

CDKeys has no refund or return policy. The delights of buying from non-auth resellers! ;)

11 minutes ago, jnelsoninjax said:

Knight, I believe. What would the best (or better) class be to start?

Knight xD

 

Your current shield is 100% physical damage reduction. Use it to block even boss attacks.

8 hours ago, jnelsoninjax said:

Knight, I believe. What would the best (or better) class be to start?

There really isn't a "best" class to start with. Since you can put points into any stat you want at any time. Basically it just comes down to the play stay you are going for and what kind of weapon you want to start with.

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