

I don’t want to spend hours of my life combing through user forums to fix a problem that I would never encounter on a console. When I play a game, I just want it to work. Situations like this are exactly why I stopped gaming on PC ten years ago and stuck almost exclusively to console gaming for the past decade. Now, I hate to draw lines in the sand here, but what I’m about to say is going to read as controversial to some. If I attempt to manually shut down the game before said flash happens, the game reverts to fullscreen mode upon startup.Īdditionally, I’m having problems with the game UI loading in one corner of the screen, which is a known issue for people who output to a television instead of a computer monitor. So I attempted to change it to windowed mode in the settings, but all that happens is the screen flashes, and then the option automatically toggles back to fullscreen. I dug into the issue a bit, and some people insist that it only performs badly if you play it in fullscreen mode. This is a known issue, but a lot of folks who attempt to stream Dark Souls 3 on PC experience terrible, choppy output. And, by golly, it did! The game looks sharper, crisper, and, most importantly, smoother on PC than it does on PS4. Not one to be defeated by a little nausea, I decided to check out the game on PC to see if it ran more smoothly. I toughed it out for a little while for the stream, but I eventually had to put it down so I didn’t get any sicker. I don’t know why this is an issue, but I think it’s perhaps a combination of the way the camera moves (which isn’t a problem on its own) and the unstable framerate, which makes the game look like it’s lurching and jerking around instead of moving fluidly. My first attempt at playing Dark Souls 3 was on my PS4, and I very quickly became nauseated. My issues with the game are purely technical. No, I don’t mean that it’s too difficult. Unfortunately, Dark Souls 3 quickly became a problem for me. In fact, I figured I could even livestream my attempts. See, I finally found myself with some rare and much-needed free time, so I thought I’d give the game a go.


I mentioned a while back that I had been meaning to play Dark Souls 3 for a good long while but I’d never actually dipped my toes in.
