However, they clearly are a major problem for a minority of those who presently have access to the game, so From will need to track down the cause before wider release. Quite why that’s affecting certain people and not others is not yet known for my part, I’ve witnessed none of those crashes in about 12 hours of play. This very same Dark Souls 3 PC build has proved unstable for some reviewers, including the Giant Bomb (East) team who discussed (and ran into) some hard crashes during a recent stream.

Power efficiency has been switched off, so my card shouldn’t attempt any cheeky downclocking shenanigans. AMD’s latest drivers at the time of writing are the Crimson 16.3.1 set, which I’m presently using. I’m playing it on a machine with the following specs: i5-6600 / 16GB DD4 RAM / 4GB R9 380X / Windows 10. That means it should be the same version people will play on 12 April, but may be subject to change if From alters some things and deploys a new update in the next couple of weeks. The Dark Souls 3 build knocking around reviewers at the moment is version 1.01, complete with a (non-final) release day patch.

The images in it are restricted to menus, and out of context shots of early locations (within the first hour or three) of the game. If you’re worried about spoilers, this piece contains no direct story, NPC, or plot information. Actual reviews are embargoed until early April, and I wouldn’t dream of reviewing this game without finishing it in any case but here’s a look at the PC graphics options and early impressions of performance. Since everyone and their mum (and their mum’s friend Cathy who does a bit of streaming on the weekends) seems to have an English language copy of Dark Souls 3 to show off at the moment, it’ll probably come as no surprise to learn that we have review code too.

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