Similarly, there are several glitches produced by moving the game above 30FPS, and the cutscenes work with that refresh whatever you do. It can be played at 60FPS most of the time, yes, but the Prepare to Die Edition was clearly not developed with this in mind.

To put this in perspective, even a Ryzen Threadripper 1950X with a GTX 1080 Ti is not able to maintain 1080p60 stably, and the appearance of the Haven Demon causes drops to 45FPS. The downside is that not everything was well optimized in these mods, and today the game still struggles to run smoothly at 1080p and sixty frames per second, even on the most powerful hardware on the market. Add to that the numerous fan-created texture mods and we had a very different experience than the one originally offered by the From developers. Eventually this mod added options for anti-aliasing, depth of field, anisotropic filtering, and ambient occlusion. Here the DSFix from Durante came to the rescue, which solved certain limits and allowed you to play at any resolution, while freeing the game from its 30FPS limit. If you compare it to Dark Souls 3, where you can see how From Software has advanced when it comes to developing conversions for PC, the first installment is tremendously disappointing. Add to that a 30FPS limiter and a poor implementation of keyboard and mouse control, which makes the complaints about its release in 2012 more than understandable. This version allows you to modify the output resolution, but natively it still works internally at 1024×720, like previous generation consoles. Mods aside for a moment, it is clear that the Prepare to Die Edition is not ready for modern equipment. With this in mind, where is the original Prepare to Die PC edition, which was already significantly improved thanks to community-created mods? Bandai Namco is retiring that version from Steam for new buyers and will offer a 50% discount when purchasing the new remaster for users who have Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition in their library, but with mods like DSFix or SweetFX improving the base game the new official version has that much to match. The launch of Dark Souls Remastered on May 25 is just around the corner, and based on our tests with the PlayStation 4 Pro code we have the feeling of being more in front of a refined and optimized port than not before a remodeling of top to bottom of the complete game. We compare the new Dark Souls Remastered with the Prepare to Die Edition with mods

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