exe name? But maybe this has nothing to do with it at all, I don't know what I'm talking about.Īnyway, this might help other DS2 SotFS players that are looking for solutions to their crashes, I spent a lot of time messing around with this little issue myself. Dark souls world is cogent, consistent, and painstakingly built. Try disabling overlays for Dark Souls 3 and see if your game stops crashing. It’s normal to use overlays for Steam games, but some games could be incompatible with overlay software. So yeah, basically the Setup tool incorrectly renames the ReShade64.dll to dxgi.dll when it should be d3d11.dll I guess? I figured this might have to do with the fact that there are two different versions of DS2 (DX9+DX11) now that share the same. Patch PC Crash During Startup Fixed - Lag and low fps patch in valorant update fix. If there is any overlay software running when you play Dark Souls 3, it may cause game crashing on startup or freezing. And tadaa, it seems to be fixed now It now creates a d3d11.log that does not need to be deleted, the game starts up just fine. In another topic about GTA V there seemed to be a similar issue and someone suggested renaming dxgi.dll to d3d11.dll, so I thought why not try it for DS2. I found a topic on this site (that is now closed I think) that addressed a similar issue and was 'solved' by running the DS2 exe as administrator (and optionally disabling the Steam Overlay). I discovered that deleting the dxgi.log, which was created upon the initial startup of the game, oddly enough fixed the issue.īasically this would mean that you would have to delete the dxgi.log every time before running the game, which bothered me. At first I could start up the game just fine, but after exiting once I couldn't start the game again it would crash within a second.

It placed the ReShade64.dll in there, named as dxgi.dll.

I used the ReShade Setup.exe that came with the ReShade Framework 0.17.1 release to create the ReShade files in the DS2 game directory. So I recently experienced some odd crashes trying to use ReShade with DS2 SotFS. Not sure where to post this but I think it will be helpful for DS2 Scholar of the First Sin players.

Dark souls crashes on startup