Digital Foundry: Dark Souls on Switch analysis

[Barkley]

Miyamotoo said:

Barkley said:

In the starting area I had framerate drops... When there were no enemies on screen. Didn't play more than 20 minutes. I admit I'm more sensitive to these things than most. Only rented it because I wasn't sure I'd like the game anyway, regardless of performance.

Also they say in the article: "Unfortunately, there are more regular drops to the low 20s while playing in handheld mode" so yeah low 20's.

I'm sure for most people it is more than playable, for me though it's handheld performance put me off.

That's probably framepacing, they said frame drops are in intense sceens.

They also said: "30fps is still a consistent figure while running across Lordran" and "Unfortunately, there are more regular drops to the low 20s while playing in handheld mode - and a wyvern's fire blast or Queelag's lava shaders cue bigger drops than docked play. You get low 20fps readings in these cases, but outside of this, the frame-rate reading is surprisingly fixed to the 30fps line for general travel".

Yeah it probably is the framepacing then, hopefully they can fix it. Though as that article says dark souls 3 on PS4 also has framepacing issues, I'm guessing not.