Dark Souls is 50% off on Steam right now

[thesilentman]

However, I am curios of how well the game will run on a laptop with a 512MB Radeon HD 7640G, as having portable Dark Souls would be immensely awesome. Anyone have an HD 7640G and tried Dark Souls on it?

Are you talking 512 MBs of VRAM? Then you'll be fine. But of you're talking about 512 MB of total RAM, then no. It's surprisingly stable too, so don't worry about having enough RAM. I've only had two crashes since I installed it, and both were because I wanted to play the game at 60 FPS.

From what I have read from the internet in the past five minutes, it appears that I have 512MB of VRAM (RAM that is contained in the video card). The actual laptop I'm using has 6 GB of dedicated RAM, so I have no worries about that aspect.

Yep, it will do. Have fun with the game, it's easily one of the best I've played so far, and I hope you get a taste for it.

No, it makes you a masochist. ...well, OK, maybe more recent patches and/or DSfix versions make the use of the mouse actually, you know, useful, as opposed to frustrating and just plain bad. A few months back it still showed the mouse pointer in game by default (unless disabled by DSfix) and the mouse also mover very...choppy - not slow, just really jumping over pixels for some reason. But other than this single flaw (which made the game even more frustrating and hard) the K+M control was fine.

Huh, I never got stuck any where for too long. Granted it took me like 5 tries to beat Gwyn but still I didn't have to use any FPS patches or anything. The only areas that had noticable drops in FPS were blighttown (While looking down from the top) and the DLC area Chasm of the abyss. The game even then was still easily playable.

It's just my mad 1337 swag yolo skillz DoPo :3

Oh really? Even on the Capra Demon? Even on Bowser and Luigi? And even on the Four Kings?

There's your window, blasphemer. Jump out.

 

[sanquin]

Thanks for the notification. Was already thinking of buying the game, and with 50% off I've indeed just done so! I only played a little bit of it at a friend's before. All I know is the game's really damn punishing for mistakes, but also very rewarding for fighting correctly. After a few hours of getting used to it all, (especially general tactics for enemies) it's a wonderfully atmospheric and deep rpg imo.

 

[Strelok]

Oh yuck, after Demon's Souls, the only way these incompetent developers would get me to play it is if they paid me $19.99.

 

[DrunkOnEstus]

The physical copy is like $30 on Amazon and comes with a poster and a DVD and all this cool ass swag. Also, I don't get the hate for GFWL, at all. You don't need to be online to use it, it adds achievements to my Xbox list and uses the gamertag I already have, you can make on offline one if you don't have one, etc. The biggest pain it has ever been for me is a couple clicks in between me and the game.

Either way, $20 is a steal for what I honestly believe is the best game of the PS360 generation.

 

[chozo_hybrid]

I have it on my Xbox, played about six hours then got distracted by another game... Forgot I had it, am going to play tonight with flat mate/best friend.

 

[Boris Goodenough]

Huh, I never got stuck any where for too long. Granted it took me like 5 tries to beat Gwyn but still I didn't have to use any FPS patches or anything.

The DSfix says that you might get banned from GFWL from changing the FPS limit :S

 

[this account is gay]

Super sad face. I want this game, but have no money to get it. It looks amazing though... Played it for a little at a friend's house.

 

[Maximum Bert]

So with the Steam sale they are actually selling it for a similar price to other retailers now er great I suppose. I will probably get it for PS3 at somepoint when it drops below 10 pounds I am in no hurry I liked Demons souls but have plenty to play for a year or 2.