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The industrious modder who fixed the PC version of Dark Souls has returned to give the new PC version of Dark Souls 2, released today in Europe, a kick up the technical backside. (Edit: that should say that it's out on Steam today and in shops on 2nd May.)Dark Souls 2 on PC is a much better port than its predecessor, as Digital Foundry has been discovering this week and will report on shortly, but Durante, the maker of DSfix, still wanted more. Writing in PC Gamer, he introduces GeDoSaTo for Dark Souls 2, which adds downsampling, the facility for future texture modification, more configurable in-game effects and post-processing options.
Downsampling involves rendering the game at a much higher resolution and then having your PC GPU rescale the image before presenting it to your monitor, which is desirable because it gives games a much cleaner image with less aliasing.
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