Dark Souls 3 Performance Increase

This mod does not work for anyone, try different version and see which one works best for you and make sure to backup your saves before installing this mod, you may get banned for using this in multiplayer, I take no responsibility.

This mod increases fps and reduces stutter and also make frames smooth.

-Increase fps by disabling some AO and Tonemap postprocesses of the game and by optimizing decals and lighting.

-Shadows completely removed and water interactions and ocean waves also disabled to decrease cpu/gpu load.

-reduce stutter by decreasing draw distance thanks to haloarbiter117 and by some edits that I made to LOD.

-Improve frame rates by using texture cache.

-make frames smooth by a reshade method.

please add comments and give me energy to update this mod for more enhancements.

Some credits go to katalash for mod engine and haloarbiter117 for draw distance.

Suitable for weak pcs

Version 1. 01:

-Disabled some lighting functions to increase performance.

-Disabled decals to increase performance and reduce stutter.(Like blood on surfaces)

-And some more optimizations.

Version 1. 02 (No grass):

-Removed grasses from game to improve performance and reduce stutter.

-Some optimizations added to draw distance.

-Some optimizations added to postprocess.

Version 1. 03 :

-Removed wind effects from game to decrease gpu/cpu load.

-Increased lighting performance by disabling light shadowing.

-turned off reshade frame blend to increase fps. (see note 1)

Version 1. 04 :

-Disabled texture map displacement to improve performance significantly and decrease stutter a bit.

-improved light maps and shaders for more fps.

Version 1. 05 :

-Removed remaining shadow computations to increase performance.

-Removed remaining water interaction computations to increase performance.

-Disabled light shafts.

-And some minor optimizations.

Note 1:

Frame blend make game frames smooth at cost of a little performance, it's not so good at low frame rates so in every version you can switch it off or on by pressing 'home' key and deselecting it. or you can lower it's effect by decreasing Threshold.

Note 2:

Please remember in higher versions I tried to disable game features to increase performance so use higher versions as last resort.

Installation:

First backup your Data0.bdt then drag and drop files in the rar to games executable directory and overwrite everything.

Use this methods if your game crashes when you start:

First of all check if  your dark souls 3 is the latest version.

1- Move your saves to another place and try again.

2-Go in mod/shader folder and remove gxdecal.