Board Thread:Dark Souls/@comment-24.151.99.152-20151002004715

Hi. I just posted this over at the official Bandai/Namco forum, but I figured I'd give it a shot here as well.

I'm new to the original Dark Souls (360 port), but I've been enjoying the game -- well, I WAS enjoying it until I started getting just the most VICIOUS input lag.

I'm on my third character (I started over a couple of times because I messed up stat allocation or just wasn't enjoying a class), and on those previous (failed) characters I hadn't experienced this awfulness. It started as a relatively rare event, but as of literally 10 minutes ago it's become a serious, game-ending issue.

I just entered the area of Darkroot Garden behind the locked door (the one you need the 20k gold crest to open), and every fight with those NPCs has become futile, as input lag will delay an attack for up to 3 or 4 seconds, then finally activate at the worst possible moment. As you can imagine, it's getting me mauled. It's not my stamina, as I've seen it happen with a full gauge. And it's happened when flasking, too.

I've done a little poking around, and I know it's a known issue on every port of the game. However, I've been unable to find any definitive answers as to whether or not there's a fix, or if anyone knows what exactly is causing it. Am I looking at another re-roll? Is this a bug that's character-specific? Class-specific? Area-specific? It never happened once during the (cough) 40 or so hours I sunk into my first character. Not once.

Further info just in case it's pertinent: I'm playing a female Pyromancer. My original character (with no input lag) was a female Warrior. The game is installed on the console's hard drive. Um. That's about it. If anyone knows anything beyond "Yeah, it's a thing" I'd love to know. Thanks! 