Hello! Any suggestions for a controller and PC setup for speedruns?
3 years ago
Mexico

Hello everyone! Hope you're able to give me some advice. Which controller and setup would you recommend me to do decent souls speedruns?

I really want to start speedrunning souls games in a decent manner but I noticed that I'm having some issues like my menu changing has a slow response, D pad is complicated to change items fastly (mostly when equipping soul absorbing items after killing the boss with regular xbox or ps4 controllers) and in the case of Bloodborne, I feel the response between the controller and the game is pretty slow. I run the games with the monitor set on 2k, not sure if the wrong is there but I wished I could solve this response issue.

My current setup is: Graphics card: MSI GeForce GTX 1060 Gaming X 6G CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Processor Motherboard: MSI Gaming AMD Ryzen B350 8 Gb memory cards Capture Card: Elgato Game Capture HD60 Pro Monitor: Acer Predator XB271HU (4 milisecond response)

Really hope you can give me a tip from your experience and again, thank you all for reading me out!

Washington, USA
EmeraldAly
She/Her, They/Them
3 years ago

https://discord.gg/speedsouls

Lots of helpful people there who can give you much more specific advice than people on the general forums can.

O.D.W. و MrMonsh تُحب هذا
United States

I believe that the PS4 controller can net a slightly better response time if plugged by the mini-USB, but I don't know for sure.

As for the other games, I do know at least that DS1 uses a keyboard when possible for menuing. That's... about it.

I'm pretty sure you'll find better advice in the speedsouls discord.