Dark Souls III Practice Tool

A tool for practicing speedruns. Made with ❤️ by johndisandonato.

The tool is free, and will always be free for everyone. If you enjoy it, please consider supporting me!

Getting started

Download the latest stable release here.

Prerequisites:

• Steam must be open. Offline mode is fine, but the program must be started.
• Antiviruses are disabled. This includes Windows Defender. If you don't want to do that, make sure to whitelist the contents of the practice tool in your antivirus.
• You have a legitimate copy of the game. Pirated copies will never be supported.

Running the tool

Standalone

• Extract all files from the zip archive. Anywhere will do.
• Start Dark Souls III.
• Double-click jdsd_dsiii_practice_tool.exe.

The tool will automatically appear over the game. Press 0 to open and close its interface.

Installed

• Extract all files from the zip archive.
• Rename jdsd_dsiii_practice_tool.dll to dinput8.dll. Make sure your file extensions are visible to ensure you are naming the file correctly.
• Copy dinput8.dll and jdsd_dsiii_practice_tool.toml to you Dark Souls III Game folder. The files must be in the same folder as DarkSoulsIII.exe.
• Start Dark Souls III normally.

The tool is now installed. To load it, start the game, press the right shift button and keep it pressed for a few seconds until the tool appears on screen.

If you don't do that, the tool won't load and the game will start normally.

Running the tool on Linux

The tool fully supports Linux and should run on Steam Deck seamlessly.

Standalone

If you want to run the tool in a standalone fashion, I recommend protontricks:

protontricks-launch --appid 374320 jdsd_dsiii_practice_tool.exe

Installed

Follow the same instructions as above. Additionally, you have to set the launch options in Steam as follows:

WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8=n,b" %command%

Help

If the tool doesn't work, you need help, or want to get in touch, read the troubleshooting guide.

If you are looking to submit a patch, check the contributing guide.

Credits

• ViRazY for the invaluable help in figuring out Linux support.
• Pav, wasted, jamesq7 for technical help in figuring things out.
• The Cheat Engine table maintained by The Grand Archives provided the research base for many of the pointers used in the tool.
• NamelessHoodie[2] and Amir's work on HoodieScript for insights about the game's inner workings.
• The Soulsmodding community for the Param definitions.
• r3sus for the help with anti-cheat ideas, for all the interesting study material / code and all the general tips.
• The font used in the UI is Comic Mono.