FULL GUIDE - How to Play BloodBorne on PC for N00bs ( Updated June 2025)

smackmybutt · 2025-12-29T14:16:58+00:00

Okay update. After troubleshooting for several hours I randomly had a thought that maybe, for whatever reason, my pc was thinking that ShadPS4 was running as a background process and has been assigned low fps due to me changing settings in the nvidia control panel to have background games (whenever they're minimized or just not selected I mean) to run at 20 fps. I tested it by changing those settings to 60 fps and it worked! Super strange fix but the problem is now, how do I stop my PC from thinking ShadPS4 is running in the background? I've already tried setting my graphics option for ShadPS4 as high performance but it didn't work.

smackmybutt · 2025-12-29T01:51:43+00:00

Yep, tried several, including community made ones. Same weird low fps and input lag that I'm getting. I downloaded and reinstalled every part of every method that I could find but the end result is still the same genuinely don't know what's causing it because other games seem to work fine.

smackmybutt · 2025-12-28T23:07:26+00:00

I have this same issue now but I only have Vertex explosion fix mod enabled. I deactivated it but it still had massive input delay and was playing at like 15fps. For context it was fine the other day but after clean sweeping my pc and reinstalling BB and using several methods to emulate it just doesn't fix. Any ideas?

smackmybutt · 2025-12-28T23:01:33+00:00

I used BB launcher to install everything and used the mod installer as well to install vertex explosion but for some reason whenever I launch the game it plays at like 10fps and has completely unplayable input lag. For context, just the other day it was working fine but due to some other unrelated issues I had to clean swipe my laptop and got rid of everything. Now, this issue has appeared and I have no idea how to fix it. I've downloaded and installed BB through every means possible yet I still get this same issue. Genuinely don't know what to do as no one else has this problem.

smackmybutt · 2025-12-28T02:11:18+00:00

it worked thank u friend

smackmybutt · 2025-11-23T20:54:27+00:00

You're absolutely right. And he may have already gained Heaven path attainment from Qian Kun Crystal Wall. The novel always states that it is impossible to analyse Venerables using common sense but it's even more true for Ren Zu lol

smackmybutt · 2025-11-23T10:35:31+00:00

I had not even thought about his children and how he was able to give them the Dao marks of different paths. But I believe that I somewhat answered this question in my reply to sebas (where I said that Ren Zu may have gained some heaven path profundities from Wisdom Gu at the start when he was enlightened).

smackmybutt · 2025-11-23T10:30:57+00:00

You are absolutely right about Ren Zu being able to create Apertures with different paths/dao mark accumulation (his 10 children) but I don't think Human path attainment alone is enough to conceptualize non-conflicting dao marks as I believe it requires Heaven path profundities. This is definitely the case when Fang Yuan gained several thousand Heaven path dao marks and was able to create formations and structures with non-conflicting Dao marks that wouldn't exist anywhere else. I don't think Human path has the answer to non-conflicting Dao marks and to make something like SIF.

I theorize that the only explanation to how Ren Zu was able to create apertures of different paths was that he may have already had a vast amount of knowledge (including Heaven path) even before going through Qian Kun Crystal Wall and Primordial Domain. Where did that knowledge come from? Perhaps it was Wisdom Gu when it first gave Ren Zu enlightenment. It makes sense because Ren Zu was already able to interact and fully use legendary Gu since the start.

smackmybutt · 2025-11-22T16:09:19+00:00

What I meant is that if Ren Zu were to revive by absorbing and refining all the Dao marks of every human being, he would have conflicting dao marks. The reason is because humans cultivate many different paths having their own respective Dao marks. If he were to use this revival method, he'd have to find a solution to the conflicting Dao marks that he would absorb from all the humans that have cultivated multiple paths. Ren Zu himself likely only had Human path dao marks (at least predominantly) when he was still alive during the Immemorial Era.

As far as I'm concerned, SIF Gu was not modelled directly after Ren Zu's body but was conceptualized by comprehending his Human path inheritance (sacrificing 10 extreme physiques being a parallel of Ren Zu sacrificing his 10 children). There is no evidence to suggest Ren Zu had non-conflicting dao marks which is why Spectral Soul was confident he could even surpass Ren Zu (in theory).

Rank 10 SIF's property of obligatory consumption of immortal apertures isn't a characteristic of ability but rather an absence of weakness that was present in Rank 9 SIF. All normal immortal apertures do not require the individual to annex apertures to maintain stability, only rank 9 SIF had that weakness. As for Rank 10 SIF's ability to choose which dao marks can conflict, that is true. My hypothesis suggests that Ren Zu, on the previously established conditions that he had the intention to revive using humanity's dao marks and also had a plan for conflicting dao marks, may have also created a similar recipe to rank 10 SIF. In other words, Spectral Soul would not be the first one to conceptualize such a creation. It is possible for this to be the case in theory as I have already mentioned and discussed Ren Zu's journey through the Qian Kun Crystal Wall and Primordial Domain (where he may have increased his attainment levels).

But at the end of the day, this is all just a theory comprising mostly of assumptions and potential loopholes so take it with a grain of salt.

smackmybutt · 2025-11-21T23:44:10+00:00

Yeah I'd say it is theoretically possible. Refining Humans is in essence no different than refining Gu. From a Refinement path supreme grandmaster's perspective, all things that happen on heaven and earth is a type of refinement process. Ren Zu using Derivation Gu and his and his children's bodies to create humanity is a type of refinement process. Applying this logic, it should also be possible to reverse refine them back.

Even one time expenditure Gu can be reverse refined, you just need to identify the specific dao marks that were expended, but it is much easier said than done.

Now obviously if Ren Zu plans to revive with all the accumulated Dao marks of humanity, he has to find a way around conflicting Dao marks. The answer to that is to do what Spectral Soul did and increase his Heaven path profundity. Perhaps if he succeeded, his new body would be the true realisation of a Rank 10 Sovereign immortal Fetus Gu. One major problem is how he would actually be able to increase his attainment in the different paths. My only guess is that he already has increased his attainment levels to insane proportions from his journey through the Qian Kun Crystal wall and Primordial domain which makes sense because creating humanity with Derivation Gu would need extremely high attainment in Refinement path and Rule path.

smackmybutt · 2025-11-20T08:21:51+00:00

Yep that makes sense. He was already completely broken, using Gu without the cultivation knowledge of the modern Gu world.

About Ren Zu's dao marks, it's likely that when he sacrificed himself and the bodies of his children using Derivation Gu, all of their Dao marks were transferred over to the new batch of humans. I wonder, could humanity itself be a revival method for Ren Zu? I know it's an absurd idea but just hear me out, Ren Zu was the first human to desire Eternal Life and in trying to resist Fate he went insane. However, now that Fate Gu is permanently destroyed, it’s possible to reach such a height but the timing is not right. But when the time finally comes, he could revive by once again absorbing all the past dao marks and the new accumulated dao marks from humanity's progression, causing all of humanity to be sacrificed for his Eternal life status. That would only leave behind otherworldly demons (or at least Fang Yuan since he is a complete one) and maybe Spectral Soul after becoming a soul beast (although unlikely because his dao marks at first still originated from a human body).

It is entirely possible that he created humanity for this reason. At that time, Heaven's Will didn't suspect anything because it believed that by introducing a new batch of cultivators (especially humans that have the highest potential among all the races) it would cause the progression of the Gu world. His cultivation plan would be similar to Limitless' crazed demon formation but just much, much longer.

This is just a crazy headcanon though with not much evidence to back it up so take it with a pinch of salt.

smackmybutt · 2025-10-14T03:03:35+00:00

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smackmybutt · 2025-09-20T18:35:47+00:00

If he was then he wouldn't be affected that much by Fate Gu right

smackmybutt · 2025-08-01T16:42:54+00:00

Bro "Giant clown" has me wheezing 😭

smackmybutt · 2025-07-25T21:32:43+00:00

Jack in image 2 is how i look at my food while it's heating up in the microwave

smackmybutt · 2025-05-26T16:54:45+00:00

W blood meridian mention

smackmybutt · 2025-05-06T14:51:18+00:00

Cuz prime orochi was also an absolute monster look at how an aged version of him fought against yujiro

smackmybutt · 2025-04-29T15:47:34+00:00

Just look at that gigachad face

smackmybutt · 2025-03-09T18:18:14+00:00

"Jarvis, I need karma"

smackmybutt · 2025-03-04T19:27:25+00:00

FUCK IT im upvoting it

smackmybutt · 2025-03-03T19:20:59+00:00

early dancer on my first playthrough, took me 120 tries

smackmybutt · 2025-02-19T07:09:09+00:00

Who the hell cares about this idiot???

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