> you might have been right 12 years ago when dark souls 1 came out initially

When it came out initially for windows I had already done two playthroughs so just did ... not ... care. I just read it's a crap port in the news.

> souls games have been running just fine on windows(and linux for that matter) for years

Maybe. For like 4 years I ran my PCs without a dedicated video card because crypto and chip crisis. The whole PS5 with an extra controller cost less than an equivalent PC video card at the time :)

[I do have a video card now, but only because someone paid me to write neural network code.]