Thanks for sharing. I admit I am surprised at the fps of Darksiders 1, considering I own it for Xbox and never had an issue with fps. Though reading the article, they explain the game gets to 60fps in some locations, the eye finds it really difficult to tell the difference between 40fps and 50fps and etc.
The article continues to explain that the game would nearly hit 60fps in some areas, but watching the video, the game hovered at 30fps and would dip to 20-25fps on the most intense areas. Naturally, the “new patch”, practically turned on V-Sync and that’s why you get an fps cut in half (maxing the game at 30fps to reduce tearing).
Again, “hovering in the 10 to 20 frames-per-second range” just doesn’t seem likely. Admittedly, I haven’t played the game, I don’t know, everyone’s eyes are trained differently. I think the game is probably running at 20-30fps, after reading that article, they likely are using the same way to cap fps, and likely capping it at 30fps, and I have a hard time thinking developers are letting people play the game that unoptimized, even though the gameplay videos seem to run great (http://www.ign.com/videos/2012/04/07/darksiders-ii-au-video-preview).
Anyways, it stands that I haven’t seen the game and if it is running at 10fps, they have a lot ahead of them and is no wonder they pushed backed the release date.
Thanks for the Darksiders update.
