Darksiders screen-tearing patch out tomorrow

by David Hinkle on Jan 26th 2010 3:00PM

Starting tomorrow, the screen-tearing present in the Xbox 360 version of Darksiders will (hopefully) be a thing of the past, as the game's official blog reports the patch will be available for download starting tomorrow. You'll find the update available starting tomorrow at 2am PT (5am ET).

We'd like to be a bit more excited about it, but knowing that everyone ever in the world will eventually succumb to the apocalypse ... well, we're finding it a bit difficult to get pumped about an update to some video game. If you'll excuse us, we're going to call our families and tell 'em how awesome they are.

[Via VG247]

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Tags: darksiders, joe-madureira, Microsoft, patch, screen-tearing, thq, update, vigil-games, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (43)

*hugs PS3 version*

Whoo! I plan on attacking this right after Mass Effect 2. Glad I waited!

It wasn't really all that bad of an issue. Noticeable, but not anywhere near nauseating like some display problems can be.

I've always thought "screen tearing" was kind of a drastic name for the issue. I remember talking to one guy that always made sure he turned on V-Sync in every game and gave it all priority, because he thought it would literally tear the screen up and completely ruin his monitor.

What a moron, lmao

This was such a great game. I enjoyed it so much more than Bayonetta ... which was weird and left me feeling ... dirty.

That's how the demo left me feeling, ha ha.. Glad to see the game doesn't change it up much!

Nice! Definitely picking this thing up after I play through ME2 and finish AC2.

Silly man, how is Joystiq supposed to review something that didn't release on the 360?

I played through all of Darksiders on the 360 and I never noticed any screen tearing. Either I'm blind, or this "issue" isn't as horrible as I've heard people claim.

I only noticed it once it popped up on gaming websites and I read it existed. Otherwise, it didn't bother me.

I think that once you play it with the tearing removed, you will definitely notice the difference.

While playing this game, it felt as though there was water on my screen. That's the best way I can descibe it. It really only occurs if you spin War quickly in either direction.

It is still a really fun game to play though.

I'm almost done havent seen it once

I don't know some of you guys are claiming to have not seen it or only seen it once. It's all over the place in the game. When I played it seemed like I was seeing it once or twice every minute. I didn't count them or anything, but it was definitely a constant issue.

"I played through all of Darksiders on the 360 and I never noticed any screen tearing."

Me either the game looked fine to me. I'm confused, what should I be looking for?

Wiki has an explanation with a decent picture of what it looks like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_tearing

You could have a slower tv, or maybe it only occurs at certain resolutions. Do you play HD or SD?

It very well may be only an issue with HD displays, but since so many games have vsync enabled (and I've noticed it enough to look for a vsync option when it occurs), Darksiders' tearing is quite distracting.

I never noticed it when I did my normal and apocolyptic run throughs. I've finished and maxed it, and taken it back to the video store...so either it's not that big of a deal, my copy got lucky, or I just don't notice that kind of stuff.

You probably just don't notice. It's one of those things though that once you do notice you can't un-notice. In general some minor tearing doesn't bother me, but Darksiders has more than I've seen in a while. It wasn't a make or break issue for me though.

How hard is it on apocolptic? I am just about through the game on normal and while there have been some tough parts, I feel like the game is pretty easy.

I loved Darksiders so much that I finished it in 3 days, which is impressive given how long it normally takes me to finish a game. It'll probably end up being my favorite surprise game of 2010 and I even made the GameStop guys give me the big ass poster they were going to throw away even though I have absolutely nowhere to hang it. That being said, I wasn't even sure what screen-tearing was until I played Darksiders.

They're all too busy playing Mass Effect, I'll wager.

Kinda hard to review an online only game before the servers go up. I know IGN have their review out but they probably had a special game set up by zipper cause they're top priority. Think they gave it a pretty average review.

>We'd like to be a bit more excited about it, but knowing that everyone ever in the world will eventually succumb to the apocalypse ... well, we're finding it a bit difficult to get pumped about an update to some video game.

I see what you did there!

Even IGN doesn't have the review up yet.

Only a few sites do. So far the highest score is 80/100.

Not to mention no review would be a good review until they've played with the general population.

My experience with big team battles - One teams starts to get pwned, 90% quit, the 10% left get to hear about how much they suck despite being a good sport and trying to play the game.

Just my experience. Let's see what Mag is like.

At least the developer is fixing a known issue with their game. I wonder if Ubi is going to fix the AC2 screen tearing...

Just in time too.. My copy from Newegg gets in tomm!

I didn't think the tearing was awful, but it was noticeable. Nice to see it fixed. I noticed it in games like Bayonetta too, though, so it's not like this is unique.

Just in time, I bought my copy of Darksiders today.

Does anybody know what armor WAR is wearing in the screencap?

Is it a old screenshot or something?

Reconz.

That is war's initial design. you cannot use that armor in the game.
You use only two types. The regular armor, and the abyssmal armor

I'm happy to see this problem getting a fix.

It would have been nice to have this a week ago. I'm on the last area now and while the screen-tearing doesn't significantly impact anything, it is an annoying distraction. :|

I still can't believe X Play gave this a measly 2/5. Adam Sessler has let me down.

For the first time?

Ever?

Really?!?

uhhhhh Sessler??: people take him seriously? he's an arm flailing crazy man...

I played thru Darksiders on 360 and never noticed any screen tearing.

damn just finished it. and sent it back to gamefly. great game even with the tearing. i really enjoyed it.

To bad I already beat the game twice and get all the achievements... Oh well, I guess that just means I didn't really notice the problem, which for the most part I didn't.

Very nice, although I barely noticed that issue.
I hope they also fix the issue with inverted Y-Axis settings. When riding the griffon it would have inverted aiming but no inverted flying controls which feels odd. Also the game doesn't seem to remember the settings so I have to change them back every time I start playing and every time I returned to title screen.

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