knighty (GT: ZeraKnight)

Yeah Vista was fine. Anyone who actually USED it, rather than just sat on the sideline using XP and simultaneously bashing Microsoft, knows that. It had its issues in the first few months. Of course it did, it was a new OS, some 5 years after XP came out. But after that it was fine. The only annoying thing was UAC which as someone said above could be turned off in about 3 clicks. Doing a beta with Windows 7 clearly did wonders.

That requires triple buffering because you need the front buffer, back buffer and a third buffer to render the next frame into while you duplicate the previous one. And I'm fairly certain the 360 doesn't support triple buffering (hell, many PC gpus don't). Maybe the 360 does, I can't be 100% sure on that, but even if it does, adding an extra frame buffer to an HD game is no trivial task when you've probably just squeezed the game to run in 512mb of RAM.

No, it uses Havok.

Sorry I meant "losing the screen tear", not "losing the vsync" :)

Darksiders, from what I can tell visually, looks like it runs a little under 60fps most of the time and sometimes drops a bit lower. You stick on vsync in a game that can't maintain 60fps constantly and you're stuck at 30fps. Now, plenty of next gen games run at 30fps, this is fine, but games like Darksiders, Bayonetta, DMC etc are all much much better the better the frame rate (naturally all games look better at 60fps, I'm just saying that high paced action and driving games are much more in need of higher framerates). You suddenly go from 50fps to 30fps and losing the vsync is a small pro for losing almost half your frame rate. When did I say it wasn't to do with vsync? It's everything to do with vsync.

You mean like 99% of games released in the past 5 years?

It's Zelda with DMC combat, in the visual style somewhere between WoW and Diablo 3.

Wait wait WAIT. "The visual style is similar [to gears of war]"......Are you playing the same game?

If you knew what vsyncing would do to this game you probably wouldn't be saying that. *sigh* I knew this article would get a bunch of uneducated responses. No offence ;)

It depends on the game. With quick moving games it's practically impossible to see, but any smooth camera paths in cutscenes and such will show it up really badly.

This is a bad thing if it's not an option as anyone with any knowledge as to what screen tearing actually is will know.

I assume you meant "older" ;P