At this point, we’re pretty sure that there is something wrong with Darksiders 2’s engine, as the game stressed our GTX295 as much as Crysis (and any other demanding game) does. What really surprised us were the game’s GPU requirements.

The game ran with 70-80fps at 1080p and max settings, with some drops to mid 50s at various scenes. This is clearly a game that was optimized for dual-cores and thankfully, PC gamers won’t face any CPU performance issues, provided they have an overclocked dual-core processor. It comes as no surprise then that Darksiders 2 scales on quad-cores but does not take advantage of them. This is a step to the right direction, as the first Darksiders game featured some scenes that ran with 30fps due to the game’s inability to use more than two CPU cores. The good news here is that Darksiders 2 is not a CPU heavy title and you won’t encounter any sequences that will stress your CPU. Is Darksiders 2 a better PC game than it was a couple of weeks ago or not? As always, we used an overclocked Q9650 (at 4.2Ghz) with 4GB RAM, a GTX 295, Windows 7 64-bit and the latest version of the GeForce ForceWare drivers. The game suffered from some port issues, something that was acknowledged by THQ themselves, and here we are today to see whether this game has been improved or not.

Darksiders 2 was released a month and a half ago on the PC, but due to some other games – that were released alongside with it – its Performance Analysis got delayed.

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