14 DAY TRIAL // Bad news for Dark Souls players who plan on giving the game another try during the holiday season, as one of the most important mods for From Software’s title is subject to a DMCA complaint from Bandai Namco.
Most PC players stayed away from Dark Souls until Peter “Durante” Thoman, a fan of the franchise made a mod call DSfix that does exactly what it says, it fixes Dark Souls.
Due to the faulty port from the console, Dark Souls was a nearly broken game in the fact that the resolution of the game was terrible. DSfix corrects this issue and allows for higher rendering resolution and a lot of other features.
It’s important to understand from the start that this toolset does not include any material from the game itself. DSfix contains some .dll and .ini files that override some of Dark Souls calls to DirectX 9 API and changes them to allow for better resolution and other improvements.
DSfix is the main reason many PC gamers decided to purchase Dark Souls after avoiding it since its release on this gaming platform. Publisher Bandai Namco and developer From Software must have been very happy that a member of the community did something that they should have done before Dark Souls would make it to PC.
Most of all, Durante built and distributed DSfix for free, so that all PC gamers can benefit from the graphics improvements while playing Dark Souls.
Last week, Dark Souls made the transition from Games for Windows Live to Steam and DSfix needed an update in order to bypass the new DRM and continue to work correctly on PC.
Links to DSfix mod on Dropbox have been disabled for now
Well, it looks like the update to DSfix sparked some dark thoughts into Bandai Namco, as the publisher decided to take action against the Dark Souls mod that currently makes the game playable.
The author of the mod has just posted an email he received from Dropbox, one of the many cloud services hosting DSfix. In this email, Dropbox informed Durante that they have received a notification under the Digital Copyright Act (DMCA) from Bandai Namco, which claimed that DSfix is infringing on their game Dark Souls.
As a result, the public sharing of Durante’s account has been disabled and will be reinstated only after he removes the DSfix links. The author of the mod can submit a counter notification in case he thinks that the DMCA notice was sent in error.
Even though DSfix has been currently removed from Dropbox, Dark Souls fans will still be able to download the latest version through other digital distribution channels. You can read below the full content of Dropbox’s email received by Durante.
