Even with a perfect crack, users encounter problems. Here is the community-sourced fix list for Darksiders II Complete-PROPHET.
Let’s address the elephant in the room: Is this article advocating piracy?
No. Today, you should buy Darksiders II Deathinitive Edition on GOG or Steam (it is often on sale for $5.99). The developers at Gunfire Games (ex-Vigil employees) deserve your money. Darksiders II Complete-PROPHET
However, Darksiders II Complete-PROPHET serves a critical role as game preservation. It is a time capsule of how the game shipped before corporate bankruptcy and botched remasters. It is the only version that contains:
For digital archivists, this PROPHET release is the "Director’s Cut" that never was. Even with a perfect crack, users encounter problems
No. This is critical to understand. The Deathinitive Edition (released in 2015) is a remaster by Gunfire Games. The Darksiders II Complete-PROPHET release is based on the original 2012 PC release (Nordic Games / THQ), but includes all DLCs that were released for the original version. Many purists prefer the original lighting engine and art style over the "Deathinitive" remaster, making this scene release highly sought after.
The release is a scene-standard format: a multi-part RAR archive (typically around 9.2 GB compressed) containing a single .iso disc image. Inside, you will find: For digital archivists, this PROPHET release is the
Unlike modern repacks, this is a lossless installation. No audio is re-encoded, no videos are downgraded. You get the original 30GB+ installation footprint (after decompression).