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[Dictator93]

Probably post processing AA. They ditched MSAA for some reason here (probably deferred rendering, the usual suspect).

Their version of unreal did at on point support deffered MSAA, but as usual, it was a pretty terrible implementation.

 

[Koutsoubas]

Hey guyz!

Can you post some photos for reference on High Settings?

Thx

 

[Hattori]

lol, do you actually think they will do the Titan X programme thing and give it away like they did with TW3?


Sounds like double buffered vsync.

I got it for free through NewEgg

 

[RenegadeXV8]

Can anyone test if you can inject SMAA with ReShade?

It's usually way better than any post-process AA implemented in these games.

 

[Eyothrie]

How much HDD space do I need to install the game? It's just I want to install it to my SSD but I don't know if I will be able to.... SSD has 55,8 GB of free space.

Preload size is 33.8gb. Not sure how big it is after it unpacks.

 

[d00d3n]

Dedicated physX cards that are significantly slower than the main GPU have been known to hold back performance. Or so I heard googling around.

I've heard that using dedicated physx cards actually hurt performance these days from one of the threads on GAF.

Forcing physx to be handled on the Titan X (not dedicated, obviously) improved the results somewhat, to min 51, max 100 and avg 72. So yeah, dedicated physx on the weaker card was not a good idea in my case.

 

[Yibby]

How much HDD space do I need to install the game? It's just I want to install it to my SSD but I don't know if I will be able to.... SSD has 55,8 GB of free space.

Should be enough, steam says something about 37gb.

 

[Corpsepyre]

So just had the game crap out on my. Run the PC performance test and everything was going swimmingly then all of a sudden about 2/3 minutes into the test the game just crashed and spat out a whole load of binaries errors.

Checked the integrity of the install and what do you know, I'm downloading 33GB again...

Wanted to put this new 980Ti through its paces

Damn, son. Has this ever happened before?

 

[Fracas]

My 250gb SSD's full, wonder what the loading's gonna be like on my regular hard drive.

 

[Naedtrax]

Weirdly, still hasn't unlocked in Australia.

 

[matrixman92]

Wonder if it is crossing that 3.5gb vram mark on 670. Try it with the textures on low.





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I think it might be the smoke from the batmobile tires skidding. It tanked right as that thing came into play. Im trying to mess with it right now. Turning some NVidia stuff off. Unfortunately you have to restart every time for anything to take affect

 

[Gumbie]

1080p
3770k at 4.5ghz
16GB Ram
780ti (Newest Batman drivers)

All settings maxed and all gameworks on

In game pc performance test (Had to rerun, realized vsync was on the first time)
Min: 29fps
Max: 67fps
Average: 46fps

Same test with all Gameworks stuff turned OFF.

Min: 59fps
Max: 101fps
Average: 75fps

All Gameworks off except for Interactive Smoke/Fog

Min: 34fps
Avg: 90fps
Average: 56fps

All Gameworks off except for Paper Debris

Min: 44fps
Max: 87fps
Average: 61fps

All Gameworks off except for Enhanced Rain

Min: 60fps
Max: 104fps
Average: 76fps

All Gameworks off except for Enhanced Light Shafts

Min: 55fps
Max: 101fps
Average: 71fps

So yeah paper debris and smoke/fog seem to be the heavy hitters. Also the highest choice I have for textures is "Normal" is it the same for everyone or is because I have a 3GB card?

 

[publicpwnerer]

FlyVPN disconnected during packing...and now when I restart steam, the "play" option is gone, only "pre-load" is available, despite being connected to a EU VPN.

Any ideas or similar problems?

EDIT: Nevermind, waiting for the trail password rollover and re-doing everything fresh seems to have fixed it.

 

[JordanKZ]

Also the highest choice I have for textures is "Normal" is it the same for everyone or is because I have a 3GB card?

'Normal' is the highest setting, heh.

 

[HowZatOZ]

Weirdly, still hasn't unlocked in Australia.

24th for us I believe.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

Summary thus far, ignoring the crazy 50% OC 970.

• There is a line of whitespace between different user's benchmarks.
• Users have not all indicated whether V-sync was enabled or disabled, which may impact average framerate scores
• The reptilian space pope may possibly be sabotaging Kepler scores, hide your children

(min - avg)

780ti, 3770k, all gameworks enabled: 29 - 39
780ti, 3770k, no gameworks: 59 - 75

970, 3750k, stock, no gameworks: 51-76

970, 4670k, stock, all gameworks enabled: 34-52

(AMD cards cannot use two out of four effects)
r9 290, 4790k, small OC, limited gameworks: 52-77
r9 290, 4790k, small OC, no gameworks: 56-83


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Nvidia Fog and Smoke effects seem to be the most expensive gameworks feature, but are disabled on AMD cards.

 

[PrintedCrayon]

Damn, son. Has this ever happened before?

Nope, not for any other games since I bought the card.

I'm assuming the download corrupted somewhere along the way. Said I was missing about 3500 files - so I'm really not sure what took it so long to preload! Haha.

Who knows. It could be my processor holding me back at this point, but I certainly hope that is not the case.

It'll be okay, I'm just bummed that I didn't get to play it tonight and that I effectively wasted most of the evening for this to download. That'll teach me I guess.

 

[Naedtrax]

24th for us I believe.

That's unfortunate, considering we usually get it earlier than later.

 

[matrixman92]

alright...interactive smoke/fog is a killer of the 970, at least for me, when the batmobile is in play(which sounds like most of the game). Tanked my game to single digits. Turned it off and it seems fine for now

 

[teokrazia]

My rig:
i5 2500K@4.4 GHz
GTX 970 Twin FROZR V (FoceWare 353.30)
8 GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 MHz

My results:
https://youtu.be/VLjyG9_rvOk

 

[JRW]

I'm worried my PC might be a little behind: i7 920 @ 3.2ghz / 12GB / EVGA GTX 670 FTW edition (2GB) / Win 7.

 

[Xyber]

Changing the Max_FPS value fixed the framerate, so that's nice.

I did a short benchmark while flying over to Gordon. Some minor stuttering and not a lot of Nvidia effects on the screen, but this was the result. Everything maxed at 1080p. 970 and i7 4770K.

Going to do another one while driving, since that seems to be very demanding when shit is happening.

 

[Tovarisc]

Thank you. Looks like there's actually quite a few settings to fiddle around with, they just didn't want to overwhelm people in the options menu I suppose. Curious if you can get different AA solutions based on the number of it is just a boolean flag.

More options available in-game menus is always better, especially if options come with decent tooltips describing their functions. Limiting options to 4-5 toggles with basically "On / Off" and "Low / Medium / High" doesn't allow much customization. A lots of people want balance performance and IQ to their liking and lackluster menus don't allow it.

Graphics options in this game are very sad sight and for proper tweaking you need go to .ini level.

 

[jacobeid]

How do I unpack the game?

I feel like a freaking idiot but whenever I try and open the game Steam says that it's still encrypted.

I restarted my Steam client.

Anyone?

 

[paperspace]

Any SLI-flags yet?

Anyone?

Check downloads, and see if you can press "update" or something.

 

[Guille4000]

I have the feeling this is a 1:1 cconversion from console minus all the NVIDIA stuff, and why there's no hbao+? Imho is the way to go for all the pc games.

 

[Crimson Clown]

For people with the 30FPS issue. Go to the installation folder Batman Arkham Knight\BmGame\ Config\BmSystemSettings.ini and look in the file for "Max_FPS=30" change it to what you want.

Worked for me, thanks.

 

[Mononoke]

Summary thus far, ignoring the crazy 50% OC 970.

• There is a line of whitespace between different user's benchmarks.
• Users have not all indicated whether V-sync was enabled or disabled, which may impact average framerate scores
• The reptilian space pope may possibly be sabotaging Kepler scores, hide your children

(min - avg)

780ti, 3770k, all gameworks enabled: 29 - 39
780ti, 3770k, no gameworks: 59 - 75

970, 3750k, stock, no gameworks: 51-76

970, 4670k, stock, all gameworks enabled: 34-52

(AMD cards cannot use two out of four effects)
r9 290, 4790k, small OC, limited gameworks: 52-77
r9 290, 4790k, small OC, no gameworks: 56-83


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Nvidia Fog and Smoke effects seem to be the most expensive gameworks feature, but are disabled on AMD cards.

This is really cool. Thanks for doing this. Interesting to look. Just waiting for more numbers to come in. God waiting for this to unlock sucks.

 

[Sijil]

Anyone with a 770 4GB that can report results? Won't be near this game until the weekend unfortunately.

 

[Eyothrie]

Anyone?

Are you in the US? It doesn't unlock for another few hours if so

 

[jacobeid]

Any SLI-flags yet?



Check downloads, and see if you can press "update" or something.

It downloaded a small file a few minutes ago but that didn't change anything.

Are you in the US? It doesn't unlock for another few hours if so

Didn't I see others in the US talking about the game unlocking?

 

[DJSebolski]

Any benchmarks for GTX 770 2gb?

 

[Sullichin]

Installing new GeForce driver now... results with gameworks on "out of the box" with a 970/i52500k were pretty bad. It would run at ~30fps which is fine but then stutter so bad the sound would cut out for a couple of seconds.

 

[Gumbie]

Anyone?

I used the program cyberghost 5 and a vpn in the UK.

 

[jim2point0]

Damn, so there is nothing we can do about CA and film grain? :/

It's UE3. There's usually no way disable post processing like that without disabling ALL post processing (at which point the game will look terrible)

 

[seph1roth]

Rivatuner doesn't work for me...

:/

 

[Corpekata]

Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't cutscenes in Witcher 3 and this Batman rendered in real time and not pre-canned prerenders? If cutscenes were prerendered you wouldn't see your current gear in them, if it was different than what developer intended during prerender.

I'm not referring to all cinematics, but the prerrendered movies. Witcher 3, for instance, is prerendered in nearly all action heavy moments (usually around the beginning and endings of major story moments), the load screens, etc. Most games have a mix of prerendered and in engine movies these days, and the prerendered stuff should be perfect when it isn't lately.

It was also a big issue with Alien Isolation.

 

[publicpwnerer]

Is the game locked to 30FPS and do I have to edit an .ini, or is the 30FPS lock only during the menus?

 

[matrixman92]

film grain is the devil

 

[jacobeid]

I used the program cyberghost 5 and a vpn in the UK.

Ah, must have missed that. Thought it was already out for the US without a VPN. Disregard.

 

[viveks86]

http://pastebin.com/UdVY5bNi

Are there other ini files as well? Seems like there is no flag for CA or film grain even in that gigantic list!

 

[Chesskid1]

saw an FPS increase from 28 avg to 50 avg turning off smoke/fog on a 960 btw, 2560x1080, i5 4690k stock

time to dive in, enjoy everyone

 

[Sullichin]

So many intro movies. I'm sure it's only a matter of time before someone figures how to remove them if they haven't already.

 

[GavinUK86]

Runs like crap on an i7 2600k and a GTX 970 with the old drivers.

Currently installing the new ones to see if it makes any difference.

The top two gameworks options were greyed out too. Maybe they're tied to the latest drivers?

 

[styl3s]

For people with the 30FPS issue. Go to the installation folder Batman Arkham Knight\BmGame\ Config\BmSystemSettings.ini and look in the file for "Max_FPS=30" change it to what you want.

Thanks i was about to lose my fucking mind because i couldn't figure it out. I turned off v-sync everywhere and even ran the tuner to "force" 60fps and it just stayed there at 30.

 

[BlackEyes]

Rivatuner doesn't work for me...

:/

same,
i'm getting SUCH A BAD PERFOMANCE WITH SLI 970 GTX 1080p
everything maxed out i am dipping to the 30's lmfao, it usually is stays at 40

 

[m_shortpants]

Still at work, but it's looking like GameWorks are gonna have to be off for constant 60 with a 970?

 

[Shozuki]

3440x1440 @ 60Hz here.

i7 4790k @ 4.6Ghz
2x Titan X SLI
32GB 2400 DDR3

60+ fps Gameworks off

29-45 fps Gameworks on

Hopefully the gameworks can be tweaked or something, I want to game @ 60fps so will leave them off for now...

 

[Norci7]

Is the game locked to 30FPS and do I have to edit an .ini, or is the 30FPS lock only during the menus?

Capped at 30 fps by default, ini tweak needed unfortunately.

 

[Mononoke]

saw an FPS increase from 28 avg to 50 avg turning off smoke/fog on a 960 btw

time to dive in, enjoy everyone

Yeesh. If smoke stops me from getting to 60 on average I'm def turning it off. Seems like every time there is a special feature in games, they always take a substantial hit on fps.