exmachina64
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How badly do you want to play it?
If you have a decent PC and you're willing to wait one to six months for all the performance issues and bugs to be fixed, you'll get away with spending less money.
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Batman AK PC Perf Thread of DARKNESS, NO SETTINGS [30fps cap / intro removal in OP]
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How badly do you want to play it?
If you have a decent PC and you're willing to wait one to six months for all the performance issues and bugs to be fixed, you'll get away with spending less money.
Green Yoshi
Member
I had, otherwise I would think that companies only act based on common sense.
Why were there only two (real) Star Wars games for Xbox 360 and not one Indiana Jones game within nine years? You can't explain decisions like that by common sense.
This recall will cost Warner more than they saved by outsourcing the port.
Wait...is the game really delayed to the Fall now? I searched it on Steam and at the bottom it says:
Batman: Arkham Knight will be available on SteamOS, Linux and Mac in Fall 2015.
Sales of Batman: Arkham Knight have been temporarily suspended while Warner Brothers works to address performance issues.
Not that I'm complaining (If it means fixing it) but GOD DAMN what a shit storm indeed
Batman: Arkham Knight will be available on SteamOS, Linux and Mac in Fall 2015.
Sales of Batman: Arkham Knight have been temporarily suspended while Warner Brothers works to address performance issues.
Not that I'm complaining (If it means fixing it) but GOD DAMN what a shit storm indeed
Read the platforms again.
No windows, because those other 3 versions were always planned for a launch this fall.
Aztechnology
Member
So I picked up the game on PS4 after getting a GMG refund. I've got to say, the added effects of the wet shader and the AO/AA is welcome. But outside of that the game doesn't feel nearly as good playing at 30fps. It's also not nearly as sharp. Textures are lower in general, especially at distance and it seems a bit fuzzier in general. But I'm happy to be playing it finally regardless.
Tallshortman
Member
WB doesn't have the stable of developers like EA did, no way they randomly gut their best and most famous developer for no discernible reason. Besides why would they follow in the example of bad studio management. Besides, any such move could easily lead to important studio people leaving to reform again.
Rocksteady and Nvidia guys are working to fix the port right now. no idea when they'll be releasing the patch tho.
plumpblumpkin
Member
Delayed until Fall....
Well fuck. me. sideways.
This is a major fuck up...man..
Well fuck. me. sideways.
This is a major fuck up...man..
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
It's not fucking delayed until fall. Jesus people.
Applesauce
Boom! Bitch-slapped!
huh? That's when Mac / Linux versions hit, has nothing to do with Windows version.
Smushroomed
Banned
This helped with the hitching/fps drops
iNvid02
Member
Spring-Loaded
Member
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Put in a request with GMG for a refund.
Thought about waiting for the patches but fuck that, keeping it means I support this bullshit.
Will just borrow my friend's PS4 copy which he got for free anyway from a Mortal Kombat X tournament.
Thought about waiting for the patches but fuck that, keeping it means I support this bullshit.
Will just borrow my friend's PS4 copy which he got for free anyway from a Mortal Kombat X tournament.
grandwizard
Member
I've capped at 60fps, and g-sync smooths out the drops to around the 40s pretty well so long as its actual fps drops. Engine stutters however it can't do anything about, and those are the most jarring (IE: flying around the city and getting loading/streaming stutters).
plumpblumpkin
Member
GavinUK86
Member
Mine always hitches when I use the grappling hook.
You mean when you roam the city or the incombat quick fire grappling hook?
GavinUK86
Member
Both, more roaming though. I do get a weird stutter when flinging around batarangs in combat.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Anyone with some decent GIF editing skills want to alter this?
Lasagna = RAM and VRAM
Garfield obviously = Batman
If only it was a better animation and the lasagna would be consumed.
Got my copy of the game from NVIDIA, I ended up buying the Season Pass Monday from GMG for $24 like six hours before the game unlocked against what was my better judgement since I originally was going to wait until it was lower or we at least had more solid details as to whether or not it'd be worth it. There doesn't seem to be a cut off time for when you can get a refund so I'm going to hold off to see what happens next.
Lasagna = RAM and VRAM
Garfield obviously = Batman
If only it was a better animation and the lasagna would be consumed.
Got my copy of the game from NVIDIA, I ended up buying the Season Pass Monday from GMG for $24 like six hours before the game unlocked against what was my better judgement since I originally was going to wait until it was lower or we at least had more solid details as to whether or not it'd be worth it. There doesn't seem to be a cut off time for when you can get a refund so I'm going to hold off to see what happens next.
Self quote from other thread
Wafflestomper
Neo Member
Yes, definitely. It's only been happening since I've completed about over 45% of the story line. Any idea of how to remedy this?
Son of Flounder
Member
OK, this is just weird, I was about to give up on this game and get a refund and all of a sudden I have got it to run better than ever and at higher settings! No hitching or judder other than when checkpointing.
The only things I have changed are MaxFPS to 60 and:
PoolSize=2048
MemoryMargin=256
I was getting a load of tearing as the in-game v-sync stopped working for some reason, so I was experimenting with RTSS, locking to 30, locking to 60, using Nvidia adaptive, non-adaptive, half-refresh v-sync options.
These are the settings I have settled on:
The extra weird thing is that somehow I'm getting 60FPS on foot, indoors and during fights which is good, but when I'm flying around the city or driving it automatically locks to 30FPS and I have no idea why! I'm not complaining as compared to the judder fest it was before, I'll happily take this as it feels smooth. Still annoyed at the missing effects but it is finally playable and not a single crash after 9 hours of play.
My PC spec (game installed to SSD):
Intel Core i7 4930K Unlocked (6 x 3.4 GHZ)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti - 3 GB
16 GB Kingston HyperX Beast 2400 MHz (2x8GB)
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I also verified the game's cache and it re-downloaded 4 files which may have helped.
The only things I have changed are MaxFPS to 60 and:
PoolSize=2048
MemoryMargin=256
I was getting a load of tearing as the in-game v-sync stopped working for some reason, so I was experimenting with RTSS, locking to 30, locking to 60, using Nvidia adaptive, non-adaptive, half-refresh v-sync options.
These are the settings I have settled on:
The extra weird thing is that somehow I'm getting 60FPS on foot, indoors and during fights which is good, but when I'm flying around the city or driving it automatically locks to 30FPS and I have no idea why! I'm not complaining as compared to the judder fest it was before, I'll happily take this as it feels smooth. Still annoyed at the missing effects but it is finally playable and not a single crash after 9 hours of play.
My PC spec (game installed to SSD):
Intel Core i7 4930K Unlocked (6 x 3.4 GHZ)
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti - 3 GB
16 GB Kingston HyperX Beast 2400 MHz (2x8GB)
EDIT: Forgot to mention that I also verified the game's cache and it re-downloaded 4 files which may have helped.
cripterion
Member
Just saw a segment on official news channel here in France where they said the game was selling assloads of units but at the end they mentioned how the pc version was suspended due to bugs lol.
Anyways, hopefully they get working on a patch for those of us we kept the game.
Anyways, hopefully they get working on a patch for those of us we kept the game.
Son of Flounder
Member
I can't remember! I'm at work now so I'll check when I get home.
Yesterday was weird. I set the FPS cap to 144, started the game, and reverted everything back to minimal settings. Perched on a lamppost, overseeing some thugs, I got about 60fps on average, it fluctuated between low 50s and mid-70s. I called in the Batmobile, and it stayed relatively stable. I drove the Batmobile away using the remote, and turned V-sync on, same framerate, called in the Batmobile, stayed stable.
I kept turning on and maxing out settings like that, and with everything maxed, no NVidiaworks, it stayed around 60fps.
So i felt brave, and went ahead and turned on Interactive Smoke and Fog. Restarted the game, 60fps, call in Batmobile; low 50s. Switched on rain and paper debris, restarted the game, 60fps, called in the Batmobile, mid to high 40s. Turned on the light shafts, BOOM; 20fps, with no light shafts to be seen. Turned it off, crept up to 30-ish fps. Restarted the game, back to the framerate I got before turning it on, so this could definitly point ot memory leak issues. Either that or a faulty garbage collector.
I left it at that, and played the game. Fights now land me in the high 40s low 50s range, mid 40s if there's a lot of paper around, the Batmobile goes down to mid to high 40s, during chase-scenes (the ones with APCs and Hummers trying to blow you up) I'm seeing low 30s, with massive framedrops to the point where I'm ALWAYS late in my powerslides.
Still no raintextures on mah Batcowl or Battank though
I kept turning on and maxing out settings like that, and with everything maxed, no NVidiaworks, it stayed around 60fps.
So i felt brave, and went ahead and turned on Interactive Smoke and Fog. Restarted the game, 60fps, call in Batmobile; low 50s. Switched on rain and paper debris, restarted the game, 60fps, called in the Batmobile, mid to high 40s. Turned on the light shafts, BOOM; 20fps, with no light shafts to be seen. Turned it off, crept up to 30-ish fps. Restarted the game, back to the framerate I got before turning it on, so this could definitly point ot memory leak issues. Either that or a faulty garbage collector.
I left it at that, and played the game. Fights now land me in the high 40s low 50s range, mid 40s if there's a lot of paper around, the Batmobile goes down to mid to high 40s, during chase-scenes (the ones with APCs and Hummers trying to blow you up) I'm seeing low 30s, with massive framedrops to the point where I'm ALWAYS late in my powerslides.
Still no raintextures on mah Batcowl or Battank though
The 30/60 FPS lock thing is just because you have v-sync on. When you start flying around your framerate drops below 60, and so v-sync locks it to 30 instead.
ISee
Member
I don't think it's worth to make a new thread about this, but Amazon.de is right now selling the game for ~47 (PS4). That is incredibly cheap for a new console release. So if anyone from mainland Europe is thinking to pick up the console version because of the bad PC port...
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00ISNYNXG/
On mobile so sorry for the link
http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00ISNYNXG/
On mobile so sorry for the link
Here in the Netherlands it was the other way around. The mainstream media only reports the fact that the PC version sales were suspended, nothing about the sales of the other versions. Hell, my father that doesn't give a shit about games and still thinks they are for children came to me to ask what was going on with "that batman game".
Yeah it seems to have only occured to me after decent progress in the game too, though not that far. Weird. I thought at first I was just hitting my VRAM cap and getting a general 970 related stutter, but nope, literally every quickfire gadget I use now in combat causes a hitch. Doesn't matter if it's a crowd of 20 or some lone Riddler informant I grapple toward me.
Think I made a post a few dozen pages back about how the game seemed to run well one day and not the next, and I'm now 90 percent certain it was the Quick Gadget hitching that I was seeing and I'd just progressed far enough into the game to get it, and I just assumed it was a VRAM issue.
grandwizard
Member
Seriously everyone.. Turn the in-game AA off. It makes such a huge difference to the vibrancy of the city. Thanks jorimt for figuring it out!
Do you replace it with anything?
flipswitch
Member
Can you force any other type of AA?
grandwizard
Member
I haven't yet but heard you can force AA through other means and not lose the lightning like the in-game AA does. I will try it later but so far I'm pleased with how it looks now just at native 1080p.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/nvidia-helping-fix-batman-arkham-knights-pc-proble/1100-6428437/
Not sure if this has been posted, but the difference in texture quality on Batman and the Batmobile between the PC and PS4 versions is really apparent in this video here...
Not sure if this has been posted, but the difference in texture quality on Batman and the Batmobile between the PC and PS4 versions is really apparent in this video here...
I want to play the game so much....but the PC issues are just holding me back.
And I'm not going to pick up the PS4 version and give Rocksteady/WB even more money. Even if they didn't do the port, they still have responsibility and don't deserve anymore of my cash. They let the PC port go out in this state after all. It doesn't matter what they do now to try and rectify it, they still have just as much responsibility as Iron Galaxy in my opinion, and don't deserve a single penny more of my money.
And I'm not going to pick up the PS4 version and give Rocksteady/WB even more money. Even if they didn't do the port, they still have responsibility and don't deserve anymore of my cash. They let the PC port go out in this state after all. It doesn't matter what they do now to try and rectify it, they still have just as much responsibility as Iron Galaxy in my opinion, and don't deserve a single penny more of my money.
It locks to 30 because its dropping below 60fps and you have Vsync On in nVidia CP. Just use adaptive sync to keep the fps higher, that is if you dont mind the occassional (or more often in the case) tearing.
I'm thinking along the lines of Rome 2 Total War Emperor Edition.