Okay? You are free to give them to me
Bah. Tired typing haha. I can afford to get one of the DLC's. Which is the best?
That is what I TRIED to say... All night Batman and WWE12 sessions are going to be the end of me...
Batman: Arkham City PC release date now Nov 18 - Steam version uses Steamworks
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Bah. Tired typing haha. I can afford to get one of the DLC's. Which is the best?
That is what I TRIED to say... All night Batman and WWE12 sessions are going to be the end of me...
Yup I got 3 crashes at the title screen today like I did when I first downloaded the game but then it started fine. Such a POS game from a technical standpoint, they didn't put any effort into this game at all.
TheDrowningMan
Member
Damn, still doesn't work having tried both methods. Just reverts to ugly, jerky 60.
I have the same card, wasn't it not utilizing the GPU enough before? I've only tried DX11 a couple of times, it was too jerky to bother with.
Right click the file, hit properties and click Read-only.
It runs like shit with my 2x unlocked 6950s. I laughed when I saw "optimized dx11" in the release notes.
It's a problem with the game itself. WB said as much.
jim-jam bongs
Member
Updated complaint list:
- Shitty performance
- Scripting bugs causing audio clips to be looped back after they finish playing
- Tutorial hints for moves which block 10% of the screen and don't go away
- Final cut-scene froze so I had to skip it
- Recycled the story from Batman Begins
- No graphical settings in-game at all
- Unskippable intro movies
- I select the DLC store option, get taken to the Steam page for the game which in my region says "Oops! This game isn't out yet!"
What a fucking mess.
- Shitty performance
- Scripting bugs causing audio clips to be looped back after they finish playing
- Tutorial hints for moves which block 10% of the screen and don't go away
- Final cut-scene froze so I had to skip it
- Recycled the story from Batman Begins
- No graphical settings in-game at all
- Unskippable intro movies
- I select the DLC store option, get taken to the Steam page for the game which in my region says "Oops! This game isn't out yet!"
What a fucking mess.
Did you try this?
I didnt have to do it for some reason but sci is right...the default .ini is set to Read Only which might be the problem. I had this issue when editing Skyrims ini.
AcceptableGhost
Member
Hah @ people calling this a "bad pc port". In the grand scheme of things this is probably on the medium-end side of things. It also has most of the same faults as Asylum did (other than some crashing - happened to me once at the opening menu) so I don't see how this is so unexpected.
No but honestly AC is not like a megaton leap from AA, you might as well play AA first anyway.
The game overwrites the ini you edit each time you start it. To get your changes to stick you need to change it to Read-Only.
Not really, you should play it though as it was a brilliant game. Probably be on sale on Steam this week.
jim-jam bongs
Member
Personally I'm less annoyed at the quality of the port, and more at the quality of the game.
I think Robin is the one who's most fun to play as of the two. They're both very similar to Batman when it comes to gadgets though.
It's kind of a crappy port as of now though it will be patched and fixed up most likely. It's just the launch of the game combined with how disrespectful WB and Rocksteady was to PC gamers leading up to launch that really sours me on the whole thing. I really like the game but I won't be buying the next one if they pull this shit again.
Alright, am I crazy, or does the game just look a lot better in DX11? Is it that the AO's of much higher quality, or better color-grading or something?
The new drivers from AMD seem to have made the game run smoother for me, but I still drop to 20fps in open areas. The stuttering is awful only when entering an area for the first time now. If I return, it's gone.
The new drivers from AMD seem to have made the game run smoother for me, but I still drop to 20fps in open areas. The stuttering is awful only when entering an area for the first time now. If I return, it's gone.
EDIT: Nvm, I was wrong.
All 4 characters can play on any challenge map. Robin and Nightwing DLC adds 2 unique challenges each (one predator and one combat). Robin's combat challenge is a bit different than the other ones as the camera angle mimics a 2D beat'em'up.
I'm dumb. Those PDFs are foreign to me. I think it's the AO. I'm playing without it in DX9 and it looks really nice in DX11. I think I'll wait for a patch to play any more.
Anyone?
so these shots in the screenshot thread..
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=32944482&postcount=10019
this is pretty much all tesselated out + DX11 improvements? if so i think it looks pretty good. i think i'm close to beating it, but i'll def wait for a patch for i can play DX11 for newgame+.
i remember reading that since it is GFWL, it takes forever for patches to go through, weeks and weeks. is that right?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=32944482&postcount=10019
this is pretty much all tesselated out + DX11 improvements? if so i think it looks pretty good. i think i'm close to beating it, but i'll def wait for a patch for i can play DX11 for newgame+.
i remember reading that since it is GFWL, it takes forever for patches to go through, weeks and weeks. is that right?
The new challenge maps from Robin and Nightwing work with Batman and Catwoman right?
Yeah, any character can play on any challenge map, including the DLC ones.
Yes, I enabled everything in those shots and upped the shadowres to 4096 in the .ini.
im curious to hear!
flashburn2012
Member
Is there a definitive list of ini settings to make in order to make the game look better?
I did not notice any difference at all.
BoobPhysics101
Banned
DX11 renderer can look even better on its own than DX9, excluding HBAO etc DX11 effects.
You'll be able to get close to maxing it, yeah.
Let me compile all of my posts in this thread...
Edit: For max quality Arkham City (DX9), change the following settings in bmengine.ini in My Documents/WBGames
Code:
MaxShadowResolution=4096 ;(try 2048 if you encounter shadow glitches, ALSO change this in Userengine.ini!!)
MinShadowResolution=32
MaxAnisotropy=16
bEnableBranchingPCFShadows=True
bAllowBetterModulatedShadows=True
bEnableForegroundShadowsOnWorld=True
bEnableForegroundSelfShadowing=True
bAllowWholeSceneDominantShadows=True
SizeOfPermanentObjectPool=19600000 ;(optional, may allow more RAM usage)
HysteresisLimit=20
DropMipLevelsLimit=16
StopIncreasingLimit=12
StopStreamingLimit=10Have you gone through each of these settings, turning them off and on and comparing screenshots? Would be very interested in seeing before and after shots.
flashburn2012
Member
Nice, thanks a lot. I'll have to play with these settings in a bit.
Let's open an official Arkham City PC performance thread with this in the OP (or let's change this thread's title and put it in this one's OP).
Or you're gonna have to repeat this stuff every 2 pages.
I've seen a lot of posts complaining about DX11 performance, but not much from people having problems with DX9. I bought this game at Origin's Black Friday sale, and so far, the cutscenes are stuttering like mad, and I'm having tons of sound issues (especially with voices). The framerate was really shaky at the default settings (high with Physx off), when I had great results with the same settings on AA. Turning everything down to medium doesn't seem to help my performance, either.
I know that my PC is aging, but it can still run Crysis on very high @ 25-30 fps, and it ran AA beautifully, so I don't think there should be any issues here. This was my most anticipated game of the year by far, and this is definitely souring the experience.
For reference, I'm using a GTX 280 video card, a dual core 3.34GHz processor and 4 gigs of ram on 64 bit Windows 7.
I know that my PC is aging, but it can still run Crysis on very high @ 25-30 fps, and it ran AA beautifully, so I don't think there should be any issues here. This was my most anticipated game of the year by far, and this is definitely souring the experience.
For reference, I'm using a GTX 280 video card, a dual core 3.34GHz processor and 4 gigs of ram on 64 bit Windows 7.
BoobPhysics101
Banned
No sir, I do that sometimes but I'm more into performance comparisons. I need to start making GIF's of the differences or something. The biggest visual difference is in Max Shadows, I'm not sure if the other shadow settings even work. However, after turning everything on, the shadowing effects sure do look great. Just need DX11 to make them look even better.
The latter suggestion might be more appropriate, I'm not sure if an Arkham City PC performance thread would garner enough interest. I'll make it though if enough people feel there's a need.
If not, we can send a request to the mods for a change in the OP.
What drivers are you using?
What type of Anti-Aliasing settings do you have? It defaulted to FXAA for me and that killed performance, which is why I switched to 4X MSAA instead.
I managed to beat the game with pretty much no problems on DX9 and PhysX set at normal. I got crashes at start while checking for DLC, but I blame that squarely on GFWL Marketplace fucking up. Time to wait for the Batman costume DLC before jumping into new game plus.
Isn't FXAA supposed to be a lot less demanding than MSAA?
If it is, then it must have been glitched. Cause I was hitting 20 to 30 fps with FXAA on their benchmark with DX9 settings and wondering what the hell was going on. Switched to MSAA and got back up to 50 to 60 fps.
masterkajo
Member
I don't know but from what I have experience so far (about 6-7 hours playing). 2x/4x MSAA runs much better with my setup than FXAA - Medium.
i5-2500K @ 3,3 GHz
HD 5770 with CCC 11.11b in DX9 with Vsync
4 GB RAM
everything maxed (but obviously no physix and DX11)
Still get some small stuttering in the city from time to time (average 30FPS with dips in the low 20s). Without Vsync it runs with a smooth FPS (never <30) but I get a lot of screen tearing.
The latest driver from NVIDIA's site: 285.62
The default was FXAA - Medium, and I was playing it at FXAA - Low until I saw this post. I changed it over to 2x MSAA, went into the game, and the same issues persist.
I do need to clarify - the game isn't running great, but not tragically bad, either. It is the cutscenes in which the game decides to shit itself. Sound goes out of sync and the video begins to stutter like mad.
Try the beta drivers:
http://www.geforce.com/Drivers/Results/39239 // 64-bit
http://www.geforce.com/Drivers/Results/39237 // 32-bit
The game takes a while to install. Mine hung at 60-75% too.
Thanks for this, but it didn't seem to help.
BoobPhysics101
Banned
You said you're having a lot of performance problems with cutscenes etc... how about actual gameplay? Does the game run smooth when running around the city?
BoobPhysics101
Banned
DX9 is fine (for a majority of users), but will require a patch for DX11 to work properly. The game is on sale on Origin for $25 right now, I suggest buying it there.