What are your specs. It definitley doesn't look worse than Arkham City on my system.. like not by a longshot.
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Batman AK PC Perf Thread of DARKNESS, NO SETTINGS [30fps cap / intro removal in OP]
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What are your specs. It definitley doesn't look worse than Arkham City on my system.. like not by a longshot.
Huh. Maybe I should reinstall tha game or something? I know someone said it was the .ini tweak for 60 FPS that caused a memory leak. I changed it back to 30, but maybe that didn't fix it.
RibbedHero
Member
To get a decent 40-60fps it looks consdierably worse than Arkham City for me. Textures in particular look atrocious.
His Majesty
Banned
I dare not ask but is there any way to turn off the film grain?
JamesSaysRelax
Member
Worked for me, thanks! its actually playable now
Crimsonclaw111
Member
This is an embarrassing amount of shit to do just to have a playable game.
Mad Season
Banned
same here
OverturePT
Member
What seems really funny to me is that if I put the textures to low (from medium) the game becomes completely unplayable, stuttering everywhere, low fps, you name it. Put textures to medium and I can play again... wtf? By playing again I mean it's playable, but definetly not perfect. Every other setting (not many to choose from anyway) is fine, I can change and notice some loss or gain in framerate, but nothing like the textures, I'd understand if I was trying to up the textures quality but I'm doing exactly the opposite. What a fucking mess, wish I had given a little bit more for the game and bought it directly from Steam, goddamn refund would have saved me from this.
Never again, Rocksteady.
Never again, Rocksteady.
UPDATE!
FX@4.5ghz and GTX670
Updated drivers. I can run the game with everything maxed except AA and smoke off. Getting 30fps until there is a heavy sustained motion blur, then I get hit hard for a second or two.
So, yeah. Its playable, but I'm not happy.
Any way to disable motion blur?
FX@4.5ghz and GTX670
Updated drivers. I can run the game with everything maxed except AA and smoke off. Getting 30fps until there is a heavy sustained motion blur, then I get hit hard for a second or two.
So, yeah. Its playable, but I'm not happy.
Any way to disable motion blur?
CuckFupertino
Banned
I just wanted to come on here and say that I just moved the game from my 7200 RPM HDD to my SSD (honestly it's an older Intel model and I don't have the specs for read/write speeds), and I did some quick and dirty testing to find out that indeed, it improves performance a lot!
PC focused websites are guessing that texture streaming is the primary issue, and therefore loading the texture into VRAM from a faster drive makes a ton of sense.
For reference, I'm running a i5-2500 and GTX 980 SC.
Everything is all the way up, except for the Gameworks fog and debris, and I'm getting significantly fewer and less disruptive drops when gliding around and using the Batmobile. I could run some numbers, but I'd guess I'm rarely dropping below 40fps and maintaining 60 most of the time.
PC focused websites are guessing that texture streaming is the primary issue, and therefore loading the texture into VRAM from a faster drive makes a ton of sense.
For reference, I'm running a i5-2500 and GTX 980 SC.
Everything is all the way up, except for the Gameworks fog and debris, and I'm getting significantly fewer and less disruptive drops when gliding around and using the Batmobile. I could run some numbers, but I'd guess I'm rarely dropping below 40fps and maintaining 60 most of the time.
Tainted
Member
So essentially to get this game running at an acceptable level, you need to gimp the hell out of it so it is on par with a last gen Batman game
wow...
Ricerocket
Member
So basically use DX10 by enabling it, shadows lowered, bloom off, reflections off, OpenGL on? wut.
Did you do everything that was in there? I've seen some people have issues with the motion blur and others saying that it looks like the guy didn't know what he was doing because of the DirectX/OpenGL stuff.
jim2point0
Banned
Guys, to make the game run better, you simply need to turn off all the graphics. Who knew.
I'm running a 980ti OC and am happy with how the game is playing after using the tweaks below. No official tests, but it looks to be 50-60 fps to me. Batmobile parts are still rough and drop frames, but I can at least enjoy the rest of the game. Looks absolutely beautiful and the non-Batmobile parts are running smooth. This will hold me over until official patches come out.
Thanks to Shake Appeal: https://steamcommunity.com/app/20865...1545178755667/
Thanks to Shake Appeal: https://steamcommunity.com/app/20865...1545178755667/
- Set FPS lock to 120, instead of 30
- Changed TextureResolution=1 to TextureResolution=2
- Decreased shadows to normal in the in-game menu
- Set resolution to 2880 x 1620 and turned off AA
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
Well, game crashed within 3 seconds of taking control of the Batman. Got the long error like the one screenshot posted way earlier. I can't even play the game. The initial cutscnes and all ran at a solid 30 though.
5930k@4.4
16gb DDR4
OC'd G1 970's
Installed on 4tb enterprise HDD
5930k@4.4
16gb DDR4
OC'd G1 970's
Installed on 4tb enterprise HDD
jim2point0
Banned
Wut
not really i only did 3 things. getting 111fps in certain places 70 to 80 while driving in the batmobile. there are drops here and there but for the most part it stays around 80fps with everything maxed out at 1440p. No BS.
OK, so ultra everything (including nvidia stuff) and GTX 670 is...playing just *fine.
Fuck. How??
Whenevee I make fast movements, even indoor, and the motion blur kicks in my SSD thrashes hard and fps tanks.
If I keep the camera steady, the game runs acceptable.
My head hurts. Going to just play the PS4 version and quit this experiment
Fuck. How??
Whenevee I make fast movements, even indoor, and the motion blur kicks in my SSD thrashes hard and fps tanks.
If I keep the camera steady, the game runs acceptable.
My head hurts. Going to just play the PS4 version and quit this experiment
I legit think this game looks like garbage
I don't know if its the film grain, or the absurd amount of needless particle effects and sorta dialed-down colors, or everything
but add the awful amount of aliasing + god awful textures and I seriously think it looks fucking terrible and just worse in every way except character models
like not even from a tech standpoint just from an aesthetic decisions one
Origins was super clean and stylish. This is some sort of shitty sensory overload passed through a shit brown grain filter
I don't know if its the film grain, or the absurd amount of needless particle effects and sorta dialed-down colors, or everything
but add the awful amount of aliasing + god awful textures and I seriously think it looks fucking terrible and just worse in every way except character models
like not even from a tech standpoint just from an aesthetic decisions one
Origins was super clean and stylish. This is some sort of shitty sensory overload passed through a shit brown grain filter
What settings did you change?
Sorry, I set the resolution to 2880 x 1620 pixels.
The former (it's a Steam backend thing). The flag was removed five hours ago, so it's a non-issue now, as you've probably noticed.
Shake Appeal
Member
Yeah, I don't think most of the instructions do much, but taking off motion blur alone made the game much more pleasant to play for me.
Still lots of stuttering, especially in Batmobile or open city sections, and some of the texture streaming in this game is awful, but I was able to play for an hour with no problems and a framerate fluctuating in the 20-40 range.
This game looks and plays much worse than Origins for me, though. Which is weird, because objectively speaking it should be "better." But it's just a big mulchy mess.
Like, y'know:
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Still lots of stuttering, especially in Batmobile or open city sections, and some of the texture streaming in this game is awful, but I was able to play for an hour with no problems and a framerate fluctuating in the 20-40 range.
This game looks and plays much worse than Origins for me, though. Which is weird, because objectively speaking it should be "better." But it's just a big mulchy mess.
Yeah, totally agree. Origins had plenty of flaws, but Rocksteady could have taken a lot of pointers from its art. They took a few, but not enough. Maybe one day we'll get a Batman game with an aesthetic that doesn't look like Gears of War meets the Insane Clown Posse.
Like, y'know:
dont mess with that. I only changed FPS, TEXTURE RES and something that was 4 i changed to 16. Runs smooth as shit since.
Placebo is a real muddafukkin thang.
Dusktildawn48
Member
DrBaalzamon
Member
How can you check FPS in game? Fraps doesnt seem to be working. For what its worth I have everything on and Im not getting FPS issues, VSYNC on etc.
I also only changed FPS (30 to 120) and Texture Res (1 to 2) with great smooth results.
That's really weird, mine look fine. Maybe my eyes are tired from looking for a solution all day, lol.
When I was playing 20 minutes ago, I was really happy with everything. I'll check again.
DirtyLarry
Member
Can someone explain exactly what breaks a combo to me?
I swear I am countering at the right moment, but that seems to be breaking the combo. Does countering in fact break a combo? Or is my timing just off?
I cannot get past 44 in the combo AR challenge, and it is driving me bat shit crazy. Pun intended.
I swear I am countering at the right moment, but that seems to be breaking the combo. Does countering in fact break a combo? Or is my timing just off?
I cannot get past 44 in the combo AR challenge, and it is driving me bat shit crazy. Pun intended.
meanwhile on PS4
Dat 8gb GDDR5 doing it's thing.
jim2point0
Banned
Damn. Was really hoping that disabling motion blur would work. My game just crashes on load if I do that 
meanwhile on PS4
PC version is definitely still missing those rain textures, no matter how you hack the config files :'(
Oh well, I'll enjoy it for what it is until I run into major issues. I'll try setting the Texture Resolution back to 1, if that's the highest setting.
Damn. Was really hoping that disabling motion blur would work. My game just crashes on load if I do that
Mine too, brotha
adamantypants
Member
Nah, it's not the PS4s GDDR5. They have 5gb usable and I have 6gb usable on top of 24gb ram and it's still a shitshow
Metroidvania
People called Romanes they go the house?
If you hit the counter button too fast, or have no active input after a second or so, it will break the combo, yes.
Anywho, lowered everything to low with my poor 760 and stock 3570k, and everything went fine for a few hours....until suddenly, in true Unreal 3 style, the texture pop-in started getting worse and worse, until I was pretty much failing to load the final layers in entirely.
Batman and Gordon looked like blobby, detail-less characters before I shut the game down (and got the 'game has stopped working message, lol)
Not for me, but I'm not sure if it actually improved anything. Definitely wasn't a downgrade in texture quality though.