I think that's an extreme example, but that is how frequently the slowdowns are. I'll drop to 20 with motion blur when I swing the camera around in the batmobile.
The worse is when it switches to a cinematic, i have dropped below 20 before on that
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Batman AK PC Perf Thread of DARKNESS, NO SETTINGS [30fps cap / intro removal in OP]
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I think that's an extreme example, but that is how frequently the slowdowns are. I'll drop to 20 with motion blur when I swing the camera around in the batmobile.
The worse is when it switches to a cinematic, i have dropped below 20 before on that
Enosh
Member
gamespot rated the ps4 version, which seems to be fine
the existence of a shitty version shouldn't negatively reflect on the good version imo as long as the issues with the shitty version are also clear and mentioned somewhere
Managed to play for 2-3 hours straight without there being any real problems performance wise. At 1440p (DSR) my FPS is sitting at 65 with the lowest drops being in the 50's but with G-SYNC it's been pretty smooth.
My main grip is the textures not popping up properly. Am I the only one getting it at every single location that I go too? It's extremely jarring and takes forever for the texture to even pop up. Feels like I'm looking at a PS3 game whenever it happens.
You are not the only one, the game was terrible garbage collection and you vram is probably full or near full the entire time. Hence the lack of loaded textures.
My game looks exactly like yours in that regard.
there are alot of issues with this port... memory management is at the top of that list for me.
couldn't resist
SliChillax
Member
Known issues aside, has there been a way to turn off chromatic aberration?
KaiserAlucard
Neo Member
I wonder how the game will fare when Windows 10 will be out with DX12?
jim2point0
Banned
You guys getting those textures.... try resetting your FPS limit to 30 and see if it still happens. I did that and revisited similar areas and the textures loaded in fine.
nope
It's not a DX12 game, so... probably the same.
I know this off-topic, but this Polygon article is as lazy as this port:
Polygon said:
What? Polygon, c'mon. It says Iron Galaxy in the credits.
Seems like it's story related in the end? I thought that seemed rather fishy.
7DollarHagane
Banned
No longer private
You guys getting those textures.... try resetting your FPS limit to 30 and see if it still happens. I did that and revisited similar areas and the textures loaded in fine.
nope
Yeah but then you have the problem of... a 30fps limited game
Sigh... these vram issues are killing my desire to play tonight
Similar yes (rotating the camera fast would introduce harsh temporary drops). That video is a much more extreme example though.
He was being sarcastic.
Its missing some shader effects and AO, NOT missing geometry. Read a page back.
neither could I...
Considering AK isn't using a DX12 renderer, don't know how much of a boost it would be.
Yeah, I see that now. Who the hell made that comparison? Would haven't surprised me, though.
DirtyLarry
Member
That is fantastic.
I did not hear about the Director Of Marketing insulting people on forums until this video.
Any links to said insults or a place I can read about it?
No. Read the entire post.
"We know the game is broken and we're working on a fix, in the meantime here is a way to get it working on par with console performance".
Some guy on eurogamer posted that. I assumed that he'd done it by loading the games from the start but apparently he was much further along in the story mode on PS4. My bad for not checking before I posted it.
Pjsprojects
Member
I'm running Windows 10 and I get the stuttering and crashes.
I think the focus there was dx12.
OzzieMandrill
Neo Member
I've finally managed to download the game for the second time (the first one I screwed everything up by trying to check the game cache - I know this error has been fixed, but I'm not falling for that again). To be honest, the game seems to run pretty smoothly on my configuration (never drops below 30 fps, except in the infamous Batmobile scene where it runs at 25-26 fps). Of course though, since such an happy ending would seem a bit unfair, I'm forbidden from enjoying this game because of the black screen plague affecting my gpu (a Sapphire R9 290 4 GB, reference design).
By the way, I'm running the game on this rig:
i5 4670k @ 4.5 GHz
8GB RAM
Sapphire R9 290 4GB w/ AMD Catalyst Driver 15.6 Beta
Win 8.1 Pro 64 Bit
By the way, I'm running the game on this rig:
i5 4670k @ 4.5 GHz
8GB RAM
Sapphire R9 290 4GB w/ AMD Catalyst Driver 15.6 Beta
Win 8.1 Pro 64 Bit
This is similar to what I was getting until I realised AMD had mislabelled their patches and I had installed the Win 8.1 on my Win 7 machine. After a full uninstall and getting the correct drivers those extreme dips went away.
EroticSushi
Member
This guy gets it.
Yep, that's about how it ran on my system too. Turning on the nvidia stuff other than smoke didn't affect frame rate much at all, but I got more stutters than without.
Eh
GavinUK86
Member
Yeah I can also confirm that textures pop in quicker if you leave it capped at 30.
You can see why they capped it in the first place.
bee
Member
so is this dx10 (with gameworks) thing true then?
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/report-batman-arkham-knight-uses-directx-10-when-nvidia-gameworks-are-activated/
http://www.dsogaming.com/news/report-batman-arkham-knight-uses-directx-10-when-nvidia-gameworks-are-activated/
Teleporter
Junior Member
Guys rly, i think it will be needed a enormous effort to fix and put this game in a AAA level title which it seems it is on the consoles... (console made game) so i dnt think we will ever have a miraculous patch that will fix this terrible disrespectful pc release ever... don't wanna jinx anything here, just i don't believe in miracles...
Reizo Ryuu
Member
Black screens? just go into CCC and drop your mem by increments of 25mhz, 50mhz does it for most people.
Also disable any kind of HW accel, flash or browser, this should stop any black screen issues cold.
Nah happened to me too. A whole cliff wouldn't load in for me until I got right up on it. The little things like electric box, door and window frames never load in.Managed to play for 2-3 hours straight without there being any real problems performance wise. At 1440p (DSR) my FPS is sitting at 65 with the lowest drops being in the 50's but with G-SYNC it's been pretty smooth.
My main grip is the textures not popping up properly. Am I the only one getting it at every single location that I go too? It's extremely jarring and takes forever for the texture to even pop up. Feels like I'm looking at a PS3 game whenever it happens.
i7-4790K 4.0GHz
2x GTX 970
16GB RAM
All settings maxed
I'm not noticing any framerate issues, and haven't had any crashes. The only issue I've noticed was a couple of low LOD textures. But apart from that, performance seems fine.
Here's what I tried to make it work:
Obviously 30fps isn't ideal. But the game is totally playable for me, and it hasn't detracted from my enjoyment of it.
2x GTX 970
16GB RAM
All settings maxed
I'm not noticing any framerate issues, and haven't had any crashes. The only issue I've noticed was a couple of low LOD textures. But apart from that, performance seems fine.
Here's what I tried to make it work:
- Disabled SLI. Set PhysX to be on 2nd GPU
- Installed game on SSD
- Left 30FPS cap on
Obviously 30fps isn't ideal. But the game is totally playable for me, and it hasn't detracted from my enjoyment of it.
What's really fascinating about this is that it actually reminds me of old school PC gaming. I remember playing Crusader No Remorse on a 486dx2/66 and getting stuttering like that when things would explore. It was very common for lots of HDD access interrupting games back in the day. Heck, I remember in Deus Ex, when things would explode, I'd often miss half the explosion due to this. I use to think "man, those explosions must be AMAZING if it's causing performance to dip like this". Ahhh, memories.
Truth be told, the performance in this game is actually right in line with how Half-Life 2 ran at launch. Loads of stuttering that could become just as severe, very long loading times, and unstable frame-rates. This was on, for the time, solid hardware (Pentium 4 3.6GHz + 6800GT).
It's perfect now but, at launch, it was just as bad as Arkham Knight in that regard. It was just as unacceptable to me then as it is now, though, but others seemed less bothered by it. Of course, things WERE a bit different back then indeed. We expect better these days. Just had to chuckle to myself when thinking back to those days.
In 2015, Arkham Knight PC is 100% unacceptable.
That's so weird. Maybe the streaming thread doesn't have high enough priority when there's too many frames to render? Awful.
Lots of the post processing appears to be in the depth of field pass, and turning that off from the ini will remove CA as well. But it also removes a shit ton of other stuff.
In theory you could probably turn that off and then add the other effects back in with master effect and such, but I don't know if anyone is crazy enough to do that.
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AHA-Lambda
Member
Or you could just have said what it was instead of being snarky, I ain't sifting through a 120 page thread.
OzzieMandrill
Neo Member
Thanks for the tips
Unfortunately, the memory trick doesn't seem to work for me. I've already tried many times in the past: the gpu becomes stable for something like a week, then the problem shows up again.
I'm definitely gonna try with the HW accel though.
Angel Abaddon
Member
With the MaxFPS edit and texture issues, what are you guys setting it to? I had mine at 0 last night that disables the in-game limiter completely and was using Afterburner instead, and I could be completely wrong on this, but I don't seem to remember noticing any low detail textures or pop in. Going to double check it now, so I'll edit if I'm completely wrong, but thought it worth throwing out there.
SliChillax
Member
Ehhh... I'll just wait for the main problems to be fixed then. Good thing I'll get to play the game in September when I go back to uni, hopefully everything will be fixed by then.
AHAH! so this explains the issue i been having not been able to get MSI AB to show inside the game. i eventually figured it out by disabling GW!
So to confirm and this is 100% correct for me, if i disable GW then MSI overlays shows, if i enable then it disappears. DX10 = WTF!
ok so now im really PISSED! devs go fuck urself
Mr. Luchador
Member
Embarrasing