Garrett Hawke
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They didn't say which year
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Batman AK PC Perf Thread of DARKNESS, NO SETTINGS [30fps cap / intro removal in OP]
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Mad Season
Banned
Everytime I see this thread on main page I'm expecting a patch update 
Zomba13
Member
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Nope. You're gonna have to wait until the re-release to play it.
Connect to a VPN based somewhere other than South Korea/Japan and then restart Steam. I believe Spotflux is still free, US-based and doesn't have session limits. If your IP resets while in-game, you'll lose your in-game status, which breaks Steamworks functionality, so it's best to either use a VPN that won't disconnect you after a certain amount of time or just switch to Offline Mode after you've restarted Steam with your new IP (after which you won't need the VPN).
He's limited to a pre-load because he's in either South Korea or Japan, where the game has yet to release.
yeah. not gettin a refund for that reason since most upcoming stuff seems to be priced higher now
Noted, thanks.
black_vegeta
Member
This.
Saw a spoiler the other day. Some douche put in a snippet I didn't want to see in his graphic setting youtube vid. Media blackout from here on out. Come the fuck on Warner Bros/RockSteady! >:|
Backlogger
Member
It's still August
/sarcasm off
It would have been nice to have an announcement by now with a date though. It makes me think the next announcement will be a delay announcement.
Interesting that they actually did it, given that they have a pretty hard stance on refunds.
At this point though I'll just hold on to it.
I actually got something spoiled, but I didn't care because I already suspected as much and it was *really* obvious.
Doomedfool
Member
Yeah, I was in a thread that should have been spoiler free, and it wasn't
Ah well, only a minor spoiler (I think), but I know to just stay the hell out of all the other Arkham Knight threads until I get to play this.I am a huge fan of the other Arkham games (actually didn't even hate Blackgate), so this wait for a fix is driving me nuts.
TheVampire
Banned
I'm pretty sure it'll also work with the re-release, if not I'll have to do it again
I don't find them necessary, just look at what thug is attacking and counter. Makes it a bit more hardcore
But if you wanna keep them you can open d3dx.ini and delete these two:
[ShaderOverride1]
Hash=3f891f143508a481
Handling=skip
[ShaderOverride2]
Hash=9f702459949cea45
Handling=skip
So that will keep the lighting bolt indicators but remove those dumb trails and explosion type effects when hitting people?
Brofist
Member
Yep that's what I had to do. Spotflux only gives a 3 day free trial though, any other good free VPNs out there?
Beerman462
Member
Just bought a code for $20 so why not. I want to see if this runs decent with an i5 2400/7870XT. I'm guessing nah.
m_shortpants
Member
Doesn't work with a 4690k and a 970 for me haha
Beerman462
Member
Doesn't work? or doesn't do 60fps? Also isn't there a patch soon?
Ah. There's TunnelBear, but the free service has a monthly 500MB limit, which can be bumped up to 1.5GB by making a throwaway Twitter account and following the instructions here, so make sure you have no active down/uploads while using it.
Spring-Loaded
Member
http://deadendthrills.com/forum/discussion/419/guide-batman-arkham-knight
I can't get the "time stop," HUD toggle, etc. to work. I've tried adding the bindings with and without copying the bindings from below [Engine.PlayerInput] under [BmGame.RPlayerInput]
It doesn't work. It's all lies.
I can't get the "time stop," HUD toggle, etc. to work. I've tried adding the bindings with and without copying the bindings from below [Engine.PlayerInput] under [BmGame.RPlayerInput]
It doesn't work. It's all lies.
The Janitor
Member
Yep.
Well technically you can still see the trail effects but I removed the color from them so they are very subtle.
digitalrelic
Banned
Two weeks from the end of the month, and still not a peep. WHERE'S OUR DAMN PATCH!?
No news is good news, usually. Considering how bad of a state the PC version was in when it released, it's better they take their time with it to avoid even more backlash through incremental patches.
d00d3n
Member
Patches are for closers I guess. Not us fools who bought this game and refused to return it
The Janitor
Member
Works for me. Make sure the key you're binding is not bound to something else, use Ctrl+F and search for the key. So for example if you find F8 more than once you need to change all of those F8's that isn't your toggle to some other key.
mr stroke
Member
yes, noticing a nice bump with SLI TitanX's.
Previous-4k@ 25-40fps
now-4k@40-55
FPS is much more stable now, still drops and hitches but better
Doctor Ironic
Member
I don't know if you knew this, but months are usually four weeks. We're only halfway through August.
I decided to boot the game again yesterday, and the game seems to work better on W10 and using AMD's 15.7.1 drivers.
Still not particularly good, but at least I no longer hit cinematic framerates during batmobile sections or while gliding through the city, so the game seems to be at least properly playable now on my low level hardware.
Still not particularly good, but at least I no longer hit cinematic framerates during batmobile sections or while gliding through the city, so the game seems to be at least properly playable now on my low level hardware.
Must be different depending on everyone's setup. Practically any time I'm on foot, it's 58-60. It's weird that even in simple environments it doesn't seem to be able to hold a stable 60 and goes between 58-60 but whatever. When flying and driving it will fluctuate between 40 and 60 with occasional drops to high 30s. It's most noticeable when driving and specifically when doing the fast grapple thing when flying. If I do that adaptive half refresh rate vsync thing with the forced frame rate disabled, it will hit a solid 30 and never dip down. Strangely enough, with the original forced 30 frame rate it will actually jump between like 25-30.
It's not great, but I played worse ports. I played to 100% completion (minus AR challenges), so I'm not that picky/part of the problem/really like this series. I'm glad it ran as well as it does for me, because it seems like people with better setups get worse performance, or they're more vocal about it anyway.
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Beerman462
Member
This port is definitely terrible, but playable. I played all the way through the Ace Chemicals portion and about 90% of the time I maintained 30fps. The worst of it was transitioning from gameplay to in engine cut scenes. Those would hit low to sub 20fps, but this lasted like 2-3 secs tops. After that I would get into in game "cut scenes" where I was talking on my wrist communicator and would get mid 20fps if I rotated the camera to much. I also got frame rate drops while gliding and driving. It was very jarring. I would have flawless gameplay then all of a sudden drop frames to 20 or below.
Also textures seemed to refuse to load sometimes. In ACE chemicals the Gel Explosive walls and junction box/pipe textures were straight out of N64.
I'm playing on an i5 2400/7870XT and using my SSD.
Backlogger
Member
Everything has been working great for me, except for the obvious 30 fps cap of course. I don't get any noticeable dips in FPS even in transitions it seems to stay at 30. I am not always watching my counter, but I haven't felt like I needed to.
I've been looking out for the texture load in issue but so far have not experienced it.
Outside of the 30 FPS cap this game seems to run fine for me.
i5 3570k OCed to 4.1 GHz
R9 290
1440p
My screenshots: http://steamcommunity.com/id/backlo...westfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall
Edit: Lol, literally minutes after posting this I had a momentary drop in FPS during a finishing move. Dropped down to 15 FPS with a really bad stutter. This is the first time its happened though.
I've been looking out for the texture load in issue but so far have not experienced it.
Outside of the 30 FPS cap this game seems to run fine for me.
i5 3570k OCed to 4.1 GHz
R9 290
1440p
My screenshots: http://steamcommunity.com/id/backlo...westfirst&browsefilter=myfiles&view=imagewall
Edit: Lol, literally minutes after posting this I had a momentary drop in FPS during a finishing move. Dropped down to 15 FPS with a really bad stutter. This is the first time its happened though.
Beerman462
Member
This confuses me. Granted your i5 and GPU are more powerful than mine, but I never hit 100% usage on either not even close. I have noticed that the frame rate drops for the most part come from texture loading. So maybe my issue is the 2GBs of VRAM, but I never go over 1.8 GBs in Afterburner.
Beerman462
Member
I love Origins. Asylum beats it out barely for me. Mainly because it's the first.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Yeah, GPU utilization sucks.
TheVampire
Banned
Does triple buffering not work in fullscreen mode?
I'm getting my fps going from either 60 to 30
I'm getting my fps going from either 60 to 30
Spring-Loaded
Member
I tried changing them, but when it works (i.e. timestop functions) it causes various inputs to become completely inoperable.
What's the text for your entire BmInput.ini file?
cleveridea
Member
So I havent played this since launch, performance is basically the same still right and everyone is awaiting a patch still?
Zomba13
Member
Basically. There was a patch that added in the missing console effects but nothing since.
It added SSAO, which is great, but the rain/water effects are still buggy/incomplete. Hopefully the next patch will bring the PC version up to par with the consoles in addition to improving performance.
curiouscharles
Member
ugh, by the time they fix this game [if they even fix this game], i just won't care to even play it anymore...
Not that I've noticed.
There is also this comparison which shows rain effects of the same quality as consoles.
http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2015/06/29/batman-arkham-knight-face-off-pc-vs-ps4/156622/
Yes, the effects are definitely there in all their glory whenever I choose to start a new game. However, continuing a previously saved game results in lesser/weaker effects for some unknown reason. IIRC, I'm not the only one in this thread who's noticed the aforesaid pattern. In any case, I've personally not played through the game yet for that very reason.
I had no such problem resuming from where I left on, the rain effects and AO were there and immediately noticeable. Nothing is missing from the console versions and the Gameworks stuff is there too.
Might be something on your end you'll have to figure out.
It happens on the 3 systems I own, unfortunately. It's encouraging to know, though, that some of us like yourself might not have the problem. As I mentioned, I'm not the only one to notice the issue. Many thanks to vivek86 for the following comparison:
On the Batmobile. It still shows on Batman. It shows on the Batmobile too, but not the extent as it would when you play the game uninterrupted from start.
Load from save:
New game:
