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Batman AK PC Perf Thread of DARKNESS, NO SETTINGS [30fps cap / intro removal in OP]
- Thread starter Peterthumpa
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Alright, with the US unlock an hour away, can anyone offer advice on locking it to 30fps? Obviously not touching the 30fps cap is one way, but is that the smoothest so far?
Sad as hell that it has to come to this but I'm sure patches are on the way. Until then I'm willing to lock it to 30.
Sad as hell that it has to come to this but I'm sure patches are on the way. Until then I'm willing to lock it to 30.
mercenar1e
Member
how are you guys playing it early anyway?
Randomizer123454444
Member
stock i5 3570k
16GB ram
Nvidia GTX 770
SSD
I put max FPS as "60" in INI file. Everything maxed EXCEPT "normal" shadows and "interactive fog" disabled (it's a massive power hog). Performance test averaged at 47 FPS which would be fine, but there is this weird stutter when VSYNC is enabled. Disabling VSYNC fixed that issue. City (while driving with batmobile) is also around 45fps.
So yeah, disable VSYNC if you have stutter. Runs smooth enough for me.
16GB ram
Nvidia GTX 770
SSD
I put max FPS as "60" in INI file. Everything maxed EXCEPT "normal" shadows and "interactive fog" disabled (it's a massive power hog). Performance test averaged at 47 FPS which would be fine, but there is this weird stutter when VSYNC is enabled. Disabling VSYNC fixed that issue. City (while driving with batmobile) is also around 45fps.
So yeah, disable VSYNC if you have stutter. Runs smooth enough for me.
Is this real? Link to video? Please?
On topic: this was more or less going to be my first impression of PC gaming with Batman arkham knight, and this is making me think (judging by the comments of this thread) this is a common occurence.
Do you guys just deal with this or what? Im not even sure I want to even play this on PC anymore. Not saying consoles are flawless, but how do you lose 20 - 30 frames and then get constant crashes after the first? Jesus, rocksteady.
Im not home to try it out, so maybe it isnt that bad?
FF Seraphim
Member
Flyvpn, get the free trial, connect to a Russian proxy, start steam, and you're good to go.
Vsync in nvidia control panel with triple buffering on. What you're thinking of is double buffering. That would lock the framerate to 30 anytime it dips below your refresh rate, so something else is wrong here.
I get small dips when I'm just flying around but it never locks to 30 like it does in the batmobile shootouts.
RibbedHero
Member
Some of us live in Europe.
It's honestly making me wonder if I should just get it on PS4. lol Reading those reviews claiming it's a smooth locked 30 FPS. I got this for free on PC with my GTX 980. I have to hope that this game obviously looks better on PC, so it's still worth sticking out.
But hearing it looks great and runs great on PS4. I mean, it's tempting playing it on PS4 on my 4K TV (and while yeah the game isn't 4K, the screen is gorgeous and 1080p stuff looks amazing).
Gonna wait a day or two and see what happens. Or hell, I'm about to boot it up in 50 min, and see what my actual performance is. But reading through the thread, fuck.
Yeah it's real.
Steam is taking its sweet ass time in downloading it
After it does, gonna test it with the old and new drivers... and my test will the ultimate one, as it's going to be on a laptop! (the card is a FirePro M6000, basically a 7770)
#dead
LOL, perfect!
It's quite something though that this game was delayed a lot and still has all these issues. I'm guessing that had they released this back in October as originally intended, they would've given Ubi a run for its money XD
MTF is god-tier, DMC4 ran at 720p60 on my old laptop with an anemic 2GHz C2D and a 8600M GT.
The Nuuvem keys are preorder ones, you can activate them on Steam as soon as you get them.
I didn't see anyone answer this yet. The new drivers are already out, not sure if you can download from the site, but the GeForce Experience app has them up.
thanks again, but no dice. im gona leave it, all other games work fine, guess this one wants to be special
if someone does work out the answer for msi overlay not showing please can a mod add it to the first post? thanksNot only do we get a garbage port, we are saddled with this shit too.
This is going to end up being one of those cases were pirates get the better experience, isn't it.
Yeah, drivers showed up this morning. Been out for a while now.
Revolutionary
Member
Other than the batmobile, my performance has been a solid 60 at 1080 on my i7 950 + 980 Ti. Batmobile performance is all over the place but it doesn't go below 30 so I can deal with it.
So, I posted earlier, but I saw some people asking: I'm currently playing this on PC with a completely smooth experience at 1440p. I'm guessing this is likely due to me using G-sync. My specs:
970
2500k standard clock
8gb ram
Windows 8.1
G-sync monitor
So far everything, outside the opening video cutscenes, has run like butter. The game performs beautifully. Could the problems everyone is having have something to do with Vsync?
970
2500k standard clock
8gb ram
Windows 8.1
G-sync monitor
So far everything, outside the opening video cutscenes, has run like butter. The game performs beautifully. Could the problems everyone is having have something to do with Vsync?
Do we have any actual proof Denuvo is in this game? I was watching the disk I/O for this game whilst playing it and didn't see anything out of the ordinary, mostly low, not regular (as you would expect based off the reports of what Denuvo does).
I also suspect there is a reasonable amount of blame on v-sync as I'm surprisingly getting a relatively smooth experience on one 780 + G-Sync (as I've disabled SLI). 60-80fps out in the open, above the city, 50-70fps on the ground. I do get more performance fluctuations in the batmobile when driving fast, sometimes down to about 45fps, but no significant stuttering.
I also suspect there is a reasonable amount of blame on v-sync as I'm surprisingly getting a relatively smooth experience on one 780 + G-Sync (as I've disabled SLI). 60-80fps out in the open, above the city, 50-70fps on the ground. I do get more performance fluctuations in the batmobile when driving fast, sometimes down to about 45fps, but no significant stuttering.
TouchMyBox
Member
Maybe nobody played the game before it went out?
cleveridea
Member
PS4 Digital Foundry mentions that PS4 does tear at time, so that could be reason for drops
But a 970 should be a lot more powerful than PS4 GPU, so its no excuse
PC performance threads are usually filled with a lot of complaining even when it's a good port. GAF's a big place and it's virtually impossible for developers to test their games for all possible hardware and software configurations.
This game has some telltale signs of a particularly bad PC port though: A 30 FPS lock by default + no PC review code + stealth DRM on top of Steam's basic DRM.
CybernatonEvolution
Member
Yes the drivers are out (353.50), but I don't remember seeing the logo of Batman Akrham knight or reading something about it in the change log; it mentioned the Nvidia shield thing. I probably missed it.
Why don't people get it? Nvidia Physx, Nvidia "turbulence", Gameworks, Hairworks,soft-shadows or whatever they called them,...etc. The only decent thing I can think off is HBAO. They are refusing to release optimized drivers for 1 year old cards and they don't give a damn about the demands to release DX11 driver profiles for antialiasing, nor about the newly suggested tessellation control (because they want to sort out "weak outdated cards" and push their stupid TXAA and DSR). Even if you have their stupid "flagship" card, you are not safe DURING its best years nor after a new lineup is released; you will always be under that 60fps mark as long as you have everything on ultra.
Nvidia is recently busy with their new projects and streaming services. Hopefully that will help adjusting the market share or making Nvidia go bankrupt.
Gemüsepizza
Member
Unfortunately this happens sometimes. But not that often, I think this was the first game this year which gave me so much trouble. Overall I'm pretty happy with PC gaming. I can play most games with 1080p 60fps, and a high, stable framerate looks so much better. Starting next year we will probably see affordable GPUs for 4K 60fps gaming. I really can't go back to being a consoles only gamer.
What a slap in the face to people who preordered.
lol that gif, perfect.
Peterthumpa
Member
Lol @ thread title change.
cleveridea
Member
Not sure if this is the case with a lot of games at launch
But checked the review page on steam, overwhelmingly thumbs down and complaints about bad framerates. Kind of opposite of Witcher 3.
But checked the review page on steam, overwhelmingly thumbs down and complaints about bad framerates. Kind of opposite of Witcher 3.
christ
Whilst as I said above, I can get a reasonably smooth experience with G-Sync, there are clearly problems with the game. It has been quite a while since I experience anything like this, even on a game at launch.
As listed in the OP, the game ships with a 30 FPS lock by default. While it's easy to remove via a config file edit, it sure is a bad sign.
Yeah, it's from the Giant Bomb stream during E3. Start here to get the context https://youtu.be/Pjh1Uo_xaSQ?t=3h20m51s
The whole segment is actually really good. The MS guys do a good job with the answers.
SirMossyBloke
Member
Fuck it, i'm gaming on a big TV not a monitor. I'm gonna play this game at 720p and max everything and see how it goes on my 970. At least until they fix it.
They will fix it, right?
They will fix it, right?
digitalrelic
Banned
How do you disable the 30fps lock?
Read the OP.. (It says it right there in the title).
Not only is it real, the pause between the question and Phil Spencer responding is WAY more drawn out in reality. He was really caught off guard.
http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/giant-bomb-live-at-e3-2015-day-01/2300-10378/
Starts at about 2:18:18
cleveridea
Member
Man I am so pleased I only preordered the game on GMG and not the season pass bundle
I thought 40% off was a good price, but then again after Witcher 3 I expected at least comparable performance.
It should have been 50% off to match the performance drop.
I thought 40% off was a good price, but then again after Witcher 3 I expected at least comparable performance.
It should have been 50% off to match the performance drop.
m_shortpants
Member
Ack.
Gonna ride out Witcher as long as I can. Good thing I still have quite a bit to go in there, and I must be around 60 hours in.
Gonna ride out Witcher as long as I can. Good thing I still have quite a bit to go in there, and I must be around 60 hours in.
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
I got this free with my GPU. Guess I'll just wait a while before playing this like I did with MKX.
Solid Samus
Banned
lol
"I have to say, I dont see the problems people are talking about"
meanwhile, massive stuttering during bat-grapple and driving onscreen
edit - and fighting
edit - and gliding
guess some people are less sensitive to obvious glaring flaws than others?
I was thinking about giving this game an impulse buy but shit, not if I can't run it at a stable 60 at high settings on a $1500 computer.