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Batman AK PC Perf Thread of DARKNESS, NO SETTINGS [30fps cap / intro removal in OP]
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Garrett Hawke
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004D3TUG0/ would this do? I did buy some more in town but it was super cheap stuff as I don't really have a specialist near me. I have reconnected the heatsink and fan properly though and my temps are in the mid 60s, watching them while playing. I didn't need to reapply in the end because it still looked relatively moist but I'd like to replace it with some higher quality stuff anyway.
Very good choice, don't cheap out on the thermal paste. Make sure you really clean your CPU well with 90°C alcohol and soft tissue, go easy and it'll be fine.
What's your CPU cooler ?
Dictator93
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"ARCTIC MX-2" is fantastic. I can only recommend that stuff!
Garrett Hawke
Member
Thank you so much guys! Ordered it
it's arriving tomorrow. CPU seems fine for now, it never gets higher than 65 degrees but I'm still going to reapply paste tomorrow. Also, it's just a stock cooler that came with the thing, but it seems fine for the most part.Thank you so much guys! Ordered it
Stock coolers are "okay" but really they don't keep a CPU (even a very efficient Intel one) too cool. They're not atrocious but really your Haswell deserves much better, especially if you want to OC later on.
Anyone get SLI working properly?
Can't believe after this much-hyped "update", they still don't have SLI working!
Anyway, doing a Arkham Knight 4K Walkthrough if you guys want to check it out.
Can't believe after this much-hyped "update", they still don't have SLI working!
Anyway, doing a Arkham Knight 4K Walkthrough if you guys want to check it out.
SLI support is coming in a future update.
paolo11
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I sure hope so. Do you have a link for that, brother?
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-09-03-batman-arkham-knight-pc-patch-released-pulled
But I wouldn't expect SLI to work reliably still.
paolo11
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Nice. Thanks.
Barrow Roll
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I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this yet but I'm fairly certain that Vsync in this game is Double Buffered Vsync. Turn that off, try using Windowed (No Border) along with RTSS to cap the framerate, this produces the smoothest performance as long as your setup can maintain the framerate.
dr_rus
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Thank you so much guys! Ordered it
You can get -10-20C and a lot quieter with a good non-stock cooler though.
Adry9
Member
Just started the game after a long time waiting. So far, 1080p, 30fps lock with RTSS, everything on High except shadows on Medium (nvidia stuff Off of course) and I'm getting a stable 30fps on a 7950 Boost. Performance is still the same using the Batmobile or gliding, but I only played for 30 minutes so far, hope it stays like that.
PS: I'm using more VRAM than I have, it says I need around 3.5Gb but I have only 3Gb, yet the game works fine. Any idea why?
PS: I'm using more VRAM than I have, it says I need around 3.5Gb but I have only 3Gb, yet the game works fine. Any idea why?
Garrett Hawke
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I feel like the game starts hitching a bit more the longer you play. Not a big deal, but I've been quitting after every hour and a bit or so because then the hitching starts again (and it's not GPU or CPU temps/usage, they're fine).
Memory leak perhaps. It does not seem to happen on my end (played for 2 hours with very little hitching). However, each time I enter the Panessa studios the game "pauses" for less than one second.
Game installed on my Samsung 840 Evo, 16gb of RAM (upgraded from 8 recently). No idea what's causing it, maybe the UE3 can't handle so much at 60fps.
Garrett Hawke
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When I played through it on PS4 earlier this year sometimes the engine would just hitch like that, I think it's just an Unreal 3 thing.
If you haven't OC'd your 970, you should. It removed the few hitches I had. Even with High textures + Rain (no other gameworks).
Garrett Hawke
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I just have textures on normal and I don't really get hitching at all anymore, except after long sessions. I'm still a bit hesitant to OC my 970 atm because of temps, as I don't want to expose the CPU to even more heat until I've changed the thermal paste.
Looks like GMG finally deactivated my key. Glad to have this turd removed from my library. Served as a great reminder every time I saw a game pop up on preorder that I thought I might want, though. "Hey, you wanna have this shit happen again? Go ahead and give that pub the money upfront. I'm sure they'll do a /great job/"
Haven't bought a single AAA game since this mess. It's amazing what removing yourself from the hype cycle entirely does to your perspective on a game. Suddenly that amazing game that you had to have "day1 omg" suddenly looses its luster when you add a little bit of time to the equation.
Haven't bought a single AAA game since this mess. It's amazing what removing yourself from the hype cycle entirely does to your perspective on a game. Suddenly that amazing game that you had to have "day1 omg" suddenly looses its luster when you add a little bit of time to the equation.
Same here. Was kind of hoping to try out the game once it got fixed but I'm not sad they took it away. At least I got my money back.
Robobandit
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my key also got deactivated.. but I never did receive my refund.
contacted them about it, will see what they say.
contacted them about it, will see what they say.
PHOENIXZERO
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Nah, that's WB's work, I still have the season pass active, not that it matters since its useless.
Barrow Roll
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Mine has also been deactivated. Hopefully I'll be able to put Steam's refund policy to good use in the future when it finally goes back on sale. When the inevitable GOTY/Complete edition comes out I'd like to test the performance out and see if it's worth my time.
Barrow Roll
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You get a message pop-up on Steam that you can't close until you check the box saying that you read it.
SapientWolf
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Same. There's some kind of memory leak. After a few hours it's almost as bad as before the patch.I just have textures on normal and I don't really get hitching at all anymore, except after long sessions. I'm still a bit hesitant to OC my 970 atm because of temps, as I don't want to expose the CPU to even more heat until I've changed the thermal paste.
PHOENIXZERO
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WB had to get the list of keys from the sellers and then forward them to Valve, WB probably hasn't bothered until recently since they're probably getting close to the point of putting the game back up for sale.
My season pass is still active but maybe it's because of how late I refunded it. *shrug*
SliChillax
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Finished the game, did everything except the riddler trophies and experienced no glitches or performance problems but I'm running a 980ti so that's to be expected.
Praetorpwj
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Mine deactivated along with Harley Quinn pack. Had the refund about 2 months ago however.
Used the free code with my 980ti; back in business in about 30mins.....
http://steamcommunity.com/app/20865...64193129/?tscn=1444218702#c481115363853831933
Posting this link because it fixes a bug a few of us had that was quite maddening where any quickfire gadgets would cause the game to stutter, no matter the settings.
Poster found the culprit, one of the achievements is buggy, and it tries to trigger everytime you fire a gadget, cauasing the stutter it appears. Deleting the line causes it to stop attemping to do it. Loaded up the game and it's finally not doing it anymore.
Wish the culprit had been found a while ago while I was still actively playing.
Posting this link because it fixes a bug a few of us had that was quite maddening where any quickfire gadgets would cause the game to stutter, no matter the settings.
Poster found the culprit, one of the achievements is buggy, and it tries to trigger everytime you fire a gadget, cauasing the stutter it appears. Deleting the line causes it to stop attemping to do it. Loaded up the game and it's finally not doing it anymore.
Wish the culprit had been found a while ago while I was still actively playing.
This game's bugs sure are something.
Never encountered this though, or maybe I was so used to the awful stuttering literally everywhere else in the game that I didn't think much of it.
Felix Lighter
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That's actually hilarious. Just such a shoddy job.
wonderful. Lets see if its fixed in the newest patch later this month lmao.
PHOENIXZERO
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So we should expect it some time in November?
Garrett Hawke
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It's been on sale digitally on PSN (not sure about XBL) so I highly doubt it will launch at $60. I think $40~ is a safe bet, and I don't think they'll discount the season pass either. Maybe $5 off.
Backlogger
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Probably
If they make it free they will have to do something for those that already bought the season pass. Not sure I see that happening
I tried playing this to see how it is these days on my 980 SLI setup and the game still seems like a mess. at 1080p it runs fine except even with v-sync on I still get tearing and an unstable image. Also the AA sucks at 1080p with all settings on highest.
At 1600p or higher the game runs like shit and testing between single 980 and SLI enable dual 980s the performance seems identical. Does the game even use SLI?
Thinking about just getting the PS4 version when it's on sale this Black Friday and playing it there. Even if I cap it at 30fps on PC I still get tearing and drops and it's just not stable which is super annoying.
At 1600p or higher the game runs like shit and testing between single 980 and SLI enable dual 980s the performance seems identical. Does the game even use SLI?
Thinking about just getting the PS4 version when it's on sale this Black Friday and playing it there. Even if I cap it at 30fps on PC I still get tearing and drops and it's just not stable which is super annoying.
Reads like a driver bug to me, but it's far too common with SLI which is not even supported yet. No issues with vsync on my single 980, you can try disabling one of your 980 and see if you can get vsync to work.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Pretty sure SLI doesn't work atm.
Schweinehund
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yes, I had found that myself while looking it up just today. Perfect solution. Game runs much better now. I'll have to do new game+ soon.
Not happening for me, unless it's significantly discounted, like $10 season pass. Still there should be some other goodwill attempted that doesn't have to do with discounts.
Well, I'm ready for end of October now. I got a g-sync monitor, and that does wonders to make the game feel smoother. I tried a few combat challenges, and I got a very smooth 70-80fps with the only stuttering being the silly quick fire achievement bug.
I really really hope the patch at the end of the month will include the recent addition to the console versions where you can use any character in any combat challenge. The 4 base combat challenges with the DLC (which I think adds 8 new combat challenges?) with character select should finally add the combat challenge content I was hoping the game would have to begin with.
I really really hope the patch at the end of the month will include the recent addition to the console versions where you can use any character in any combat challenge. The 4 base combat challenges with the DLC (which I think adds 8 new combat challenges?) with character select should finally add the combat challenge content I was hoping the game would have to begin with.
icecold1983
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this game is so god damned jaggy and fuzzy. no way to clean it up without playing at 30 fps.