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[Linearskillz]

Ugh, this doesn't seem very good. I'm glad I only paid $25 for this (nvidia promo), but I still feel like maybe I wasted my money. I definitely don't want to encourage these kinds of shitty ports. I never expected this game to have so many problems since the other Batman games all ran fine for me.

I guess I'll see how bad it is for myself this evening. I was really looking forward to this game, too. When was the last 91 Metacritic game that was this shitty on PC? Sigh.

And WTF at the Denuvo. Just... why? Why haven't we moved passed the inclusion of gross draconian DRM yet?

 

[Zakalwe]

Running a gtx 970 and the latest i5, after setting fps to 60 as per the OP I'm getting 60 FPS most places. Haven't had any problems so far.
Also haven't downloaded the new nVidia drivers, not sure if itll help or hurt, and since things seem to running mostly smoothly I'm going to hold off for now.

Settings?

 

[Qassim]

Just don't trust major publisher with their PC Ports. Don't buy at launch. Don't pre-order.

Has there been a AAA game from Ubi/WB/Activision/EA that hasn't had issues at launch on PC in the last few years?

It's why more and more I'm completely not paying attention to games those four companies release. Better get some PC-centric games that don't treat clients like second class citizens.

Eh, unless I've been very lucky, things have mostly been fine for me. This is the first game in a very, very long time where the game doesn't run at a level I consider acceptable.

 

[fizzelopeguss]

Gameworks is gaming Ebola, stop infecting our shit already.

 

[kenjigreat]

Does anyone feel like they did a hack job on the Unreal 3 engine with all the comments being found in the .ini files. I feel like because the Unreal 3 engine never had official support from Epic, Rocksteady probably had to port it to XB1 and PS4 themselves.

The PC Version is the Port , the PS4 is the Lead Platform.

Gameworks is gaming Ebola, stop infecting our shit already.

I'm thinking of not getting Nvidia for my next card.

 

[diamount]

Where you guys having performance issues?

 

[JaseC]

Neither.

I uninstalled/reinstalled steam, it'snow showing Play and is downloading something else. Shows 38.8gb/38.8gb with 12 minutes to go, so not sure exactly what it's doing... but it's doing something.

Fingers crossed.

Ah, how odd, but at least you git it sorted. Keep an eye on the progress, though, as the game kept pausing itself on my end. I had to manually resume the process when it it had all of 12 seconds remaining.

 

[tbd]

When a game has anything to do with Nvidia, it's always best to expect this kind of stuff.

Although Witcher 3 runs surprisingly well... without the Nvidia plug ins/effects.

 

[//DEVIL//]

Ugh, this doesn't seem very good. I'm glad I only paid $25 for this (nvidia promo), but I still feel like maybe I wasted my money. I definitely don't want to encourage these kinds of shitty ports. I never expected this game to have so many problems since the other Batman games all ran fine for me.

I guess I'll see how bad it is for myself this evening. I was really looking forward to this game, too. When was the last 91 Metacritic game that was this shitty on PC? Sigh.

And WTF at the Denuvo. Just... why? Why haven't we moved passed the inclusion of gross draconian DRM yet?

lol exact same feeling. exact same ammount paid.

 

[kenjigreat]

When a game has anything to do with Nvidia, it's always best to expect this kind of stuff.

Although Witcher 3 runs surprisingly well... without the Nvidia plug ins/effects.

Unless you had a Kepler at Release.

 

[Static Jak]

Gameworks is gaming Ebola, stop infecting our shit already.

It really is the worst. It adds some extra effects that are ok but not near worth the dive in performance.

Oh great, smoke looks nicer now and there's some paper that blows in the wind but I've lost half my fucking framerate.

 

[Sun Bather]

demanding refund hours after a game is out cause performance issues is a bit cray

I disagree. If it's through steam it should be fairly easy to get the refund, no? and could always just buy it again if they eventually fix it... If.

 

[Zakalwe]

Ah, how odd, but at least you git it sorted. Keep an eye on the progress, though, as the game kept pausing itself on my end. I had to manually resume the process when it it had all of 12 seconds remaining.

Thanks for your help Jase, hopefully this is it. :3

 

[Spaghetti]

the thing is though, isn't it still running like junk even without the gameworks features on?

 

[kenjigreat]

the thing is though, isn't it still running like junk even without the gameworks features on?

Yes

 

[thelastword]

I also can't help but feel that developers should steer clear of Nvidia's proprietary third party tech. In the last 3 titles that Gameworks has prominently been featured in (Project Cars, Witcher 3, and this) there have been big performance issues for users of both AMD and Nvidia. And yes I know you can "turn off" the Gameworks stuff but it's still PhysX running all the physics, cloth, volumetric fog, etc.

This shit looks great in promotional videos but it always seems to bring big performance issues and all around janky-ness with it. My own observations and opinion obviously, but I think Nvidia should keep their fingers out of the pie in terms of actual game development.

The problem is, you get people who get so excited because these effects differentiate the PC from other platforms, however, at the cost that it does so, you would have to turn said features off anyway in favor of performance.

These features are just tech demo like features to me, it's good to show what your expensive card can do but if you treasure performance in your games you just have to know that these features are not ready for primetime and are certainly not efficiently done or visually pleasing in some instances.

Really don't know why "WORKS" is a thing, only a handful will be able to use it; like 1% of GPU users, it pretty much kills your framerate in half and brings all sorts of jankiness with it (as you so rightfully said). I really believe devs should be left to wrought out their own solutions and avoid these inefficient custom solutions which everybody turns off anyway.

 

[Riky]

Had pre ordered and preloaded, now I find out my R9 270 is below the minimum spec, ridiculous they changed them at the last minute.

 

[Zemm]

This thread has double the amount of pages compared to the official thread haha.

I hope rocksteady say something today. Even if it's only 'we're working on it'.

 

[Auto-Reply]

the thing is though, isn't it still running like junk even without the gameworks features on?

Because nobody really knows why it is the way it is (apart from the Unreal Engine specific streaming), so everyone is just lashing out at the usual targets.

There is nobody else to blame but the creators of the game, they have decided to launch the game in it's current state.

 

[decoy11]

The PC Version is the Port , the PS4 is the Lead Platform.

What I mean is it feels like they first took the latest version of the modded unreal 3 engine they had used for Arkham city/origin then ported that to XB1 and PS4. Once they got that to work they ported that to PC.

 

[Qassim]

the thing is though, isn't it still running like junk even without the gameworks features on?

Gameworks is just a convenient boogie man for the most part. Gameworks is almost always an optional part of a game, in The Witcher 3 where they used ApexClothing, it ran pretty much identically on the CPU - so I don't think people can blame Gameworks for any problems they had on that game.

 

[kenjigreat]

Had pre ordered and preloaded, now I find out my R9 270 is below the minimum spec, ridiculous they changed them at the last minute.

Get a refund. I got mine and I'm running SLI 980s. The game is garbage.

 

[b0bbyJ03]

Hey everyone, I'll be stuck and work and can only take quick glances at this thread. Would anyone mind telling me what to expect with a 980, 3770k@4.3, 8GB RAM, windows 8? Thanks

 

[Zemm]

Hey everyone, I'll be stuck and work and can only take quick glances at this thread. Would anyone mind telling me what to expect with a 980, 3770k@4.3, 8GB RAM, windows 8? Thanks

Pain and misery, like the rest of us

 

[Gbraga]

I left the 30 fps cap on, so I get 30 fps. There are occasional hitches when it's obvious there's asset streaming going on but no significant stutters or drops like some people have reported.

Even while driving? If it wasn't for the batmobile, I could stand the somewhat frequent classic UE3 stutter when loading assets, but the batmobile is so fast that it goes from dropping frames every now and then to constantly dropping frames.

 

[Spaghetti]

Yes

then people should stop blaming gameworks for this.

if the feature is turned off and it still runs badly, is gameworks really the problem? no, it isn't.

really disgusted about the inclusion of that dumbass denuvo DRM too. that was never mentioned when i pre-ordered at all.

 

[Kojaq]

Is anyone else getting the problem of the 360 or xbone controller not working but DS4 is, and without ds4xinput. I just find it strange is all.

 

[Wolfie5]

The hell!

I was looking forward to play this later today and than I see this thread...

Haven't read the whole thread, but it doesn't look good for my 970 + 4790k going by some of the responses I have seen.

Does everyone have problems playing the game? Is there any hope?

 

[kenjigreat]

then people should stop blaming gameworks for this.

if the feature is turned off and it still runs badly, is gameworks really the problem? no, it isn't.

really disgusted about the inclusion of that dumbass denuvo DRM too. that was never mentioned when i pre-ordered at all.

Gameworks just makes it worse.

 

[//DEVIL//]

Hey everyone, I'll be stuck and work and can only take quick glances at this thread. Would anyone mind telling me what to expect with a 980, 3770k@4.3, 8GB RAM, windows 8? Thanks

30 flp ith dips, texture issues

 

[d00d3n]

Gameworks is gaming Ebola, stop infecting our shit already.

It is worse than ebola. The slow lingering misery of gameworks doesn't kill you outright, so the disease is allowed to spread exponentially.

 

[dEvAnGeL]

is high the max setting on textures? because i cant go aver that, 980ti here

 

[sgs2008]

Whats worse is that the poor technical issue are distracting from a rly fun game. Just got the new bat suit and am realign enjoying the new take down mechanics ejecting out of the batmobile and slamming a thug's face into the gorund followed up by knocking his buddy into the air to be shot down by a riot bullet from the bat mobile never gets old.

 

[kenjigreat]

The hell!

I was looking forward to play this later today and I see this thread...

Haven't read the whole thread, but it doesn't look good for my 970 + 4790k going by some of the responses I have seen.

Does everyone have problems playing the game? Is there any hope?

From what I heard people running 970s have tons of issues.

is high the max setting on textures? because i cant go aver that, 980ti here

No Because FUCK YOU - Rocksteady PR .

 

[Kojaq]

is high the max setting on textures? because i cant go aver that, 980ti here

I got a 970 and cannot go past normal

 

[diamount]

The hell!

I was looking forward to play this later today and than I see this thread...

Haven't read the whole thread, but it doesn't look good for my 970 + 4790k going by some of the responses I have seen.

Does everyone have problems playing the game? Is there any hope?

I am getting 60fps + with exactly that hardware, with only the interactive smoke turned off.

 

[Pepiope]

The hell!

I was looking forward to play this later today and than I see this thread...

Haven't read the whole thread, but it doesn't look good for my 970 + 4790k going by some of the responses I have seen.

Does everyone have problems playing the game? Is there any hope?

The game runs okay on a Titan X or 980ti. I have the same setup, and as excited as I was for this game, I think I'm going to wait a couple weeks for them to fix it before I dive in.

 

[Irobot82]

From what I heard people running 970s have tons of issues.



No Because FUCK YOU - Rocksteady PR .

Ooof dat 3.5GB strikes again!

 

[Inferno313]

The hell!

I was looking forward to play this later today and than I see this thread...

Haven't read the whole thread, but it doesn't look good for my 970 + 4790k going by some of the responses I have seen.

Does everyone have problems playing the game? Is there any hope?

I have that set up and it's definitely been problematic but not unplayable. With most things on high I was getting 50-60 FPS in most cases and it dropped down to 40ish when I was driving in the Batmobile.

 

[Schweinehund]

Looks like bloggers are starting to get the word out.

Hopefully Kotaku and other high traffic sites follow suit.

 

[Spaghetti]

Gameworks just makes it worse.

i'm not surprised. if the base game is tanking, turning extra features on is hardly going to make it any better.

 

[Peterthumpa]

If it wasn't for the stutters and constant crashes, the game would be totally playable at 30 FPS with GameWorks on and @ 1440p with my 970. And 30 FPS in this game feels good.

 

[wordslinger]

How about stop making 10 other pieces of preorder bonus content and stop work on seasons pass dlc untill the actual game isn't a fucking dumpster fire. How's that sound

 

[Garrett Hawke]

So wtf rig were they running the game on in the Nvidia demo video?

 

[kenjigreat]

How about stop making 10 other pieces of preorder bonus content and stop work on seasons pass dlc untill the actual game isn't a fucking dumpster fire. How's that sound

I got my refund , played for about 1h30minutes realized its shit , checked the reviews.

So wtf rig were they running the game on in the Nvidia demo video?

4-Way SLI Titan Xs with Secret SLI profiles.

 

[JaseC]

So wtf rig were they running the game on in the Nvidia demo video?

Pascal prototype quad-SLI.

 

[epmode]

A quick test this morning confirms a framerate that swings all over the place. G-Sync is very useful here.

..Course, a refund would be more useful. But I screwed up by going with GMG.

edit: Bonus points for sneaking in Denuvo. WB sucks.

 

[family_guy]

Should have given this to Warner Bros. Games Montréal.

 

[kinggroin]

Unless you had a Kepler at Release.

I didn't have crippling performance issues whatsoever (30-40fps) with a GTX670. Settings were a good deal higher than the PS4 version too.

 

[Kinthalis]

A quick test this morning confirms a framerate that swings all over the place. G-Sync is very useful here.

..Course, a refund would be more userul. But I screwed up by going with GMG.

Same here. Back to the witcher 3 until this shit gets ironed out.