I had exactly one very random crash and no extreme freezes whatsoever in my 110 hours of gameplay. Some drops here and there, but nothing too much. I bought it from GOG though, so could it be something related to Steam? Unlikely, I know, but I didn't encounter a lot of issues.
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Batman AK PC Perf Thread of DARKNESS, NO SETTINGS [30fps cap / intro removal in OP]
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I had exactly one very random crash and no extreme freezes whatsoever in my 110 hours of gameplay. Some drops here and there, but nothing too much. I bought it from GOG though, so could it be something related to Steam? Unlikely, I know, but I didn't encounter a lot of issues.
kriven4437
Neo Member
I can't get to GCPD at the opening before the game just crashes on me. However the Harley Quinn DLC played fine until I tried to exit the game.
I bounce around 30-60 FPS on my 7950 3GB
I bounce around 30-60 FPS on my 7950 3GB
ClaptoVaughn
Member
It's just you. I've been playing almost exclusively on PC for over a decade now (and literally exclusively the past couple of years) and vast majority of games have worked fine for me day-one.
Unity release was waaaay better on pc than consoles. It still dippong into low 20s on ps4, while it never went below 50 a decent pc. Scaling was pretty linear and that with the better graphics settings on pc.
I would think waiting for them to fix issues would be better then double dipping on a game because it's broken.
Or use the new refund policy
You know member war what is it right? Hope you will be banned for this stupid post.
Just I said I don't see the reason to release such terrible port on pc if they don't care to optmize it. Would been more 'honest'.
May I ask what your settings are? I have a 280X (which is a re-branded 7970 3GB) and the drops are all over the place, very frequently as low as mid-tens and sometimes even lower when gliding around Gotham City.
CyberPunked
Member
I'm so confused, why would they remove AO on PC?
Feral Interactive, guys developing the B:AK Linux/SteamOS port.
http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/3atdb4/welp_so_much_for_arkham_knight/
Crashing was being reported up until the first patch. But it didnt seem to be huge.
I admit I saw that out of context. Still, my point stands that acting like someone shouldn't lose their job for acting completely unprofessionally is something I don't understand.
PS4 is reportedly a rocksteady 30fps. Also has ambient occlusion apparently... -_-
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
Cmon now, that's not going to happen. That would cost them so much to do that it's worth keeping it up as is until it gets fixed shortly.
You folks act like you don't have options. Did you buy it on steam? Then request a refund. You can't get a refund? Write a review on steam discussing how the issues with AK as they are now have affected your ability to play it.
You're not without options nor without a voice.
That's my exact setup.
If I turn off Steam overlay I can play the game without stuttering at 30fps (save for cutscenes) with AA off, textures set to low, shadows and LOD set to high if I set the game to 900p.
It looks like shit, to be honest.
paperspace
Member
What the hell?
Borderless seems to have fixed most of my problems, but it introduced a weird one: my UI is offset and partially off the screen; subtitles too (can't tell if the world is as well). I only have a 1600x900 monitor, and it almost feels like the game's running in 1080p and just lopping off the right and bottom of the frame.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
RibbedHero
Member
Feral games are quite decent normally, iirc. Would be funny if the Linux port is better than the Windows one.
GHG
Member
I hope it's a bug.
If not then they are simply incompetent and couldn't get it working but released it anyway and hoped nobody would notice. That along with the wet cape shader being missing, hairworks getting cancelled and less rain effects.
I'd really like know wtf happened to the PC version of this game.
Gemüsepizza
Member
So is there any additional statement from Rocksteady? Some kind of emergency plan? I hope they realise that they need to communicate with their customers in this situation.
Developer gets to choose what GameWorks features they want.
IcyRhythms
Member
I never once acted like people don't have options, but we pay for something we expect it to work properly out of the box. I'm not saying the issues can't be patched. I'm saying it shouldn't have released in its current form in the first place. They knew it was a piece of trash and had that garbage DRM a long time ago. I love how many of us PC gamers all though GTA V would be a disaster on PC. I would have never thought this about Batman. At the worst, I was thinking the Gameworks stuff would tank the performance...and it does
I like how the devs/port studio is interacting with the community. But considering their work is based on the Windows version... well, wait and see.
GHG
Member
Or in this case chose the features they are capable of doing...
Karak
Member
I ran ok on Windows 7-64, saw issues on Windows 8.1 though.
Turin Turambar
Member
In 126 hours I had only one crash, and that one was because in that moment I was alt-tabbing like crazy.
Most people who complained of being super crashy were Nvidia users, it makes me suspect it wasn't the game fault, but the last Nvidia drivers.
Well they outsourced the PC version so how would they know?
The Dear Leader
Banned
Thanks for the info, definitely not going to be getting this game any time soon.
Yes I would wait, no point buying it now when it could be fixed and cheaper in the future, and there are PC performance threads for every major game that releases, not just for the ones with bad ports.
I don't know by playing it for themselves? crazy idea I know.
Freedom = $1.05
Banned
Arkham City launched in rough shape and still runs poorly on max settings. Most folks who have been following the batman games on PC suspected it might not launch very well and here we are.
I lucked out and got the game for free on PC but I almost never get a game at launch because the industry has conditioned me to wait for a while until a game gets patched a few times. Buying games day one only benefits the publishers; the gamer is almost always better served waiting it out.
knowing that, I still think this will be fine in a few days. It hasn't been out for even 24 hours and they're working on it, it cant be any worse that the MKX PC port.
bobawesome
Member
You make nearly every thread you go into hostile and unbearable. There's no need to get so upset over videogames.
there's always a thread for performance games here on GAF, you should not buy the game because of the things that are being written in the thread
Whats your setup?
Im considering locking at 30 toll patched. Yenn is bringi f me down in w3 too mich. Such a nag.
Don't buy it now. Wait for sale. If you can't wait, then probably try to get some cheap Nvidia codes and hope that you get a patch soon.
PerezDeCorcho
Member
Is anyone else having trouble trying to get a refund for this game? The Steam support page just redirects me to Warner Brothers' support site.
edit: I don't know what I'm talking about
edit: I don't know what I'm talking about
Lilalaunebaer
Member
They really only had it to install it on 1 pc and see that it is absolute shit tier. 5 minutes of work.
IcyRhythms
Member
For those who don't want to wait or want something new to play, it almost sounds like you're trying to make excuses simply because it can be patched later? Apologies if I'm wrong but it seems that's what you're saying.
Maybe so, but if GAF has now managed to witch hunt and link random GAF user with WB employee and cost said employee his job how that is right? It's very unlikely that WB employee loses his job, but in case he would it would mean GAF just fucked someone's life over. By going blindly after someone after post that GAF didn't like.
Being unprofessional in position where professionality is expected is wrong and bad, but witch hunts by any forum are also bad.
dmix90
Member
So.
- In-game benchmark tool runs with unlocked framerate, actual game is locked to 30fps by default. Logic?
- Missing Ambient Occlusion and lower quality wet shader effects( batman coat and mask ) compared to consoles.
- Horrible stuttering and slow texture streaming. Crashes.
- Can't verify steam game cache without redownloading whole game.
- Missing language packs which are listed at steam store page( no Russian subtitles available atm )
- Only Normal texture option is available. Worse textures than console versions(?).
- Memory hog(Leaks?).
- Unable to hold steady 30fps even on lowest available settings( FX8120@4.6ghz + GTX 970 + 12GB RAM )
- SLI performance is worse than single card even after special nvidia update and game ready drivers.
What the fuck happened? My guess they just uploaded wrong build to steam servers. That happened before with Dead Island, right?
- In-game benchmark tool runs with unlocked framerate, actual game is locked to 30fps by default. Logic?
- Missing Ambient Occlusion and lower quality wet shader effects( batman coat and mask ) compared to consoles.
- Horrible stuttering and slow texture streaming. Crashes.
- Can't verify steam game cache without redownloading whole game.
- Missing language packs which are listed at steam store page( no Russian subtitles available atm )
- Only Normal texture option is available. Worse textures than console versions(?).
- Memory hog(Leaks?).
- Unable to hold steady 30fps even on lowest available settings( FX8120@4.6ghz + GTX 970 + 12GB RAM )
- SLI performance is worse than single card even after special nvidia update and game ready drivers.
What the fuck happened? My guess they just uploaded wrong build to steam servers. That happened before with Dead Island, right?
seems like it's just that Iron Galaxy don't know what they are doing here, it's not just the lack of any ambient occlusion but also the AA they put in the game is awful and texture filtering is pretty iffy as well.
This is a High Voltage Software-Tier port.