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Batman: AA/AC Steam Patch Live. Mac Version, Achievements, and GFWL/Securom removal
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Bucket-o-roadkill
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Yes I understand the implications. Doesnt GFWL get pulled in July though? I never had any savegames wiped or any problems at all! Until now anyway, ironically! If I can get the saved games back for both games I wont be quite so annoyed, but man, the amount of hours I have potentially lost here is not cool!
Wonko_C
Member
This... incompleteness will haunt me forever. Now I lost motivation to go through the rest of the campaigns with Robin and Nightwing. My plan to keep playing vanilla AC and see if it still connected to GFWL came to a sudden halt once I tried running the game and being asked for the activation key again, and Steam no longer shows me the key (it shows me the three DLC keys, though, strange.)
On the other hand, free GOTY edition for both games! whoopeeee! I think I'll revisit AA because I didn't get any DLC for it nor did I do any of the challenge rooms.
Twin Tails
Member
Nice got the majority of achievement points.
Yes, GFWL will be dead come July next year, but the sooner it's patched out, the sooner people can move on.
Madrugador
Member
Dirt 2 without GFWL would be amazing. I would gladly sacrifice my 35 hours save for Steamworks implementation.
It was dropped pretty much 4 years ago with a token 1st party release from MS every now and then.
Did you use the fix I posted last page?
Yup, seems to be working fine
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=186764030
I tried it with asylum and that resulted in corrupt data, but that was a random save downloaded from the internet (Was testing a 40% save for ChoklitReign) so could be related with the game, I don't have my own AA save to test sadly
EDIT: May be worth noting - My save file went from
Retail GOTY - Steam GOTY - Steam GOTY (No GFWL)
IcyRhythms
Member
Got my first foil and wouldn't you know it, a Joker card
yeah nevermind that question
I have saves for the Steam regular version of both AA and AC. I'm downloading the Steamworks GOTY upgraded versions now and will do the fix for both savefiles.
I'll let you know.
Since these games use non-protected saves now, I should be able to import someone else's completed save, right? I lost my GFWL during a reformat ages ago and I would be interested in playing New Game+ right from the start.
On that note, is there already a fully completed save floating around somewhere, Steam forums, Reddit, or otherwise?
On that note, is there already a fully completed save floating around somewhere, Steam forums, Reddit, or otherwise?
GameSave manager already backs them up, and I just made a copy of those backups and will mess around with them.
And keep an extra backup just in case. Don't worry..
JediMasterMatt
Member
Now if Capcom would release my Dead Rising 2 from the Games for Windows Live hell, I can maybe play it again without freezing up my PC.
Seriously, the broken state AC launched in despite a month delay combined with the BS that they were supposedly using the extra time to polish the game when they were really on vacation did the opposite for me.
A Tech Support Rep was quoted as saying Capcom is actively removing GFWL from their titles today.
Infinite Justice
Member
I just remembered that with the Steamworks version now out I can finally see Arkham City on the Steam store.
LOL GFWL sucked ass with that region shit.
LOL GFWL sucked ass with that region shit.
PhantomZone
Member
I actually liked GFWL, only even ran into an issue once when it came to applying a game update on F1 2010. I also liked doing gamerscore contests with others.
In the case of Arkham Asylum i actually got the standard edition for $2 in a Microsoft Points promotion back in 2010 (it was something like 120msp) and picked up the GOTY edition on Steam later that year for under $10. As with the Xbox 360 and ps3 versions i loved playing the same game so many times to get double the rewards (trophies/gamerscore).
I was happy to play Arkham Asylum 4x times to record 1000/1000 and thus get 4000 points for effectively playing the same game over and over again. And a game like Arkham Asylum is worth playing over and over and over and over again, like GTA: Vice City still is.
Was waiting to reinstall AC for this. Sucks that I have to beat the game again but it's not like it's a long game. When GFWL is dead I plan on doing a fresh install of Windows just to remove all traces of it from my PC. Can't wait.
Dark Souls, Dead Rising 2/OTT, and RE5 are the only other games I need patched now.
Dark Souls, Dead Rising 2/OTT, and RE5 are the only other games I need patched now.
jediyoshi
Member
Savegames are a fairly small consolation for DLC availability and the ability to access the game at all for anyone purchasing the game after the fact.
War Raichu
Member
that save fix appears to have worked for me! My 100% Arkham City save is back and ready for Calendar Man completion!
I don't think I'll bother with Asylum, though, since I actually have an excuse to replay it for the Steamchievements
I don't think I'll bother with Asylum, though, since I actually have an excuse to replay it for the Steamchievements
StrangeADT
Banned
SCORE. Free AC GOTY edition baby.
The removal of Securom should make it run a tad better.
Pickles Spill
Member
Maybe I'll jump on the Dark Souls bandwagon when they finally patch it out.
You're gonna give me one if they do, right?
Anyway, I need to hurry up and finish the last three Capcom GfWL titles for my 360 profile. >_>
plagiarize
Banned
Not yet. Trying a retail key here.
I find turning off DX11 in AC fixed the framerate for me. Something about it is broken.
JerryEveryday
Neo Member
Just started playing Batman AA like 3 days ago. Getting the GFWL achievements and I was about 50% completed story wise then I got the update tonight. Now, all my progress is lost and I'm out on all those GFWL achievements. Le sigh.....
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
What's the best way to get a controller working in that? I picked it up a few days ago and it doesn't support any of my controllers, including my Xbox 360 wireless.
I've only played a little bit of AC in DX9 mode with everything else close to max, and when gliding around the city there used to be some kind of stutter I could never get rid of that seems to be gone now.
Dio Brando
Banned
actually, having GFWL removed does help with the framerate. i did the same thin you did, turning off DX11, but the game still stuttered to me. Now, it feels really smooth.
EDIT: sorta beaten
Well, that's good to know then. Guess I'll start sooner than later afterall.
... And yeah, a straight copy of the AA save didn't work, I wonder if your posted AC fix can apply to AA as well? Not that I'm TOO attached, I had more invested in AA but it was still an incomplete hard run, and that's not really the kind of thing you want to jump back into after a hiatus.
EDIT: And any framerate boost is almost certainly more due to Securom. Though given GFWL seemingly had Securom by default I guess it's one and the same anyway.
jaundicejuice
Member
So if I have Arkham City already installed, I have to download the GOTY version if I want to play with GFWL/SecuROM?
plagiarize
Banned
So, was it always a thing where the GOTY edition of Arkham Asylum didn't complain about using MSAA with an AMD graphics card, or is that new with this GFWL free version? I saw the complaint on the standard version still before I updated to the GOTY version I now have.
Also, is the benchmark gone now? Weird.
Also, is the benchmark gone now? Weird.
My Batman:AC save transferred nicely to the new GOTY.
AA, on the other hand, is straight up making the game crash...
I'm not sure what else to do to make it work. Anybody was successful with AA?
Is your AC GOTY save a completed save with new game plus? If it is, would you mind uploading it so players like myself and others don't have to play the game again to start NG+?
My Batman:AC save transferred nicely to the new GOTY.
AA, on the other hand, is straight up making the game crash...
I'm not sure what else to do to make it work. Anybody was successful with AA?
Good to know, I will add that fix to the OP.
There's 00:00:EE:00 on both AC's original GFWL save and AC:GOTY save.
That string is present on old AA save, but not on AA:GOTY save. Hmmm...
Edit: Also, make sure you start the game once and create a save on the same slot you had a save before. It won't work if you don't do it.
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