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Batman AK PC Perf Thread of DARKNESS, NO SETTINGS [30fps cap / intro removal in OP]

Alo81

Low Poly Gynecologist
Salsa, try these tweaks that were pointed out to me in the steam forums. They helped me get to a pretty steady fps with little to no stuttering.

People need to stop posting this. It's a bunch of nonsense. The important performance tweaks to note from it are basically equivalent to "lower your graphics settings." which I mean, c'mon. People know that. Turn stuff off, get better performance.
 

Vitor711

Member
So how bad is this port? How powerful does your computer have to be to beat out the PS4 version?

The PC version is missing out on effects like AO and rain decals on the batsuit. As it stands, the PS4 version will look better. It's bizarre.

The extra Nvidia stuff adds a little but really not much - not enough to compensate anyway.
 
People need to stop posting this. It's a bunch of nonsense. The important performance tweaks to note from it are basically equivalent to "lower your graphics settings." which I mean, c'mon. People know that. Turn stuff off, get better performance.

Yeah, but the question here is which setting to lower because no setting in-game improves your framerate. So your post actually helps less than that Steam guide.
 

JambiBum

Member
People need to stop posting this. It's a bunch of nonsense. The important performance tweaks to note from it are basically equivalent to "lower your graphics settings." which I mean, c'mon. People know that. Turn stuff off, get better performance.

There's also the fact that it has a tweak to up the texture res, among other stuff that doesn't just lower settings. Salsa said that he just wanted to play without the awful stutter he is suffering from. Yeah the port is a mess but I see no problem with posting that to help people out since you can't actually change many settings in the game itself.
 

Sinatar

Official GAF Bottom Feeder
So how bad is this port? How powerful does your computer have to be to beat out the PS4 version?

No PC on earth, no networked super computer, no cray mainframe world conquering AI can match the PS4 version so far, since graphical features are just straight up missing.
 

Kojaq

Member
No but in other games I've had the issue with it is i because the game thinks there's another controller connected, even if there isn't. Might want to see if your devices are showing more controllers than their should be.

That work unplugged my logitech 3d joystick, still no other game was confused by it. Thanks for the help
 

Scrooged

Totally wronger about Nintendo's business decisions.
Am I the only one who has problems getting my xbox one or 360 controller to work, strange thing is the DS4 works fine with out the ds4xinput

You'll need to make sure that only the 360 controller is plugged in when you start the game. I had the same problem.
 

Sinatar

Official GAF Bottom Feeder

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Tahnit

Banned
i broke down and got it on ps4. runs like a dream. Looks better too. In the process of trying to get a refund from GMG.
 

SparkTR

Member

Salsa

Member
you know beyond how it performs im just baffled that they straight up go "if you have 2 gigs Vram, go with LOW textures"


... do they realize how fucking crap those look? how do you require 3gb of Vram minimum for "NORMAL" textures?
 
Yep, fuck this. I'm getting a refund. I was going to wait, but this sealed the deal.


"If you purchased your copy of the game through Steam and are not satisfied with your experience, you can request a refund at help.steampowered.com (Steam refund policies can be found here: http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds)."

Hey WB/rocksteady want you to do that !
 

Zimbardo

Member
For an optimal experience, users with recommended spec hardware should not set their resolution higher than 1080p.

ahaha ...now that's just silly.

(i didn't buy the game ...but have been watching the meltdown. talk about shitty)
 

Mrbob

Member
http://community.wbgames.com/t5/Sup...formance-PLEASE-READ-FIRST/m-p/572903#U572903

wow they are nuts

"The Recommended Spec is intended to deliver an experience on par with the current generation of gaming platforms."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4sobSgKRM

Batman: Arkham Knight - Nvidia GameWorks 60 FPS Trailer---wait what

Yeah it seems like Nvidia straight up lied. What version were they showing?

This whole thing a joke. Steam refunds were needed for stuff like this.
 

Alo81

Low Poly Gynecologist
Yeah, but the question here is which setting to lower because no setting in-game improves your framerate. So your post actually helps less than that Steam guide.

Unless disabling bloom and reflections is what fixes everything (and it could be, I don't have the game to personally test) then the guide really doesn't provide any useful information for improving performance.
 

CUD

Banned
Can someone please get the original settings for a couple of lines in the BMEngine.ini? I just need the following:

PostProcessNoiseTextureName=
PostProcessGlareBeamTextureName=

I was trying to remove the CA and that noise/film grain but changing these didn't seem to do anything and I forgot to save a copy of the file beforehand... Oops.
 

Scrooged

Totally wronger about Nintendo's business decisions.
It blows my mind that they targeted the GTX 970 to be 'on par' with consoles. What a joke.
 

Nekrono

Member
http://community.wbgames.com/t5/Sup...formance-PLEASE-READ-FIRST/m-p/572903#U572903

wow they are nuts

"The Recommended Spec is intended to deliver an experience on par with the current generation of gaming platforms."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK4sobSgKRM

Batman: Arkham Knight - Nvidia GameWorks 60 FPS Trailer---wait what

This pretty much means they will only (hopefully) fix the stuttering, performance, etc, but won't add the missing effects.

What a joke.
 

Corpekata

Banned
What was the last major game that released a port and said basically the play at 30 FPS? All of the examples I can think of were delayed ports by Japanese devs that have little to no experience with the platform.

Oh and I guess South Park but I don't think anyone cared there because it fit the show's style.
 
you know beyond how it performs im just baffled that they straight up go "if you have 2 gigs Vram, go with LOW textures"


... do they realize how fucking crap those look? how do you require 3gb of Vram minimum for "NORMAL" textures?

Ignoring how good or bad the textures look, what's in a name? The normal ones are probably the ones the game uses on other platforms. What would be different if they'd called Low Normal and Normal High?
 
Yeah it seems like Nvidia straight up lied. What version were they showing?

This whole thing a joke. Steam refunds were needed for stuff like this.
I'm actually surprised there hasn't been more justifiable outrage towards nvidia in all of this. They sold a lot of cards on the back of that inaccurate footage. Can't they get in trouble for false advertising (shouldn't they already be for the whole 4gb thing)?
 
What was the last major game that released a port and said basically the play at 30 FPS? All of the examples I can think of were delayed ports by Japanese devs that have little to no experience with the platform.

Oh and I guess South Park but I don't think anyone cared there because it fit the show's style.

Need for speed rivals comes to mind.
 

Salsa

Member
Ignoring how good or bad the textures look, what's in a name? The normal ones are probably the ones the game uses on other platforms. What would be different if they'd called Low Normal and Normal High?

nothing. im mostly talking about the impossiblity of getting textures to look even decent on 2 gigs of vram

they look WAY worse than any other recent game's "normal" setting

- played GTAV at constant 60fps with textures on High

- Shadow of Mordor did sorta became a slideshow with textures on High after a while and those did require 3gb according to the game, but I could go Normal or low; Normal was more than fine, also 60fps

this game would have an excuse to set 2gigs of vram as the absolute MINIMUM for textures if they looked any good or low was equivalent to other games' normal settings; they don't, they look like fucking dog shit and it's 30fps
 

Fracas

#fuckonami
Yeah that wording worries me greatly. Seems they're focused solely on performance when there are straight up absent graphical features missing.
 

Mrbob

Member
I'm actually surprised there hasn't been more justifiable outrage towards nvidia in all of this. They sold a lot of cards on the back of that inaccurate footage. Can't they get in trouble for false advertising (shouldn't they already be for the whole 4gb thing)?

After seeing that misleading Nvidia Batman promo video I can see why they have been silent. They are trying to distance themselves from this disaster. Still, I'd like to know what version of Batman they were showing.
 

GHG

Gold Member
I'm so upset I can't just get a refund for this.

I have a horrible feeling its never getting fixed.
 

Dsyndrome

Member
That WB Community Admin BS has to be some kind of fucking stopgap... how can the Benchmark be so fucking wrong from what the game puts out? Is it legacy from when they actually were targeting 60FPS years ago but now serves no purpose since the game is SUPPOSED to be capped at 30FPS?
 
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