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Batman AK PC Perf Thread of DARKNESS, NO SETTINGS [30fps cap / intro removal in OP]
- Thread starter Peterthumpa
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indigo-cyclops
Member
So basically there's a lot of issues right now? Fuck
Ingame it's downclocking my 970's memory from 3800 Mhz to 3000. Not sure if it's the game doing it or the new drivers. Either way, incredibly annoying.
Performance is pretty disappointing, I knew the smoke would be a performance killer but even scenes without smoke were dropping all over the place 30,40,25, 60. Was tiring my eyes just playing the beginning. This is just at 1080p on GTX 970 and it looks like I might end up locking at 30 fps anyway 
Makes me really appreciate the performance in Witcher 3 which I was playing just before, I think that game looks better and performs beautifully compared to this.
The options in this game are a joke too. Having to go to an .ini file to enable 60 fps.
Going to try with smoke off and shadows turned down now to see if that reaches a consistent 60.
Makes me really appreciate the performance in Witcher 3 which I was playing just before, I think that game looks better and performs beautifully compared to this.
The options in this game are a joke too. Having to go to an .ini file to enable 60 fps.
Going to try with smoke off and shadows turned down now to see if that reaches a consistent 60.
Corpsepyre
Banned
Could this be due to broken drivers?
I don't think so mate...
yeah exactly. I'm confident it'll get patched, I just hope it's quickly.
Who did the PC port, Rocksteady or someone else?
Gemüsepizza
Member
Framerate in story mode is also not consistent for me (i7 4790K, R9 290), despite good and stable benchmark results. While I do get high fps, for example when standing at the top of a building and looking around, I have very irritating framerate drops when flying around and making turns. Maybe a streaming issue? Game is installed on SSD. The default 30 fps lock seems to be there for a reason, it seems... sigh.
There is no way the game would do that. I wonder if the drivers are borked. Got any other performance hungry games to test the drivers with?
Be warned!! There are a lot of spoilers in there.
Version is 6.3.0. Application detection set to High for BatmanAK.exe. OSD doesn't seem to appear for about 10s or so, you need to wait a little.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
BASED TRUESTATIC
Yeah I just tried Witcher 3 - all fine, 1442 Core and 3800 Memory. Will try a full driver wipe and reinstall them.
Revengineer
Unconfirmed Member
Hm, no problems here:
Win 7 Enterprise 64bit
i5 4670k 3.40GHz
16GB DDR3 RAM
970 GTX (today's drivers)
Evo 950 SSD
Running at 1080p with everything maxed (using the in-game video options).
Smoother than City so far.
Win 7 Enterprise 64bit
i5 4670k 3.40GHz
16GB DDR3 RAM
970 GTX (today's drivers)
Evo 950 SSD
Running at 1080p with everything maxed (using the in-game video options).
Smoother than City so far.
Another performance hungry game? This isn't one. I've monitored it using Riva Stat Tuner on my 980 and GPU usage never goes above 30% at 1080p with all normal settings at max and GameWorks off. I'm not surprised the GPU is kicking back and cracking open a beer, it's not being taxed in the slightest.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Well I'm an idiot, I thought that the thing that was happening earlier was the game being decrypted when it was just the download for the skin pack, thought it was decrypting because my CPU was being heavily utilized. <_< I turned off the VPN after going into offline mode and yeah, I got at least a three hour wait with everyone else not in Europe.
yup, immediately noticed this when I just started up a new game. How does this happen lol.
Also probably posted already but I'll post it here.
\steamapps\common\Batman Arkham Knight\BMGame\Movies
Rename these files to remove the startup logos:
StartupMovieNV.swf
StartupMovie.swf
nv_logo.usm
lol. That's terrible! What happens to utilization with game works on?
Father_Brain
Banned
Someone tell me if I can get it to run playably on a 2GB 860M. Don't really care how low the settings are.
Yup, but it takes the crackers muuuch longer to crack so if the game stays uncracked for a few weeks, they are already happy campers! They consider that a win.
publicpwnerer
Member
I'm sure you know this already, but if you installed the new Nvidia drivers (if you're on Nvidia cards), be sure to check the control panel and make sure SLI is enabled. For me it disabled SLI after I updated.
Still have an hour to go before I can test to see if it actually works though.
Yeah, I always enable it after driver updates, and have since triple, quadriple checked it. Apparently the game has no SLI bits.
Drivers launched without them, despite claiming it enables SLI.
truestatic
Member
Press E to Even the Odds
'E'
Batman Arkham Knight has stopped working.
Did the game forget to install the Batmobile or something?
'E'
Batman Arkham Knight has stopped working.
Did the game forget to install the Batmobile or something?
Gemüsepizza
Member
Do you have the right version for your OS (check the filename)? There seems to be a mixup on the AMD website, the Windows 8.1 driver is on the Windows 7 page and vice versa.
StalkerUKCG
Banned
Just about to sleep but here's me
i7-4770k 3.5Ghz
MSI 780ti Twin Frozr 3GB
16GB RAM
Everything Maxed and the in game performance test is saying 45 fps Average but fraps is reporting back 31fps rock solid.
I'm not super impressed with how the game looks. I was fully expecting to ditch my 780ti and upgrade but this won't be the game that makes me do that. It's not a bad looking title but it's bland, the models arn't really amazing and some are pretty bad (poison ivy, gordon) The textures have lots of detail but ultimately most of the character textures look muddy and like early Unreal 3 stuff (Gears 1) The lighting in some cutscenes is really really flat but overall the city is nicely lit.
Dunno, I feel a bit deceived from previous footage. Which is a shame. It's not really that much of a step up from Origins. Different note entirely but the gameplay so far isn't selling me, it feels like I'm just going threw the motions. Hopefully that's a combination of me being a bit sleepy and early gameplay sections.
i7-4770k 3.5Ghz
MSI 780ti Twin Frozr 3GB
16GB RAM
Everything Maxed and the in game performance test is saying 45 fps Average but fraps is reporting back 31fps rock solid.
I'm not super impressed with how the game looks. I was fully expecting to ditch my 780ti and upgrade but this won't be the game that makes me do that. It's not a bad looking title but it's bland, the models arn't really amazing and some are pretty bad (poison ivy, gordon) The textures have lots of detail but ultimately most of the character textures look muddy and like early Unreal 3 stuff (Gears 1) The lighting in some cutscenes is really really flat but overall the city is nicely lit.
Dunno, I feel a bit deceived from previous footage. Which is a shame. It's not really that much of a step up from Origins. Different note entirely but the gameplay so far isn't selling me, it feels like I'm just going threw the motions. Hopefully that's a combination of me being a bit sleepy and early gameplay sections.
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Well, at least that confirms they're using PhysX 3...
Revengineer
Unconfirmed Member
LOL
I'm sorry but that's hilariously unfortunate. I would run a check on your local files (in Steam, right click on the game > Properties > Local Files tab > Verify Integrity of Local Cache...
Error: Batmobile not found.
Are we reading the same thread? Lack of power doesn't seem to be the reason for the stutter and performance issues. Even a 980 TI might crap out.
Once DRM has been cracked it's faster and faster to crack in future because its way of function doesn't change that much from e.g. game to game. I won't be surprised if AK is cracked by end of the week.
No idea who handled the port. Interestingly enough, it's capped at 30fps unless modified. It's as though it was never meant to be played at >30fps.
Gemüsepizza;169451624 said:
That's exactly it. Point the camera in certain directions and the frame rate will drop for no apparent reason.
Conkerkid11
Member
Literally just got this error as well.
Windows 10 though, so I thought that was the issue.
Framerate didn't improve like at all with the driver update.
Gemüsepizza
Member
I also had stutter without V-Sync, did not seem to matter (AMD though). I have now locked the fps at 30, and no stutter. Whelp. Something seems off.
PrintedCrayon
Banned
Yep, that's a similar read out to what I had. Verified integrity of the files and it didn't seem to have downloaded anything much at all!
What a sad state of affairs.
Revolutionary
Member
Um yeah I'm starting to see why they locked it at 30 by default. The batmobile sequences are pretty crazy.
Methos#1975
Member
Performance on the Alpha is abyssal, going to try to do a driver wipe and see if that fixes the issue because it borked Witcher 3 as well for me
lordfuzzybutt
Member
Batman: Alfred where's my batmobile?
Alfred: Bat what sir?
Batman: Batmobile, my batmobile, you know? To even the odd?
Alfred: the fuck are you on about sir?
BatmanAK.exe stopped working.
CrichtonKicks
Member
I don't know, I think their streaming engine just doesn't play nice on some systems. To this day I still get stuttering in AC and AO while flying through the city. Putting them on an SSD helps but doesn't totally resolve the issue. There have been numerous posts on it over the years but I've never seen a solution.
Gipsy Danger
Member
I've getting some real bad stuttering as well as the audio hitching. Pretty disappointed. Is locking the framerate to 30 fixing it for some people? I might just do that until a fix is made available if that's the case.
My setup is
i7 4790k @ 4.0GHz
GTX 980 4GB
8GB RAM
My setup is
i7 4790k @ 4.0GHz
GTX 980 4GB
8GB RAM
So far smoke and fog is off major fps dips when jumping out of the Batmobile. every thing else on high and all other gameworks on. ave about 30-45 fps. and textures on normal.
Fx 8320 @ 4.4
780 ti @ 1200
16gig ddr3 @1866
Gonna try with the other gameworks stuff off now Ill post an update in a few.
Fx 8320 @ 4.4
780 ti @ 1200
16gig ddr3 @1866
Gonna try with the other gameworks stuff off now Ill post an update in a few.
truestatic
Member
Oooof. Tried that. 4563 files failed to validate and will be reacquired. The game folder is now empty. 33.8 GB to download. Oooh boy. Guess I don't need FlyVPN anymore...
Conkerkid11
Member
GeForce Experience is suggesting I turn a bunch of settings up.
I thought I could trust their judgement on this.
I thought I could trust their judgement on this.