Yea, I was holding out holding out for that horrible framerate drop when I got to the open city before I came back in and updated my thoughts annnnd....nothing. Game still liked to have little drops between in engine scenes and tiny spikes when a door opens to a new area, but honestly, it runs great. The worst I've had was the first boss fight (I'll emit what that is right now to keep from spoiling) but I did have some consistent hold around the 50fps mark. I'm guess that's because there was a lot of smoke and I have physx up max. So rocking everything max bar AA, which is at MSAA x 2, and I've had great performance indoors, open doors, in fights with alot of guys, and my only major drop area was a boss fight featuring quite heavy physx.
I will say this game runs great though. Comparably on my specs, DX11 on Arkham City runs fine enough, but the little choppyness that peeks through is enough for me to drop to DX9 because I can't stand the drops during big fights. No such prob here. The engine may have not changed much in terms of new animations etc., but the lighting and shadows are fantastic, and make it look a really big step up from City imo. Steam and smoke parting around you and swirling up if you run around it in is awesome, the cape looks so much better, and I even really liked the frost breath in the batcave. Really pleased.
