Batman: Arkham Knight Review - Predictable Story, Fantastic Game

[Lightspeaker]

...and some level of entitlement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2y8Sx4B2Sk



Anyway, it doesn't seem to be anything like consistent in terms of what the specific problem is that's causing the bottleneck; other than the fact that it seems to be at its absolute worst with the Batmobile being on screen. I've seen people complaining that its lagging badly for them when they've got a Titan X card which is just absurd. I'm actually really curious to see where the hell the bottleneck is on it out of simple morbid curiosity, its got to be an optimisation issue.

One thing I've seen a few people citing, however, is that they don't have issues with 9xx Nvidia cards (most of the people I've seen saying it runs fine seem to claim to have these cards). Which leads to the possibility that the ONLY type of card they've bothered to optimise it for is the 9xx cards. Which was an unbelievably silly move if true. Not to mention the apparently downscaling of the PC version.

Classic example of "why you shouldn't preorder".

 

[wizzy555]

One thing I saw is that is uses an ungodly amount of RAM, 8-9GB whole (at max). So it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of problems are coming from disk swapping.

 

[Lightspeaker]

Community Admin has apologised for the state of the PC release here:
https://community.wbgames.com/t5/Support-for-PC/June-24-Update-on-PC-Version-of-Arkham-Knight/m-p/575332#U575332

AND the game has effectively been pulled from Steam, you can no longer buy it, though presumably if you already have it you can still download it.

 

[Ralancian]

One thing I saw is that is uses an ungodly amount of RAM, 8-9GB whole (at max). So it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of problems are coming from disk swapping.

Someone else who has major issue has a ton of ram so it can't be that.

Lightspeaker is right it seams terribly inconsistent what get the game to run successfully and what doesn't.

 

[LittleMikey]

Community Admin has apologised for the state of the PC release here:
https://community.wbgames.com/t5/Support-for-PC/June-24-Update-on-PC-Version-of-Arkham-Knight/m-p/575332#U575332

AND the game has effectively been pulled from Steam, you can no longer buy it, though presumably if you already have it you can still download it.

Apparently they were losing an extreme amount of money from Steam refunds. It sounds like when a customer gets a refund on Steam Valve still keep their cut of the sale and the publisher pays the full cost of the refund (I guess the logic being that valve upheld their part of the transaction and were not responsible for the refund). So every refund means WB are losing $20 or so, and because of the staggering number of refunds this number rose rapidly. I'm really glad that we've had such a glorious example of consumer protection so quickly after the Steam Refund system was introduced, everyone who was saying it was a stupid idea is now looking very red-faced.

 

[Darth_Payn]

I can't wait to playing this latter today a looks like I have fun and I hope the game has a lot of psychological stuff witch sounds like I does. (can someone tell me the name of the song that they use in the trailers I would look at YouTube comments for it but I don't want spoilers)

Apparently it's called Mercy, from Muse's new album, Drones. Strange, they change their style yet again.

I thought I heard a Nine Inch Nails song in one of this game's ads.