PC Gamers Reporting Issues With Batman: Arkham Knight - Update

[Ralancian]

So yeah I'm gonna chalk this one up entitled crybabys.

Sure. All those people that can't run the game properly, all those reviewers and all the videos on YouTube and all those facts about framerate cap and many, many other things. All of that comes from crybabies because you can run the game when you turn down the settings.
Jesus Christ man. What the fuck?

Yeah but this thread has what 3 people who actually own the game complaining? Now how many people do you think on this forum owns the PC version? How many are too busy playing the game to be complaining.?

No the saying the game doesn't have issues just it's quite clearly not the unplayable mess some are making out

 

[Frezzato]

I give it a week before someone identified only by a username posts a solution online. "Fixed it for ya".

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Yeah but this thread has what 3 people who actually own the game complaining? Now how many people do you think on this forum owns the PC version? How many are too busy playing the game to be complaining.?

I don't know, and neither do you. So how's that even an argument? The entire PC crowd over the internet is pretty upset. Just look at the Steam reviews. Hundreds, if not thousands of Steam reviews prove that the game is a complete mess. Some users are reporting that verifying game files deletes the game.

No the saying the game doesn't have issues just it's quite clearly not the unplayable mess some are making out

And then there are things like this: https://youtu.be/GKy2BEHKeyE
That is clearly not playable. This is not what a finished product looks like.

 

[Ralancian]

No the saying the game doesn't have issues just it's quite clearly not the unplayable mess some are making out

And then there are things like this: https://youtu.be/GKy2BEHKeyE
That is clearly not playable. This is not what a finished product looks like.

Max settings....user runs program to capture video which also degrades performance....game has optimisation issues...hardly a surprise.

My computer is less powerful than his so he was deliberately trying to break the game.

My point before is people happy with the game don't complain on day one or even go out to write reviews.

A similar case is Assasins Creed (whatever the latest one was in Paris) I remember reading news reports and people moaning day one about how broken it was. Whilst everyone I knew who actually owned said game reported very few minor issues if at all. The entire gaming player base on the internet mainly contains a bunch of whiny know it alls who like nothing better to ***** and moan.

Like I said though I'm not saying the game doesn't have performance issues on PC as I had them but it just required fiddling with the settings (and frankly most PC gamers have to do that with most games as the in-house benchmarks are usually crap. So most people can probably get the game running in a state where it's more than playable. In a little while it'll be patched and you can turn the settings up to 11.

Personally I'd just rather everyone had some calm rather than freaking out and blowing up a controversy.



On the youtube guy front he's clearly trying to break the game and I suspect most are (afterall they want views)...honestly I'm on a AMD graphics card (and the game is supposedly built for Nvidia) that's not even the latest and greatest out there. So I absoutletly refuse to believe anyone with a semi-decent gaming rig can't get the game to run. Like I said personal experience (of which I believe you have zero?) tells me the game can be played with no noticeable drop of performance for an extended amount of time.

 

[VoidWanderer]

As a console gamer, primarily, I am SHOCKED at the atrocious PC ports. It truly boggles my mind that the main system for making these games, keeps getting shafted. I hope all these bigger developers would take the time to do it themselves and not shovel the workload onto someone else *Cough that sounds like Colonial Marines*. It hurts everybody involved.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

My computer is less powerful than his so he was deliberately trying to break the game.

Oh Jesus Christ. It's like Warner Brothers is paying you or something. What evidence do you have that the game runs fine on your system? There's a ton of videos and user reviews that it doesn't run well on any system, that there are severe performance drops while driving and only you claim otherwise. Even Rocksteady is aware of these issues. Jim Sterling and some other reputable reviewers and critics have made videos and written articles about how messed up this game is. You're the only one who claims otherwise. So why should anyone believe you? One of your arguments was something along the lines of "how many Escapist members own the PC version and are too busy playing". Seriously dude? Seriously? Are you one of those corporate shills that hang around internet forums to spread misinformation?

 

[Ralancian]

My computer is less powerful than his so he was deliberately trying to break the game.

Oh Jesus Christ. It's like Warner Brothers is paying you or something. What evidence do you have that the game runs fine on your system? There's a ton of videos and user reviews that it doesn't run well on any system, that there are severe performance drops while driving and only you claim otherwise. Even Rocksteady is aware of these issues. Jim Sterling and some other reputable reviewers and critics have made videos and written articles about how messed up this game is. You're the only one who claims otherwise. So why should anyone believe you? One of your arguments was something along the lines of "how many Escapist members own the PC version and are too busy playing". Seriously dude? Seriously? Are you one of those corporate shills that hang around internet forums to spread misinformation?

You know what this is waste of my time. If someone with the actual game wants call bullshit on me fair enough I'll bite.

EDIT:
All I'm saying is people can probably get the game running in a playable state. If you set the game to max it's quite clear that's pushing it a bit too much on most if not all machines.

 

[Bat Vader]

My computer is less powerful than his so he was deliberately trying to break the game.

Oh Jesus Christ. It's like Warner Brothers is paying you or something. What evidence do you have that the game runs fine on your system? There's a ton of videos and user reviews that it doesn't run well on any system, that there are severe performance drops while driving and only you claim otherwise. Even Rocksteady is aware of these issues. Jim Sterling and some other reputable reviewers and critics have made videos and written articles about how messed up this game is. You're the only one who claims otherwise. So why should anyone believe you? One of your arguments was something along the lines of "how many Escapist members own the PC version and are too busy playing". Seriously dude? Seriously? Are you one of those corporate shills that hang around internet forums to spread misinformation?

You know what this is waste of my time. If someone with the actual game wants call bullshit on me fair enough I'll bite.

EDIT:
All I'm saying is people can probably get the game running in a playable state. If you set the game to max it's quite clear that's pushing it a bit too much on most if not all machines.

The game is pretty unplayable for me. Next to no graphical options. For the graphical options I wanted to change I had to go into the .ini files to change them. The FPS being locked at 30 is beyond stupid. I changed it to 60 and I turned off motionbluring which helped a bit.

The game doesn't turn into a slideshow anymore when I use the batmobile but it still isn't great. Iron Galaxy messed up royally when optimizing this game.

 

[Ralancian]

Just out of interest what your computer like? Just trying to gauge where the issues are.

My PC is a core i7-4790, 16 gig ram and a Radeon R7 270(I'd have said earlier but I could not remember what my g card was)

Again I've had to turn everything right down but only from the in game menu not touched anything else.

EDIT: 270 NOT 290 stupid auto correct.

 

[Bat Vader]

Just out of interest what your computer like? Just trying to gauge where the issues are.

My PC is a core i7-4790, 16 gig ram and a Radeon R7 270(I'd have said earlier but I could not remember what my g card was)

Again I've had to turn everything right down but only from the in game menu not touched anything else.

EDIT: 270 NOT 290 stupid auto correct.

My specs are an I7-3770K, XFX HD 7970, and 16 gigs of ram. I have all the options turned down to low and the game still gives me fits. I can run The Witcher 3 on Ultra settings without any issues.

 

[Buizel91]

You can no longer buy the game on steam until the problems have been sorted, PC Gamer just posted a new article about it and while the game is still there, u can no longer purchase it.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

You can no longer buy the game on steam until the problems have been sorted, PC Gamer just posted a new article about it and while the game is still there, u can no longer purchase it.

Holy shit it's true: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo1NVshXpyw

I can hardly believe it.

 

[Ralancian]

Just out of interest what your computer like? Just trying to gauge where the issues are.

My PC is a core i7-4790, 16 gig ram and a Radeon R7 270(I'd have said earlier but I could not remember what my g card was)

Again I've had to turn everything right down but only from the in game menu not touched anything else.

EDIT: 270 NOT 290 stupid auto correct.

My specs are an I7-3770K, XFX HD 7970, and 16 gigs of ram. I have all the options turned down to low and the game still gives me fits. I can run The Witcher 3 on Ultra settings without any issues.

This does seam odd....

I'm glad it's been pulled though if were looking at top end graphics cards from merely 3 years ago barely coping and mid to top range from 2 years ago needing to be on minimum settings to be playable. Just wondering how long this will take?

Just as a note mines happy with Dragon Age: Inquisition virtually all on Ultra (have to turn down AA a bit). Can't compare with Witcher 3 don't own it. So yeah it's clear they screwed the pooch on optimisation just odd trying to work where people have issues and others don't.

 

[Tilly]

Why are they treating PC ports like this still in 2015?
I get that the PS4 counts for the majority of sales. But PC can't be that far behind nowadays. They need to stop thinking of it as such.

 

[Buizel91]

Why are they treating PC ports like this still in 2015?
I get that the PS4 counts for the majority of sales. But PC can't be that far behind nowadays. They need to stop thinking of it as such.

PC Generally is harder to port for, you have so many people using out of date systems, and many using high end systems that getting games to run on a huge scale is very hard, as aposed to the console market. At least someone in the world is going to have a problem, whether it be out of date drivers or not having the right specs.

Now admittedly, this was a huge fuck up, either by IG, WB, or even Rocksteady (which i doubt, but then Arkham City wasn't perfect at launch either) and they are definitely going to feel it, if they haven't already. WB and Rocksteady are definitely going to be more careful, they won't want this happening again that's for sure. Rocksteady has had a pretty good run so far, i suppose something was bound to happen eventually.

I wouldn't worry about PC Gaming though, this might just make devs a little more careful when creating a PC port. Or even delaying it for a while. (which tbf, maybe WB and Rocksteady should of done)

 

[Buizel91]

Double post, my bad

 

[Ralancian]

Just out of interest what your computer like? Just trying to gauge where the issues are.

My PC is a core i7-4790, 16 gig ram and a Radeon R7 270(I'd have said earlier but I could not remember what my g card was)

Again I've had to turn everything right down but only from the in game menu not touched anything else.

EDIT: 270 NOT 290 stupid auto correct.

My specs are an I7-3770K, XFX HD 7970, and 16 gigs of ram. I have all the options turned down to low and the game still gives me fits. I can run The Witcher 3 on Ultra settings without any issues.

Sorry to re quote you but AMD released a beta 15.6 driver on Monday specifically to help optimise Arkham Knight (I only discovered this last night) performance has been vastly improved due to and a few others are reporting the same on steams page for it. Might be worth a go.

Slight annoyance here because it got pushed down the news list on steam due to the other announcements and thus I missed it and I'm sure other have too.

 

[Tilly]

PC Generally is harder to port for, you have so many people using out of date systems, and many using high end systems that getting games to run on a huge scale is very hard, as aposed to the console market. At least someone in the world is going to have a problem, whether it be out of date drivers or not having the right specs.

Now admittedly, this was a huge fuck up, either by IG, WB, or even Rocksteady (which i doubt, but then Arkham City wasn't perfect at launch either) and they are definitely going to feel it, if they haven't already. WB and Rocksteady are definitely going to be more careful, they won't want this happening again that's for sure. Rocksteady has had a pretty good run so far, i suppose something was bound to happen eventually.

I wouldn't worry about PC Gaming though, this might just make devs a little more careful when creating a PC port. Or even delaying it for a while. (which tbf, maybe WB and Rocksteady should of done)

Yeah, I guess the variation in specs causes more of a problem.
But I thought the whole thing about this gen was supposed to be that PS4 and Xbone are both fairly similar to a PC now so they can all just run off 1 development fork or whatever they'd call it.

 

[Buizel91]

PC Generally is harder to port for, you have so many people using out of date systems, and many using high end systems that getting games to run on a huge scale is very hard, as aposed to the console market. At least someone in the world is going to have a problem, whether it be out of date drivers or not having the right specs.

Now admittedly, this was a huge fuck up, either by IG, WB, or even Rocksteady (which i doubt, but then Arkham City wasn't perfect at launch either) and they are definitely going to feel it, if they haven't already. WB and Rocksteady are definitely going to be more careful, they won't want this happening again that's for sure. Rocksteady has had a pretty good run so far, i suppose something was bound to happen eventually.

I wouldn't worry about PC Gaming though, this might just make devs a little more careful when creating a PC port. Or even delaying it for a while. (which tbf, maybe WB and Rocksteady should of done)

Yeah, I guess the variation in specs causes more of a problem.
But I thought the whole thing about this gen was supposed to be that PS4 and Xbone are both fairly similar to a PC now so they can all just run off 1 development fork or whatever they'd call it.

Developers are still learning to code for the xbox one and ps4, might be a while but eventually they will get the hang of it.

 

[DanielBrown]

*shrugs*
I finally got around to try it out and after one hour I've only seen one stutter that quickly solved itself. My PC was good back in 2013, maybe, so it's not because I run with a monster computer(GTX 660!).

That said, the controls for the Batmobile are fucking awful. Feels like I'm controlling the puck on an air-hockey table.