Batman: Arkham Knight System Requirements

i would probably deduct 2-300MB of that RAM amount as OS resources.

 

any idea how much more vram will be used when the ultra textures come out instead of the current low ones?

 

started running my copy of the game on Sunday, picked up a 970 and was sent a code within a couple hours.

Running on an alienware 17r2 (4710HQ, 980M) it runs smooth and looks fine but will not pass 30 fps (thought this was suppose to be fixed?). Running a benchmark in game, I get a max FPS of 72 and a min of 45. Continue back to the game, and 30 fps is locked. Checked all settings, and frames are not limited in anyway.

Running the game on my UWS through the graphics amp with a 970 attached made no difference here (Though it made differences in witcher 3 and GTAV by comparison). Guess it'll be a waiting game still.

 

The FPS lock removal is planned for a future patch. You can remove the lock through editing one of the .ini files.

 

No need to wait for a future patch. Start testing tweaks now, as whatever they do with a patch is going to have to work for the lowest common denominator in PC specs. You can apply what you learn/figure out to the next patch rather than relying on the "one size fits all" approach to gaming that seems to be the status quo.

These modified INI settings (attached below) are working well for me. I found in one of them that hardware PhysX support was disabled, LOL. Compare these to yours. Remember to change the properties of the modded INI files to read-only so the game cannot "update" them. These settings raised my minimum FPS, dropped the average and max a little bit, but overall less fluctuation in framerate and improved graphics quality. As an example, look at the FPS in the "burnout" screen shot (middle thumbnail) where it often drops.

Code:

\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Batman Arkham Knight\BMGame\Config

Save your existing INI files with .OLD extension, then drop mine in place and see what happens. Let me know what you think. If you don't like it, delete them and remove the .OLD extension from your original files.

Not sure why, but using -nologo is what makes FRAPS stop working for me. Setting and removing that launch option toggles FRAPS on and off. Weird, huh?

 

Weird indeed ha... I use the Steam overlay for FPS and it works fine.

Game is running well for me as well, turned off Blur after the previous patch, upped AF to 16x. Fun game.

 

I play this without overlay but had HWinfo running today, after an hour with max fans max temp on my CPU was 93C . All other games stay below 80C but this really hammers it.

 

Cpu temp 93C?
Wow..

 

Being a long time first-person shooter fan from long before XBOX or Playstation were invented, (yes, I am an old dude, and I hate consoles,) I normally play exclusively with keyboard and mouse and generally despise using a gamepad. But, I got stuck in the Riddler's challenge and in the Road Rage challenge (both involve driving the Batmobile) where I could not make any progress. Grabbed my wireless XBOX controller and boom... finished the Riddler's obstacle course on the first try and took out two extra armored cars on the first try in the Road Rage challenge, LOL. I don't play driving games that much, but I should have already known this.

And, Steam overlay doesn't work for me at all. I have it enabled, but I cannot even use it for screen shots. It never pops up after launching the game for some reason. It did a couple of times the first couple of days after the game was first released, but never consistently and not even once since the patch. I normally leave it enabled globally and disable "in-game" for each profile because I find it annoying unless I am in a screen shot taking mood.

 

It has worked every time for me... no idea why, it has simply worked since launch both before and after the patch... using a single 970m and the two latest driver revisions. This is both before and after I discovered the -nologo tip, no difference. Odd indeed.

And I agree, I refuse to play most games on consoles simply because of the controller, but for third person games (Batman, Witcher 3 etc) IMHO a controller can't be beat... first person shooter, I simply flat won't play with one, but a controller does have it's place elsewhere. Of course, in games like GTA V, I then end up using a controller for all gameplay except when I need to grab the mouse and target accurately... each has it's place for sure.

 

@Mr. Fox using your ini files, FPS are higher (as high as over 100 FPS to 55 FPS) and game is playing ok for me. Sometimes though I notice that Batman is standing in the rain and he looks dry as a bone (all the eye candy is maxed). I actually had to stop playing because I got a hand cramp ( I need a gun). Combined with your files, and 353.38 driver I'm getting higher FPS. I do notice that for me the game will stutter for split second, this has happened ever since I installed the 353.38 driver and the game did crash once. @ Mr Najsman I just finished playing 4hrs CPU temp never got over 70c, GPU less then that maybe time to repaste?

 

most likely the rain effects weren't there as they just recently patched that back in.

EDIT: Oh man, spending too much time on this and already 83.6% before finishing the game (i haven't downloaded the pre-order DLC and PS4 exclusive DLC.

 

The rain effects are there, but they only work properly on new saves and in the first game session. The moment one quits and returns, the rain shader gets parred back to minimal, which also includes the damage on the batsuit. I have tested this issue extensively and the only solution I've found for this is to either start a new game, or play through without quitting, both being rather absurd. It's patch-related and we have to wait for further updates for the rain shaders to work properly. In the meantime, have a look at the following Steam thread where this matter was discussed.

 

I should really hope not. I repasted with Gelid less than two months ago and temps have been stellar so far (sub 80C @Anything).

Sure I´m recording but OBS isn´t that taxing. I´ll have to test some more and see whats up.

 

http://kotaku.com/sources-warner-bros-knew-that-arkham-knight-pc-was-a-1714915219
I think the title introduces the article well.

 

I have looked into my high CPU temp before, turns out it´s OBS that´s causing it.

All tests are with stock clocks, undervolt -70/0 and max fans. I ran twice without recording and got max temps 76C and twice recording with OBS and got max temps 88C. Once I even crashed after 10 minutes and XTU was reset.

Take a look at the graphs. OBS is really hammering the CPU, I had no idea it was that taxing:

Spoiler: Arkham Knight OBS

 

Would this work in single GPU configurations fine?
Forgot to ask when you posted this.

 

apparently SSDs are better for this game as I haven't seen any fps drops at 30fps. i think it's playable at 30fps but that's my opinion....60 is more preferable.

 

I believe it will. I have not checked single GPU, but none of the tweaks are SLI specific. Please try it and let us know. As long as you save your original INI files with a different extension is should be easy to undo if you need to.

Yes, it does help due to the high volume of data streaming. I have my Steam Library on a 4TB HDD RAID0 volume because it is too huge for my 1TB OS SSD volume, but I moved Arkham Knight to a new library on SSD and I can see an improvement in the smoothness of the game. As an alternative, caching HDD using something like PrimoCache or using Intel RST with mSATA caching also help a great deal, although not as much as SSD.

 

Will report later today.

 

I'll probably give your INI tweaks a try but i am not really "playing" this game for fun/entertainment at the moment (i have the PS4 version for that) but really to see the performance of the game and the hardware. Nvidia recommend a minimum of 970m for notebooks....at 30fps probably. i do find occassional stutter but so far not during any crucial gameplay moments.

the rain effects are there but seems to be less dense after restarting the game from a save point or cold from the desktop, a minor annoyance than anything else. i do notice rain dripping on the cape and suit but you'd need to look super close.

with patch 1, my 980M's temps are well below 60 deg C and sometimes will clock between 1038 and 1260 but will mostly stay at 1260.

seeing this is the first of many interim patches i think it'll be a few months before it will be more playable.

 

I play it at 60+ fps and never got any of the slow downs people mentioned. I had a feeling it was due to my SSD.

 

Patch 1 made it ok but not great.

EDIT: some of the militia soldiers have really low res textures like it was a delay or something. using mr. fox's inis.

 

I tried to play the Harlan Quinn DLC, and after she beats up the cops and walks through a door I can no longer control her. She just stands there dead in her tracks, at first I thought my control went dead, but no it was the game-BAH.

I cloned the drive that had all my Steam games, and I noticed the stutter no longer appears. The game is playing very smoothly. So, BOO Harley, yeah SSD.

 

I noticed that using RTSS will break when interactive fog and debris is enabled. With those enabled it doesn't show the OSD stats nor give me access to the steam overlay so I may as well just disable RTSS and the steam overlay.

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@Mr. Fox Well I was going to test your .ini with my laptop until the game started to have a rave party and cause issues.
May run it later, but sadly, I don't like the response the game just gave me. May be because I'm running multiple programs and monitors.

 

When is this game supposed to be available for purchase again? I'd like to buy it.

Hopefully they'll have it on sale, considering the issues.

 

look back a few pages and there is a solution to this provided by @j95 ... create a profile for the BatmanAK.exe in RTSS and tweak that config file and it will start working again.

 

@Mr. Fox Finally got around testing your .ini files, and I saw an improvement with my framerates. Of course, I only did the benchmark, but things did look smoother, so I suspect in game motion would be smooth as well. No Interactive stuff, but using my laptop + GTX 960. Same settings as I did earlier in the thread.
Without tweaks: 28 49 71? (Min Avg Max FPS)
With Tweaks: 38 52 74 (Min Avg Max FPS)
It also could have been that I'm using an SSD for the game's location, but even then, my HDD wasn't rough in the benchmark.

 

would be nice if the textures were fixed!

 

I had to remove Mr. Fox's ini files. I was on the 2nd Stagg airship and game started freezing and crashing. It got to the point where it would no longer launch-black screen hard reset. Tried other games in steam library-no problems. When I restored my original ini files from old, game launched and works no problems. FPS @solid 58. IDK what happened but that was my experience.

 

It's probably related to the warning in the ini about edits potentially causing instability or crashing. They even warned about changing the frame cap.

 

IDK, the game was doing ok with Mr. Fox's files right up to that point in the game.

 

Awesome. Glad it helped. Thanks for testing them.

Who knows. I haven't run into that yet (knock wood) but maybe they slipped us a mickey, I mean, *burp* update. Now that the game is running right, might be worth trying to sneak them back in again at the next chapter/checkpoint. Might just be a buggy spot in the game code.

Ignoring such warnings is one of my favorite things to do. They're usually meaningless, but it helps the people that issue them to feel more important, and the act of defiance is exhilarating.

 

Unlocked some extra concept art junk this evening. Here it is if anyone likes that sort of thing.

 

shame the in-game models look like complete arse with the low textures even at normal....where's me ultra settings?

 

I suspect they will fix it. Batman: Arkham Knight looking better on a PS4 is just a fluke and an anomaly. Stooping to the level of gaming on a console will never be a good option as far as I am concerned. This is just an example of poor execution, and nothing more. As a matter of principle, I think I would probably just abandon gaming altogether rather than use a console. I'm proud to be a haughty and arrogant PC elitist, so that's beneath me and I just won't go there.

 

Well, I found out why it did this. The default settings of the game not only was a lower resolution than my monitor and laptop panel, but it was on fullscreen mode. Thankfully, I fixed this by switching to borderless window and the problem went away (took alot of crtl + alt + delete and opening task manager to see where I was. A lot of patience was necessary).
I'm not sure how this happened since I only know fullscreen affected gameplay, but I'm sure a lot of Optimus and Enduro users won't be happy about this. If any Optimus / Enduro user needs help with this, here are some steps to do. This is only after you created a game file.

1. Open the first created game file.
2. Click on the down arrow 5 times or 7 times if you have the challenges and the option below it available. This should bring you to Options. Press Enter.
3. Click on the down arrow twice. This should bring you the the Graphics Options. Press enter.
4. The default mode should be fullscreen, so click left arrow and press backspace.

And that should be it.

 

need the precise instructions to get RTSS to run in AK.

 

Here you go...

1. Click the "+" sign to create a new profile
2. Browse to the executable and select it
   
3. Open the new RTSS configuration file in Notepad
4. Add "Enable=0" under [RenderDirect3D10]*
5. Select the new RTSS profile
6. Confirm OSD is turned on

Note: if it still does not work and you have disabled the launch videos, re-enable them. My RTSS works with launch videos disabled, but FRAPS does not. For some reason FRAPS seems to need those videos to run in order to set hooks in the game at launch. Steam overlay does not work no matter what I have tried. Even disabling all NVIDIA Gameworks features doesn't allow Steam overlay to work on my M18xR2 or Clevo P570WM.

*Thanks to @j95 for the tweak.

 

i know disabling RTSS will allow the steam overlay to work though i feel that the steam overlay just adds to the stutter so i might disable it to test.

 

Steam overlay doesn't work for me since the patch... with or without RTSS running. Maybe whatever NVIDIA did to the BatmanAK game profile to make SLI work busted something. I don't really care that much. I never use it for anything other than to upload a screen shot to my Steam profile, and that is only once in a blue moon. I have no use for it otherwise, and normally have it disabled globally. I only temporarily enable it when I am in a screen shot uploading mood. I'm using FRAPS for screen shots and in-game benching, otherwise I would not be using FRAPS either.

 

the steam overlay worked for me once i disabled the fog and debris settings and turned off RTSS....bleh RTSS worked without cfg editing just by disabling the fog and debris settings. no idea why but this RTSS cfg edit worked nicely - time to add update my OSD.

EDIT: not sure what to make of this:

https://steamdb.info/app/208650/history/

potentially a new patch?

 

Perhaps, but if so it is an undocumented one at this point. The only one I can see is June 27.

 

this one is interesting:

https://steamdb.info/app/208650/history/?changeid=1148109

and it's quite recent.

 

to physx or not to physx?

 

if anone wants a steam key for this game, I have one available for 25 bucks. Game is running great on my desktop, not so great on the lappy.

 

$25? Meh, you can get it cheaper on G2A .

 

The game seems to run a lot better if you use an SSD, maybe that's why it runs better on your Desktop.

 

i seem to get some micro freezing on an HDD.