How many computers can you inlstall/play Batman Arkham Asylum on?

Just tried the demo for this game to test my laptop and i rly liked it. Can i download this game off of say Direct2drive and download/install/play on both my laptop and my desktop?? Also does the actual game somewhat offer better performance? And are there any known fps configs for this game?? (For my laptop)

 

If you get it through Steam probably as many as you want. With Steam only one person can be on the account anyhow.

If you mean people playing concurrently, no idea. I suspect doing this would be against the TOS of the game anyhow, if there is a TOS.

Lastly, it should run well. You have to hand it to them, they did a very good job porting this to PC, probably the best console port I've played so far, in terms of appearance, running well etc, Mass Effect 2 would be 2nd and then Borderlands. Notice all 3 games have something in common? All UT3 Engine games, I really love UT3 Engine, runs great, looks great.

I did notice in Borderlands, UT3 Engine has a flaw. It's really bad at large texture backgrounds. It's great in the main game and the two DLCs because view distance isn't huge and their isn't a lot going on in the distance. This is the same for Batman AA and ME2, where the action is always in a closed, smallish setting. General Knoxx opens up, the game is pretty much just one massive view distance, and UT3 engine crumbles, makes my G73 work double hard, I have to reduce resolution from 1080p to 1600*900 to get it run smooth on Knoxx.

 

I don't know specifically about Batman: Arkham Asylum, but...

I have downloaded Mass Effect 2, Prototype, Resident Evil 5 from Direct2Drive on my m1710 AND my m11x...same activation code worked both times...and I can fire up any of those games on either laptop without issues (I don't play multiplayer so I'm not sure I could use both simultaneously to do multiplayer)...

And same thing goes for Steam (and they sell Batman: Arkham Asylum for the same price as D2D)...Steam takes it one step further because some games support Steam Cloud which allows you to store save games on Steam's servers...play on one computer, save your game, and then pick-up on the other computer right where you left off...

 

Batman AA isn't one of those games though. And GFWL doesn't allow the transferring of save games between PCs either. When my lappy gpu died and i got the temp desktop i had to restart the game, which was a bugger. It says the save file is corrupt. It's supposedly a way of stopping you downloading a 100% save file and using it. I don't know why you would want to stop that though...