Batman: Arkham Knight PC Players Are Still Having Problems After Re-Release

AT LEAST 12 gigs of ram? How about instead they fire these developers, because they're obviously incredibly inept at their job. I've never heard of such poor optimization.

Glad to see they did anything with those 4 months of work.

well i can confirm the game runs at 60fps 1080p all settings on and high except for Nvidia game works (chromatic aberration and film grain are also off) on a Windows 10 gtx 970 i5 3570 and 8GB PC but there are some stutters here and there that can be sort of fixed with a restart(from main menu). It's not great but it's not that bad.

rollerblading on gravel is funnier than playing this game.

It's weird how Mad Max looks incredible and runs fine, but this game requires more expensive hardware to get working properly- or so they like to imply. I don't really understand the logic behind that.

I've only really checked the settings since the relaunch and the test seemed fine to me (well wasn't solid 60, but it looked better and didn't stutter so we'll see whenever I get to playing it). They added a bar in the settings menu that tells you how much VRAM each setting is supposedly using.

For me it does seem to handle textures better, but that's still tangential as I still haven't gotten back to playing it yet.

It seems like this port is all over the place. It may end up being a wash for a lot of people. That's a shame, but at least the other games are pretty great.

Just as I thought.

So the amateurs Rocksteady gave the keys to this game to butchered the code to its core, probably needing a total rework, which costs money, time and patience no one has anymore. Avalanche and Monolith did an amazing, fantastic job with their PC versions of Mad Max and Shadow of Mordor, respectively, talking about WB games, and Rocksteady is in a deep sh...ame because they couldn't be bothered to port the game themselves. This whole thing is unredeemable.

Game is "playable" but the biggest problem for me is frequent pauses which disrupt the experience, and even tho I have 12GB Ram I still have yet to see total system ram usage exceed 5GB while Arkham Knight is running. I'm seeing mostly 60fps but again its the frequent pauses / hitches that bring the quality of gameplay down.

i7 920 at 3.4Ghz / 12GB DDR3 1600 / R9 290X 4GB / Win 10

First- I'm a PC gamer. I have nothing against consoles, but I invested in my PC, and can not afford to have additional gaming systems. With that out of the way, here's my two cents:

I will not buy another WB game because of their approach to PC gaming with this game.

I will not fund a developer that develops games for other platforms, and then poorly ports them to PC.

Good bye WB. I am sorry I bought your games before.

PC gamers, it's okay to abandon the stubborn stance. Just say "**** it" and simply invest in the XB1/PS4 versions. We will understand. No gamer with an optimal PC deserves half-assed, mangled garbage when it comes to ports. It's been nearly four months, and it's still an unplayable mess?

Just let it go. You'll feel better.

Let's get some things straight: This game was designed to run on consoles that have similar processing power to a next gen cellphone. Whatever they're doing in that dev studio isn't cutting the cheese here. If it can run on my PS4 it should be able to run on my girlfriends 680 with room to spare for her Skyrim addiction

lol There are still people running after this game on PC. You should have stayed away at the 1st dragged out debacle.

I was going to say something sarcastic but I already had a dig at PC for this joke of a game initially. No point rubbing salt in this festering gangrenous wound any further.

Anyone who can't see what this game and developer is really made of by now really isn't worth the time.

What a complete debacle this release has been. To get it wrong once was unacceptable, but twice? Warner Bros. really are going to have to work hard to ensure that games don't even need a day one patch from now on. (Yeah, right!)

Shame.

They're going to have to make a lot more Batman games to give people for free for this one.

I'll repost something I wrote yesterday:

The main culprit behind the performance problems of Rocksteady’s final Arkham game is due to streaming . Whatever they are using right now, it is not working AT ALL. Usually games stream-in and out game assets in accordance to the player position on the map. Arkham Knight is doing an incredibly lousy job of managing the streams. Essentially the game overloads a huge chunk of game data: once the RAM gets overflowed, the data spills and comes in contact with the HDD, which is A LOT slower than the RAM and this is when the performance degradation happens. This is most likely the reason WB is suggesting us to have as much as 12GB of RAM so that our RAM container is big enough for that spill to happen less often.

You will notice that for many of you, the HDD indicator is all red (mine does not even blink) when you play the game, suggesting that the RAM was overflown and our HDD is being used a virtual RAM. When I moved the game from my HDD to SSD, the experience was much smoother. Now this is not an excuse for a broken streaming engine though, there is absolutely no excuse why the game is having a hard time streaming from standard PC HDDs when it has no problem with the standard console HDDs which runs at a slower speed.

Now will they fix it, can they fix it, does it matter now? I would like to say YES to all those questions, but given how long the issue have persisted and countless failed attempts to resolve this, the answer to all those questions is NO.