Batman: Arkham Knight PC will require 'significant' work; first patch released
The PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight received a patch over the weekend, although it's going to take some "significant" work to get it where it needs to be.
Batman: Arkham Knight may not have had the smoothest launch on PC, but Rocksteady and NVIDIA are working together to help give the platform the game it deserves. You know things are bad when the game’s publisher decides to suspend sales until its many issues are addressed, but it appears it’s going to take some time for that to happen.
WB Games’ lead community admin Yorick published an update on its official forums saying Rocksteady is leading its team of developers and partners as they work on the PC performance issues many users have been experiencing. Yorick admits the work is “signficant” and will take some time to ensure the right fixes are in place.
Yorick outlined key areas Rocksteady is dedicating resources to help improve the experience of the PC version:
- Support for frame rates above 30FPS in the graphics settings menu
- Fix for low resolution texture bug
- Improve overall performance and framerate hitches
- Add more options to the graphics settings menu
- Improvements to hard drive streaming and hitches
- Address full screen rendering bug on gaming laptop
- Improvements to system memory and VRAM usage
- NVIDIA SLI bug fixes
- Enabling AMD Crossfire
- NVIDIA and AMD updated drivers
While work is being done to improve the performance of Arkham Knight, interim patches will be made available to address issues for those who are currently playing the game on PC. The first patch was released over the weekend and includes the following improvements:
- Fixed a crash that was happening for some users when exiting the game
- Fixed a bug which disabled rain effects and ambient occlusion. We are actively looking into fixing other bugs to improve this further
- Corrected an issue that was causing Steam to re-download the game when verifying the integrity of the game cache through the Steam client
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash when turning off Motion Blur in BmSystemSettings.ini. A future patch will enable this in the graphics settings menu
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replyDaniel Perez posted a new article, Batman: Arkham Knight PC will require 'significant' work; first patch released
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I don’t always do significant work on a game, but when I do, I do it after it has been released.
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Yeah that's kind of what I figured. That first little patch was a couple of quick fixes while the REAL changes are going to take some time. Who knows what that means... A month? More? Oh well. I'm sure I'll beat the game before the real patch comes out.
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Also, has there been an updated ini tweak guide? I know there were a couple when the game first came out, but it's been a while now and maybe people who know what they're doing have made some more progress.
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This wouldn't have happened at Rockstar that's for sure.
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At rockstar they would just release heists 1 year after the game comes out.
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Pretty much. Unless they can get it into shape before the end of the summer, doubtful, then it'll be put on my wishlist for the next Steam sale.
This is a shame since it'll fracture the player experience base. Console gamer will talk about it now, and those of us waiting for it to get fixed might try to talk about it later in the year.
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I don't think GOTY will happen. It didn't happen with the previous game, and more and more games are going with the 'season' pass like this one, which just adds to the confusion of whether you get all the content or not.
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I'm fairly certain that Arkham City in my Steam library is GOTY.
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Yeah, sorry for not being clear. I've been waiting for origins to get a GOTY edition.
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I'm still flabbergasted that they shoved the PC version out the door. They should have delayed it for another month or two. Consumers would have hemmed and hawed, but PC versions being held back isn't exactly newsworthy.
Rocksteady, WB, and Iron Galaxy could have teamed up to out out all the fires, released a game that was stable, gorgeous, and fun all at the same time, and PC players would have waited (im)patiently, as they are used to doing because they always end up with the superior version in the end. No studio's reputation would have suffered, no customers would feel burned, a stellar finale to a stellar franchise wouldn't have a tarnished status--everyone would be happy.
Instead, some conglomerate of executives (or perhaps developers) thought only of money and rushed a broken product to market. Thank goodness for Valve's new refund system. Imagine if it had been in place prior to the launch of MKX on PC. WB could be reeling from a major one-two punch of mass refunds.
I hope this sad state of affairs serves as a lesson to publishers: deliver stable games, or you will lose a lot of money and good standing.-
Yeah honestly I was surprised when they said it was shipping day and date with the console versions. I'm so used to PC ports getting pushed back that I was expecting it to be the case here as well. If this is the reason why most PC ports are held back, then more power to them.
Haha honestly, next time someone bitches about a PC release being deayed, I completely give the publisher permission to reference The Arkham Knight Incident.-
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Really !!! Did you like the past games?
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I'm 70% done with the story and 75% done with Most Wanted (100% a bunch of them last night).
I've had two crashes in about 24 hours played and both related to driving the batmobile. I'll probably finish this game before the patches.-
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If you want more detail I've completely finished the most wanted missions for Penguin, Two-Face, Firefighters, Azrael, Manbat, Firefly, APC Lieutenants, Hush, and the Serial Killer.
All that's left is one unlocked mission, mines, checkpoints, towers, and Riddler.-
You need everything except Riddler to activate Knightfall
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I wonder if it's too late for me to ask Steam for a refund.
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It probably stays on you hard drive but will say it's an invalid key if you try to run it. Seems like Valve wouldn't be authorized to delete files from your hard drive.
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I refunded a game and while it's still installed the Play button is replaced with Buy
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Yeah, it's the shitty memory leak that gets me the most. Everything is fine till about an hour like you said then tbbbbbbttt
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My friend gets the running low on memory error which minimizes the game. I asked him how much RAM the game was using in the take manager and he said it wasn't more than a few gigs. He later told me he just hit cancel on the warnings and went back into the game no problem.
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No problems with the PC version here. I love it so much I bought a retail version just to own a hard copy.
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I hope they can magically get this sorted out in a few weeks. I don't want another Battlefield 4.
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Got this with my 970, so I'm a bit disappointed but have plenty of games to play while I wait for it get fixed so not the end of the world
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