Batman Arkham games - unaccpetable poor experience

[Sokar]

I recently reinstalled Batman Arkham Asylum to re-play the series. IBarely an hour into the game and it's crashing every 20 minutes; so I uninstall that and move on to Arkham City only to find out that the original version I have all of my DLC, unlocks, and saved content on is now uselss and I have to start over from scratch on the GOTY version - and guess what? The GOTY version of Arkham City apparently runs poorly, crashes, or refuses to start at all on Windows 10 - so now I'm two games deep into my attempt to replay this series and once again unable to actually play the games I payed for. This is bordering on theft. These games need to be fixed, or we should all be issued full refunds for them.

[NGCHunter2]

Have a look at the system requirements. Is Windows 10 stated at all there?
So, don't expect it to run at all then, and there's definetly no reason to refund when you play on an OS that isn't officially supported by the game itself.

Running this game on Windows 7, I hadn't had a SINGLE crash in this game, and only a single level "breaking" audio bug on a Riddler map.

[Chris Solomon]

for arkham city GOTY, are you getting a fatal error file not found type of error message?

I'm on windows 10, and i found that disabling the DX11 options allowed the game to start. got to the launcher settings menu and disable the DX 11 stuff options.

these options were added sometime after 2016 (last time i played - until yesterday) and these options appear to be enabled by default, even if you system doesn't support them

[Jac]

Arkham City ran flawlessly for me on Windows 10. Issue must be your system.

[A.M.R.]

Originally posted by Jac:

Arkham City ran flawlessly for me on Windows 10. Issue must be your system.

Same here, also re-installed BAA a few weeks ago also ran flawlessly.

[Sokar]

NGCHunter2;
1) One major draw of Steam is the expectation that games will be maintained and updated for new OS software. If games on their service are so far behind that they have to be run on Win7 to work, then they probably shouldn't be available on Steam anymore at all until the issue is addressed. Regardless, If I can still happily play disc-based copies of Silent HIll 2 and 3 published in 2001 and 2003 without any of these issues, then I see no excuse for Arkham Asylum (a game published in 2009 and purchased digitally) should be having debelitating issues to the point at which I am unable to play it. It shouldn't become that incompatible with newer OS versions faster than games 3x its age. This isn't me trying to play some PS1 game on a PS4 and being angry the backwards compatibility isn't there. This is me trying to play a steam game on my steam computer and having it basically give me the finger. "Don't expect it to run on Win10 if it doesn't state it" is a poor excuse when the title is still being sold today and my ability to play the original non-GOTY versions that worked has been removed.

2) Which brings us to refutation number two. This is the same computer that I played the entire Batman game series on in the first place. I played AA on console, replayed it on steam when it became available, and have played every single one since through steam on this very computer. They all played fine back then. The only one that had issues was the newest, Arkham Knight, and that was not specific to me or my machine and has been mostly fixed. Every other Batman game I ever got on Steam or played on this computer worked flawlessly - it is only NOW that I am being forced onto these "Game of the Year" versions that I am running into constant problems trying to REplay them. So, blaming the game itself or my machine itself is pretty silly - these games played fine on this machine years ago. The issue seems to be the newer GOTY versions that have taken their place.


Chris Soloman;

My major issue with Arkham City was that it simply would not launch. I would hit play, it would appear as a running program, and literally nothing of the game would display on either monitor. Multiple re-installs and re-starts didn't fix the issue. I left it sitting for several hours to see if it would eventually open, and it did not. Without changing or doing anything that I'm aware of, it just decided to start working and now seems to open and play normally. Now I'm just dealing with occasional freeze-ups where the entire game goes "not responding," gives me no error message, and requires a force-quit to get it closed. It seems to happen when my character is jumping or falling off a ledge, but I've also had it happen randomly at other times. It wasn't so bad that it prevented me from playing the game, but it was annoying.

I was having similar issues, however, with Arkham Asylum that just continues to crash over and over again the moment I turn the corner in a specific hallway early on in the game - nothing I've tried has fixed the issue and it persists through multiple loads of the save, restarts of the game, restarts of my computer, etc. It completely stopped me dead in my tracks and forced me to move on to Arkham City, which I then couldn't get to even open - so it was back to back obstacles just trying to re-play games I played years ago without any issues.

I'll check into those DX11 issues, thought. I'm about to move on to Arkham Origins, so I'm hopeing I'm beyond all the bugs and glitches at this point...

[Calavera]

I just finish arkham series this summer,no problem running the game o win 10.
So your pc, your problem.

[Dr Faustus MD]

Replaying Asylum on Steam, I had a lot of crashes and weird popping polygons, I think it was an issue with Nvidia's PhysX, so I played around with older drivers as well as underclocking my GPU by between 15 and 30 Mhz. From memory it fixed the problem there, no idea if yours is related. Win 7. Never had any issues with City.

[Asassinx1]

The game works flawless on Windows 10. Unless your running a ripped version of Windows 10 you should be having no issues.

If your running a ripped Windows then you should consider buying a Windows copy which will give you full support.

[scoot_n_mandi]

I am running Windows 10 on an HP Envy laptop with an Nvidia card, and finished Asylum a week ago with my only problem being the occasional lag that has been discussed elsewhere. I have been playing Arkam City since completing Asylum and have had no problems whatsoever. As others have been saying, it is your computer.

And also, Sokar,
1. You can expect the games to be maintained and updated for newer operating systems, but that doesn't mean it will happen. Just because the software is available on Steam doesn't mean they are obligated to see that it is updated until the end of time every time a new OS is made. (Also, you do know that Steam only sells these games, right??? They aren't the developers....) Some people still run Windows 7 and that is why these games are still being sold. The fact that they still run on Windows 10 is just all the better.

2. If you are still running these games on hardware you had when they were first released, then maybe it is time for you to upgrade! You say that they don't maintain or update the games, but then you complain that an updated verstion (GOTY edition) doesn't work on your machine. Which is it? Do you want them to update the software or not???

Sounds to me like you need a new computer.

[IRMcG]

Don't have Asylum installed just now, but City runs fine on Win 10. Just need to launch in windowed mode to avoid the black screen issue (game runs fine fullscreen afterwards).

[🦀i need that pokebooba🦀]

game runs fine for me in windows 10

[Rocket Rooster]

I'm having the same issue as the op (Sokar). I have a high-end Ryzen 1800x, 32GB, GTX 1080 system w/ legit Windows 10 Home. Uninstalled then reinstalled both Latest and Legacy Physx Drivers, tried starting up with all phsyx options off (no difference) aswell.

BOTH Arkham Asylum and Arkham City load up to the title screen, then when you click on the 'Start' game it freezes, and gives me error messages. Same thing, in the same places in both games.

By contrast Arkham Origins and Knight work perfectly even with physx on. I obviously don't need a new computure as many have spammed you in responce with.

Would love to know whats causing this, as the error messages are vague code, and I've tried many so-called 'fixes'. Regardless of what others are saying, I'm thinking it's windows 10 related as these wouldnt be the first games I've tried since switching from Windows 8.1 that won't work at all, or work 'properly' for me (Crysis 64bit I'm especially looking at you).

[Lunri]

Originally posted by Fragtaster:

I'm having the same issue as the op (Sokar). I have a high-end Ryzen 1800x, 32GB, GTX 1080 system w/ legit Windows 10 Home. Uninstalled then reinstalled both Latest and Legacy Physx Drivers, tried starting up with all phsyx options off (no difference) aswell.

BOTH Arkham Asylum and Arkham City load up to the title screen, then when you click on the 'Start' game it freezes, and gives me error messages. Same thing, in the same places in both games.

By contrast Arkham Origins and Knight work perfectly even with physx on. I obviously don't need a new computure as many have spammed you in responce with.

Would love to know whats causing this, as the error messages are vague code, and I've tried many so-called 'fixes'. Regardless of what others are saying, I'm thinking it's windows 10 related as these wouldnt be the first games I've tried since switching from Windows 8.1 that won't work at all, or work 'properly' for me (Crysis 64bit I'm especially looking at you).

Did you try disabling PhysX in the launcher? That usually solves most issues.

[Malsvir Ixen]

I have both games and they run just fine on my windows 10 laptop. Issue is on your end not the game.

[E_ZRO_Joka]

Originally posted by Jac:

Arkham City ran flawlessly for me on Windows 10. Issue must be your system.

Originally posted by A.M.R.:

Originally posted by Jac:

Arkham City ran flawlessly for me on Windows 10. Issue must be your system.

Same here, also re-installed BAA a few weeks ago also ran flawlessly.

Same here, with newest Physx system software (9.17.0524) even full Physx in Arkham Asylum works great on my GTX 970.