Which side is lying?

[Draknalor]

Hey

Some say the game works for them and then the other side says the game is completly broken and unplayable

If the game works for some it isen't completly unplayable,

So i'm just wondering if people are exaggerating the situation and/or if they are outright lying about their game performence

[76561198127671900]

PC gaming is a mix of objective facts and subjective opinions, as well as a roll of the dice.

Some people will luck out, and games will work better for them compared to others, or they'll experience less bugs, etc. Whereas the others will experience performance issues on their rigs that are perfectly fine, and/or experience bugs as well.

On top of this, everyone has their own standards for what's good and what's bad. Some people don't mind stutter, low frame rates, being forced to use the lowest settings even though they should be able to use higher, lowering resolution below 1080p, etc. Then there are those who can't stand anything below 60/120/144 FPS, or know their rig is more than capable of running a game at maximum settings yet get poor performance and don't tolerate it.

Universally, Batman runs "poor", it just depends on your definition of "poor", and how much toleration you have towards "poor" performance. Then there are those who somehow max the game on rigs that just meet the recommended, all because they were lucky with the dice roll.

[Providence 777]

Originally posted by Her Majesty's Chargeback Chief:

PC gaming is a mix of objective facts and subjective opinions, as well as a roll of the dice.

Some people will luck out, and games will work better for them compared to others, or they'll experience less bugs, etc. Whereas the others will experience performance issues on their rigs that are perfectly fine, and/or experience bugs as well.

On top of this, everyone has their own standards for what's good and what's bad. Some people don't mind stutter, low frame rates, being forced to use the lowest settings even though they should be able to use higher, lowering resolution below 1080p, etc. Then there are those who can't stand anything below 60/120/144 FPS, or know their rig is more than capable of running a game at maximum settings yet get poor performance and don't tolerate it.

Universally, Batman runs "poor", it just depends on your definition of "poor", and how much toleration you have towards "poor" performance. Then there are those who somehow max the game on rigs that just meet the recommended, all because they were lucky with the dice roll.

This^

Anyone saying that it performs or should perform in an consistent mannor across all rigs because theirs runs it, are the only people lying.

[i suck willy]

Originally posted by Monkerlotus:

The steam charts peak players shows it all.

Yes and no ,batman is mainly about the single player experience and some will play offline for single player games. Sometimes I do this, I sometimes disable all the steam client stuff, go offline, sometimes I tweak my operating system, shut down stuff I don't need running in the background, switch windows 7 to windows 7 basic, and play.

[AppleshyJedi]

I do feel like the forums (on multiple sites, not just here) are awash with people screaming about this game, which at this point is just kinda overwhelmingly annoying.

However, I do agree that the game is not well-optimized in the slightest and it will be a gamble to try and run it. BUT, if you like the series a lot and want to play it and meet the requirements, I'd say go for it.

I fall under the minumum but with tweaking I got it to a playable state (averaging 30-60fps depending on how much is going onscreen), so for me, it's good enough until I can get a better rig.

[Draknalor]

Originally posted by Her Majesty's Chargeback Chief:

PC gaming is a mix of objective facts and subjective opinions, as well as a roll of the dice.

Some people will luck out, and games will work better for them compared to others, or they'll experience less bugs, etc. Whereas the others will experience performance issues on their rigs that are perfectly fine, and/or experience bugs as well.

On top of this, everyone has their own standards for what's good and what's bad. Some people don't mind stutter, low frame rates, being forced to use the lowest settings even though they should be able to use higher, lowering resolution below 1080p, etc. Then there are those who can't stand anything below 60/120/144 FPS, or know their rig is more than capable of running a game at maximum settings yet get poor performance and don't tolerate it.

Universally, Batman runs "poor", it just depends on your definition of "poor", and how much toleration you have towards "poor" performance. Then there are those who somehow max the game on rigs that just meet the recommended, all because they were lucky with the dice roll.

Seems like the best explonation so far

[Mr.Hmm]

Dont know about others but tried it today 1 hour ago. The game runs fine for me.

There are still problems but for now its quite playable.

[Aryend]

Originally posted by Mr.Hmm:

Dont know about others but tried it today 1 hour ago. The game runs fine for me.

There are still problems but for now its quite playable.

yup, that about sums up my experience, game runs fine for me but still has it's issues.

[Draknalor]

Originally posted by Mr.Hmm:

Dont know about others but tried it today 1 hour ago. The game runs fine for me.

There are still problems but for now its quite playable.

Good to know :)

[Josh]

Originally posted by Draknalor:

Hey

Some say the game works for them and then the other side says the game is completly broken and unplayable

If the game works for some it isen't completly unplayable,

So i'm just wondering if people are exaggerating the situation and/or if they are outright lying about their game performence

As an unbiased party, i'll tell you.

I have not played Arkham Knight since release (I've owned it for 4 months).

When I heard about the ♥♥♥♥ storm and people saying it is unplayable, I didn't bother.

After this last patch, I loaded the game up.

I can run it at 55-60 fps on the highest settings, however I will get random drops to 10 FPS when simply running around, which imo is not acceptable.

Any by drops to 10 FPS, I don't mean 55fps dropping to 45. I mean the game drops to an actual 10 FPS.

A game should not stutter like that...it should be a consistent FPS. Even a consistent 30 FPS would be better than an unstable FPS that can drop to 10 or under.


The majority of the time it is 55-60 FPS but it really ruins the experience..Guess we wait for more patches.


Turning the texture quality down to normal did not help.

To be clear it is "playable" but it's not enjoyable...or as enjoyable as it SHOULD be.

My rig is GTX 970 4 GB, 8 GB Ram and i7 CPU

[Crimsomrider]

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=481359979

Take this as you will...

[Killzone]

Thats gotta be it 50% of gamers play at 4K 60fps... Really man, those of us with systems to run games at that resoultion are a tiny minority.

Originally posted by jayz0ned:

Neither side is lying. I just think some people have higher standards.

Eg: expect to play the game at 4K 60fps at high with no frame drops at all, while others don't mind playing at normal settings and can tolerate drops of 10fps.

[Josh]

To add to my post above..Upgrading to the latest graphics drivers helped my performance a lot. Still get drops using batmobile to 30 fps (inconsistent)...but that's the worst it is. Usually the fps is 45+ in batmobile.

So far it's been really smooth since I got the latest drivers. Will continue playing tomorrow.

[Aryend]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4s6YQB0yZ0

well, for me it runs pretty good, not to say it's without issues, encountered bugs from time to time (grappling hook to the sky, falling through the floor) and the AO and Rain Layer issue is still there, but my performance is quite good so far.
Settings are: everything on high, smoke and debris off, also motion blur and aberratic chromation off (don't like them)

[metalzak]

just want to run it with higher than low textures and its ran out of vram what the hell is it doing with it to think this game came with the card you'd have thought it would work correctly only at 1080p not as if i'm going 4k.

[Crow]

I can run everything on high except for the nvidia crap.

My rig is

i72600K
GTX 970
24Gigs of ram.

win7

When I run the game I go to my task manager and set ak.exe priority to realtime

I hardly expericence any hitching when gliding or in the car anymore.

I get 60 most of the time aswell except for a few dips from time to time.