.ini tweaks for better fidelity

[Osyris]

Here are some of the tweaks I made to the .ini file for better visuals. First locate the BaseSystemSettings.ini file located in "..\Steam\steamapps\common\Batman Arkham Knight\Engine\Config\BaseSystemSettings.ini". Save a copy just incase. Now down to the nitty gritty of making edits. Edit the following values to mirror what is bellow in "EDITED VALUES":

ORIGNIAL VALUES:
MaxFPS=30 (Caps FPS at 30, WTF?)
bAllowPostprocessMLAA=False (Turns off post processing AA)
MaxAnisotropy=4 (Texture Fidelity)
MaxMultiSamples=1 (MSAA, I.E. jaggies)
ResX=1280 (Resolution)
ResY=720 (Resolution capped at 720p; again WTF?)


EDITED VALUES:
MaxFPS=60
bAllowPostprocessMLAA=True
MaxAnisotropy=16
MaxMultiSamples=4
ResX=1920
ResY=1080

Anyways the changes I made actually made the game look much better; still not as good as Origins. I had no real negative impact on performance from these changes; in fact I noticed a performance gain from making these changes.

My Rig:
Intel i5-3550 CPU @ 3.30GHz
Nvidia GTX 760 - GeForce
Gskill Ripsaw 8Gb DDR-3 1600
2TB WD SATA 6 Gb/s, 7200 RPM, 64MB Cache
Windows 8.1 Pro

[TheRat62]

how much of a performance hit comes with this

[Osyris]

I actually noticed an increase in frame rate, which makes no sense. Unless the contractors you hired to port the game from consoles did absolutely no QA or optimization. With these settings I have an average of about 47 FPS; according to Nvidia shadowplay FPS thingy.

[MightyPoo]

Can you confirm that MSAA works?The aa in this game is quite bad and i am in desperate need for some good ol multisampling

[Osyris]

With the ingame interface if you turn AA, the default in the .ini only renders to '1'. I found a good compromise is at '4'. This way you remove some of the jaggies and don't really take a hit in performance. It still doesn't look as good as the previous games though. You can tell they really limited the graphic options so they didn't have to optimize as much. You can only do so much with the .ini before taking a hit in performance and with the game already being poorly optimized it is limited. Until they optimize and add more granularity to the graphic options we are limited to how much we can tweak.

[Osyris]

Originally posted by MightyPoo:

Can you confirm that MSAA works?The aa in this game is quite bad and i am in desperate need for some good ol multisampling

It does work. However, if you go back to options and make any changes through the game options it will overwrite the edits made to the .ini

[Dalle]

Need 2023 Guide for this.
I bet you can tweak a lot more with todays hardware!