Keep crashing during Blackgate riot nexus mission. Anyone else?

[Eville Byron]

I've been enjoying Batman: Arkham Origins but I've ran into a couple of bugs/crashes, the last of which I can't seem to get past. The first one was in the GCPD building earlier on when the door to the evidence locker wouldn't open/unlock and I couldn't get any further. I read up and that seemed to be a common bug and I was able to get past that one easily enough. Now I'm stuck in Blackgate after the Joker started the riot. I'm in the nexus/admin area with all the gargoyles to hang from and ten henchmen. The game doesn't get hung up and keep running like it did before. This time, at some random point before I can finish this mission, Batman seems to freeze for a second, even though the sound keeps going, and then the game crashes out to Windows.

Has anyone else experienced this before? Any ideas? I'm really sort of stuck and can't get any further.

Thanks.

[Eville Byron]

After looking a little further, I see a lot of posts about people suffering severe performance hits on this level. This is strange because most of the people complaining have systems far above mine. I'm running on a four-year-old i5 system with GTX260 SLI cards. I'm running at 1920x1080 with detail/quality about mid-level and I experience no frame-rate drop or other perfromance issues like many others have complained of, but it does make me wonder if my crashes may be related to this issue. I'm going to try and tone my detail/quality/resolution down a bit, just for this level, and see if it changes anything. If anyone else has any other ideas, please let me know.

Thanks.

- Byron

[Buck]

Make sure drivers and physx are up to date.

try forcing dx9 mode by adding -d3d9 to the launch options.

[Eville Byron]

Well, I took resolution back to 1280x720, turned physx and aa off and I was able to make it through this mission without the first hiccup. I must've tried at least twenty times before. I'd say it's related to the same performance issues everyone else is having, but maybe manifesting itself a little differently since my system is a lot less powerful than those I've read of in some of the other posts. Anyway, I took everything back to "my" normal after this mission and everything still seems to be working fine.

Thanks anyway. Hopefully this may help someone else having a similar issue in the future.

[Buck]

引用自 Eville Byron：

Well, I took resolution back to 1280x720, turned physx and aa off

Yeah I think Hardware physx is probably just a bit too much for those dusty old cards.
I am not sure if AO states anything specific about it, but AC specifically states a Min GTX 560 is recommended for hardware physx

[Eville Byron]

I guess that could be. It's hard to imagine though. I've played most of the game up to now with it on and most of the eye candy up at higher levels and rarely seen much below about 35-40 FPS. I know the GTX560 was a powerful card, but I think that recommendation was for a single card and I had SLI. I guess that must've helped me a little. Heck I ran the original AA with full quality and physx with 8800GT SLI and a Duo Core 2. I ran AC with physx on my current machine with physx on and never had any troubles. I guess I was just lucky.

I plan on upgrading my GTX260SLI to a single GTX960 before too long though. I'll probably see at least a little better performacem build up a lot less heat and likely use only about a quarter the power of my current two cards together. Hopefully that will get me a little more life and maybe another couple of years before I get to the MUST build a whole new system stage.