Game Crashing on Scarecrow Sections

[Tardivex]

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Okay so here's the thing, the first time I ran into Scarecrow in the Medical Center the game crashed to desktop after I walked around a bit after the elevator cutscene, not even in the Morgue or anything, but I opened the game again and it was just fine, I managed to play the Scarecrow section, shine the light thing on him and on with the game, so I fight Bane and all that and then I reach the second Scarecrow section which is in Arkham Mansion, where there's a huge corridor and it starts raining and Batman relives his parents' murder and then you control little Bruce and all that but as soon as I become Batman again, and I'm just at the door when the last dialogue of Gordon finishes when he says to call him Jim, the game crashes to desktop again

At this point I though huh, maybe I should just start the game again and it will fix it like it did the other time but after going through that long section again, right at the door it crashed to desktop, this was infuriating because it's wasting my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time and I remember when it crashed in the Morgue I googled it and all and managed to find stuff on it, there was a guy with the same problem, but now here in the mansion there was literally nothing, I couldn't find anything on the matter and now I'm just left wondering how the hell do I fix this and go continue on with the game

Any fixes or suggestions?

[M1keSpb]

I have same problem because i installed rus language for this game, but you can avoid this just put all the settings to low, it should work. Аfter the passage of the episode you can put your old settings.

[Tardivex]

Thanks, I don't know why but in the end of this Scarecrow encounter my framerate tanked really really really hard, while the rest of the game runs like butter, once I finished and appeared in the bell tower the framerate went to about 4-10 for a couple of seconds and then the game stabilized again, there's some really weird optimization issues on that area O_o

[arfWignack]

Thanks for the tip. I had the same crash while heading into Scarecrow. Lowering the resolution worked to get me past it.
edit: had another crash a bit later. Turned off PhysX during that section.
Not sure those helped or not.

[RyKo]

Maybe it keeps crashing because your pc/laptop keeps overloading

[RyKo]

because maybe your pc can't handle it after the scarcrow fight.

[RyKo]

Maybe clear some space on your desktop.

[RyKo]

And try upgrading your pc.

[Tardivex]

Originally posted by GT-3000:

Maybe it keeps crashing because your pc/laptop keeps overloading

Originally posted by GT-3000:

because maybe your pc can't handle it after the scarcrow fight.

Originally posted by GT-3000:

Maybe clear some space on your desktop.

Originally posted by GT-3000:

And try upgrading your pc.

Nah, truth be told I think the fight is just poorly optimized, everything else runs fine and my PC can handle pretty much any modern game, not at uber max settings mind you but it can handle it's own pretty well with high settings

Anyways, in the end I just lingered a bit more after I become little Bruce Wayne and back to Batman again in that corridor and it seemed to fixed itself, for those with the same problem try doing that maybe waiting for a while and try going in the door afterwards, if it doesn't work try turning the graphics settings down just for that section and then back up again aftewards

Anyways to sum it all up I've already went through the game and also Arkham City, and really the Scarecrow fights are the only things that caused problems, I'm not a specialist but I would take an educated guess and say it's because of just the shear number of sizeable particles in that section like all the debree floating around and when he destroys your cover it's even worse because there are tons of particles that just swirl almost in a black-hole style fashion and then disappear, it's as if when you blew up a wall 100x maybe even 1000x the particles flew around when you did so, it would tank most people's PC's or maybe it's even engine related, like it can't handle it and it slows down, some people even reported it being related to Nvidia PhysX so theres definetly a connection there, nevertheless whatever is causing the issue even if it's unknown at least there's a simple fix for it

[arfWignack]

I ran into another problem in the game a little later. It's definitely PhysX. When I disable only PhysX, I can make it through either section.

[RyKo]

Glad to know

[malb80]

I had a similar problem with the first Scarecrow encounter when playing on the easy and difficult settings - but not on the normal seting. Strange!

[Jrscruff]

Bloody 'Orrible those levels. Scared the meat outta me

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[GriffyXV | Twitch]

Originally posted by M1keSpb:

I have same problem because i installed rus language for this game, but you can avoid this just put all the settings to low, it should work. Аfter the passage of the episode you can put your old settings.

Thanks! lowering the settings worked!