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Gotham Knights has major performance/optimization issues on PC

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Warner Bros has just lifted the review embargo for Gotham Knights, and we can finally share our tech thoughts about it. And, unfortunately, the game currently has major performance/optimization issues on PC.

For our initial impressions, we used an Intel i9 9900K with 16GB of DDR4 at 3800Mhz and NVIDIA’s RTX 4090 Founders Edition. We also used Windows 10 64-bit, and the GeForce 522.25 driver.

At first glance, the game performs okay-ish. However, and once you start driving, performance goes downhill. At 1080p/Ultra settings, we were frequently dropping below 45fps while driving and exploring Gotham city. Things got even worse when we enabled its Ray Tracing effects, making the game completely unplayable.

Gotham Knights has major performance issues on PC

Above you can find a video, showcasing these performance issues. But let’s also take a look at a screenshot. In the following screenshot, we can clearly see that both our CPU and GPU are not maxed out.  Looking at the framegraph, we get a better idea of what is happening. From the looks of it, Gotham Knights loads objects/new areas while driving, resulting in performance hitching and stuttering. Do also note that we’ve installed the game on a Samsung NVMe 980Pro SSD. So yeah, everyone will be getting these stutters while driving. What’s also interesting here is that we could easily replicate these stutters/performance drops, at the exact same locations, by reloading a checkpoint.

Gotham Knights performance issues

But I know what some might say. “Warner Bros has listed an Intel Core i7 9700K as a minimum CPU, upgrade that i9 9900K“. Fair enough. So we went ahead and dropped our settings to Medium, and we were still getting those stutters/performance hitches. Hell, we even used the game’s Low settings, and the stutters were still there. Here is a screenshot on Low settings. Notice that we’re getting the exact same stutters/hitches at the exact same place. So no, this isn’t a CPU issue.

Gotham Knights performance issues Low settings

Let’s also not forget that the game is locked at 30fps on current-gen consoles. And now you know why.

We’ve already informed Warner Bros about these issues so hopefully, they will address them via a post-launch update. Right now, though, know that the game is not optimized for framerates higher than 30fps.

Be also sure to check this video, showcasing the game running in native 8K on Ultra settings with Ray Tracing on an NVIDIA RTX4090!

89 thoughts on “Gotham Knights has major performance/optimization issues on PC”

    1. I said this already two times…but he is still thinking its not the reason. Anyway…maybe i will purchase it and test it by myself. Every techblog suggests an actual CPU for a 4090 but John dont need it…

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    1. https://sherief.fyi/post/arkham-quixote/

      the problem was solved by a modder who discovered that it was allocating textures in the video memory unnecessarily even if they were already allocated creating problems for the single thread graphics engine. it was a solution adopted to overcome the problem of consoles that had little memory.

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      3. In a way, you’re right. White people are currently failing to protect their traditionally high quality standards, their culture, their creations, their land, their way of life, etc. A lot of it is being done by shape-shifters of course, but nonetheless white people have failed to recognize this problem and are many still failing currently. Eventually they will have a mass realization and things will swing back their way. It’s going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better though, and it will take some time.

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        1. You are half right. White people haven’t failed a damn thing. What you have is good and bad people as usual. And the lazy, good for nothing white folks have always been pulling the strings of woke to further their agenda. That’s why whites left EU in the first place and it has caught up with them. Because just like other immigrants, they never protected and fought for their Homeland. Instead they fled to elsewhere and it has caught up with them yet again. I’m glad you’ve recognized the true culprit, because other white folks are in denial and delusional. The real problem have always been the good for nothing whites who want to gain power over the hard working ones. And the good for nothings will gain power at all cost. Just too bad minorities are ALWAYS at the center of their Fuqing plot, every God damn time.

          Had a white dude said to me out of nowhere, “it’s terrible what they did to your people with the slavery and all”. I said to him, yes it is also terrible what Barabaries did to your people as well, with whites being the most enslaved and all. Dude looked at me like he saw a ghost, because his brain was didn’t work.

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        2. White people and quality. Ironic, like how you have recursive Hindu Temples and then you have sh*t Greek temples – in equal competition.

          Equality is white man’s greatest threat – in order to be equal, white man has to kill better people – then only he can try to be equal to the people who he killed but still can’t.

          Nice try.

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      4. Funny you should say that when IGN’s Mitch Dyer has been fast tracked in the industry and is writing this awful game. He called Anita Sarkeesian his hero. Guess that qualifies you to write Star Wars games that were previously done by NOVELISTS. Squadrons characters of course were made LBGT to act as a defense force for shi#%y writing. Mitch will just keep failing upwards though, just like Sam Maggs, who also gets hired with no experience over qualified minorities…

        Sam who is also white and who is a con woman who attacks all white men in the industry? MARRIED HER WHITE BOSS at Bioware. We are on to the con clowns.

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        1. also wrote star wars battlefront 2 with the guy who wrote spec ops the line, these people are hacks. Then you got Allanh Pearce who said the reviews are written to get on the good side of cliques in the game industry and get a job there and surprisingly, she got a job writing god of war santa monica along with anthony burch who said he did everything in his power to put gay stuff in the game’s dialogues.

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          1. Yeah it’s actually hilarious. The biggest “champions of the LBGT and minority communities” are all hired over them for the high paying jobs, even when they have zero experience. They only hire the LBGT crowd to do the art so that they can pay them no money. They find people without jobs on Deviant Art and replace people with degrees. The tech people that are talented are now just going indie. That leaves the rejects behind or people who are just miserable there, hate the company they work for and hate the leads lol.

          2. yeah good artists not be hired due to lack of connections is a huge issue and the ai art coming out is gonna put them out of business.

          3. Unreal 5 might be a game changer. I think a lot of people are just gonna go indie. The asset streaming means a lot easier optimization , because budget for each scene etc is so much easier. Add to that some IP’s are now so damaged due to the parent companies making them for “modern audiences” that any generic made up IP would be better. Like Mass Effect over Star Wars etc.

          4. bla bla bla bal bla read this cracker

            Keep on dreaming, this is white made games. White games are bad even if they spend millions and millions of dollars.

            Whites have always been losers, whites had no discoveries or inventions until they came and colonised India – all the way from numerals, arithmetic,

            calculus to periodic table (said by Dmiitri Mendeelev), to quantum
            physics (said by Erwin Scrdohinger).

            Can’t keep on looting and killing all the time while bottom at the hierarchy, now the truth is showing.

            In equal competition, white man is nowhere.

          5. HAHAHAHHAHAHA without whites everyone would live in huts. Africa did not have even discovered the wheel when whites set foot there, japan did not have electricity or running water, they were afraid of trains, india is still a shthole that everoyne shts in the streets.

          6. No, white man was living in jungles, while NOT everyone else – said by the white man who ruled India himself and was civilised from scratch:

            “Powerful Empires existed and flourished here in India while Englishmen were still
            wandering painted in the woods, and while the British Colonies were a wilderness and
            a jungle. India has left a deeper mark upon the history, the philosophy and the religion
            of mankind, than any other terrestrial unit in the universe.

            While we hold on to India we are a first rate power. If we lose India, we will decline to a third rate power.
            This is the value of India”
            –
            Lord Curzon, British Viceroy, 1901 Delhi Durbar

            White man’s civilisation was original shithole and look at today – its tuning in o a shithole. Today’s India is after destruction of India by whites. Keep on dreaming, you will lose again.

          7. and when everyone was monkeys on trees greeks had democracy…and look at them now. Clearly white socities are better than non white socities. I already explained that to you, japan had no running water or electricity when white moved set foot in it. Indians are always “superpower by next year” and they still sht in the streets. There is no “lossing” here, when white people lose the whole world goes backwards, that is the truth.

          8. Not sure about Africa, but about India – you have recursive temples that are machines compared to white man’s sh**ty greek temples. Not to say, Hindus ruled Greece peacefully – ofcourse the white man had to ban the book – “India in Greece: Truth in Mythology”. Not to say multiple artifacts not bought in mainstream media, white fragility.

            Look at white losers fired by Elon and replaced with Asians ones. Whites can’t even win their own spelling bee contests.

        2. also wrote star wars battlefront 2 with the guy who wrote spec ops the line, these people are hacks. Then you got Allanh Pearce who said the reviews are written to get on the good side of cliques in the game industry and get a job there and surprisingly, she got a job writing god of war santa monica along with anthony burch who said he did everything in his power to put gay stuff in the game’s dialogues.

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        3. Keep on dreaming, this is white made games. White games are bad even if they spend millions and millions of dollars.

          Whites have always been losers, whites had no discoveries or inventions until they came and colonised India – all the way from numerals, arithmetic, calculus to periodic table (said by Dmiitri Mendeelev), to quantum physics (said by Erwin Scrdohinger).

          Can’t keep on looting and killing all the time while bottom at the hierarchy, now the truth is showing.

          In equal competition, white man is nowhere.

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          1. Theres a very distinct correlation between the hiring of woke employees to failure across all spectrums of media.

            “But but but white mans fault!” – “denial of reality”.. ??

          2. Denial of reality is white man putting blame on white failure on non whites where non whites never made the game. How long are you gonna keep on spinning stuff?

          6. Ahh more white projection, white people made this game. How is this diversity hire problem. Denial of reality.

          7. Woke doesnt = skin color though. How do you do your 2 second reseach with such reading comprehsion disorder?

        1. Makes sense that there are so many White people in an African setting: Can’t make people have the wrong impression that the game is about killing just black people in africa.

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    5. There was an article from one of those mainstream media publications interviewing the writer of this game and going on about how excited they were, turns out the writer is a blue haired shaved head bulldyke with big glasses and tattoos everywhere. Worse than the depictions in the meme you posted.

      Doomed from the start.

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  6. But I know what some might say. “Warner Bros has listed an Intel Core i7 9700K as a minimum CPU, upgrade that i9 9900K“. Fair enough. So we went ahead and dropped our settings to Medium, and we were still getting those stutters/performance hitches. Hell, we even used the game’s Low settings, and the stutters were still there. Here is a screenshot on Low settings. Notice that we’re getting the exact same stutters/hitches at the exact same place. So no, this isn’t a CPU issue.

    Settings generally have no or very little impact on CPU performance so this is an incorrect conclusion.

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    1. Draw distance, Environment Density and Shadows affect CPU performance. This is why overall CPU performance is lower in our “Low Settings” screenshot. The game has stutters while loading a lot of stuff, and that’s why there are these frame drops. Current-gen consoles also have similar frame pacing issues.

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  7. There is nothing remotely exciting about this game …everything feels so bland.
    The gritty art direction from Arkham from Rocksteady outshines this miles !

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      1. Not sure what NPC are you talking about. But I’m familiar with the video and the fact this video was made when the game just launched and it couldn’t run maxed out + Physx at launch, so they interpolated the video.

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  12. I’m totally shocked that an Unreal 4 game that is open world and that has Denuvo on top performs like sh@^. It’s not like Unreal made Unreal 5 to solve the stuttering with asset streaming from the SSD. You know the game sucks when IGN gave it a 5, even though their previous employee Mitch “my hero is Anita Sarkeesian” Dyer wrote the game.

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  15. Not saying the game is well optimized, but pairing an RTX 4090 with a CPU that lags behind a 100$ 12100f makes no sense to me, and even less publishing performance analysis on that stumpy system lol.

    The good thing is no one cares about this game

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    1. i9-9900k, a stumpy system. Psssh, tell that to Activision, whose new MW2 runs on max settings with i9-9900k as recommended processor.

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      1. You forgot to say “similar or sightly faster” wich in this case proves my point since we are talking about the performance of a 100$ CPU and pairing it with an RTX 4090 nontheless

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  16. On every consoles the game have drops and stutter under 30fps just go watch the digital foundry video it was a delicious bashing

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  17. Thoses issues happen with the most powerful GPU available nowadays what to say about others who still own GTX cards or less powerful RTX ones: Culprit here are cancer Denuvo and a bad optimisation. By the way 9900K is still a very powerful CPU no need to upgrade.

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    1. In Gotham Knights? That reminds me of Dying Light 2. They displayed a groomer flag in one of the houses early in that game too.

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  24. I9900k and 16gb…yes its cpu and ram limited…that it is not optimized, no games really are for pc, but this is a case of traversal stuttering…is the bar resize enabled?

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  27. Intel literally has a program called VTune Profiler that breaks down what is causing your CPU to stall in whatever application you attach it to. I have never seen such an extreme CPU bottleneck. 100% of pipeline slots wasted or stalled on machine clears. 25.986 CPI Rate. Most CPU bottlenecked games I’ve tested are like 1.25 CPI rate(<1 is good >4 is terrible)
    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/bc8a48adbc3988f90004b934118067bc983158f452d82f05639d413b0f5d8dac.png

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  28. Tell me you don’t know anything about PC game performance benchmarks without telling me. You’re running a 4090 and a 9900k at 1080p settings. You’re literally CPU bottlenecked at that resolution. The GPU isn’t even being fully utilized. You need to be playing the game at 1440p MINIMUM, preferably 4k. Try again and then write another “performance review”.

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  30. My whole game freezes solid as i ride my bike.. like the areas are still loading and then it goes again.. i’m on an 860 QOV SSD

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