Kotaku Australia has reported that it got its hands on an internal email from EB Games, in which Warner Bros claimed that Batman: Arkham Knight PC won’t be fixed until the Australian Spring (or Fall for everyone else).
As that email reads:
“As previously advised, we have stopped sales of Batman: Arkham Knight PC while Warner and Rocksteady work on addressing performance issues with the game. The latest information from Warner is that the updates won’t be available until Spring. Due to this we have made the difficult decision to recall all PC stock from stores to return to the vendor until an acceptable solution is released.”
A couple of days ago, Warner Bros claimed that Rocksteady is working hard on fixing the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight. And while the game’s Steam entry has been recently updated with various fixes, it seems unlikely – at least at this point – to see any significant/performance patch getting released in Summer.
We’ll be sure to keep you posted, so stay tuned for more!
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lol I don’t know who is worse now. I mean this is making WB look like the worst company of the year for PC gamer’s. 1st MKX and now This!?!?
I mean at least Ubisoft games got quick patches. Sure ACU is still far from perfect for optimization. But at least it plays without crashing. And at least plays better then the console versions. And now we get to see AC S because if AC S runs good nobody is going to give a F about Ark Knight on PC at least not till a Steam Sale.
This just shows that WB’s ignorance was much more then I expected with outsourcing a game that should of been done by Rocksteady from the get go on PC. You would think after Ark City, Origins, WB would of learned their lesson. And the only reason SOM ran so well on PC was because it was not outsourced.
Now, now. There’s still plenty of time for Koei Tecmo to botch another two console to PC ports like they did with Toukiden. That ought to let them compete at least.
Samurai Warriors 4-II and Nobunagas Ambition? i really want to see if they can mess up a strategy game port.
One Piece’s musou game is getting a Steam release too.
yeah, but it is a different publisher, hmm i wonder if that would matter.
yeah but Koei Tecmo’s games at least play. I mean I would rather spend money on a Ninja Gaiden Trilogy on PC then Batman ark knight. But I got Batman for free…..
Shame I can’t get another free game in return
They have cultivated a braindead fanbase which would defend their sh*t ports. All japanese games are like this.
remember when this game was supposed to come out in 2014? and then they delayed it to 2015, i really want to know what did the PC team do in that time, probably nothing.
And nothing they did. Two months for Iron Galaxy. Two months lol. From IOS games to hey man get this Game done in two months. Just make it run at 30fps and watch how V-ram usage goes up when you unlock the FPS in the ini file… lol oh and textures get worse when you unlock the FPS cap btw at least from what I noticed.
yeah, for me some textures won’t load if i unlock the fps, and if i lock it to 30fps game runs like a slide show after 15min or when i call the batmobile
yeah I notice the v-ram usage goes insane as well lol. I mean even the biggest AMD fanboys can’t blame gameworks for this game.
like I been saying for over a year now it all comes down to bad programming. btw I got killing floor 2 and holly F!!!! PhysX Flex is amazing and you don’t even need a dedicated PhysX card like I thought you would
Can be FleX computation redirected to another GPU?
Not that I know of. From my understanding from playing the game it’s in the game’s engine. I don’t see a option to turn it off or on.
It’s already in the game? I thought they were just teasing it for now
people back then: thank god they delayed the game so they can work on it and optimize the game with more time.
they delayed it 1 year to remove some key features such as challenge maps and scre**ng the pc version
Don’t worry people, you can still buy the season pass while waiting!
F’ing videogames nowadays. What a sad state of affairs.
Downgrades okay I can understand. I remember the 1st downgrade back when we just called them “this is not what the game looks like” was Mario 64 now Nintendo was showing what Mario 64 will look like in Nintendo Power Magazine when N64 was still called Ultra64.
But to make a game with this many issues and send it out in such a state is just insane. The Good enough attitude just show’s no respect for it’s customers. I mean WB could give a press con at the freaking rose garden with the president of the united states with all the sugar coating and we are working on Quality BS and it’s still going to be BS. They had many games that been outsourced and they all ran like garbage. From netcode too performance.
All their BS PR talk should of been done and made with results years ago.
Holy hell! That long?…………..that’s the DUBBBBYAAAA BEEEEEEE. (Imagine Frog theme song here…) Tha-Tha-Tha-Tha That’s All Folks!
Bunch of friggin’ morons that planned this whole thing. I hope the WB burns for this.
And the award for worst company in America goes too…..WB Games.
Seriously broken, pathetic port. Mean while handfuls of ignorant plebs on Steam forums claim it ” runs fine for me”. I want to reach through my monitor and punch em.
most of them are trolls with private profiles, some of them are just stupid, plan and simple and the others are just warner people. a guy says game runs fine for him at 30fps with a 980ti with some dips here and there, and he said get a better PC. steam forums are filled with these kinds of idiots, look at anno 2070’s forums, same people defending the game’s DRM and uplay, you will find same people defending ACU and watch dogs, now batman.
I’ve got a 980ti since it came out and I’m not happy with this port. Dips are annoying as hell.
yeah i’m on a 970 (which is more than enough for this game), whenever i call batmobile games goes slide show, and by slideshow i really mean it, it runs between 2fps to 20fps (mostly under 10fps) and never goes up untill i stop and not looking at anything, the moment i change camera position or walk it’s 2fps again. exiting the game won’t help, i must restart the pc to play again cuz the whole windows goes slowmo on me and restarting take around 10time more than a usual restart. if i don’t call batmobile at all, game runs 31fps all the time without hiches or anything, if i unlock the fps it runs 45fps to 60fps with stutters and some textures won’t even load. it is annoying
I’m running a 980 on a 4k Gsync monitor now, as I’m awaiting pascal, before upgrading, and priori tu this was using a 1080p screen.. On that screen out ran at 35-60fps with all physx and 45-60 without rain and paper effects. The Batmobile caused immense stutter first time, but wasn’t as bad from then on, only occasionally caused some less severe stutter.I think vsync and frame pacing is very broken in game, as using gsync now, it runs much smoother with no major stutter.
For anyone out there considering gsync, jump in there, as it’s best decision I ever made in regards to gaming. 4k I could live without, but how much smoother everything feels, just unbelievable
Oh bro are you for real? haha
These guys have really given us a bad port no question about it. I had no idea how other people are running this game. I just get some dips random, like hickups. It’s annoying.
But joke aside, playing this game for an hour makes you really appreciate the other games lol
Actually Amir, I fired up Batman again today and found out that it runs really smooth on gtx 980ti + ROG Swift, the only thing that is killing me is the blur.
If only I could turn that crap off I would be running this baby like butter.
it’s still runs like s**t here. you can disable motion blur via some of ini files
Yeah I though about that. I’m gonna look into it.
Listen, If I were in your shoes, I would’ve sold the 970, made some more cash and got the 980ti and sold that one right before pascal comes out so I wouldn’t lose too much on the bargain.That’s what I did with my gtx 980 and my gtx 980G1 since I watercool everything.
Think smart, be ahead of the market, and get the best out of it!
why should i be ahead of market ? 970 is more than enough and it should be, i don’t want to throw my hard earning money at useless hardwares because some games are broken and by the way this generation of games is nothing but disappointment, it’s more like a step backward which means it’s worth it.
Well, I can easy defend ACU now because it does run really good on a GTX 970 and 60fps at 1080p is pretty easy for it with no horrible frame-rate drops. Amir, I know you hate ACU and Ubisoft but you have to properly take each game as it comes and properly test it, not go on what it was like on release and make the assumption it’s still like that.
The difference here is I can prove ACU doesn’t run bad, even on a FX 8350 CPU or a R9 280 now and there are plenty of videos showing ACU running better than the console versions now, simply not the case with the consoles as they still drop below 25fps at 900p.
I have videos of ACU running on a FX 8350/GTX970 at 60fps+ and people claimed the GTX 970 runs bad with a GTX 970.
my friend have ACU and his PC is identical to me and he is running ACU 60fps i know that the game runs good on 970+ cards but thats not the problem, they didn’t fix the game, we bought new cards, this is the problem, maybe amd fixed it for 280 or 290 series but game is still bad on other cards, 700series or lower. i know, in ACU defense, game looks good and way better than it’s console version but still that game was broken maybe not as broken as batman but still it was bad
Well, I’ve seen plenty of crazy bugs in TW3 and has been downgraded but that seems to get off lightly compared to ACU. According to Kelper users, TW3 runs horrible, mind you, even my GTX 970 has terrible microstuttering with the game so I have to lock it at 60fps via MSI Afterburner.
You can prove that Witcher 3 is designed for 30fps in mind. It takes around 65% more clock speed to get 60fps in Witcher 3.
An 872mhz GTX970 (via bios hacks) can run Witcher 3 fine at 30fps, with some drops to 28fps in Velen marshes (without hairworks, just everything as per “game” ultra). Customized ultra (which involves dropping shadows as vanilla shadows are as sh!t as Fiend Dung) runs at 34fps.
A 1439mhz GTX970 runs even velen marshes at 60fps in ultra. Watch Dogs is much better in comparison as per linus’ testing, it only cost 55% more gpu horsepower to get 60fps.
Amazing how many CDPR brain dead defenders we have. No wonder they pulled a ubisoft on us, meanwhile ubisoft has not downgraded their latest AAA release ACU on PC. Just lied about geometry works tessellation, but thats probably canned because of even more draw call bombardment.
i guess that kepler issue was a driver issue which was fixed, other than that game runs OKish and better than ACU on lower hardwares but no one claims that W3 was an excellent or a good port
The game was downgraded like crap. A shame. But the performance issue was nvidia fault. Not the studio
The GTX 970 does not run bad with a GTX 970! Lol
Fixed
“I have videos of ACU running on a FX 8350/GTX970 at 60fps+ and people claimed the GTX 970 runs bad with a FX-8350.”
I always laugh when people talk sh*t about the FX8350 all alone. And worse when you hear that Nvidia GPU’s works bad with it since I own one with an Nvidia GPU.
The problem here is all a$$ greed games needs 5 patches to run on pc. They charge full price, that is 60 bucks, and give you an mess of a game. Meanwhile the console version ‘works fine”.
If i pay 60 bucks i want the game to run just fine from day 1.
In the same topic: did you guys that “pay” for the game received the tessellation patch already?
get a better rig scrub. My results are consistent with general benchmarks, way over 60fps maxed out:
http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–V9I0cGmC–/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1315899110109972880.png
I admit the game is broken (huge RAM and VRAM usage for example), but the game runs better than I expected it to run on my system.
The problem is that you got so many variables that it is possible that the game runs better or worse on different systems, it’s not a unified thing.
I’ve made a video of gameplay footage on my system, which you can find here:
https://youtu.be/aFBtP9_2Wkk
highly doubt it, this fall 2015 thingy started with GameInformer’s misinformed article now sh**taku reporting on it, both don’t know anything about pc gaming. but i’m not going to be suprised if they actually do that, arkham knight’s PC release was suspicious from the begining, it’s unplayable for me. well F**k warner and whomever worked on this game.
whats does ‘knowing anything about pc gaming’ have to do with this lol dont be so stupid
gameinformers worte and article about PC version getting delayed till fall 2015 just becayse in steam page it said it will be released for mac and linux on fall 2015. sh**taku knows nothing about the pc gaming just like gameinformers, see ? don’t act like a stupid ***t you f***kard
Chill lmao
Fall 2016.
Fall 2015 ? Are they completely rebuilding the PC version ?
They should release it as a “We’re Sorry Edition” with all the DLCs.
And give the DLCs for free to those who got retails copies (can’t get a steam refunds on retail, only for steam store purchase)
I finished the game but it runs from 30fps to 60 never stable fps :I
This game should have never in a million years released in its original state. That said, the damage has been done, and I’d rather them take their time and get it right, the last thing we need is the game re-launching with issues/shortcomings.
Frame-rate is irrelevant when the game is stuttering and pausing.Claiming a game runs at 89FPs average on the best single GPU you can get and best CPU you can get doesn’t prove anything.
This is what i think.. they completely put the PC version aside while focusing DLCs on consoles. Apologizing and saying they are fixing the PC version are just plain lies in my opinion.
Also this will help the sales on consoles with the longer delay in PC version just like GTA5. Microsoft and Sony wins again.
What do you have? 750 ti??????
console master race
980ti still suffers same drops to about 35fps(with physx effects on) that all cards do when in Batmobile or flying around city.Theres isnta single gpu on planet or sli either I think that can run this game without issues
what a joke
Don’t forget to preorder this game that you already preordered, so that you can be the first to get screwed over when it still doesn’t work! Serves you right!
if this was ubisoft we would have a like 5 or 6 patches by now and 2 or 3 patches
for the patches, WB! you need to step it up!
if u put at 720p, not that this is acceptable at all, it seems to run alot better with high graphic options. i72600k, 8ddr3, 970