We all pretty much know how awful the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight actually is. And while it was to be expected that the publisher would not admit such a thing, it did state some ridiculous facts that will definitely make you laugh. I mean this… this is how the Batman died on the PC (unless of course Warner Bros, Iron Galaxy and Rocksteady decide to fix this mess, however at this point this seems unlikely).
As the statement reads, Warner Bros is working diligently with its development teams, NVIDIA and AMD, to identify and fix the issues affecting the PC version.
And while this is great to know, Warner Bros claimed that the game’s recommended PC requirements are for Normal settings only. Yeap, you read that right. Even though the PC version lacks major graphical features, the publisher also recommends to lower the settings to Normal in order to achieve – with a GTX 760 – an experience similar to current-gen consoles. And that’s basically the definition of what an unoptimized product actually is.
Oh, and things get better and better. Warner Bros also suggested that PC gamers should not tweak the game’s ini files as that could negatively impact performance (yes yes, that includes the parameter for the framerate too).
“We do not recommend that users change anything in the game’s .ini files as this will potentially negatively impact performance, including frame rate, and stability.”
As stated, Warner Bros is currently working on improving streaming performance from mechanical hard drives as “this is one of our top short-term priorities.”
Reading behind the words, this could mean that the framerate will not be unlocked, and those missing graphical effects may not be included in the upcoming patch.
Whether the PC version will be fixed remains to be seen. Our PC Performance Analysis is delayed at this point, and we strongly suggest avoiding this game.
GreenManGaming will also offer refunds once the first patch hits Steam. If after the fix has been released, players still cannot play their game, GMG will process refund requests for the game.
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Pathetic stuff
this is just !!OMG!!WTF!!
LOL really ??? hahahaha I dont know what to say :I
fu c k ing disgrace
Pre-Order dummies make my day, I’ll sit back and catch this on youtube. Great to watch but all I see is repetitive gameplay, tank mini game is repetitive crap, they take forever to kill and it’s complete waste of energy. No way would I pay full price for this.
I’ll just wait for the GOTY edition on PS4, unless the PC version is fixed by then and $5 on a Steam Sale…
Why are more and more developers looking like Ubisoft these days? Definitely not a pleasant trend…
This is beyond Ubisoft. Why have they removed settings? and indeed, this is actually false advertising as according to the nvidia preview, the rain effects should be on the PC version.
They do this for purposes…
We’ve seen several red flags with WB, I noticed the trend back when they locked away Catwoman with an online pass in Arkham City.
Luckily, now we have Steam refunds and they won’t be able to get away with this so easily.
So console peasants can come here and say “Hey yo, Batman sold more on PS4”.
You have to be nuts to buy this on PC.
what a bunch of retards, instead of patching the game, they simply say, lower your settings
Lowering settings doesn’t seem to do anything. DSOG showed some comparison shots and I couldn’t see a difference.
I’m pretty sure that the issue comes from Denuvo online checks. Its servers maybe couldn’t handle the release day demand and just kept trying to check the copies of the games, delivering massive stuttering.
Now the game works fine for me and nor an update or new drivers where released. I didn’t even rebooted my system in the whole week.
denuvo has something to do with it. most games with denuvo have issues so it can’t be coincidence and for what? 1% increase in sales? enjoy all the refunds Warner Bros.
Why is the mechanical drive streaming on the PC giving them trouble while the console versions that also use mechanical drives seem to be working just fine? Denuvo, perhaps?
And PS4 only has a 5400 rpm HD unlike the 7200 rpm standard HD on PC. There’s something wrong with that shi* XD
Pretty sure that’s not how the system works, considering you can play games offline with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denuvo
WB, if you don’t care about PC market, just get out
Exactly. Why waste their time and energy on broken PC games when they can rather focus on consoles. I would have happily bought Batman on PS4 if I knew there wasn’t going to be a PC version.
Keep telling yourself that XD the companies making the most out of games are currently all doing PC games, and unless they porposely gimp the game like they did on this one, PC always looks and runs better.
They didn’t gimp this game, they just didn’t care about the PC port at all because there wasn’t as much money to be made as striking a deal with Sony. Also, the cost of PC development was probably covered by Nvidia having included their “gamenotworks” technology into it so WB passed the responsibilities onto a small time dev.
The Nvidia team doesn’t pay for development costs or ports of any kind as far as I’m aware of, and again you are under the impression that good PC games make no money, while a third or more of The Witcher 3 money came from PC, and will continue to sell more on PC as time goes by, while on console it doesn’t, there’s also the example of Diablo 3, just on PC alone in one week it sold more than the BIG SONY HIT The Last of Us made in almost 2 years.
So WB just gave Nvidia thousands of Batman AK keys for free right? So did CDPR right? If money was exchanged or not, no company would give away intentionally millions of dollars worth of keys just so they could to incorporate some fancy graphics features. Batman AK would have sold just as well if it didn’t have the “Gameworks” features in it. Oh and please show me where I saw that PC games make NO money,
Having a deal to create bundles goes both ways, and in no way does it pay for the PC development, nor is Nvidia responsible for stuff outside gameworks, and even within gameworks, its the developers who implement it, not Nvidia.
Because for you, the fancy Gameworks graphics are worthless? it doesn’t however mean that Nvidia didn’t spend their money and time with their own teams implementing those graphics options into the game. That is not the same thing as paying for the development of the game, nor would Nvidia ever be respoensible for the port for PC, be it a good one or crappy one. You started by saying they shouldn’t have wasted time or money on the PC crappy port, so you could have gotten the PS4 version, however, like I indicated to you, good PC games sell aswell and sometimes better than the console versions, and moronic publishers like WB are now feeling that on their wallets and their stupidity over the PC port of Batman. As you can also see, The Dark Souls series that is now out on 5 platforms, sold 40% of that just on the PC, do the math.
I spit on all those who pre-ordered this game.
Huh?
MR.BEAN!
Wwow 0_0 … just wow. Do they really think PC gamers are stupid ? These fuc*ers really don’t learn, huh ? Ubicrap said they didn’t downgrade Hype Dogs and PC gamers found settings present in E3 that can be turned on with a simple tweak. Ubicrap keeps repeating their shyte with AC games and their PC sales plummeted. PC gamers are not like console gamers who just bend to devs/pubs. We find the truth and call out bullshi**ers on their bulshi*. Fuc*ers never learn —__—
Mayday!mayday! The Ubisoft virus is spreading!!
strain 1 causes graphics downgrade
strain 2 causes unoptimized games
Andnow there is a dreaded cross between 1 and 2….
Last resort is to pray to the saviour LORD GABEN!!!
All hail LORD GABEN!!!
Jokes apart , from this E3 it is sure that the market is shifting towards PC and pc community is now being the loudest
Looking at witcher 3 where 30% sales are from PC , it is high time devs start respecting PC community
lord Gaben Already did something, REFUND THAT PIECE OF SH ! T NOW!!!
nah , thanks for your concern mate , but i neither pre order games and nor buy them within a week of release
Cheers!
Ye, unless it’s a game I can trust, I never day one anymore.
ha ha , nice. actually even for witcher 3 i waited a week before buying ( though my exams also had a hand in it)
They’ll never ‘learn’ anything. These corporations are run by suits, not gamers, let alone PC gamers.
PC gamers are stupid
Cute —__—
Try harder 🙁
Wasn’t trying at all, just telling you what we all really think.
“We ?” I don’t see anyone else trolling but you here 🙁
Considering I’m currently broke, I was debating downloading this for the time being, just to get the experience; I mean come on, who can honestly say the Arkham Knight’s Identity Mystery hasn’t been nagging them for months?
Then I heard about the issues, & I said to myself – lol, f*ck that.
Then I heard about Denuvo, & I laughed even harder. I also reconsidered downloading it, just to spite their ridiculously bad decision to include such a ridiculous DRM measure in the first place.
Then I read this, & I finalized my decision.
Definitely Pirating, but not any time soon – I’ll wait to get the so-called “Game of the Year” version, all Patched up, & “mostly” issues-free, assuming this Patch Cycle lasts longer than the 4 months they gave Arkham Origins before pulling the plug on it.
As for buying it? Yeah, sure. Give me a shout when it’s a Steam Flash Sale/Daily Deal for 5 quid, since that’s all it’s worth to me now.
That should teach Warner Idiots to charge 90 quid through-the-nose for something as disgraceful as this.
I’d like to say my sympathies go out to the people suffering through this, but…… yeah, no. Pre-Ordering literally ANYTHING in this day & age is for morons. Hopefully a f*cktonne of people finally learned their lesson from this;
DO NOT FALL FOR THE HYPE. PERIOD.
considering what i heard about Arkham Knight’s identity guessing it is very easy.
*Mutters something about force choke if anyone spoils it*
😀
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse. Shame, I was really looking forward to this one. Guess I’ll postpone my purchase until it’s considerably cheaper (and hopefully at least half-fixed).
RIP Batman.
you know why that dont want you f’n in the ini, right, somewhere in there some coder left a couple remarks like ubisoft did in sh*tdogs
GMG offering Refund after the first patch (from reddit PCMR), at least it’s a good news for people who bought this pile of garbage from GMG.
PS: looks like the game won’t even have any challenge maps at all.
PS2: Go f**k yourself warner/rocksteady/iron whatever
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“decide to fix this mess, however at this point this seems unlikely”
THIS! As much as they will try and patch it, the game with never run properly on PC now, it was built on a broken foundation. But hey, atleast we have the DLC to look forward to right?
this is why witcher 3 sells more than one million on pc alone and games like these dont surpass 200k sales, due to their stupidity.
But the previous batman games who didnt have any of the problems this one has sold millions according to steam spy. Just checked steam spy and sales are 280.000 now. Who knows how many they were yesyerday before people start refunds
The audacity WB/Rocksteady have is legendary, these clowns deserve all the negative press they can get for their gimped and pathetic excuse for a “PC” version of their newest Batman game.
just get the bad AAA ports on console people.you should have learned by now with watch dogs ac unity.lets watch how bad metal gear will be on pc next shale we.
I have no clue who could preorder any PC game these days, especially if nvidia is involved. But unless those people buy them we will not see any differences.
it just seame even if nvidia is involved and is out to screw amd over its still bad for nvidia card owners.seams like every game nvidia is involved with has performance issues even with their own people who own nvidia cards.its why i get most AAA titles on consoles because by the time the pc version works right you could have finished the ggame on console already.
Let the game die, get/demand a refund, and remember all this happened next time there’s a game from these companies, and post about why you’ll not buy their next game everywhere you can, no matter what. Make them lose money on this game and the next, the internet doesn’t forget.
:I
They KNOW that PC gamers hate 30fps cap, and that is why they never told us about it in the first place. They KNOW they got sh*t and they shut their mouth till the last second to trick PC gamers and to get as much money as they can from us. It’s official, F’ WB!! I love em for The first 2 Batman game and Shadow of Mordor but THIS is just f’ing DISGUSTING!!
If the fps cap is still in place and the effects are missing, i’m totally getting that refund from GMG. I’m going to wait till the game is 4.99, which shouldn’t be long.
It’s a good thing I got my copy for free, thanks to the Nvidia bundle. Although I must admit, I’m enjoying Witcher III, all settings maxed out at 1080p to give a sh*t about Batman.
I’ll still download and play this. Just for a laugh.
This is hilarious! I only wish I didn’t speak Spanish! I’m missing the full effect! LOL
This is how it happened, this is how pre-ordering died.
1st thing Warner Bros f’ offfff 2nd thing iron galaxy plz close your door
console elitists have serious mental instability. all they do are keep taunting people to buy a PS4 and chanting the PC masterrace joke. i mean if you are happy that people having a broken product because they did not buy the brand you bought, they seriously need to seek medical help.
The reason PC gamers are complaining about Arkham Knight is because it plays like a console game. This is completely unacceptable. I’ve got a gaming PC and I don’t want to play console trash on it.
So the recommended specs were for console parity all along.
GEE I WONDER WHO WAS BEHIND THIS DOWNGRADE
so basically he is telling me to play it MORE”cinematic” lol
Get your refunds folks, stop supporting this crap and buy games from companies that respect their customers on the PC platform.
you should watch this, guys
I knew it was true
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvfnbsLtQzI
Yeah…they can’t fix this game & I am DONE with this series even before I gave it a chance -_-
BOOM! GREENMAN GAMING FOR THE SAVE!
Actually, if steam started offering late (re: 10-minus hour) refuunds for this game, the results would be hilarious. “sir, only 27 people kept the game. The other 2.2 million people all refunded it through steam and greenman gaming.”?
If there’s anything positive out of all this mess, it’s that at least there aren’t any retards here defending this debacle of a game.