Batman Arkham Asylum & City both just converted to Steamworks only

[Ceryndrion]

Has anyone had any trouble activating theirs through steam?

I've put my code in, and keeps saying invalid code, even got my OH to put it in for me just incase, same thing with her.

Am doing something silly i just know.....

From what I understand, everybody who has retail copies of the game (ie, didn't buy it on steam) is out of luck currently, though that may change.. maybe.. if we are lucky.

 

[Spook187]

Just installed again(retail) what a surprize it wont work, can't even log into GFWL, what about all my DLC i have, i need to finish Harley Quinn’s Revenge, might as well just buy the offer on steam for a flags worth without jumping through hoops to get my retail version again

 

[Omaeka]

Several players are also reporting Arkham City has received an FPS boost after Securom removal its now playable on a GTX580 spec GPU with DX11 + Full Monty Gfx @ 1080P higher still needs SLI 680-780 or better

Eh? I seem to manage playing on ultra just fine on a single 670. I guess it's just one of them, plenty of people with medium spec rigs can get everything out of it at a high fps. I thought the optimisation was absolutely fantastic.

 

[Semiskimmed]

Dont buy the games again, be patient as retails games are being made to redeem via steam but its just not ready yet. I saw a video from totalbiscuit on utube earlier and he stated as much, also normal copies of the game will be upgraded to goty editions for both games.

 

[uncle_rufus]

Eh? I seem to manage playing on ultra just fine on a single 670. I guess it's just one of them, plenty of people with medium spec rigs can get everything out of it at a high fps. I thought the optimisation was absolutely fantastic.

Same here, I think even though I couldn't quite max everything I could even play it at reasonably high (definitely above medium) settings on my old 560Ti before I upgraded (to a 670)...

 

[Deo_volente]

How do Steam always seem to know which games to put on sale to make me spend money.

Buy Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition = £2.50
Buy Batman: Arkham City GOTY Edition = £5.00
Looks to top right corner of Steam = £7.86 in wallet.
Damn you Steam

Really need to upgrade my 5850 now though.

 

[Mark A]

Looks like Capcom are gonna follow suit - shame they had a Steam sale recently before mentioning this...

Is non-GOTY Batmans being fixed aswell?

ps3ud0

Does this mean that there could be achievements added to steam for Resident Evil 5?

 

[PinkFloyd]

Awesome, I can finally play Arkham City. I got it last year but I can't even get into the game because of GFWL

 

[ps3ud0]

Does this mean that there could be achievements added to steam for Resident Evil 5?

Not a clue Im afraid, just been told that they will be stripping out GfWL - better than nothing!

ps3ud0

 

[iv-tecman]

Well Batman Arkham Asylum only runs in a window mode for me without it crashing which it never did before..

So having to use a borderless window mode hack to remove the borders.

Arkham City loads twice as quickly and now i can use DX 11 mode, which couldn't before and i've lost all my saves.

But GFWL is now gone and both games steamworks. So, thats a few less games i need to bother trying to get GFWL up and running for.

i just need Dirt 2 and 3 to be rid of GFWL and Fallout 3, as well as GTA IV and it means pretty much all my games are using Steam either as steamworks or just purchased on steam..

 

[uncle_rufus]

Ahhh I wish they would hurry up and sort out the retail product keys, I'm actually pretty excited to play through the games again with all the GOTY content but I want to play Asylum first and my version of that is retail

 

[Witcher1979]

Ahhh I wish they would hurry up and sort out the retail product keys, I'm actually pretty excited to play through the games again with all the GOTY content but I want to play Asylum first and my version of that is retail

Asylum has no extra features but GOTY adds 3D that is all afaik

 

[uncle_rufus]

Asylum has no extra features but GOTY adds 3D that is all afaik

I know, but it's still been a long time since I first played it so it would be nice to have it as a proper part of my Steam library with steam achievements and give it another go

 

[RumbleBee]

Fallout 3, as well as GTA IV and it means pretty much all my games are using Steam either as steamworks or just purchased on steam..

Same. In fact I've recently re-installed my OS (to Windows 8.1) and I ain't installing that GFW so these games are on the sideline.

 

[zer]

Several players are also reporting Arkham City has received an FPS boost after Securom removal its now playable on a GTX580 spec GPU with DX11 + Full Monty Gfx @ 1080P higher still needs SLI 680-780 or better

There's definitely a GOOD FPS boost. I was playing with a GTX275, AMD 965BE on WinXP @ a mixture of High- Very High settings with a good deal of stuttering. Now it's silky smooth!
PS Are all those DX11 problems fixed? Ihave a Dual Boot machine (XP/7), so i could install it on 7, IF i 'd gain s/thing...

 

[PinkFloyd]

Does this really need 20GB to install

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Ah thanks for the heads up
Free GOTY si showign in my account, never finished the second one, shame the saves aren't usable

 

[uncle_rufus]

Hey all, just to those talking about the saves - You can actually remove the GFWL part of the save files (if you still have them) and I can confirm (for Arkham City at least) that it allows the saves to be transferred into the new Steamworks non-GFWL edition. Here's how to do it (copied in part from the steam community thread):

1. Grab a copy of a hex editor of your choice - I used the free "tiny hexer" http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/tiny-hexer-Download-35737.htm

2. Find your existing save files, they will be named "GFWLUserID-saveX.sgd" where X is the save slot number, and just copy them to your Desktop or somewhere you can work on them. Locations they might be are (for default Steam install, amend to your own Steam folder):

Arkham City
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<userid>\57400\remote
Arkham Asylum
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<userid>\35010\remote

3. Pick the one you want and open it in the hex editor, from the Edit menu select "Find and Replace" and into the search box put the following strings of numbers and hit search - it should find it in the file

Arkham City: 00 00 00 03 00
Arkham Asylum: 00 00 01

4. Now this should have highlighted a row of dots in the right hand column. Select everything in that column before the row of dots that the search highlighted, right the way to the top of the file, and delete it all. Save the file (note that tiny hexer saves a copy of the original with the extension ".bak" in case you need it).

5. Boot up the new GOTY Asylum/City and click one of the save slots to make sure a save game exists, and then exit (you don't have to actually start the game, just clicking the save slot and then exiting should be enough)

6. Now navigate to the folder with the savegames for the new version of the game, for AC it's :

Arkham City
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<userid>\200260\remote
Arkham Asylum
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\<userid>\35140\remote

7. You should see the new save games you just created, but they won't have your GFWL user id in the save name anymore, they'll just be called "saveX.sgd" where X is the save slot number

8. Rename the file you edited with the hex-editor to remove your GFWL user id and put it into the folder in place of the one above

If all is well when you launch the game again your save should be there... Worked for me anyway!! I expect the steam app id numbers might not be identical to what I've described as it depends on which of the original game versions you had
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/tiny-hexer-Download-35737.html

 

[Gazanimal]

Ok, just installed Arkham City GOTY which I've had for quite a while on Steam and never played it, but when I try to launch the game it errors and says it "Failed to contact key server".

Is it just a Steam issue, or is the key server down/getting hammered due to so many buying in lately?

 

[Uncle Petey]

I had AC goty on GWFL and uninstalled it recently. Where do I stand with the steam situation if I want to re-download on there given that I have a GWFL key?