Batman Arkham Asylum problem

Sho · 21 Mar 2011 at 13:56

Hey folks...

Now that iv got time on my hand decided to play batman. bought the game on steam back in xmas.

So i decide to play it, gives me the option to change settings etc. moment i press "play" It loads up but get a black screen then crashes to desktop.

Any idea's? And yes iv deleted it once, and re-downloaded, verified the file or what ever it is on steam. Drivers are upto date.

Thanks

Evilsod · 21 Mar 2011 at 13:57

You tried fiddling with the settings? Setting things to lower graphics perhaps?

Sho · 21 Mar 2011 at 13:58

Evilsod said:
You tried fiddling with the settings? Setting things to lower graphics perhaps?

That i havn't tried. Will give that a go later on today.

Evilsod · 21 Mar 2011 at 14:08

Probably a good place to start. I've got mine set to Medium atm, PhysX off, VSync off, etc. Never tried it on but it could be related to that.

AWPC · 21 Mar 2011 at 14:50

Sho said:
Hey folks...

Now that iv got time on my hand decided to play batman. bought the game on steam back in xmas.

So i decide to play it, gives me the option to change settings etc. moment i press "play" It loads up but get a black screen then crashes to desktop.

Any idea's? And yes iv deleted it once, and re-downloaded, verified the file or what ever it is on steam. Drivers are upto date.

Thanks

Make sure you have downloaded/installed the latest GFWL client from MS:

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-GB/download/

Also, ensure your firewall allows both the Batman AA.exe & GFWL Client.exe through as some firewalls block & do not give you a message to say allow!

Xelene · 21 Mar 2011 at 14:59

Try to Alt+Tab and see if there's some message popped up. It's worked for me flawlessly on everything i've tried it on.

Sho · 21 Mar 2011 at 17:53

AWPC said:
Make sure you have downloaded/installed the latest GFWL client from MS:

http://www.gamesforwindows.com/en-GB/download/

Also, ensure your firewall allows both the Batman AA.exe & GFWL Client.exe through as some firewalls block & do not give you a message to say allow!

Thanks for that. Your post helped. GFWL needed updating and needed to sort the firewall out aswell.

Up and running.

Thanks for the advise all. Will keep it in mind for near future

Freakbro · 2 Oct 2011 at 10:30

(Thread Necro)

I've just got round to installing this from the summer sale (GOTY edition) and I've got a small issue.

Has anyone played this on 3 screens? (Nvidia surround)

I'm running 2 x 470's in sli on 3 monitors, now in the settings if I set the resolution to 1 screen (1920x1080) I can max all the settings and run physx on high - plays lovely.

If I set it to 3 screens (5760 x 1080) and physx on high I get the "BMgame has stopped working" message as soon as I try to continue the chapter. It works fine on 3 screens with physx off and all other settings max.

Is this just a case of not enough juice from the cards? or could there be some other issue going on, I've updated to latest drivers etc.

orderoftheflame · 2 Oct 2011 at 10:52

You can't run the game in Sli if you're dedicating one card to Physx can you?

I've not run three monitors on my setup, but will a card running Physx actually output a video signal? :confused:

Freakbro · 2 Oct 2011 at 11:00

Good question, so I just checked that out. Seems you dont *need* a dedicated physx card, it just offloads the work if you do have one. When running in sli the comp chooses 1 card to run the physx and then still balances out the graphics rendering across both cards.

My google fu seems stronger this morning as I did find something that answered my problem, seems it was the 8x AA that it couldn't handle with physx on as well. I've dropped it to x2 and it works now on 3 screens and Physx on high.