Batman Arkham City - Thread

Just played it for an hour and it delivers on all my expectations. I've mentioned before this is my most highly anticipated game of all time and i'm satisfied beyond belief.

I tried it on DX11, it runs pretty good with micro-stutters here and there, so I came out and restarted with DX9...still looks fantastic, too many people are hung up on the appearance with DX11.

I am considering an old nVidia card for physx, just wondering how much difference it would really make though.
 
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Subzero85 said:
hey all;, hope to pick up batman arkham city for pc tomorrow, i have a 2gb 6950, what dx 11 features will be allowed to enable is phyxx for nvidia cards only, will it run dx 11 without phyxx
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Google for DX11 problems, nobody can really run this in DX11 regardless of their hardware :(

That said, i'll re-iterate what I said in my post above, it looks fantastic in DX9.
 
SixTwoSix said:
Just played it for an hour and it delivers on all my expectations. I've mentioned before this is my most highly anticipated game of all time and i'm satisfied beyond belief.

I tried it on DX11, it runs pretty good with micro-stutters here and there, so I came out and restarted with DX9...still looks fantastic, too many people are hung up on the appearance with DX11.

I am considering an old nVidia card for physx, just wondering how much difference it would really make though.
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I ran Batman AA using physx on my 6950 last night, apart from major slowdowns it looked fantastic with physx stuff flying around. I to am going to get a cheap nVidia card for physx.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18344950

Little clip on that thread as well showing some sparks we do not get without physx.
 
Game is good, I'm a little lost looking for the damn museum and penguin but meh, agree with everyone about DX9, it don't look any different, DX11 ran like a dog though :( 12-20fps Max :( think i might even pick up a cheap PhysX card next week too :D
 
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Did you get slowdowns or not mate?!? Just a bit confused as on your other thread you said you got no FPS drop at all.
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When I first posted that clip on that other thread I had no slow downs at all with the extra sparks and a few other bits, but the more I played and the more smoke appeared the slow downs started and became really bad, bad enough to make the screen jerk when moving. If I remember some bits the FPS was as low as 25
 
Scroll the config option window down to disable PhysX. Missed this myself the first couple of times. ¬_¬

To disable the intro movies rename Startup.swf and StartupNV.swf in

C:\Users\Public\Games\Steam\steamapps\common\batman2\BmGame\Movies
(or wherever you installed Steam)

Desktop icon in the style of the boxart: http://www.mediafire.com/?w14yodknyvp6dhl
 
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Trying to download the game and it keeps getting suspended, did the thing that let me pre load a few days ago and never finished downloading it. Anyone else having the same problem?

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Not happy with the securom DRM on the DVD version its already scratched my Disk1 DVD to pieces with its constant access @ startup so I can see it not working altogether in future unless they patch it out (highly unlikely as they never did on BAA or BAA GOTY).

Ridiculous DRM scheme to have securom with a forced disc check & GFWL which is using SSA so its not resellable anyway. I should have bought a digital version but the free Robin DLC & fancy 3D cover were big incentives to buy retail.

DX11 is playable on a Core i7-980x+GTX580 but DX9 is much smoother & DX11 is not worth the FPS drops for now especially as the game needs 2 playthrus minimum so I will stick with DX9 which is very smooth & still looks like the best Unreal engined game to date on PC. Doubt the patch will be until next week as most of US is on holiday until Monday.
 
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Not happy with the securom DRM on the DVD version its already scratched my Disk1 DVD to pieces with its constant access @ startup so I can see it not working altogether in future unless they patch it out (highly unlikely as they never did on BAA or BAA GOTY).

Ridiculous DRM scheme to have securom with a forced disc check & GFWL which is using SSA so its not resellable anyway. I should have bought a digital version but the free Robin DLC & fancy 3D cover were big incentives to buy retail.

DX11 is playable on a Core i7-980x+GTX580 but DX9 is much smoother & DX11 is not worth the FPS drops for now especially as the game needs 2 playthrus minimum so I will stick with DX9 which is very smooth & still looks like the best Unreal engined game to date on PC. Doubt the patch will be until next week as most of US is on holiday until Monday.
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How exactly did DRM scratch your disc? If your drive spinning up is scratching your disc then you should be blaming your drive? Also the US has nothing to do with the patch as Rocksteady are based in the UK and we don't do thanksgiving :)
 
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It does looks pretty sweet. I just love the whole tone and atmosphere of the Batman games it's how they should be.

I got to admit I to am not happy about needing the disc in the drive, it's just a pain tbh. Didn't know it was still common practice.
 
voorhees1979 said:
How exactly did DRM scratch your disc? If your drive spinning up is scratching your disc then you should be blaming your drive? Also the US has nothing to do with the patch as Rocksteady are based in the UK and we don't do thanksgiving :)
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New Securom dvd check is causing the DVD to spin a lot @ launch for around 2-3 minutes just like it did on the 360 version its a new form of disc based drm to ensure its a legit dvd this is causing scratches to appear already. I have 4 different dvd drives it spins up a lot on all of them if you have a silent drive or volume too loud you may not even notice but its spinning a lot.

US holidays are causing a delay as both Nvidia & MS need to certify the patch.
 
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