Caporegime
Annoying as hell, GPU usage low, CPU usage low, and the game stutters?
Poor optimisation i'm guessing.
Poor optimisation i'm guessing.
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Yeah, 6950 unlocked to 6970.
Tbh it's only really the scripted events and cutscenes where there's stutter but it's really ruining the immersion for me.
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Graphics are annoying me. Highest settings (no Physx), GTX285, and I'm getting 2 problems.
1. Stuttering despite low GPU usage (I'll turn the settings down a bit see if that helps)
2. Most annoying thing ever - Is there a way to turn off the blur? It seems to be trying to emulate how the eyes focus in real life, but I think it's actually making me go blind.
I'll be looking at a character and their face is a pink blur. Oh wait, batman is looking 1mm to the left. Look at character again, wait a second, and it focuses.
It's getting to the point where I can't immerse myself in the game, I just can't see the surrounding landscape unless batman is looking directly at it.
1. Stuttering despite low GPU usage (I'll turn the settings down a bit see if that helps)
2. Most annoying thing ever - Is there a way to turn off the blur? It seems to be trying to emulate how the eyes focus in real life, but I think it's actually making me go blind.
I'll be looking at a character and their face is a pink blur. Oh wait, batman is looking 1mm to the left. Look at character again, wait a second, and it focuses.
It's getting to the point where I can't immerse myself in the game, I just can't see the surrounding landscape unless batman is looking directly at it.
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Yes just use the launcher where you turned physx off and turn blur off. I hate blur on any games. Even though I have never seen the problem you are having with the game. But that maybe because I turned blur off before I played it
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I'm particulary sensitive to it I think, It's probably not that bad really!
I'll have a look, I didn't see the option earlier but I wasn't really looking for it, thanks.
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I started playing the game last night. I dont seem to be able to play the game smoothly with all the settings totally maxed out. its not unplayable, but there are some noticable slowdown moments. Guess its cause I only have one 3D card, when maxed recommends having two. Guess just below max graphics will have to do
Two cards doesn't make any difference, whether you SLI them or dedicate one to PhysX. The in game benchmark produces almost identical results for either configuration. Beta drivers don't do anything and even contain a few minor bugs. I think most people get stuttering and frame rate drops with low GPU usage.
For all its criticisms MW3 is the only new game I've played in the last month or two without any performance issues.
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Having absolutely no problems with my PC in sig apart from some micro stuttering in some places, hardly any though really to ruin the game. Everything on max apart from AA (set to 2x).
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Oh and I have turned motion blur off, I hate that in any game and am sure that it would cause some bad stuttering if I had it on.
Yeah hugo and his guys know that Bruce is Batman, however everyone else like penguin and the thugs don't, remember the part where Bruce breaks penguins hand and beats his thugs up easily whilst in handcuffs, lol, surely they must have thought "what the hell?! Fights just like Batman, easily took these big criminal guys out!"
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Oh and I have turned motion blur off, I hate that in any game and am sure that it would cause some bad stuttering if I had it on.
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strange that people are waiting for a patch seen as in DX9 the game runs faultlessly
It doesn't though. That's the problem.
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IIRC the 2nd victim is on a bit of broken up highway, once you find the corpse it will tell you to tap X to enter detective mode
Caporegime
Except it doesn't. Google it.
Found the body! Thanks 
Didn't realise I had to search the entire area
So loving this game, they have improved upon everything from AA, you name it, the combat, the gliding, the riddles and other challenges, the detective stuff, the gadgets, the AI etc, etc.
Starting to get a bid harder now as well, a lot of the guys are carrying guns and the shields combined with some other type of enemies.
Didn't realise I had to search the entire area
So loving this game, they have improved upon everything from AA, you name it, the combat, the gliding, the riddles and other challenges, the detective stuff, the gadgets, the AI etc, etc.
Starting to get a bid harder now as well, a lot of the guys are carrying guns and the shields combined with some other type of enemies.
Man of Honour
Except it just doesn't
Faultlessly to me would a constant 60 fps with hardware that meets all the requirements the game states are required for the settings I choose.
And when I say constant, I mean constant.
Not occasional stutters when you are gliding, or it's a cut scene, or going from the map back to the game, or any other reason for that matter. Since the game doesn't do this then in my mind it doesn't run faultlessly.
It's not as if the game ever maxes out any of the hardware at it's disposal, most of the time you are lucky if it's using 40% of your GPU and 35% of your CPU.
What makes it even worse is the so called 5 weeks to polish the PC version they said they had and the fact that it's not exactly an unfamiliar game engine for the developers to work on.
Don't get me wrong, it's a great game, but I am sick to death of vast majority of PC releases running poorly on hardware that far exceeds the recommended specification,s and on hardware that far far far far exceeds the performance available to developers on the consoles.
Well the game is utilizing 99% of my GPU and it runs perfectly fine apart from the very odd area (and I mean that it really does hardly ever happen for me at all, not sure what FPS is, I will check bench later and take some screens) where there is micro stutter (but I put this down to the game partly and probably my GPU VRAM and just being old in general), but then again, I experience some kind of stutter/lag in nearly every game I have played on my PC, even ones that run on very low end rigs maxed out like half life 2 etc.
My settings:
CPU usage is around 45-60% when in game.
BatmanAC.exe uses 1.1GB RAM.
GPU usage is 99% during game.
And now some benchmark screens:
As said though despite the min. FPS, I very rarely get any stuttering at all, the only times it occurs the most is when I quickly turn around.
CPU usage is around 45-60% when in game.
BatmanAC.exe uses 1.1GB RAM.
GPU usage is 99% during game.
And now some benchmark screens:
As said though despite the min. FPS, I very rarely get any stuttering at all, the only times it occurs the most is when I quickly turn around.
Finally got it working very well. Was cleaning out pc earlier and had my 2 5800's out the case and decided to swap them over with the formerly bottom card as the master. For some reason both temps seem closer together (in a good way) and although benchmarks are still getting same results, it seems to have improved performance slightly in-game.
Might get round to playing afterall without having to wait on dx11 patch as I have heard the differences are quite minimal in any case.
Might get round to playing afterall without having to wait on dx11 patch as I have heard the differences are quite minimal in any case.