Batman™: Arkham Knight Performance

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 2 Jul 2015 at 16:17

VincentHanna said:
Ironically, Crysis did actually need a ridiculously expensive PC (at the time) to run at a decent pace.

This was the era of the 8800GT and 8800GTS 512MB and the latter was under £250. Even two would have had been £500 which in reality is not much difference than a GTX980TI with UK inflation.

VincentHanna · 2 Jul 2015 at 16:22

Yeah, factor in inflation though and the cost of a decent CPU at the time.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 2 Jul 2015 at 16:31

VincentHanna said:
Yeah, factor in inflation though and the cost of a decent CPU at the time.

Still more expensive now even with the exchange rate differences and the UK has low inflation.

Plus Crysis was a next generation change in graphics - lots of today's games look rubbish considering the cost of hardware required.

N19h7m4r3 · 2 Jul 2015 at 17:08

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Still more expensive now even with the exchange rate differences and the UK has low inflation.

Plus Crysis was a next generation change in graphics - lots of today's games look rubbish considering the cost of hardware required.

Agreed. Crysis set a graphical standard that took a long time to reach.

Batman uses the old Unreal 3 engine, sure it's been modified; but not near enough or with a significant enough of an improvement to warrant a Titan X to run it relative alright.

Razor Time · 2 Jul 2015 at 17:11

It took me two highly clocked gtx 480s to max out every setting in crisis @ 1080p with a minimum fps above 60. It was a system killer. Still a stunning looking game by today's standards.

N19h7m4r3 · 2 Jul 2015 at 17:46

Razor Time said:
It took me two highly clocked gtx 480s to max out every setting in crisis @ 1080p with a minimum fps above 60. It was a system killer. Still a stunning looking game by today's standards.

Add in the crysis real lifesis mod and it's still one of the best looking games about.

Silent_Scone · 2 Jul 2015 at 17:48

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
So a £300 console owner will have the same lack of issues than a person with a £3000 PC.

So unless PC owners brute force things we end up with rubbish,poor looking games.

PC owners should be now eating their words about Crysis - such a great looking game which was nowhere buggy as many of these releases and didn't need £1200+ of graphics hardware either.

yeah that's a fair comparison considering he has over double the number of pixels. The games broken to various degrees, we know that. That doesn't excuse stupid

maj · 2 Jul 2015 at 18:09

Heisenberg said:
I'm off work so will try it with smoke turned on. I turned it off as i think it looks ridiculous lol.

Heisenberg said:
Yeah. i'm getting big stutters when driving around with the Batmobile with the smoke on too. Stupid, overdone effect anyway.

Yeah taken that off and it is a lot smoother to play. Still drops to low 20's in some areas but nothing to worry about. Pretty much 30fps now.

Razor Time · 2 Jul 2015 at 21:59

N19h7m4r3 said:
Add in the crysis real lifesis mod and it's still one of the best looking games about.

Totally agree.

LambChop · 2 Jul 2015 at 22:09

Another perfect example of pc gamers being **** on. Had this been a console screw up you can bet they wouldn't still be waiting for a fix 7+ days later, there would be a ****ing uproar

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 2 Jul 2015 at 22:38

N19h7m4r3 said:
Agreed. Crysis set a graphical standard that took a long time to reach.

Batman uses the old Unreal 3 engine, sure it's been modified; but not near enough or with a significant enough of an improvement to warrant a Titan X to run it relative alright.

This is still UE3 based?? I thought it was UE4. Its the same engine as games like Bioshock:Infinite and the Borderlands 2.

Yet,it needs so much hardware??

:confused:

Orangey · 2 Jul 2015 at 23:23

Engines change, look at Source from HL2 -> now

This is especially true for UE as it is very popular on consoles and everyone has their own requests about what should be added. The codebase is probably groaning under the strain of all the additions (metaphorically). Of course if you are adding aftermarket or custom effects to a game using the engine, system requirements will be commensurate to that.

Heisenberg · 2 Jul 2015 at 23:29

LambChop said:
Another perfect example of pc gamers being **** on. Had this been a console screw up you can bet they wouldn't still be waiting for a fix 7+ days later, there would be a ****ing uproar

Dude, calm down. It's just a game and it will get fixed eventually. I've actually been playing through it today and it doesn't seem to be as broken as it's been made out. Maybe I'm just lucky and it's working for me though.

LambChop · 3 Jul 2015 at 10:08

Heisenberg said:
Dude, calm down. It's just a game and it will get fixed eventually. I've actually been playing through it today and it doesn't seem to be as broken as it's been made out. Maybe I'm just lucky and it's working for me though.

I'm calm, I'm just annoyed. It does seem to be working fine for some but still doesnt take away from the fact that this would be fixed already had it been a console issue.

pgi947 · 3 Jul 2015 at 23:07

Just fired this up for the first time on a 980Ti, night and day difference to 780 SLI.

1440, 'maxed' with interactive smoke disabled, averaging 85-90FPS, 780's were at best, 50fps.

I can even crank DSR up to 4K and still average a nice smooth 45fps

Gregster · 3 Jul 2015 at 23:16

pgi947 said:
Just fired this up for the first time on a 980Ti, night and day difference to 780 SLI.

1440, 'maxed' with interactive smoke disabled, averaging 85-90FPS, 780's were at best, 50fps.

I can even crank DSR up to 4K and still average a nice smooth 45fps

I am loving this game, albeit I don't have much time to play at the mo but 1440P with everything maxed including smoke and particles handles sweet as on the TX and ROG Swift.

oldestgregg · 3 Jul 2015 at 23:44

Getting good framerates but its the 1 second pauses that suck. Titan x and SSD here as well. Its surprisingly smooth at forced half vsync through NCP though as the motion blur does some kind of magic. Thing is it still looks better than the ps4 version, runs the same framerate and has a higher resolution. As I already own the game at the very least I'm getting the ps4 experience so I'm just playing it. Have to say its awesome

Heisenberg · 3 Jul 2015 at 23:51

oldestgregg said:
Getting good framerates but its the 1 second pauses that suck. Titan x and SSD here as well. Its surprisingly smooth at forced half vsync through NCP though as the motion blur does some kind of magic. Thing is it still looks better than the ps4 version, runs the same framerate and has a higher resolution. As I already own the game at the very least I'm getting the ps4 experience so I'm just playing it. Have to say its awesome

Yeah it's crazy how smooth it actually feels at 30fps. Most games I find unplayable anywhere near 30 but this actually feels great. Also, brilliant game. Just keeps getting better.

pgi947 · 3 Jul 2015 at 23:53

Gregster said:
I am loving this game, albeit I don't have much time to play at the mo but 1440P with everything maxed including smoke and particles handles sweet as on the TX and ROG Swift.

I'll be leaving smoke off for now as it about halves my frame rate!

Finally, this weekend, I can sit, for hours on end and enjoy this title

WhiteHawk77 · 4 Jul 2015 at 00:21

Heisenberg said:
Yeah it's crazy how smooth it actually feels at 30fps. Most games I find unplayable anywhere near 30 but this actually feels great. Also, brilliant game. Just keeps getting better.

It might not be Crysis 3 bad at 30 FPS but it still feels and looks crap to me.

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