PCGHBatman Arkham Knight benchmark

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http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Batman-Arkham-Knight-PC-258399/Specials/Technik-Test-1162745/

 

[Silverforce11]

How are they able to get such high min fps when so many videos show it stutter badly on all setups?

Must be another case of canned "Benchmark Mode" not representative of actual gameplay at all.

 

[x3sphere]

How are they able to get such high min fps when so many videos show it stutter badly on all setups?

Must be another case of canned "Benchmark Mode" not representative of actual gameplay at all.

I'm on a 980 Ti and the 40-ish minimum FPS is actually similar to what I'm getting. The problem with this game is the incredibly poor frame pacing. The drops from 60 -> 40 are VERY frequent and it's never a gradual drop, it happens fast and sudden.

And, there's nothing you can do to lessen the drops. I tried dropping down to 720p and was getting the same minimums as on 3440x1440.

 

[beginner99]

And, there's nothing you can do to lessen the drops. I tried dropping down to 720p and was getting the same minimums as on 3440x1440.

The first chart nicely shows that there is some bottleneck not related to the GPU. All of them have the same minimum at 1080p. For sure either a CPU or IO bottleneck. Maybe streaming stuff of HDD or going to system RAM frequently.

 

[DarkKnightDude]

Maybe streaming stuff of HDD.

Sounds like the culprit. I keep seeing textures streaming in too slowly.

 

[Silverforce11]

I reckon its a combination of streaming content & CPU bottleneck with PhysX, cos steam users report a major increase in performance when they force PhysX to GPU.

Actually the devs released a statement, they suggest NV users on SLI to disable it, set 1 GPU to PhysX to improve performance.

http://community.wbgames.com/t5/Sup...formance-PLEASE-READ-FIRST/m-p/572903#U572903)

"When running Nvidia SLI, using the NVIDIA Control Panel to set one card as a dedicated PhysX card may improve performance."

Man these guys are a joke:

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/batman-arkham-knight-official-guide-has-a-pretty-b/1100-6428400/

Also, none of these review sites actually played the game (paid reviews!):

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/batman-arkham-knight-review-roundup/1100-6428357/

Look at the glorious scores they are giving it!

 

[Deders]

How are they able to get such high min fps when so many videos show it stutter badly on all setups?

Must be another case of canned "Benchmark Mode" not representative of actual gameplay at all.

Before we all start making presumptions, It runs smoothly enough maxed out on my setup. I believe there are still Ram issues that will be hopefully sorted in the next patch.

 

[Majcric]

I'm on a 980 Ti and the 40-ish minimum FPS is actually similar to what I'm getting. The problem with this game is the incredibly poor frame pacing. The drops from 60 -> 40 are VERY frequent and it's never a gradual drop, it happens fast and sudden.

And, there's nothing you can do to lessen the drops. I tried dropping down to 720p and was getting the same minimums as on 3440x1440.

When I'm grounded and fighting my fps is similar to yours. But right when I jump off a building and fly down I can get dips into the 20's. I'm on a 980ti as well is your cpu making that much difference keeping the mins up?

 

[Majcric]

How are they able to get such high min fps when so many videos show it stutter badly on all setups?

Must be another case of canned "Benchmark Mode" not representative of actual gameplay at all.

Exactly, unless my i5 2500k @ 4.5 is no longer doing its job.

 

[Fox5]

I reckon its a combination of streaming content & CPU bottleneck with PhysX, cos steam users report a major increase in performance when they force PhysX to GPU.

Actually the devs released a statement, they suggest NV users on SLI to disable it, set 1 GPU to PhysX to improve performance.

http://community.wbgames.com/t5/Sup...formance-PLEASE-READ-FIRST/m-p/572903#U572903)

"When running Nvidia SLI, using the NVIDIA Control Panel to set one card as a dedicated PhysX card may improve performance."

Man these guys are a joke:

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/batman-arkham-knight-official-guide-has-a-pretty-b/1100-6428400/

Also, none of these review sites actually played the game (paid reviews!):

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/batman-arkham-knight-review-roundup/1100-6428357/

Look at the glorious scores they are giving it!

Called it.

The game engine build date is 2012, or around the same time Arkham City came out. I'd imagine this game is still using an x87 non-multi-threaded physx build, while the consoles got an up to date AVX multi-threaded enabled build. The game needs GPU physx (ideally on a separate card) to run well. Physx is also much more highly used in this game, with destructible everything.

Disk performance issues are expected in an open world game, but it seems like maybe their DRM is exacerbating the problem.

The game runs great if you have a dedicated physx card and run the game off an SSD. Otherwise...

The game is also running in DX9 mode (why? previous Arkham games had dx10 and dx11 support) and missing a ton of graphical effects.

 

[NTMBK]

Also, none of these review sites actually played the game (paid reviews!):

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/batman-arkham-knight-review-roundup/1100-6428357/

Look at the glorious scores they are giving it!

Rubbish. They all played the game, but they played a PS4 build- which is actually very technically polished, and wasn't farmed out to some 3rd rate hacks.

 

[Deders]

Ha, my i5 750 and 780 combo gets 76 average and 54 minimum fps beating the entire 1080p chart! Not even using the game ready driver (although this that might have something to do with it)

Edit: after putting the game on my SSD I've not seen it dip below 30. I've not removed the cap though.

 

[Silverforce11]

http://store.steampowered.com/searc...ort_order=ASC&filter=topsellers&os=win&page=1

Batman is gone from Steam's top sellers list!

That refund policy!

At least they took it off from sales. It should never have been released in this broken state, complete disrespect towards PC gamers.
http://steamcommunity.com/games/208650/announcements/detail/145587678167685991

 

[ShintaiDK]

The publisher WB suspends PC sales as well:
http://techreport.com/news/28531/wb-suspends-sales-of-arkham-knight-for-the-pc

Seems just under 300K people owns it on steam:
http://steamspy.com/app/208650

 

[NTMBK]

They've even ordered physical copies pulled from shelves:

UPDATE 25TH JUNE 11.30AM: A GAME employee has told Eurogamer that the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight are now being pulled from shop shelves.

We enquired whether we could still buy a copy of the game even in full knowledge that the game had bugs, and was told that the chain had been ordered by publisher Warner Bros. to immediately stop selling PC copies.

"We have the stock," the GAME employee told us, "but I'm not allowed to sell it to you".

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-06-25-warner-suspends-batman-arkham-knight-pc-sales

Almost wish I had a copy, in case this turns into an ET-style lost game, bulldozed in a desert

 

[amenx]

Warner Bros have suspended sales of PC version.

https://community.wbgames.com/t5/Su...ate-on-PC-Version-of-Arkham-Knight/m-p/575332

Dear Batman: Arkham Knight PC owners,

We want to apologize to those of you who are experiencing performance issues with Batman: Arkham Knight on PC. We take these issues very seriously and have therefore decided to suspend future game sales of the PC version while we work to address these issues to satisfy our quality standards. We greatly value our customers and know that while there are a significant amount of players who are enjoying the game on PC, we want to do whatever we can to make the experience better for PC players overall.

Thank you to those players who have already given valuable feedback. We are continuously monitoring all threads posted in the Official Batman: Arkham Knight Community and Steam forums, as well as any issues logged with our Customer Support (support.wbgames.com). If you purchased your copy of the game and are not satisfied with your experience, then we ask for your patience while these issues are resolved. If desired, you can request a refund at help.steampowered.com (Steam refund policies can be found here: http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds) or the retail location where you purchased the game.

The Batman: Arkham fans have continually supported the franchise to its current height of success, and we want to thank you for your patience as we work to deliver an updated version of Batman: Arkham Knight on PC so you can all enjoy the final chapter of the Batman: Arkham series as it was meant to be played.

Sorry.. posted already.

 

[tg2708]

Straight console port, game has like 5 settings one could tweak which helps the game in no meaningful way and like 5 gameworks feature toggles that even further tanks performance for a smidgen of eye candy. What a joke.

 

[gamervivek]

So GTA IV's second coming.

 

[nenforcer]

I put $5 down on a PC Preorder at GameStop, I wonder if they will even sell it to me now?

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Also, none of these review sites actually played the game (paid reviews!):

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/batman-arkham-knight-review-roundup/1100-6428357/

Look at the glorious scores they are giving it!

Why would they mention the horrible PC port when each of those reviews mentions they are reviewing the PS4 version of the game?

 

[StrangerGuy]

Pay $500+ for a GPU alone, get stuck at 30 max fps limiter.

Where's your glorious PC gaming master race now? The gaming/GPU industry has been massively trolling us while taking our money yet the masochists still don't get it.

 

[tg2708]

Pay $500+ for a GPU alone, get stuck at 30 max fps limiter.

Where's your glorious PC gaming master race now? The gaming/GPU industry has been massively trolling us while taking our money yet the masochists still don't get it.

Agree with this totally, I made a comment similar to this in another thread. We can argue all we want about which company is superior but in the end we have benefited little where game optimizations are concerned. Their is no justification for a top end card at this point in time.

 

[Silverforce11]

Why would they mention the horrible PC port when each of those reviews mentions they are reviewing the PS4 version of the game?

Because when they presented it as such:

"Platforms: Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC"

Its misleading that such a review is representative across the platforms, when clearly its not.

Also, please guys, not every PC port is a disaster.

I've enjoyed Witcher 3 a ton and it runs flawless, zero crashes, no in-game bugs I encountered, performance vs IQ is also excellent. Even WITH HairWorks (x16 Tessellation override) performance is good.

Here's another bench, from Computerbase. Must say, it's the first GW title to run so well on both vendors... when it works. lol
http://www.computerbase.de/2015-06/amd-radeon-r9-fury-x-test/13/

 

[Insomniator]

What a joke, getting increasingly tired of PC gaming and skepctical of the GPU industry in general.

It seems like unless you are the .1% 1k SLI setup running at 4k, you may as well get a console because they offer the same or better performance at the same or slightly worse IQ.

I have a GTX780, but this is probably the last high end card I will buy.