{"id":77702,"date":"2015-06-24T13:30:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=77702"},"modified":"2015-06-24T13:32:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T11:32:37","slug":"everything-wrong-with-batman-arkham-knight-for-pc-and-whos-to-blame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/77702-everything-wrong-with-batman-arkham-knight-for-pc-and-whos-to-blame","title":{"rendered":"Everything wrong with Batman: Arkham Knight for PC, and who’s to blame"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who haven\u2019t had the unfortunate experience of playing, or rather attempting to play Batman: Arkham Knight <\/em>on PC, you might be disheartened to find out that the port is a largely broken experience for many.<\/p>\n

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Texture issues like this are just one of a number of graphical problems.<\/p><\/div>\n

We started to suspect impending issues when the game\u2019s minimum requirements section on Steam was updated<\/a> just a few hours before its launch, an updated that suggested severe optimisation issues for AMD cards.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, Batman: Arkham Knight<\/em> is barely functional on both NVIDIA as well as AMD solutions, earning itself a \u201cMostly Negative<\/a>\u201d rating on Steam<\/a>, a NeoGAF thread<\/a> dedicated to its abundant issues and a User Score of 1.4 on Metacritic<\/a> \u2013 it\u2019s all gone pear-shaped.<\/p>\n

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Steam’s community is pretty annoyed with Batman: Arkham Knight’s performance. Image courtesy of WCCF Tech<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

Expect umpteenth crashes, and according to KitGuru<\/a>, even a GTX 980 Ti isn\u2019t enough to prevent frame rates from sharply tanking.<\/p>\n

Apparently, even at 1080p, which should be child\u2019s play for NVIDIA\u2019s newest card, you can expect the game to dip into the low 20\u2019s. Keep in mind that this test was done a fairly high-end PC rig sporting an \u201cIntel Core i7 5820K, 16GB of DDR4 RAM, a Kingston V300 Now SSD and a GTX 980Ti.\u201d And don\u2019t think this high-end rig is the only one<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A dual card setup isn\u2019t going to amend any of these performance issues either. Thanks to the YouTube channel Joker Productions<\/a> and a recently released benchmarking comparison video<\/a>, 980 Ti\u2019s in SLI produces lower frame rates than a single 980 Ti.<\/p>\n

NVIDIA has even gone so far as to encourage gamers to disable SLI<\/a> for improved performance.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re okay with the odd spoiler, popular video game critic and journalist Jim Sterling has published a compilation of some of the audio issues, stuttering and graphical anomalies you will encounter.<\/p>\n

*Warning: Spoilers!<\/strong><\/p>\n