Positive first impression
It looks like the developers working frantically to fix various issues in the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight have made some good progress. How do we know? Someone at WB Games screwed up and made the patch available on Steam to those who opted into the game's beta. Oops!
Several players were able to download and apply the patch before WB Games realized its mistake and removed it. Another patch took its place, which essentially wiped out the original one and caused some crashing issues for users, though some were able to continue using the original patch.
Here's what some of them had to say about it.
- Running butter-smooth for me.
- OMG thanks! It worked.
- Holy...wow. Just opted into the beta patch. EVERYTHING maxed, all Gameworks settings on. 4GB used out of 6GB (980 Ti). Constant 60fps. I think I might've dropped to 55 once when driving but it's butter smooth.
- This gave me awesome performance, I'm getting 60fps 95 percent of the time, and Crossfire is even enabled with this patch and the 15.8 drivers (though some strange flickering with AA on).
After much hype and anticipation.the PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight was met with much criticism over performance problems, even on high end machines. Not everyone was affected, but enough were that WB Games yanked the game from Steam and tasked developers with working on a patch.
WB Games said in mid-August that testing had begun on an interim patch and that it would roll out "in the next few weeks" if things continued to go well. Judging by the accidental release on Steam and generally positive response, it appears the patch is nearly ready for prime time.
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