Oh boy.
Earlier today, Rocksteady posted advised settings for Arkham Knight on Steam. In it, the developer suggests maybe just turn all the settings on low and quit messing with the ini files while you’re at it.
Here is what they recommend:
- Resolution: 1280×720
- V-Sync: Off
- Anti-aliasing: Off
- Texture resolution: Low
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Level of Detail: Low
- Interactive fog/smoke: Off
- Interactive paper debris: Off
- Enhanced rain: Off
- Enhanced light shafts: Off
Expected: 30fps (capped)
For those with GTX970 cards or better, you can turn everything on “normal”, but you should still leave gameworks off. While turning gameworks off is generally good advice for increasing performance, the fact that some of the most top of the line cards on the market can’t manage 30fps with them on is pretty embarrassing.
My favorite bit is how they list system requirements for “ultra” settings, which in absolutely no way exists in the game.
There’s no word yet if there’s a patch coming, or if one will simply improve performance or add in features that were nixed from the PC port of the game (which include higher resolution textures and water dripping effects on the batsuit and batmobile.)