Key points

The PC version was pulled from stores on June 24, 2015 due to being released in a poor state,[4][5] reworked and re-released on October 28, 2015,[6][7][8] and continued to see additional development through early 2016 which brought various performance and stability improvements as well as bugfixes.[9][10][11][12] Following the re-release and subsequent updates, it was announced that the game would not see the originally planned Mac and Linux versions.[3]

General information

Availability [ edit ]

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes Season Pass A Matter of Family Harley Quinn Story Pack Included with Retail copys. Red Hood Story Pack Prototype Batmobile Skin Batman Classic TV Series Batmobile Pack 1st Appearance Batman Skin Batman: Noel Skin Bat-Family Skin Pack 1989 Movie Batmobile Pack Crime Fighter Challenge Pack #1 Crime Fighter Challenge Pack #2 Crime Fighter Challenge Pack #3 Crime Fighter Challenge Pack #4 Crime Fighter Challenge Pack #5 GCPD Lockdown 2008 Tumbler Batmobile Pack Catwoman's Revenge Robin and Batmobile Skins Pack WayneTech Track Pack A Flip of a Coin 1970s Batman Themed Batmobile Skin 2008 Movie Batman Skin Riddler Themed Batmobile Skin Original Arkham Batmobile Rocksteady Themed Batmobile Skin Season of Infamy: Most Wanted Expansion Earth-2 Dark Knight Skin Exclusive to Epic Games Store.[16][17]

Adam West skin, '60s-themed Bat-tank, and Scarecrow Nightmare Challenges are PlayStation 4 exclusives.

Version differences [ edit ]

Premium Edition includes all previously released DLCs.[18]

Essential improvements [ edit ]

Skip intro videos [ edit ]

Use the -nologo parameter[19] Use the

Arkham Quixote [ edit ]

Mod that drastically reduces game stuttering by recycling textures allocations. More information and download can be found here.

Tweak Guide [ edit ]

Steam user Kaldaien has compiled a comprehensive configuration guide for Arkham Knight. Users have reported improved performance, texture streaming and graphics quality.

Performance increase on SLI systems [ edit ]

Because Batman: Arkham Knight heavily uses Nvidia PhysX, you can get a considerable framerate improvement by disabling SLI in the Nvidia control panel and assigning your second GPU to be dedicated to PhysX. The game does not support SLI anyway, so at least with this tweak you can get a sort of 'semi-SLI' mode going. This should increase the framerate by around 25%, similar to a SLI profile with poor scaling.

Game data [ edit ]

Configuration file(s) location [ edit ]

Save game data location [ edit ]

Video [ edit ]

In-game graphics settings.

In-game general settings.

Add hotkeys [citation needed] Add hotkeys Edit <path-to-game> \BMGame\Config\BmInput.ini Select all lines that start with "Bindings" in the [Engine.PlayerInput] section. Copy and paste it into the [BmGame.RPlayerInput] section. Under the section [BmGame.RPlayerInput], add the following lines: Bindings=(Name="NumPadOne",Command="FOV 86") Bindings=(Name="NumPadTwo",Command="FOV 90") Bindings=(Name="NumPadThree",Command="FOV 95") Bindings=(Name="NumPadFour",Command="FOV 100") Bindings=(Name="NumPadFive",Command="FOV 105") Bindings=(Name="NumPadSix",Command="FOV 110") Bindings=(Name="NumPadSeven",Command="FOV 115") Bindings=(Name="NumPadEight",Command="FOV 120") Notes Higher than default values can cause much FPS drop during situations where the camera zooms out. Adjusting the FOV in any way with hotkeys breaks the first person Zoom In function on the right thumbstick, causing it to zoom in much less then before, making some riddles unsolvable without reloading the last checkpoint and resetting FOV entirely

Convert game to Convert game to Hor+ Game is Vert- by default. Open BmEngine.ini and change "AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainXFOV" to "AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainYFOV" Notes May cause the map and some cutscenes to look weird. This tweak also makes the game use vertical measurement. For people who play games where the max allowed FOV is 120, you want to use hotkey values of 90 instead of 120. If you like 110 or 100, then 80 and 70 respectively.

Game's implemented solution uses a temporal filter which reduces clarity of textures and can disorientate some users. This injected form is crisper and gives much smoother edges

SMAA via SweetFX [citation needed] SMAA via SweetFX Download custom SweetFX Extract archive contents to <path-to-game> \Binaries\Win64\ and replace DLL's with ones from "x64" folder

SMAA via ReShade [citation needed] SMAA via ReShade Only use if the method above causes crashes Download custom ReShade Extract archive contents to <path-to-game> \Binaries\Win64

Change value in config file [citation needed] Change value in config file Edit <path-to-game> \BmGame\Config\BmSystemSettings.ini . Change MaxFPS=60.000000 to have the FPS cap you want. Save your changes and close the file.

Input [ edit ]

In-game keyboard bindings.

In-game XBox bindings.

In-game DualShock 4 bindings.

Audio [ edit ]

In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes Separate volume controls Surround sound 7.1 Subtitles Closed captions Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes English Arabic Fan translation by AR Team, download. Czech Fan translation. French German Hungarian Fan translation Italian Korean Polish Brazilian Portuguese Russian Spanish Windows language must be on any configuration of Spanish. Latin American Spanish Windows language must be on Español (México).

Japanese language isn't included in PC version

VR support [ edit ]

Issues fixed [ edit ]

Slow start up [ edit ]

Add a Windows Defender exclusion [citation needed] Add a Windows Defender exclusion Go to Windows Security (use search to find it), Virus & threat protection (shield icon) and scroll down until you find Virus & threat protection settings click on Manage settings. Scroll down until you find Exclusions and click Add or remove exclusions. Click Add an exclusion and add the game folder <path-to-game> .

Other information [ edit ]

API [ edit ]

Technical specs Supported Notes Direct3D 11 Shader Model support 5

Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes Windows

Middleware [ edit ]

Middleware Notes Physics PhysX Audio Wwise Interface Scaleform

Hide HUD [ edit ]

Add hotkeys [citation needed] Add hotkeys Edit <path-to-game> \BMGame\Config\BmInput.ini Select all lines that start with "Bindings" in the [Engine.PlayerInput] section. Copy and paste it into the [BmGame.RPlayerInput] section. Under the section [BmGame.RPlayerInput], add the following line: Bindings=(Name="NumPadZero",Command="ToggleHUD")

System requirements [ edit ]

Windows Minimum Recommended Operating system (OS) 7 SP1 8.1 Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-750 2.67 GHz

AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz Intel Core i7-3770 3.4 GHz

AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHz System memory (RAM) 6 GB 8 GB Hard disk drive (HDD) 45 GB 55 GB Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 660

AMD Radeon HD 7870

2 GB of VRAM

DirectX 11 compatible Nvidia GeForce GTX 760

AMD Radeon HD 7950

3 GB of VRAM

DirectX 11 compatible Other Broadband Internet Connection required to activate and for some online features The publisher recommends using an SSD due to mechanical hard drive performance issues.[20] A 64-bit system is required. For ultra setting the publisher lists an Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 and 4 GB of VRAM as the minimum requirement. The recommended requirements are only for 30FPS, not 60+ as most would expect.

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