Batman Arkham Knight for PC is not out of the woods yet and Rocksteady have a lot of work to do in order to get the PC version up and running properly. However the first PC patch for Batman: Arkham Knight is out now but it only fixes a few minor issues.
In a statement issued by Warner Brothers, they stated that “Rocksteady is leading our team of developers and partners as we work on the PC performance issues that players have been encountering. The work is significant and while we are making good progress on improving performance, it will take some time to ensure that we get the right fixes in place. We would like to thank our fans for their patience and invaluable feedback. We will continue to monitor and listen for any additional issues”
Rocksteady plans to fix the following issues on the PC version in the future:
- Support for frame rates above 30FPS in the graphics settings menu
- Fix for low resolution texture bug
- Improve overall performance and framerate hitches
- Add more options to the graphics settings menu
- Improvements to hard drive streaming and hitches
- Address full screen rendering bug on gaming laptop
- Improvements to system memory and VRAM usage
- NVIDIA SLI bug fixes
- Enabling AMD Crossfire
- NVIDIA and AMD updated drivers
And here are the fixes that the latest patch includes:
- Fixed a crash that was happening for some users when exiting the game
- Fixed a bug which disabled rain effects and ambient occlusion. We are actively looking into fixing other bugs to improve this further
- Corrected an issue that was causing Steam to re-download the game when verifying the integrity of the game cache through the Steam client
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to crash when turning off Motion Blur in BmSystemSettings.ini. A future patch will enable this in the graphics settings menu