Batman: Arkham Asylum

Batman: Arkham Asylum

Developer(s)	Rocksteady Studios Feral Interactive (Mac OS X)
Publisher(s)	Eidos Interactive Feral Interactive (Mac OS X)
Engine	Unreal Engine 3
First release date	September 15, 2009

Batman: Arkham

Batman: Arkham Asylum	2009
Batman: Arkham City	2011
Batman: Arkham Origins	2013

General information

Steam forums for game series

Steam Community Discussions

Eidos Batman: Arkham Asylum Forums for game

Availability

Source(s)	Store unlock	Notes
Games for Windows Marketplace
Games for Windows Marketplace		Game of the Year Edition
Onlive
Steam		SecuROM 4 machine activation limit

Improvements

Patches

Patch is currently at version 1.1. It is heavily recommended to patch to the latest version. The GOTY edition of the game does not need any patches, version 1.0 (as shown in the title screen) has already all the fixes.

• Download link from Eidos Interactive

• BM_Garden Patch To check if require this file browse to the following folder in your batman installation folder

"Batman Arkham Asylum\BmGame\CookedPC\Maps\PhysX\Maps\Garden"

Check for a file called "Garden_A_PhysX.umap", if located there you do not need to touch this file.

Skip Opening Logos

To skip the opening logos and legal information and go directly to the main menu, rename the following files from .bik to .bik.old.

• Batman Arkham Asylum\BmGame\Movies\baa_logo_run_v5_h264.bik
• Batman Arkham Asylum\BmGame\Movies\Legal.bik
• Batman Arkham Asylum\BmGame\Movies\Legalus.bik
• Batman Arkham Asylum\BmGame\Movies\nvidia.bik
• Batman Arkham Asylum\BmGame\Movies\utlogo.bik

Game data

	Location
Save game location (GOTY)	%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Square Enix\Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY\SaveData
Configuration files location	%USERPROFILE%\My Documents\Square Enix\Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY\BmGame\Config

The save subfolder is named with a long string of letters and numbers.

Video settings

Video settings.

Video Settings can only be changed in the launcher

Graphics option	Native	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Field of view (FOV)		Can only be changed by binding a desired FOV to a keybinding in bminput.ini
Windowed		In launcher, click settings. Doesn't properly capture mouse, may click background windows by accident.
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Set via launcher.

Input settings

Input Settings	Native	Notes
Remapping		Only changeable in the launcher
Mouse acceleration
Controller support

Issues fixed

Common issues

Broken Splash Screen • Link When trying to play Batman: Arkham Asylum, the game will give you the following message after the splash screen: "BmGame has stopped working". To remedy the problem, we must ensure that the Windows Live ID service is running. 1) Open a cmd prompt as administrator 2) Type net stop wlidsvc and press Enter. 3) Type net start wlidsvc and press Enter.

Microsoft.NET Framework Error • Link When trying to start the game from the launcher you get a long error message. Uninstall the Microsoft.NET Framework. Download and re-install the Microsoft.NET Framework from here. Restart your computer.

Keyboard Not Working • Link When trying to play Batman: Arkham Asylum, the only thing you can do is pan the camera. Your keyboard will not work at all. 1) Go to My Documents and open the Square Enix folder. 2) Open Batman Arkham Asylum (GOTY) and open BmGame 3) Delete the Config folder and relaunch the game.

Steam: Achievements Not Working • Link Steam Achievements have been added to the game, but are not currently tracking. Valve is working on this issue, with no estimated ETA.

Game Crash When Leaving the Morque • Link Problem has to do with PhysX 1) Turn off PhysX option in the launcher 2) Start the game normally

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Windows XP	Windows Vista/Windows 7
Processor (CPU)	3 GHz	Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon 64 x2
System memory (RAM)	1 GB (Windows XP), 2 GB (Windows Vista/Windows 7)	8 GB
Video card (GPU)	128 MB of VRAM	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT 512 MB or ATi equivalent 512 MB of VRAM
Hard disk drive (HDD)	9 GB free	9 GB free

Online play requires Games for Windows Live.