Difference between revisions of "Batman: Arkham City"

Revision as of 21:07, 15 April 2012

USES GFWL

The sequel to Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009). It is, as its predecessor, a Games for Windows Live title. This has ramifications on how the save data should be handled.

A patch has been released in December 2011, which unfortunately failed to address all of the problems some users have been experiencing - most notably with saved games. According to this post, another patch is still in the works.

Launch Issues

During the launch week, issues were found to exist in the code-restricted content supplied with new purchases, with some customers discovering the code to be missing from their game, preventing them from obtaining the Catwoman story missions. The problem was reported by customers in Canada, in the United States and the United Kingdom. Warner Bros. issued a statement claiming that the missing codes had affected less than 0.5% of the total units sold, and provided a process for users to prove their game was purchased new in order to receive a replacement code. Upon release in the United Kingdom, a technical issue rendered the game unplayable for some players, booting them from the game with an error message that the "downloadable content is corrupt." Rocksteady European community manager Sarah Wellock claimed that the fault lay with the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live online systems. In early November, 2011, Rocksteady confirmed that it was investigating reports by numerous users that save files for the Xbox 360 version of the game were being erased without prompting, resulting in players losing their progress and being unable to complete the game. On launch, performance issues arose for the PC version when DirectX 11 features were enabled; the developer acknowledged the inconvenience and recommended to run the game with DirectX 9 while a title update was released to address this matter.

Issues & Fixes

Low FPS

Turn off PhysX and DX11, as both of these features seem to be ressource hogs.

Crash with error "xlive.dll is missing"

Install Games for Windows Live

Crash Fix – For Quad Core PCs

If you’re on Quad Core, try this fix to address any crash issues:

Start the game
Alt+Tab Out of the game
Open Task Manager
Right click on BatmanAC.exe
Choose: "Set Affinity..."
Select core 0 and 1 only. You need to run the game on two CPU’s basically, so to avoid the crash to desktop.

No sound or weak sound

For Windows 7 and Vista users:

First of all, update your sound card drivers. If doing that doesn’t clear up the problem, make sure you have volume set to max for Batman Arkham City in the volume mixer (click on the little speaker icon in the bottom-right of your screen in the system tray). If you’re in-game, just alt+tab out of the game and check if Batman Arkham City is set to max in the volume mixer.

Another tip you could try is to go to Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Sound > Communications Tab then select the “Do Nothing” radio button to permanently fix this issue.

For Windows XP users:

Reduce hardware acceleration, or set your speakers to Stereo.

Graphical tweaks

Field of Vision

A simple *.ini tweak, as described here (steam forums) among other places, allows to bind a FoV value to a key. To do this:

open the following file with notepad:

%userprofile%\Documents\WB Games\Batman Arkham City\BmGame\Config\bminput.ini

to bind a FoV value of 100 to the F10 key, add this line at the end of [Engine.PlayerInput]:
```
Bindings=(Name="F10",Command="fov 100")
```

The result:

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default fov
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fov 100

Note that the game might overwrite the edited version of bminput.ini. Do not despair, keep editing it until it finally sticks.

Save Game Data

A Word of Warning

As of february 2012, there are still reports of disappearing save data. Keeping a decently recent local backup of this data could prove useful. Steam cloud is supported, but until the issue is fully resolved adding a local copy may still be the safest option.

Save data location (steam version):
```
Steam\userdata\<id>\57400\remote
```

Games for Windows Live

Do not forget to make a copy of the folder containing your encryption key when backing up your Batman:AC save data. Without it you won't be able to use your saves on another system.

folder location:

%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\XLive

Cloud Support

Steam Cloud

As mentioned above, steam cloud stores savegame data.

More details about the save files of Batman:AC can be found here (steam forums).

System Requirements

Note: Requires log-in to Games for Windows LIVE

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Useful Links

Technical Issues section of the official forum.
a well-written post (steam) about the way the game handles save data.

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+'''USES GFWL'''
 The sequel to [[Batman: Arkham Asylum]] (2009). It is, as its predecessor, a ''Games for Windows Live'' title. This has ramifications on how the [[#Save Game Data|save data]] should be handled.