Rocksteady: How to get Batman: Arkham Knight running on PC

Rocksteady's conclusion to the Batman Arkham series has been getting raving reviews from everyone – except PC players. Batman: Arkham Knight's launch on the PC has not been without difficulties, performance issues have left the game nearly unplayable.

Rocksteady has formally addressed the issues, stating that they are taking the situation "very seriously" and are working on a fix with their external PC development partner, Iron Galaxy Studios.

While they work with development teams, AMD and NVIDIA to get the game up and running, they have a few recommendations on how to get the game playable.

First off, do not touch the game files. Altering the games .ini files will "potentially negatively impact performance, including frame rate, and stability." The developers also noted that players should not disable and/or edit the size of their page file.

It is not  recommend using NVIDIA’s GeForce Experience or AMD’s Gaming Evolved Optimization tools. At the moment neither  Crossfire on AMD or Eyefinity (multi-monitor) on AMD are currently supported, but they will be in future updates from AMD.

In-game, you should be looking to have these settings either turned on or off, depending on what specs your PC has.

Minimum Hardware Specs (or equivalent):

• Resolution: 1280×720
• V-Sync: Off
• Anti-Aliasing: Off
• Texture Resolution: Low
• Shadow Quality: Low
• Level of Detail: Low
• Interactive Smoke/Fog: Off
• Interactive Paper Debris: Off
• Enhanced Rain: Off
• Enhanced Light Shafts: Off

Recommended Hardware Specs (or equivalent):

• Resolution: 1920×1080
• V-Sync: On
• Anti-Aliasing: On
• Texture Resolution: Normal
• Shadow Quality: Normal
• Level of Detail: Normal
• Interactive Smoke/Fog: Off
• Interactive Paper Debris: Off
• Enhanced Rain: Off
• Enhanced Light Shafts: Off

If you have yet to update your graphics card's drivers, Rocksteady has been stressing the "importance of having the latest drivers." Here's what drivers you should have running:

• NVIDIA GeForce users should use GeForce GameReady WHQL Driver version 353.30
• AMD users should use Catalyst 15.6 beta driver

If you are using Nvidia SLI, use the NVIDIA Control Panel to set one card as a dedicated PhysX card.

Here's a refresher on the game's hardware specifications:

Minimum Hardware Specs:

• OS: Win 7 SP1, Win 8.1 (64-bit Operating System Required)
• Processor: Intel Core i5-750, 2.67 GHz | AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.4 GHz
• Memory: 6 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2 GB Memory Minimum)  | AMD Radeon HD 7950 (3 GB Memory Minimum)
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet connection required
• Hard Drive: 45 GB available space

Recommended Hardware Specs:

• OS: Win 7 SP1, Win 8.1 (64-bit Operating System Required)
• Processor: Intel Core i7-3770, 3.4 GHz | AMD FX-8350, 4.0 GHz
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 – 3 GB Memory Recommended
• DirectX: Version 11
• Network: Broadband Internet connection
• Hard Drive: 55 GB available space

Ultra System Hardware Requirements:

• OS: Win 7 SP1, Win 8.1 (64-bit Operating System Required)
• Processor: Intel Core i7-3770, 3.4 GHz | AMD FX-8350, 4.0 GHz
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
• Graphics Memory: 4 GB

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