Batman: Arkham City

Batman: Arkham City

Developers   Rocksteady Studios OS X Feral Interactive

Publishers   Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment OS X Feral Interactive

Engines   Unreal Engine 3

Release dates Windows November 22, 2011 OS X December 13, 2012

Batman: Arkham

Batman: Arkham Asylum	2009
Batman: Arkham City	2011
Batman: Arkham Origins	2013
Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate	2014
Batman: Arkham Knight	2015

Key points

DRM switched from Games for Windows - LIVE and SecuROM to Steam.

General information

Batman Wiki

Steam Community Discussions

Steam Users' Forums for game series

Technical Issues section of the official forum.

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys
Direct2Drive
GamersGate
GameStop
Green Man Gaming		GOTY Edition
Humble Store
Origin		GOTY Edition
Mac App Store		GOTY Edition (OS X only)
Steam		GOTY Edition (Windows and OS X)
Retail		DRM: SecuROM and Games for Windows - LIVE.

All Windows versions activate on Steam, including retail.

The non-GOTY version upgrades to GOTY when activated on Steam.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Skip intro movies Go to <path-to-game>\BmGame\Movies\ Move, rename or delete StartupNV.swf and Startup.swf

Game data

In-game general settings.

A well-written post on the Steam Users' Forums about the way the game handles save data. Note that this forum post is only relevant to the deprecated GFWL version.

Configuration file(s) location

	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\WB Games\Batman Arkham City GOTY\BmGame\Config\
OS X

Save game data location

	Location
Steam	<Steam-folder>/userdata/<user-id>/200260

Using GFWL save file in Steamworks version

Remove old save files header Start the game and make as many save games as there were earlier and leave them 0% complete. Backup <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\200260\remote Open folder, GFWL version saves should have your GFWL nickname as prefix like GFWLnick-save#.sgd Open first GFWLnick-save#.sgd (for example GFWLnick-save0.sgd for first slot save file) with your chosen HEX editor. Search for hex value 00 00 00 03 00. Now select everything before that value and delete. Part 1 Part 2 Remove GFWLnick- from filename and overwrite the files without prefix. do not overwrite the original file! Repeat the steps for all the files. If all gone well you should be able to use old save files again.

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud
GameSave Manager		Supports both the standard and GOTY versions.

Video settings

External video settings.

Graphics option	Option	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor			Multi-monitor HUD: Position Affects Gameplay.
Ultra-widescreen
Field of view (FOV)		See Field of view (FOV).
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		See Anisotropic filtering (AF).
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
High frame rate		Fix needed for 62 FPS cap; see High frame rate.

Field of view (FOV)

Change FOV Open BmInput.ini with a text editor To bind a FoV value of 100 to F10, add this line at the end of [Engine.PlayerInput]: Bindings=(Name="F10",Command="fov 100") The result: Default FOV FOV 100 The game might revert this change when graphic or control settings are altered; do not despair, keep editing it until it finally sticks.

Anisotropic filtering (AF)

Anisotropic filtering (AF) Open UserEngine.ini with a text editor. Under the [SystemSettings] section, add line MaxAnisotropy=16

High frame rate

Raise frame rate smoothing Open the BMEngine.ini with a text editor. Search MaxSmoothedFrameRate. Best value should be your monitor refresh rate +2 so e.g. with 144hz monitor value should be 146. Change configs value to this. There may be multiple instances so change them all. Save file and make it "read only". For more information, see the Unreal Engine 3 page.

Input settings

External key map settings.

The gamepad layout for Batman: Arkham City

Keyboard and mouse	Native	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		Separate inversion of look, rotation, flight controls and Batarang flight controls.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping
Controller Y-axis inversion

Disable mouse smoothing

Disable Mouse Smoothing Open BmInput.ini with a text editor. Under the b[Engine.PlayerInput] section, change the value of bEnableMouseSmoothing to False

Audio settings

In-game audio settings.

Audio options	Native	Notes
Separate volume controls		SFX, Music and Dialogue.
Surround sound		Auto configures up to 5.1 output
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	CC	Notes
English
Brazilian Portuguese
French
German
Italian
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Turkish				Fan translation, see Turkish.

Turkish

A Turkish fan patch is available here. Note that it does not include Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC.

Change language

By default the Windows system language takes over other preferences.

Change game language Open UserEngine.ini with a text editor Change the language to the code of your desired language Notes Menu texts preference can be simply overridden with -LANGUAGEFORCOOK=XXX parameter Dialogues preference can be simply overridden with -LANGUAGE=XXX parameter Language codes (XXX) and available localizations can be checked in the <path-to-game>\BmGame\Localization\ folder

Change launcher language Every time you start the launcher, the game takes over the launcher's language settings, so you should consider changing this, too. Open <path-to-game>\BmGame\Config\Launcher.ini with a text editor Search for '[Launcher.CultureMap]'. Put a semi-colon in front of each line except 'default=Int' and your desired language.

Issues fixed

Low FPS

Turn off PhysX and DX11, as both of these features are resource-intensive.

Ensure you have the latest DirectX End-User Runtimes.

Crash Fix – For Quad Core PCs

Crash Quad Core PCs 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 cores basically, so to avoid the crash to desktop.

Gray screen after fight with Joker

Gray screen after fight with Joker After beating Joker in the Steel Mill, you may encounter a gray screen that looks to be a cutscene that refuses to load. It tells you you can skip it by clicking the left-mouse button, but doing so will have no effect. If you encounter this problem and you have the game on Steam, try validating your cache. Right click on Batman: Arkham City in your Steam library Select Properties Select Local Files Select "Check integrity of game cache files". The process might complete too fast (less than three seconds for a game of several gigabytes). If that's the case, launch the game and load up the menu. Press Alt+F4 and GfWL will helpfully inform you that you might lose unsaved progress. Click Yes to continue. Try validating your game's cache again. If validating your cache did not work or you do not have a version of the game on Steam, delete the game's local files (Steam -> Batman: Arkham City -> Remove local files), reinstall the game and try again. Luckily your saves are stored in the Steam Cloud.

No sound or weak sound

No sound or weak sound Update your sound card drivers. If problems persist, ensure 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.

Game crashes right after launch

Game crashes right after launch The Windows 7 event log may show entries like this: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: APPCRASH Application Name: BatmanAC.exe Application Version: 1.0.0.0 Application Timestamp: 00000000 Fault Module Name: BatmanAC.exe Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.0 Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000 Exception Code: c000001d Exception Offset: 0348d7d2 OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Information 1: b1da Additional Information 2: b1dad02de602a574f3e3edfa7bc260e4 Additional Information 3: 3984 Additional Information 4: 3984b60a0d265364fe265f881509cbd0 If you are using EMET and set SEHOP to opt-out, Batman Arkham City needs to be added to the opt-out list. To do this: 1) Create an empty text file 2) Add theses lines: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options\BatmanAC.exe] "DisableExceptionChainValidation"=dword:00000001 3) Save it as batman.reg (name doesn't matter, just the .reg extension is important) 4) Double click it 5) Run Arkham City If that doesn't work, you may have to try disabling SEHOP globally: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\kernel] "DisableExceptionChainValidation"=dword:00000001

Game crashes during introductory cutscene

Install PhysX or disable it

Alternative game crash following introductory cutscene

Install required Iskoola Pota Font

Game crashes under Windows 8

Game crashes under Windows 8 If game crashes to desktop under Windows 8, you will have to set compatibility Open the location where the game is installed Open to the folder named "Binaries" For each exe, right click and click properties. Click the compatibility tab and select the option for Windows XP SP2 and run as administrator

Fix for missing Catwoman controls

Edit UserInput.ini While able to do the "quickfire disarm" for Catwoman while using a gamepad, this move is unusable with a keyboard, as it has no button associated with it. Open UserInput.ini with a text editor Find the line IniVersion=6.9 Under this line add Bindings=(Name="KEYHERE",Command="HoldToZoom | QuickGadgetY", Shift=false, Control=false, Alt=false, bIgnoreShift=false, bIgnoreCtrl=false, bIgnoreAlt=false):META:COM_QUICK_GADGET1,1,-1,-1,"",false,true,CI_QuickWhip Replace KEYHERE with the desired key - note that if a key is already used for another function it can't be associated with this action Save the file

Missing Penguin Statues

Missing Penguin Statues Sometimes Penguin statues may become invisible, and cannot be destroyed, but can be locked on with a batarang. If this happens, try verifying the game cache or uninstalling and reinstalling the game.

Other information

Middleware

	Middleware	Notes
Audio	Wwise

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP, Vista, 7	7
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz	Intel or AMD dual-core 2.5 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	17 GB
Video card (GPU)	ATi Radeon HD 3850 NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB of VRAM	AMD Radeon HD 6970 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570