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Batman: Arkham Knight

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Batman: Arkham Knight
Batman: Arkham Knight cover
Developers
Rocksteady Studios
A Matter of Family Warner Bros. Games Montreal
Publishers
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Engines
Unreal Engine 3
Release dates
Windows June 23, 2015[1]
Batman: Arkham Knight guide on StrategyWiki
Batman: Arkham Knight on Wikipedia
Batman: Arkham
Subseries of Batman
Batman: Arkham Asylum 2009
Batman: Arkham City 2011
Batman: Arkham Origins 2013
Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate Deluxe Edition 2014
Batman: Arkham Knight 2015
Batman: Arkham VR 2017
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League 2024

Key points

Released in a poor state, the PC port was pulled from stores on June 24, 2015, reworked and re-released on October 28, 2015.[2]
Despite post-launch efforts, reports still indicate the game to have many problems with bugs and general optimization.[3][4]

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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5 DVD discs.
Windows
Amazon.com
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Windows
Amazon.co.uk
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Windows
GamersGate
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Premium Edition
Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Premium Edition
Windows
Incorrect store name. See here for available options.
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Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Premium Edition
Windows
Humble Store
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Premium Edition
Windows
Steam
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Windows
All versions require Steam and Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.[5]

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Season Pass
Windows
A Matter of Family
Windows
Harley Quinn Story Pack
Windows
Red Hood Story Pack
Windows
Prototype Batmobile Skin
Windows
Batman Classic TV Series Batmobile Pack
Windows
1st Appearance Batman Skin
Windows
Batman: Noel Skin
Windows
Bat-Family Skin Pack
Windows
1989 Movie Batmobile Pack
Windows
Crime Fighter Challenge Pack #1
Windows
Crime Fighter Challenge Pack #2
Windows
Crime Fighter Challenge Pack #3
Windows
Crime Fighter Challenge Pack #4
Windows
Crime Fighter Challenge Pack #5
Windows
GCPD Lockdown
Windows
2008 Tumbler Batmobile Pack
Windows
Catwoman's Revenge
Windows
Robin and Batmobile Skins Pack
Windows
WayneTech Track Pack
Windows
A Flip of a Coin
Windows
1970s Batman Themed Batmobile Skin
Windows
2008 Movie Batman Skin
Windows
Riddler Themed Batmobile Skin
Windows
Original Arkham Batmobile
Windows
Rocksteady Themed Batmobile Skin
Windows
Season of Infamy: Most Wanted Expansion
Windows
Adam West skin, '60s-themed Bat-tank, and Scarecrow Nightmare Challenges are PlayStation 4 exclusives.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Use the -nologo parameter[6]

Tweak Guide

Steam user Kaldaien has compiled a comprehensive configuration guide for Arkham Knight. Users have reported improved performance, texture streaming and graphics quality.

Performance increase on SLI systems

Because Batman: Arkham Knight heavily uses Nvidia PhysX, you can get a considerable framerate improvement by disabling SLI in the Nvidia control panel and assigning your second GPU to be dedicated to PhysX. The game does not support SLI anyway, so at least with this tweak you can get a sort of 'semi-SLI' mode going. This should increase the framerate by around 25%, similar to a SLI profile with poor scaling.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\BMGame\Config\[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/208650/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\BMGame\SaveData\[Note 1]
Steam <Steam-folder>\userdata\<user-id>\208650\
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/208650/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

242/243 Riddler Trophies found save file

If you have completed the game and its various side missions but you would like to skip the incredibly time consuming task of collecting all 243 Riddler trophies, you can get a 99% complete save file here. This file has all non-DLC content completed, with the exception of the collection of the final Riddler trophy at the orphanage, so this save game will allow you to battle the Riddler and view the game's full ending after collecting just a single trophy.

Video settings

In-game graphics settings.
In-game graphics settings.

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Field of view (FOV)

Add hotkeys[citation needed]
  1. Edit <path-to-game>\BMGame\Config\BmInput.ini
  2. Select all lines that start with "Bindings" in the [Engine.PlayerInput] section.
  3. Copy and paste it into the [BmGame.RPlayerInput] section.
  4. Under the section [BmGame.RPlayerInput], add the following lines:
Bindings=(Name="NumPadOne",Command="FOV 86")
Bindings=(Name="NumPadTwo",Command="FOV 90")
Bindings=(Name="NumPadThree",Command="FOV 95")
Bindings=(Name="NumPadFour",Command="FOV 100")
Bindings=(Name="NumPadFive",Command="FOV 105")
Bindings=(Name="NumPadSix",Command="FOV 110")
Bindings=(Name="NumPadSeven",Command="FOV 115")
Bindings=(Name="NumPadEight",Command="FOV 120")

Notes

Higher than default values can cause much FPS drop during situations where the camera zooms out.
Adjusting the FOV in any way with hotkeys breaks the first person Zoom In function on the right thumbstick, causing it to zoom in much less then before, making some riddles unsolvable without reloading the last checkpoint and resetting FOV entirely
Convert game to Hor+
Game is Vert- by default.
  1. Open BmEngine.ini and change "AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainXFOV" to "AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainYFOV"

Notes

May cause the map and some cutscenes to look weird.
This tweak also makes the game use vertical measurement. For people who play games where the max allowed FOV is 120, you want to use hotkey values of 90 instead of 120. If you like 110 or 100, then 80 and 70 respectively.

Anti-aliasing (AA)

Game's implemented solution uses a temporal filter which reduces clarity of textures and can disorientate some users. This injected form is crisper and gives much smoother edges
SMAA via SweetFX[citation needed]
  1. Download custom SweetFX
  2. Extract archive contents to <path-to-game>\Binaries\Win64\ and replace DLL's with ones from "x64" folder
SMAA via ReShade[citation needed]
Only use if the method above causes crashes
  1. Download custom ReShade
  2. Extract archive contents to <path-to-game>\Binaries\Win64

High frame rate

Change value in config file[citation needed]
  1. Edit <path-to-game>\BmGame\Config\BmSystemSettings.ini.
  2. Change MaxFPS=60.000000 to have the FPS cap you want.
  3. Save your changes and close the file.

Input settings

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Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Includes localization for Spain and Latin America, but it depends on Windows Language preferences (for Latin America, Windows language must be on Español (México), for Spain must be on any configuration of Spanish).
Latin American Spanish

Issues fixed

Slow start up

Add a Windows Defender exclusion[citation needed]
  1. Go to Update & Security, Windows Defender and scroll down until you find 'exclusions' click add an exclusion.
  2. Click "exclude a .exe, .com or .scr process" and add the batmanAK.exe from <path-to-game>\Binaries\Win 64

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 11
Shader Model support 5
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics PhysX
Interface Scaleform

Hide HUD

Add hotkeys[citation needed]
  1. Edit <path-to-game>\BMGame\Config\BmInput.ini
  2. Select all lines that start with "Bindings" in the [Engine.PlayerInput] section.
  3. Copy and paste it into the [BmGame.RPlayerInput] section.
  4. Under the section [BmGame.RPlayerInput], add the following line:
Bindings=(Name="NumPadZero",Command="ToggleHUD")

System requirements

A 64-bit system is required.
For ultra setting the publisher lists an Nvidia GeForce GTX 980 and 4 GB of VRAM as the minimum requirement.[7]
The recommended requirements are only for 30FPS, not 60+ as most would expect.
Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 7 SP1
Processor (CPU) Intel Core i5-750 2.67 GHz
AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 6 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 45 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce GTX 660
AMD Radeon HD 7870
2 GB of VRAM
DirectX 11 compatible
Other Broadband Internet Connection required to activate and for some online features

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/208650/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (208650) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References