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I hope this doesn't turn into a fight, but I know that it will. WB Games has warned AMD users that Arkham Knight does not run well on AMD cards. How badly? Just take a look at the revised minimum requirements:
 

Minimum system requirements:

  • 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

 

“We also want to note that there are some known issues with the performance of Batman: Arkham Knight for PC owners using AMD graphics cards.  We are working closely with AMD to rectify these issues as quickly as possible and will provide updates here as they become available.  We thank you for your patience in this matter.”

 

Yes, you read that right. A 7950 will perform like a 660 in this game. My opinion? Both AMD and Rocksteady are at fault. There is no way that things could get that bad if only one party is to blame. AMD users should cancel preorders immediately, as it looks like most of you would have a better experience on PS4 than on PC. Of course, PS4 uses AMD hardware. I'll leave it to you to think about what that means.

 

Source: https://www.pixeldynamo.com/news/gaming/2015/06/22/69607/batman-arkham-knight-pc-suffers-amd-card-issues-system-requirements-updated/

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''A 7950 will perform like a 660 in this game''

''Batman: Arkham Knight doesn not like AMD cards''




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I hope these AMD performance issues wont turn into a trend. It is sad for people that bough expensive cards and they cant really enjoy them.

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wait til real benchmarks on final release show up

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Minimum requirements usually don't mean much......One game (I can't remember which) says either a 4790k or an FX8 -- which are nowhere near eachother in terms of performance. Although the comment from WB is interesting (albeit not super surprising) considering it's an Nvidia title. 

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its a gameworks title what do u expect

i love it when i cant disable them :)

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2/3GB for minimum memory requirements? I'm calling bullshit. So many devs seem to have ridiculous minimum specs, but they can be run on much, much less. 

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I hope this doesn't turn into a fight, but I know that it will. WB Games has warned AMD users that Arkham Knight does not run well on AMD cards. How badly? Just take a look at the revised minimum requirements:

 

 

AMD users should cancel preorders immediately, as it looks like most of you would have a better experience on PS4 than on PC. 

 

 

You looking for a fight with a comment like that... especially since it's only in 1 game.. there are games that Nvidia perform like dogs in as well.

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''A 7950 will perform like a 660 in this game''

''Batman: Arkham Knight doesn not like AMD cards''

Problem ?

Not a 660 Ti; a 660. The 7950 these days should be going up against the 670/760.

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If it runs on one makers card ok but not the others I fail to see how that's the devs fault. Clearly amd are shit when it comes to support/drivers here?

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*Looks at my 980Ti*  :rolleyes:

 

If I had an AMD card I wouldn't be too worried anyway, hopefully a month or 2 and some driver fixes and it'll run ok, lots of games to catch up on in the mean time, but if you did pre order to play it right away then this does kinda suck, hopefully this will be the last big game release for a while AMD will have issues with, otherwise it'll make peoples choice between 980ti and fury x a lot easier, I would rather have a close race!

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If it runs on one makers card ok but not the others I fail to see how that's the devs fault. Clearly amd are shit when it comes to support/drivers here?

Well. The devs should optimize for the cards.. not the other way around.

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If it runs on one makers card ok but not the others I fail to see how that's the devs fault. Clearly amd are shit when it comes to support/drivers here?

not really. Batman games are the posterchild of Nvidia Gameworks. The games use almost every Gameworks effect. Even as a current AMD user I will never expect a batman game to run well on an AMD system.

 

So it isn't AMD's drivers

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It's expected, all batman:arkham games have been partial to nvidia. There are contracts and crosswork. Although arkham origins performs all right on my r9 290, even at 4k.

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Witcher 3 recommended an r9 290 on the amd side while it reccomended a gtx 770 on nvidia's. Yet Amd cards run the game as fast their counterparts. Everyone should take minimum requirements with a grain of salt.

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But who does :D

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It also has 3.5 gigabyte patch on launch. After several delays.

 

What the hell is going on with this game?

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It's expected, all batman:arkham games have been partial to nvidia. There are contracts and crosswork. Although arkham origins performs all right on my r9 290, even at 4k.

Isn't origins the only one to not be from rocksteady? 

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Well. The devs should optimize for the cards.. not the other way around.

so devs should optimise for 30+ cards sorry but no nvidia and amd know there product better than. Devs so the know hoe to get the best performance out of the cards so the should optimise for the game

  

not really. Batman games are the posterchild of Nvidia Gameworks. The games use almost every Gameworks effect. Even as a current AMD user I will never expect a batman game to run well on an AMD system.

 

So it isn't AMD's drivers

If this was the only game with amd issues I would agree but it's not

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