Did you hear? The next Batman game is a rather hefty crime-punching simulation, clocking in at over 45gb in size. WHOA! In other news that wasn’t already posted in April however, the game is going to look mighty fine when running on a properly prepared PC, provided that you have some Nvidia tech under the hood. Here, have a look while I weep at the fact that my laptop is barely capable of running an MS-DOS version of The Incredible Machine.
Here’s a video showing off just how pretty Batman: Arkham Knight looks on that Nvidia hardware. It’s pretty much what you’d expect: Interactive fog and smoke, interactive paper debris, PhysX destruction, enhanced rain and probably several other buzzwords that go way, way over my limited knowledge of hardware and software implementation.
Of course, such fancy psychological issues come at a price. If you’re planning to run Batman: Arkham Knight to the bleeding edge, your PC will need to be at least this tall to enter the recommended requirements ride:
- 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 760
- Graphics Memory: 3 GB
- DirectX®: 11
- Network: Broadband Internet Connection Required
- Hard Drive Space: 55 GB
While you’ll need to hit your Wayne Industries pension to upgrade to this for the visuals above:
- 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
- DirectX®: 11
- Network: Broadband Internet Connection Required
- Hard Drive Space: 55 GB
Hot damn. Batman: Arkham Knight is also out on console soon, where the only requirement is being able to put a disc inside the machine. Which I totally would do, but it’s all the way over there. Too much effort dammit.
Last Updated: June 8, 2015
Lord Chaos
June 8, 2015 at 08:36
They call that a PC? That’s what my RED beast has for breakfast.
Admiral Chief's Adventure
June 8, 2015 at 08:47
HAH
Hammersteyn
June 8, 2015 at 09:03
lol
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 8, 2015 at 09:04
I think my red beast is either on heat or it’s got lung cancer, because it’s making strange sounds.
Lord Chaos
June 8, 2015 at 09:23
One way to find out, put another next to it, if it has baby AMDs then you know. 😛
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
June 8, 2015 at 09:06
Would that be before, or after you switch on Hairworks?
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 8, 2015 at 09:08
Hairworks is for posers 😉
Hammersteyn
June 8, 2015 at 09:10
I can’t play a game unless the characters hair is silky smooth. Because I’m worth it.
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 8, 2015 at 09:14
This is how hairworks looks to me….
http://www.brianstevensonphotography.com/extra/001.jpg
Difference is, this photo was taken underwater. Now, I’m not 100% sure, but I think The Witcher 3 mostly plays off on land. ;P
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
June 8, 2015 at 09:16
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! That’s exactly it!! You eventually get used to it, which makes it worse, because then you take a step outside and everyone’s hair, including your own, looks flat!
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 8, 2015 at 09:17
That’s exactly how I feel. I’m quite disappointed when I go outside and people’s hair isn’t weightlessly bouncing around even when they’re just walking.
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
June 8, 2015 at 09:22
Haha! I expect people’s hair to start bouncing erratically by itself now! Just goes to show how much time I’ve spent in The Witcher 3… What a beautiful game it is though, other than the erratic hair and useless, grinding to a halt racehorse that I have….
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 8, 2015 at 09:24
I just can’t get enough of that game myself. 60 hours in now, and only went to Skellige now. So much to do.
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
June 8, 2015 at 09:29
I have lost myself in it repeatedly, the game is quite simply a masterpiece, every little aspect of the side quests feel like a whole unique story and then the combat, from TW2 they’ve simplified, but made it so much better, and then the art…. I have had to close my mouth with my hand, staring at my PC… it is just amazing….
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 8, 2015 at 09:31
I was paging through the beastiary last night. There are A LOT of different monsters there. It’s quite incredible. It’s beyond creative.
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
June 8, 2015 at 09:36
Adding to that, when you take into account that some are variations on a specific model, each variation has it’s pro/con and it’s been done so elegantly that I cannot find fault in it. Add to that , that you’re galloping away into the woods and suddenly you see a wyvern hovering above you, that anticipation of “Am I going to risk it?” or “Oh crap it’s a high level monster! Run!”
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 8, 2015 at 09:38
Haha. I know that.
I ran past a Griffin and the damn thing chased me. For very long. Too long for my comfort.
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 8, 2015 at 09:58
That happened to me on Sat too, luckily I was on horseback & could gallop to a nearby town to escape. Which turned out to be infested by lvl18 ghouls, so I had to keep on galloping. It was a long ride back to relative civilisation.
I also fought a Basilisk, which I initially thought was a Cockatrice because from a distance it looked & sounded like one. I ran up to it & got the msg “new bestiary entry: basilisk”. Surprise!
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 8, 2015 at 10:00
That’s the same one!
I also ran to the town. Luckily I was level 16 myself, but those ghouls killed me anyway.
Then they did again.
And again
And again.
So I decided to come back later.
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 8, 2015 at 10:02
lol! Were you also doing the quest around the vandalised shrines?
I was lvl10 then, so I just ran. lvl13 now, and I know I can take on lvl18s now because I took out a lvl18 water hag.
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 8, 2015 at 10:06
I did the vandalised shrines, but then after the people started forming these little groups around them I decided to side with the people taking them down. Looked a bit too cultish for my taste with those people standing around those shrines everywhere.
Reached level 19 last night. Only then went back to kill those ghouls. Once there are that many it gets quite tough. And I finally went to Skellige after only 60 hours in 😀
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 8, 2015 at 10:10
Damn, I’m only around 35 hours or so now, and there’s still way too much to do in Velen. Finished the Bloody Baron quest line yesterday, that was some serious story telling.
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 8, 2015 at 10:13
Bloody Baron still remains my favourite story of the bunch so far.The only Witcher contracts I still have to do in Velen are for monsters of way too high level for me.
I have, however, made quite a few good-hearted decisions in quests where I didn’t kill monsters. 🙂
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
June 8, 2015 at 10:35
Hehehe, That Baron quest was awesome, but not a match on what’s to come… I struck lvl 31 last night/early hours of this morning, and I still have Witcher Contracts in Velen….
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 8, 2015 at 11:08
That’s good news for me 😀
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
June 8, 2015 at 09:36
Adding to that, when you take into account that some are variations on a specific model, each variation has it’s pro/con and it’s been done so elegantly that I cannot find fault in it. Add to that , that you’re galloping away into the woods and suddenly you see a wyvern hovering above you, that anticipation of “Am I going to risk it?” or “Oh crap it’s a high level monster! Run!”
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
June 8, 2015 at 09:10
I HAIRWORKED IN MY PANTS!
Mistake Not...
June 8, 2015 at 08:48
You need a bloody Bat-Computer for this.
Jonah Cash
June 8, 2015 at 08:48
GTX 980 is a bit stiff, but the rest I can manage….
PoisonedBelial
June 8, 2015 at 08:51
*Blinks*
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 8, 2015 at 08:57
Haha. AMD hat on mad-hatter. Except that mad-hatter is green. Like Nvidia. So I think it’s safe to assume that he wants to be as cool as AMD, that’s why he’s wearing the hat 😀
ReaperOfSquirrels
June 8, 2015 at 09:02
On an unrelated note, I just saw that GoG is owned by CD Projekt… I didn’t know that, but it also explains a lot.
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
June 8, 2015 at 09:06
Yep! Very cool story about them really, CD Projekt started off by distributing games in Poland, where the PC market was quite literally a flea market at a stadium, where you’d hope you get all of the parts to make one complete PC, they quite literally were bootlegging copies of games, they then landed a deal with the guys from Baldurs Gate, where they could distribute the game, but they wanted to do the whole translation thing too, which meant that they had to pay licensing and all of that, in essence, a REALLY awesome bunch of people!
Hammersteyn
June 8, 2015 at 09:04
“You AMD bro?” Rofl
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
June 8, 2015 at 09:07
Seems D stands for Dyslexia too…
Hammersteyn
June 8, 2015 at 09:09
In this case it’s for Devious
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
June 8, 2015 at 09:11
Aah, he speaks the truth…Or does he?
Hammersteyn
June 8, 2015 at 09:12
Deceptive?
Greylingad[CNFRMD]
June 8, 2015 at 09:13
As long as it’s not Dismal, it’s fine, I think….
Jonah Cash
June 8, 2015 at 09:18
Hey I reached level 5 in The Iron Banner. You can only buy one etheric light at level 5… So I now only need one to reach level 34!
Hammersteyn
June 8, 2015 at 09:42
I’m almost level 3. Need like 150 points. Lag was terribad this weekend. I punch a guy four/five times and nothing happens. I probably have the most post mortem kills in Iron Banner O_o
Jonah Cash
June 8, 2015 at 09:52
The lag was bad all over, but there were some guys who were indestructible as well!! I report 3 guys over the weekend for cheating. I emptied a clip of The Last Word and my shot gun on one dude and he didn’t even lose half of his health… His team lost in any case 🙂
Blood Emperor Trevor
June 8, 2015 at 09:51
If I buy it do I get a discount for not using Nvidia?
Captain JJ the_scarrrr
June 8, 2015 at 09:58
You should get a discount in life for that 😉