Trailer for Arkham Knight featuring exclusive features from Nvidia.
Trailer for Arkham Knight featuring exclusive features from Nvidia.
This game is really exciting already, but the PhysX and rain effects will give it a stunning look on PC. FaceWorks also looks impressive, adding detailed features like polygons and subsurface scattering to characters' faces—especially in cutscenes. I think it’s more optimized for PC than City was, even on a 970; running PhysX at max settings would be too slow. The 'Ultra' specs in Knight need a 980, but if I can’t run this smoothly with regular settings, it’ll be disappointing. A healthily modified 970 performs just as well as a 980. My favorite improvement is the interactive smoke—no longer limited to certain areas, it now affects fog, cape movement dust, and more, making it feel much more realistic. I hope this version is powerful enough for similar hardware as Arkham Origins.
The presented technologies include PhysX effects such as smoke with self-shadowing, destructible objects breaking, and paper dynamics. RainWorks features realistic raindrops and enhanced particle movement. FaceWorks improves facial details with higher polygon counts, wrinkles, and subsurface scattering. In the RainWorks comparison, the absence of this effect makes the sky's smoke disappear. It’s possible PhysX could also be applied for simulating fog in the sky.
Nvidia’s innovations often struggle to boost performance, especially on their top GPUs, which raises concerns about their optimization efforts for Knight.
You can expect around 40 FPS with near maximum settings on a GTX 970 or 980, especially after overclocking and using internal benchmarks.
It's frustrating at this resolution with those settings. PhysX running high and normal tessellation really hurt the numbers, bringing them down to about 30-40 in the test. The freeze gun and ice fragments are the biggest hits, capping performance near 40.
It seems you achieved around 12 frames per second without using a dedicated graphics card. That’s impressive!
Sure, I'll run it at full capacity without any additional boosters.