Benchmark Results: High Detail, 4x AA
For whatever reason, the game's settings menu can only enable AA when using GeForce cards. When you when using the Radeon cards, AA must be enabled through the Catalyst Control Center. This is slightly annoying, mostly because I don't understand why this is the case. Some say it's an underhanded effort by Nvidia to handicap ATI cards (Batman is a TWIMTBP title, after all), while others claim that ATI's developer relations team didn't move fast enough to get AA implemented. Whatever the case, here are the results.
While the Radeon and GeForce cards were neck and neck with their counterparts before, the GeForce boards take a massive lead once AA is enabled. The GeForce 9600 GT even manages to beat out the Radeon HD 4850 at 2560x1600, although it's not much of a real-world victory since both of these cards are relegated to playing back a slide show.
The GeForce GTS 250, Radeon HD 4870, and GeForce GTX 260 manage to deliver smooth frame rates all the way to 1920x1200, although at 2560x1600, only the GeForce GTX 260 manages a smooth minimum frame rate.
Great article, really informative. Looking forward to hearing back from the devs regarding CPU usage.
cant wait to try it.
This is a Games for Windows Live product. Or On-line account Evil DRM malware tracking software required.
I really want to play this; but alas I cannot buy it
Wow..I didn't expect GT 220 is a good dedicated Physx card,.. Off searching in eBay LoL
Looks to me like nVidia had this game rigged to better benefit it's cards, note the decrease in CPU involvement as the physX options are cranked up.
That is why Arkham Asylum should be Game of the Year - It is a work of art!
Would a setip with an Nvidia card for PhysX and an ATI card for graphics work? Noob question i know :-P
Would a setip with an Nvidia card for PhysX and an ATI card for graphics work? Noob question i know :-P
I don't think it's a daft question - there was a= bit of news or an article a short while back saying that nvidia had set something so that physX couldn't be used if there was a non-nvidia card handling the graphics (or something like that). I was going to raise the same question as to 'can the GT220 be used as a physx card regardless of the main GPU?' as I can't remember much about the other article.
I play this game using 2 8800GTs, one for graphics and one for the physx (on high).
All settings on max and res at 1080p
Benchmark gets about 40fps, played the whole game though with no noticable slowdown.
The physics were locked down because PhysX is an nVidia product (no one supported AGEIA dedicated cards when the original company (Ageia) was making the entry to the market),as some profit based companies would still use havok at that times and not see the huge potential of the PhysX of AGEIA, it's only reasonable that now that Ageia merged with nVidia, they want to make profit by selling their graphic cards.
The second reason, I think, is that the PhysX wouldn't even try to use the CPU for Physics for performance related issues (smooth frame rate in every case scenario rig).
As I recon, AMD is making a move in the Physics with the 5th serie.
Just wait and see... Again