Gotham Knights sees a performance bump and fewer bugs since the launch

A lot of games, released in between 2022 and 2023, have seen their release expectations being blown into dust as number of issues have been plaguing them for a while now.

Gotham Knights is one such title that had a number of issues, with the absence of a Performance Mode, limiting FPS to 30, on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S|X. The game also faced a lot of stuttering when on PC, given there’s much grappling and flying around the map.

Gotham Knights is known to be a CPU-intensive title on consoles. Digital Foundry has reported that the PS5 achieves nearly flawless 30 fps gameplay after the patch, the Xbox Series consoles face inconsistencies in reaching the same performance level. pic.twitter.com/V8dxGmybdt

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Technically, the changes made pertain to the shaders. The game also sees a CPU optimization fix. The frame rate stays above a solid 70FPS now. 

It was noted by wccftech author Alessio Palumbo, who tested the game thoroughly, that there was no improvement even when DLSS was set to performance mode and ray tracing was turned off.

The gameplay experience was not good, even on a powerful performance system bearing an RTX 3090 GPU and an intel Core i7-12700KF CPU. 

The experience worsened when Ray Tracing was switched on, even with DLSS at ultra. The gaming community was deeply disappointed with such a well-designed game facing technical difficulties.

The game consequently received many patches to fix the shader compilation stuttering issue and improve the overall optimization. 

The most recent of the many patches that Gotham Knights received was on February 15^th. While the patch didn’t see many problems on the PC, it was troublesome on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S|X, where FPS would drop below 30FPS. 

The developers, Digital Foundry, received much praise for fixing the PC version of the game and also consequently making sure that the console version of the game was running locked in at 30FPS.

This will please the gaming community as Digital Foundry sets an example by taking into account the community’s plight and making sure that other companies follow suit and players aren’t stuck with buggy games.

About Gotham Knights

Gotham Knights is an upcoming action RPG being developed by WB Games Montreal and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game borrows gameplay elements and styles from the Arkham trilogy but is not considered to be in the same timeline.

Set in the gritty and lawless city of Gotham, Gotham Knights is the newest addition to the Batman brawler style series where players can choose between one of the four Batfamily characters: Batgirl, Robin, Nightwing and Red Hood.

Gotham Knights offers players the chance to explore the most dynamic and interactive version of Gotham City to date. Go solo or team up with your friend for co-op play and rid the streets of Gotham of any and all criminal activity.