Gotham Knight’s latest PC patch promises boosted performance and less hitching

Expect Gotham Knights to run better on PC following the game’s latest update

WB Games Montreal has released their first major 2023 update for Gotham Knights, adding fixes for technical issues within the game alongside new optimisations the promise to boost the game’s performance on PC. 

For starters, PC gamers have been promised rendering performance improvements, streaming time improvements and fixes for “various GPU and CPU hitches”. All of these changes are designed to get Gotham Knights to run better on PC, enabling smoother framerates with fewer immersion-breaking hitches. 

On top of the game’s performance improvements, fixes for multiple crashes have also been implemented, making the game less likely to crash to desktop. While it is a shame that these issues were present within Gotham Knights since the game’s launch in October 2022, it is good to see that WB Games Montreal has worked to address these concerns.

Gotham Knights currently has a “mixed” review rating on Steam, with many of the game’s negative reviews citing frequent crashes as their main problem with the game. Hopefully Gotham Knight’s new PC patch has addressed these concerns. Let’s hope that Gotham Knight doesn’t need another crash fixing patch on PC. 

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Gotham Knights PC Patch Notes 

Stability

– Several fixes for crashes in the Open World
– Fix for the crash related to using Fast Travel Points
– Fix for the crash that could happen when returning to the main menu
– Fix for the crash that could happen when using the Text-to-Speech functionality in some options.

Performance

– Rendering performance improvements
– Smoothed out delta time fluctuations with and without V-SYNC
– Streaming time improvements
– Optimized actor spawn time and performance
– Various GPU and CPU hitches reduction

Graphics

– Fix to HDR being improperly set on the not-primary monitor
– Tweaked scalability settings for graphics settings auto-detection.
– Fix for some materials being improperly displayed when the anti-aliasing is disabled.
– The GPU driver check has been added.
– Several minor fixes to the NVIDIA Ansel mode.
– Fix for the post-processing options being improperly reset after exiting from the Photo Mode.
– Several fixes for the shadows being improperly displayed.
– Fix for some graphical artifacts that could be visible during the Clayface boss battle.

UI/Input

– Fix for missing SFX in various menus.
– Several fixes for the input in the Social Wheel menu.
– Fix for the camera movement in the ‘Map’ submenu.
– Fix for vanishing header prompts when crafting items
– Fix for overlapping buttons in tutorials.
– The ‘Add as Friend’ input has been changed in the Social menu.
– The ‘Refresh list’ binding has been changed in the Social menu
– The ‘Revert’ button in the Colorway section of the Styles tab should now have mouse functionality.
– A separate binding for the Group Social menu tab has been added.
– Fix for the issue when tutorial popup that did not required input was blocking KBM input in Crime Map
– Several minor fixes related to the Text-to-Speech behavior in menus.

Localization

– Several fixes for missing translations in menus.