WB Games lead community admin Yorick made the announcement via the game’s forum last night, simply stating that, with regards to the minimum requirements, “
The minimum specs for Batman: Arkham Knight for PC have been adjusted and are listed below.” This was followed by the news that there have been some issues with the game’s performance on AMD graphics card systems:
“We also want to note that there are some known issues with the performance of Batman: Arkham Knight for PC owners using AMD graphics cards. We are working closely with AMD to rectify these issues as quickly as possible and will provide updates here as they become available. We thank you for your patience in this matter.”
The main change, in fact, appears to simply be an addition of the AMD graphics card specifications to the list. For reference,
you can find the original requirement’s here. Below are the new minimum requirements, with the changes in
bold:
Minimum system requirements:
- OS: Win 7 SP1, Win 8.1 (64-bit Operating System Required)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-750, 2.67 GHz | AMD Phenom II X4 965, 3.4 GHz
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (2 GB Memory Minimum) |AMD Radeon HD 7950 (3 GB Memory Minimum)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection required
- Hard Drive: 45 GB available space
What’s interesting here is that the AMD graphics card specs were never included when the requirements were announced, and are only added at the same time of an acknowledgement of some AMD-related issues. Likewise, AMD cards have reportedly been suffering at the hands of the various GameWorks features introduced by rivals NVIDIA,
that will also feature inArkham Knight.