Im by no means a pc gamer, and I have an old ass laptop with a graphics card that was middling 5 years ago, but I do have something here that seems like an oddity. When I'm playing this game (on low settings at 720p) the game runs absolutely fine in the open world of arkham city, well above 30. But once I enter an interior level, it drops to sub 30 (usually around 25 fps). Doesn't this seem weird? I mean, the open world section must be more demanding on hardware than the interior stuff, right?

Honestly, I probably shouldn't even be making this thread, but from my experience with gaming this seems a little weird. Has anyone ever experienced this problem before?

Have you tried lowering your shadow levels? Also, disabling the DX11 stuff in City helped a lot of people's framerates.

It didn't have Arkham Knight levels of jank but City wasn't a great port when it was released.

Yea, as stated above the dx11 path in Arkham City was never fixed, so just use dx9 which should help maintain a more stable frame rate.

@tuxfool: @dave_tacitus: Unless there's another place I have to go to force dx9 mode besides the config menu when the game starts, I already have all that stuff turned off. Literally everything is off (including the dx10 stuff) and the detail setting is set to low. Maybe some interior areas are just more demanding? It still doesn't make sense to me, but as I said Im not a pc guy. Getting like 40-50 fps outside, and in some instances as low as 20 inside.

The weird thing is, I just installed the game and when I started it for the first time the intro catwomen section ran great, but after messing with settings in the nvidia control panel and restarting the game a few times, I went back and noticed the same section was running poorly. Ive changed everything back to what they should be in the control panel, but it still runs like crap. Open world section still runs fine.

If bad comes to worse, I have the ps3 version (which is where I originally played it). Playing the game on my laptop screen, which is smaller than my tv, makes 720p/low settings still look better than the ps3 version on my larger tv, plus I have the GOTY edition on steam which has all the dlc. I really just want to replay it so I get my fill of batman games for the time being while I wait for Arkham Knight to drop in price.