Schenker S413 (Core i7-4750HQ, 8 GB DDR3, Iris Pro Graphics 5200).

Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M3-581TG (Core i7-2637M, 4GB DDR3, Geforce GT 640M).

The OS on these notebooks is 64-bit Windows 7 (Win 8.1 A505). The CPU didn't matter that much and even a standard Intel processor with Turbo Boost is fast enough.įour review systems are courtesy of Schenker Technologies: High settings caused stutters even with a GTX 980M - and that's with Smoke and Paper Debris deactivated. All tested graphics solutions could not handle 4k (3840 x 2160 pixels) output. A combination of Full-HD and active GameWorks effects is only possible with either a GeForce GTX 970M or a GeForce GTX 980M (not accounting for dual-GPU setups). Normal settings and a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels requires at least a GeForce GTX 850M or better.ġ920 x 1080 pixels and high details (Enhanced Rain & Light Shafts On) require a GeForce GTX 870M or above for smooth gameplay.

For 1280 x 720 pixels and low details, at least a GeForce GTX 850M is necessary. Low-end GPUs like on level with the HD Graphics 4600 or the GeForce GT 740M are generally simply not powerful enough. An unfortunate side effect: Arkham Knights has high demands on the hardware even at low settings. We should point out here that there's no 'high' setting for textures.Īs the screenshots below indicate, there are no significant differences between the settings save for the GameWork-options. Although a minimum of 3 GB of RAM are recommended for the 'normal' setting, we didn't see much of a difference - at least not during our benchmark run with the GeForce GTX 960M. Anti-aliasing effects are - with SMAA as the sole choice - pretty moderate it also doesn't matter much if the user picks low or medium textures.

The rain and light effects, on the other hand, don't really impact performance.

The most demanding effects are 'Smoke/Fog' and 'Paper Debris'. Even with the aforementioned GeForce GTX 980, the frame rate decreases by 30 % (Full-HD, maximum details). Although the latter effects look rather cool, they do take their toll on the performance. While options like ' Enhanced Rain' and 'Enhanced Light Shafts' are available with AMD and Intel GPUs, 'Interactive Smoke' and 'Interactive Debris' only work on computers and notebooks equipped with Nvidia chips. Another aspect we need to mention are that some effects are exclusive to Nvidia.

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