Arkham Asylum [PC] Alpha Texture Pack 3 - Graphics Mod Comparison

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Published on December 31, 2016 7:07:25 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2M-1hkpBAA

Game:

Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009)

Category:

Let's Play

Duration: 3:26

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NEW Asylum Graphics Update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-xYDvxI3OM
This mod is still in its beta stage. That means feedback is important to help improve the mod. Also, the duration of the texture comparisons uses the 'colour correction v2' Reshade preset.

Installation:
First, set your preferred settings in the game launcher. Make sure detail settings is 'very high'. Apply your settings and quit.

Reach your config files - C:\Users\(You)\Documents\Square Enix\Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY\BmGame\Config
- Make a back-up copy of any config files you edit.

Open BmEngine.ini
Press Ctrl+F and search for SystemSettings, under [SystemSettings] make the following value changes:
DepthOfField=False
MaxAnisotropy=16
ShadowFilterQualityBias=0
MinShadowResolution=32
MaxShadowResolution=2048 // change to '1024' for faster performance, '3072' or above for better quality
ShadowFadeResolution=5
ShadowFilterRadius=5.000000

Save the file and set it to 'read-only' properties. This now means you won't be able to change the graphics settings in the Launcher. To revert this, uncheck 'read-only' in the edited config file.

For the following steps, locate the game installation folder. You can do this by right clicking the game on steam and selecting properties. Go to the local files tab and select browse local files.

To skip intro videos -
Go to \Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY\BmGame\Movies\ and rename or remove the following:
baa_logo_run_v5_h264.bik
Legal.bik
Legalus.bik
Nvidia.bik
Utlogo.bik

You require a suitable extracting program for the following steps, i recommend downloading WinRAR - http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

Playable Joker DLC (Don't know who made this possible): http://adf.ly/1hHDcS
Extract and copy the contents to \Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY\
Overwrite when requested. I can confirm this works with the GOTY version of the game on steam. I highly recommend making sure this works properly before proceeding with the next steps. If it does crash, let me know your version of the game in detail. Delete the binaries folder and 'verify integrity of game cache' via steam to fix the issue.

Texture Package:
http://adf.ly/1hQLFv - V3.1
http://adf.ly/1hGeSj - V3 (older version and prone to issues)
- Includes Texture Pack, Cape and Suit Textures. Also includes Texmod for convenience purposes. Some textures may not work properly for some users. Please let me know if you experience any issues.

Textures require 'Texmod' to work. Open Texmod, run the application and select package mode. Select ShippingPC-BmGame.exe as target application. Go to the smaller folder icon and use it to find the downloaded texture files. Run the game with selected texture(s). Would advise installing the game on your fastest drive.

Reshade Presets: http://adf.ly/1hI64a - Installation info available in readme file. Also includes some shaders by Loxa and PirateKItty
of the Reshade forum. To uninstall simply delete the d3d9 files in the installation folder.

Reshade 3 of course required (find at bottom of page): https://reshade.me/

Working on installation video, for real this time.

Whats next? :
Working on Arkham City again next. I will port the updated suit textures to the game, given that its that simple. I do see room for improvement on the suit texture, so i may work on it again from scratch. Arkham City texture packages need to be heavily reduced storage-wise. As for Arkham Asylum, the texture pack includes around 70 updated textures, even though it originally included 89. For some reason the game crashes with too many texture updates. Working on a fix and hopefully i find it, as i definitely want to update all the textures. Some of the texture updates aren't actually complete, such as Joker. Will rework his clothing. Thanks to the convenience of Resorep, its possible to grab textures from arkham knight. Tried to port jokers textures from knight over to asylum, but was highly difficult and it makes more sense to draw the textures from scratch. I did manage to update Batmans facial texture using the textures from knight, but using knight's textures isn't the most reliable method in most cases.

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