Gotham Knights was released late last week, to a mixed reception, at best. While the game's story or gameplay was criticized here and there, many had problems with Gotham Knights' performance, whether it was the 30fps-locked current-gen console versions of the game stuttering, or the PC port that suffered from random frame drops and crashes. Developer WB Games Montreal has promised that they're working on a general performance patch to help the game run better in the near future, with a minor patch having just been released to fix some bugs with the PC version.

General:

• Invincible enemies playing a "meditating" animation will no longer appear in crimes.
• Various UI issue fixes.
• Fixed issues caused by graphical settings not being applied properly.
• Various localization fixes.
• Fixed various Keyboard/Mouse specific input issues.

Co-op:

• Fixed an issue that was preventing being able to join friends through invites.

Stability:

• Various crash fixes throughout the title, most notably during the S.T.A.R. Labs "free the scientists" fight and the Harley Quinn Hospital Boss Fight.
• Fixed an AMD specific crash related to shadows.

Known Issues:

• There may be some compatibility issues with Nvidia Ansel that we are still investigating for this patch

The patch notes for the latest version of Gotham Knights on PC says it solves some UI issues that players had, got rid of some buggy enemies, and fixed some of the problems that made the game crash. What the notes don't specify is that the patch also removed the Denuvo anti-tamper DRM from the game. Usually, major AAA releases will remove Denuvo months, or even years, after their launch window, but in the case of Gotham Knights, it was removed just five days after its release. Many claim that Denuvo hinders performance in PC games, which makes it especially notable that WB Montreal got rid of Denuvo so early into the game's life. However, while some may have hoped that the removal of the DRM fixed stuttering issues, gamers are still reporting that the game runs no better than it did pre-patch.

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UPDATE: Unfortunately, it seems the removal of Denuvo was an error on WB Games' part. As of today, Denuvo was re-added back into the games exe after another small patch

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[MadMakuFuuma]

I won't be surprised if they waited 14 days to put the denuvo back (14 days is the period you can ask for a refund, right?) lol