Batman: Arkham Asylum - Advanced Launcher

This is a replacement application for the original BmLauncher of the game. Alongside vastly superior configuration options, this Launcher also offers:

• Tooltips for every configuration option
• Option to disable Startup Movies
• Texmod Autoload Support
• Option to boot directly into the game, skipping launcher screen
• Experimental Wine (Linux) Support (More Information at the bottom)
• Compatibility Fixes for HD Texture Packs
• NVIDIA API Implementation (Enable HBAO+ using the Launcher!) (Powered by NvAPIWrapper)
• Extensive Logging Functionality (Powered by NLog)

Works with both the Steam and EGS Version!

This Application is built with .NET 6. If you are using Windows 10 and above you shouldn’t have any issues simply running the program. Some users might need to install .NET 6 Desktop Runtime manually.

A standalone, dependency free executable is also available.

This application has only been tested on Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Wine. It supports the Steam, GOG and Epic Games Store version and nothing else.

Preview

Download

See: Current Release

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Installation

Drag the contents of the .zip file into the ‘Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY\Binaries’ folder.

To find this folder for the Steam version, just right-click the game in Steam, select Properties->Local Files->Browse Local Files and navigate from there.

To find it for the EGS version, right-click the game and select “Manage”. Then click the folder icon in the “Installation” tab and navigate from there.

For the GOG version, click the icon next to the PLAY button and select “Manage installation->Show folder” and navigate from there.

Usage

You can just launch your game via Steam or EGS as you normally would, though in some cases you might need to unblock the BmLauncher application for it to work properly.

To do that, just right-click the application, select Properties and enable the highlighted checkbox as seen in the image below:

Once you’re happy with your settings, you can skip the launcher entirely by using the -nolauncher launch option.

• On Steam you can add this in Properties->Launch options.
• On EGS you can add this under Settings->Arkham Asylum->Additional Command Line Arguments.
• On GOG GALAXY Customize->Manage Installation->Configure, enable Launch parameters, select Duplicate. It should be added under Additional executables.
• If you use a shortcut in Windows, right click->Properties->Shortcut and add it at the end of Target.

Hint for Linux users

To achieve the best results when using the Launcher, you should install the Calibri font for

Protontricks: protontricks 35140 -q calibri

or

Winetricks: WINEPREFIX=<path-to-SteamLibrary>/steamapps/compatdata/35140/pfx winetricks -q calibri

Furthermore, to run Arkham Asylum properly on Linux, the following fix is needed:

protontricks 35140 -q d3dx9 d3dcompiler_43

If you wish to make full use of PhysX for Arkham Asylum on Linux you also need to copy Arkham City’s PhysXDevice.dll into the same folder as the Launcher (Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY\Binaries).

This help section and the working Proton/Wine support was only made possible through heavy cooperation with ThisNekoGuy.

Bug Reports

To file a bug report, or if you have suggestions for the Launcher in general, please file an issue. I read these regularly and should normally be able to respond within a day. Please include log files (if possible) in your report. The logs are located here: ‘Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY\Binaries\logs’.

Known Issues

NVAPI_ACCESS_DENIED: See my response to Issue #3 for a solution.

License