The X-Ray lag is often tied to DirectX 10/11 rendering bugs on repacked exes.
Reports have emerged from the underbelly of the modding community regarding a specific glitch: The X-Ray Room Lag Spike. Users of compressed “Repack” versions of the game report that entering Dr. Young’s X-Ray dissection chamber causes the frame rate to drop from 60 FPS to a single digit slideshow (often 4-5 FPS). Official GOTY editions remain unaffected. batman arkham asylum x ray room lag repack
Case File #BAA-XR-REPACK Subject: Performance Anomaly in the X-Ray Visualization Chamber Game: Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009/Repack Variants) The X-Ray lag is often tied to DirectX
The X-Ray room is located in the Medical Facility. In the vanilla game, this room uses a translucent shader to simulate an active X-Ray scanner over the corpse of a Sporadic victim. Young’s X-Ray dissection chamber causes the frame rate
In the affected repacks, the following occurs: