I followed all of your steps and still had no luck. I am running windows 8 pro x64. When I tried to install the dot.Net.fx 4.0 the installer told me I already had it installed. That was my only deviation from your instructions.

The game launches fine, but the home button does not do anything. Clicking on the windows live button in game also does nothing.

I have installed and reinstalled batman and gfwl over and over. Any other ideas on what I can do to get saves to work?

This is my exact same issue, is there a real fix for this yet? this sucks bigtime. when i log in to gfwl it shows my percentage of game beaten It just wont pop up in game and allow me to continue from last save. please help?

hey just try installing this updated version of dot.net. first download it from this link http://www.softpedia.com/dyn-postdownload.php?p=128851&t=0&i=1.

and try the steps above, which winwows are you using is it a 32bit or 64 bit???? and is it the beta version or a the final release??????

Hey guys I finally have the exact and proper solution for this problem.

you might find these steps little bit long nut i guarentee you all guys it works 1000%.BUT its only for users of WINDOWS 7 32bit/64bit,Vista, and windows 8 CP,RP,and DP both 32/64bit.

Now im currently playing the Batman arkham city of BLACKBOX.But this also works with the genuine copy.

FOR THOSE WHO ARE USING THE BLACKBOX OR SKIDROW COPY

1)first of all Uninstall the entire game and games for windows live if yoy have mannually installed it later on.

2)delete the profile folder named "WB GAMES" from your users my document folder.

3. then reinstall the game again.but do not run the game or Bm launcher.

4)then download the Games for windows live(GFWL) client server (70 mb) from this link

  http://download.freewarefiles.com/files/gfwlivesetup.exe

5)then again download visual c++ 2010 from this link.

(FOR 32bit OS)

http://download.microsoft.com/download/C/6/D/C6D0FD4E-9E53-4897-9B91-836EBA2AACD3/vcredist\_x86.exe

(FOR 64bit OS)

http://download.microsoft.com/download/A/8/0/A80747C3-41BD-45DF-B505-E9710D2744E0/vcredist\_x64.exe

6)then at last download dot.Net.fx 4.0 from this link

http://download.microsoft.com/download/9/5/A/95A9616B-7A37-4AF6-BC36-D6EA96C8DAAE/dotNetFx40\_Full\_x86\_x64.exe

7)after you have downloaded these files, then first install the visual c++2010,

then after install the Games for windows live client.

NOTE: after the Games for windows live client server set up is complete its live messenger will pop up and asks you to sign in.so just simply close AND DO NOT SIGN IN.

8)after that finally install the dot.Net.fx 4.0. after the steup is complete finally go your batman game directory and search for the xlive.dll in it.and delete all the xlive.dll you find. then restart your PC and launch game. and thats it press HOME button and you will have your GFWL POPUP and create your local offline account.

NOW FOR THE GENUINE COPY OF GAME:

normally i have found cases that most of the guys loose their GFWL or GFWL crashes when they update it, so the solution is simple

1)JUST Uninstall the GFWL from controll pannel, then down load the GFWL server client from above given links and also the dot.Net.fx 4.0 from the above links.

2. delete the XLIVE folder from  C:\Users\current user\AppData\Local\Microsoft.
3. install the dot.net fx first and then install the GFWL client server,do not log in in the GFWL client server, and delete the Xlive.dll from the game directory and WB GMES folder for users documents folder. then run the GAME and enjoy.

 PLZ COMMENT IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEM.I SUGGEST YOU TO FOLLOW ALL THE STEPS AS I HAVE MENTIONED.