In the most intensive moments. That works out at 45+ the rest of the time. If I set it to locked 60 it'd be a rather depressing table.
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In the most intensive moments. That works out at 45+ the rest of the time. If I set it to locked 60 it'd be a rather depressing table.
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Pushing it to the winter months is a terrible idea though. There's a ton of competition then and they would have dramatically less sales. May is wide open for a summer blockbuster.
I also see that PC players are more interested in graphics based on this thread. Which isn't really surprising I guess.
So the stuttering is due to the GPU limit, and not because it needs a patch?
I've got a 670, 2gb. Bummed that it already requires an upgrade.
Are there any good Ultra vs High comparisons available yet?
MaverickHunter_Ace
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I'm running an i7 2600k OC to 4.6 ghz with sli gtx 670s , 2GB cards unfortunately. How will my rig fare with the game?
If you select the 3GB Ultra texture option with a 2GB GPU, yes, there will definitely be stuttering, because the game has to constantly load and unload textures. For people who do have sufficient VRAM or the correct option selected, stuttering appears to be coming from other sources. However, the sample size of people running on the new driver with a legit copy of the game and the day 1 patch is basically zero, so we can't draw any conclusions as of yet.
As for comparisons between the settings, see http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/watch-dogs-graphics-performance-and-tweaking-guide
You should hit up reddit. /r/buildapac is notorious for suggesting i5's over i7's - claiming you do not need an i7 unless streaming, video editing, etc. Of course what I'm stating is people who have built their PCs with the 4770k and told otherwise - those with lesser budgets are usually given good advice.
It has become a terrible precedence, and any opinion differing from that view, makes you a moron who doesn't know anything about computers.
Whatever, now they can all enjoy their 2GB VRAM cards with their 4GB RAM computers and their i5's. While I sit here laughing with my i7 4770k and GTX Titan.
ANuclearError
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Ah, that's good to know. It's still useful information, and the rest of the guide will be useful to find those changes I'll need.
Mango Positive
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It doesn't require an upgrade. 90% of all releases will run fine for the foreseeable future. This one just won't. Even upgrading, it's not going to look significantly better than it does on high settings with your current card. I'm waiting for the GTX 880, hopefully just before Witcher 3 comes out.
Assuming you have 8GB RAM, we've precisely the same specs, although I still use a 1680x1050 monitor. Here's my take:
The 680 SLI listing seems to favour reducing the shader setting a notch for the sake of 4x TXAA, but I can't stand the associated texture blur and 4x MSAA is too much of a hog, so I'll be going with SMAA and putting the additional rendering resources towards Ultra shaders.
Edit: Oh, wait, there is no Ultra shader setting!
Great guide thanks!
I've got a 4GB 670 and the game is completely unplayable on Ultra textures
Well, that makes me feel slightly better. In a good thing I didn't spend hundreds more only to get the same results kind of way.
Darkroronoa
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This guide is fantastic!
Like I mentioned earlier, someone in this thread said they have a Titan and couldn't play with Ultra textures, either, so I think there's just something up with that setting at the moment. It's still probably not going to be playable on 2GB cards. though, and to be honest, if you've seen the comparisons between High and Ultra textures, the difference definitely isn't worth a hardware upgrade. I think I'm just going to wait for the Nvidia 800 series at this point.
Now this makes me feel slightly better too
CyberPunked
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Those 4k screenshots look phenomenal. O.O I'm getting the ps4 version but seriously the pc version looks great on really good pcs.
How have you hidden the HUD? Also I'm running at 4K, but on SLI it's very choppy/stuttery.
MaverickHunter_Ace
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Yeah seems like we have exactly the same specs. Running at 1080 as long as I can maintain above 40 fps I should be fine. Playing through AC4 before the patches man was that frame rate all over the place.
Yeah, I actually have 2 670s sli, and am waiting for the 800 series to upgrade. I might just hold off on Watch Dogs until then. Depending on how well high runs, and if there is a noticeable difference, I suppose.
Dictator93
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This will be the most confusing part.
Everything is maxed in my table with 680 - only difference is Texture quality for the 2GB and 4GB versions. You could easily enable 4xMSAA instead.
Thanks!
Thanks.
Yep.
I'm a ninja with debug .exes, but you can do it too with some config file changes. Details are in this section: http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/gu...ide#config-file-tweaking-and-advanced-options
Turin Turambar
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I agree with your assessment. Minimum of 35 fps, with average of 45-50 fps is what I aim to get when I tweak games (supposing I can't have 60 fps, of course).
Good luck.
Dictator93
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Now wouldn't that imply something about the state of graphic's cards and or AAA game dev?
Ah, I thought shader quality went up to Ultra for some reason, haha.
Man, seeing how often AndyNV posts in some of the bigger release threads is just another reason I'm planning on ditching my HD5870s and grabbing a 770 soon as I can afford to.
The few times I've tried to ask questions to folks on the AMD side on social media, I've always been straight up ignored.
The few times I've tried to ask questions to folks on the AMD side on social media, I've always been straight up ignored.
You'd need about 85+ FPS during general gameplay. I don't see that happening for a while, especially when you're applying hardware anti-aliasing.
lowrider007
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I know I've said it before but when can we expect CPU benches from a trusted site? HARD OCP did a Wolfenstein performance review but they didn't do a CPU comparison which was annoying, I mentioned it in the comments and hopefully they will include it in a Watch Dogs performance review.
Anandtech does good CPU benchmarks
There are no 4GB Titan's.
So after pledging at least 3 times before that I never ever will pay for a Uplay product (I still can not download and install my retail copy of Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon) I was dumb enough to get excited because of this thread over the weekend and buy the game today.
Of course I have deserved what I got: the game does not run for me. The first blow was having only the stupid Hungarian translation (no option to change it to English, which is a HUGE disgrace), and I have not gotten over that, until I clicked on new game and the game crashed. Over and over again. I can reach the main menu fine, but as soon as I start playing, it boots me back to Windows. I have up to date drivers, reinstalled DirectX, DotnetFX, VC Redist, verified game files. No dice. I have wrote to the support but I don't hold my breath about it, every time I had a problem with a Uplay game I always get the "update your drivers" message. 60 euros wasted. So great.
(Yes, I meet the system requirements: i5 3570, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD 7850 2GB)
Of course I have deserved what I got: the game does not run for me. The first blow was having only the stupid Hungarian translation (no option to change it to English, which is a HUGE disgrace), and I have not gotten over that, until I clicked on new game and the game crashed. Over and over again. I can reach the main menu fine, but as soon as I start playing, it boots me back to Windows. I have up to date drivers, reinstalled DirectX, DotnetFX, VC Redist, verified game files. No dice. I have wrote to the support but I don't hold my breath about it, every time I had a problem with a Uplay game I always get the "update your drivers" message. 60 euros wasted. So great.
(Yes, I meet the system requirements: i5 3570, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD 7850 2GB)
Any release date announced with that? Or at least the Beta driver?
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Pre-load is live, 13.6 gb
Right you are. Appears mine is a 6GB.
I posted a pic of the game in my Uplay games list few pages ago.
Wag
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According to that Nvidia page, 4k unlocks some magical features in the game that aren't available in any other mode. I wonder what it is? I'm running it 3440x1440 21:9 w/3 Titans, so I should be able to take advantage of all the benefits that 4k has to offer. There must be a way in the configure file to unlock it.
Thanks!
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