On the start menu(Both the menu you get when you first open the game and the menu you get from pressing start) it should say a version number bottom right of the screen. On the menu from pressing start you might have to be highlighting an option which doesn't have a little window in the right off(In other words highlight database or options to check ver no)
Assassin's Creed Unity - PC Performance thread
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On the start menu(Both the menu you get when you first open the game and the menu you get from pressing start) it should say a version number bottom right of the screen. On the menu from pressing start you might have to be highlighting an option which doesn't have a little window in the right off(In other words highlight database or options to check ver no)
Not nearly as often as that, but yes.
CyberPunked
Member
Felix Lighter
Member
That location didn't demolish your performance? That was the particular scene that caused my performance to drop into the 30 fps range at 1080p.
GHG
Gold Member
Best AO I've ever seen.
Felix Lighter
Member
Here's the version 1.1 video I uploaded for comparison sake for when I'm eventually forced to update. Just running around doing Assassin's Creed stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOsQofMhJ00
Settings:
1080p
Environment Quality: Ultra High
Texture Quality: Ultra High
Shadow Quality: PCSS
Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+
Anti-Aliasing Quality: FXAA
Bloom: On
Running on:
i7 5820K @ 4.1 Ghz
16 GB DD4 Ram
2x Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming
2x MX100 512 SSDs
MSI X99S SLI Plus MB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOsQofMhJ00
Settings:
1080p
Environment Quality: Ultra High
Texture Quality: Ultra High
Shadow Quality: PCSS
Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+
Anti-Aliasing Quality: FXAA
Bloom: On
Running on:
i7 5820K @ 4.1 Ghz
16 GB DD4 Ram
2x Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming
2x MX100 512 SSDs
MSI X99S SLI Plus MB
CyberPunked
Member
I thought this, but there were points at which the VRAM wasn't being maxed and I still had stuttering...
Nope, ran better than the rest of the game, about 40fps.
Ok so after playing about 6 hours of the game
Geforce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
Intel Core i5 3340 @ 3.10 ghz
8GB Ram
playing with settings on high, v sync on msaa x2, SSAO and at 1080p
In paris I was averaging at 30, when im climbing or high up i go up to about 36 fps. When im in crowds the lowest i dipped was about 26 with huge groups of people around.
Interiors were a bit iffy fps wise with one building raising the framerate and another tanking it. During fights the fps is stable thankfully. I messed with antialiasing a bit with fxaa and turning it off and gained a few frames. When i turned eveything off and turned the settings to low, I could manage about 40fps on average but nothing looked good at all
Overall it is playable to me and that works, mostly just wanted to play for the story and the gameplay flows nicely.
Also does anyones framerate tank horribly when you get to certain parts of the menu? Went to change my weapon and fps went down to 15 fps at times.
Geforce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
Intel Core i5 3340 @ 3.10 ghz
8GB Ram
playing with settings on high, v sync on msaa x2, SSAO and at 1080p
In paris I was averaging at 30, when im climbing or high up i go up to about 36 fps. When im in crowds the lowest i dipped was about 26 with huge groups of people around.
Interiors were a bit iffy fps wise with one building raising the framerate and another tanking it. During fights the fps is stable thankfully. I messed with antialiasing a bit with fxaa and turning it off and gained a few frames. When i turned eveything off and turned the settings to low, I could manage about 40fps on average but nothing looked good at all
Overall it is playable to me and that works, mostly just wanted to play for the story and the gameplay flows nicely.
Also does anyones framerate tank horribly when you get to certain parts of the menu? Went to change my weapon and fps went down to 15 fps at times.
dampflokfreund
Banned
Ok, I think I'm leaving HBAO on. It really costs so less performance and the game looks so much better... really great AO
False Witness
Member
Fucking hell, did the latest update break the PS Button Overlay? How can I get it back?
EDIT: Nevermind. The game is literally plug & play when using the DS4. I don't even have to use DS4Windows.
EDIT: Nevermind. The game is literally plug & play when using the DS4. I don't even have to use DS4Windows.
Coma Ecliptic
Member
Well I cranked my i7 920 to 4.0 Ghz with a 1.30V, completely stable and the game runs buttery smooth with my 970 at full 1080P, FXAA everything Ultra and PCSS (Soft Shadows). I'm getting 48 - 60FPS most of the time. Big crowds is where the game takes a dip to the high 30's for a few seconds.
Stahp. I really don't want to jump into 4K yet, but these screens are making it difficult to resist. I'm still within my 30 days of getting my 970 and I keep thinking "I'll just upgrade to the 980 and 4k".... but $200 more for the card and investing in a 4k Monitor is making me say no. What 4k monitor do you have? Is it only 30Hz?
It unfortunately didn't help. I even followed the Inspector guide and it somehow decreased performance. I am using SLI 680's (2 GB models). Could it be a VRAM issue? I always get stuttering when I run low of VRAM. (Oh and my CPU is a 3770k OC'ed to 4.5 Ghz)
alexandros
Banned
Ok so after playing about 6 hours of the game
Geforce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
Intel Core i5 3340 @ 3.10 ghz
8GB Ram
playing with settings on high, v sync on msaa x2, SSAO and at 1080p
In paris I was averaging at 30, when im climbing or high up i go up to about 36 fps. When im in crowds the lowest i dipped was about 26 with huge groups of people around.
Interiors were a bit iffy fps wise with one building raising the framerate and another tanking it. During fights the fps is stable thankfully. I messed with antialiasing a bit with fxaa and turning it off and gained a few frames. When i turned eveything off and turned the settings to low, I could manage about 40fps on average but nothing looked good at all
Overall it is playable to me and that works, mostly just wanted to play for the story and the gameplay flows nicely.
Also does anyones framerate tank horribly when you get to certain parts of the menu? Went to change my weapon and fps went down to 15 fps at times.
Thanks for the report!
dampflokfreund
Banned
Why "even" textures? I have it on max on my laptop and have no stuttering or less FPS.
On high there are many low res textures
2gb, its amazing. all on ultra and hbao+, shadows on high, fxaa and bloom off. 30+fps constantly with minor hiccups, ill take it, game looks amazing and it plays well even though its not 60fps. mind you though, i have a 4790k and 32gb ddr3 at 2600
Excuse me if I'm not taking your word for it. 2gb and ultra high textures don't mix too well, the game must be absolutely unplayable. Great to see the game works even better after the patch though.
Textures don't take much of a performance hit if you have the available VRAM and bandwith. I'm sure a lower GPU than the minimum specs (760) with 4gb could handle the ultra textures in this game but a 2gb 680 ? I don't think so.
I have my MSI GTX 760 TF overclocked to 1200 Mhz
With an Intel 4770
I am able to get a solid 30fps with ultra textures and environment, low shadows, FXAA, HBAO+ and Bloom on.
I am getting the fps drops in cut scenes and at random times in larger crowds. I am getting some stutters but few and far between also expected when running ultra textures with 2Gb VRAM.
My biggest complaint is I am getting crashes in cut scenes with any texture level above high, not all the time but often. These crashes corrupt my current save if I am not playing offline.
The pop in is shocking, the cut scene frame rate is shocking and the glitches are shocking.
With an Intel 4770
I am able to get a solid 30fps with ultra textures and environment, low shadows, FXAA, HBAO+ and Bloom on.
I am getting the fps drops in cut scenes and at random times in larger crowds. I am getting some stutters but few and far between also expected when running ultra textures with 2Gb VRAM.
My biggest complaint is I am getting crashes in cut scenes with any texture level above high, not all the time but often. These crashes corrupt my current save if I am not playing offline.
The pop in is shocking, the cut scene frame rate is shocking and the glitches are shocking.
Felix Lighter
Member
My machine is so close to that, that I can't imagine that there isn't a beefer machine that can handle that easily.
Did Nvidia update the SLI profile again? I re-installed my drivers and checking for updates in Geforce Experience gives me 0x0A0040F5 in Inspector. I seem to remember the one we got recently was 0x0A0010F5. Can anyone verify this by asking for an update in Geforce Inspector and checking in Nvidia Inspector? Thanks!
EDIT: Nevermind, got it now.
EDIT: Nevermind, got it now.
OldGangWarily
Member
So turns out the overclock on CPU wasn't set...and performance jumped a little after OCing to 4.7 GHz.
Still floating around 30 fps on 4K :/ I'm jealous of you CyberPunked!
Still floating around 30 fps on 4K :/ I'm jealous of you CyberPunked!
Excuse me if I'm not taking your word for it. 2gb and ultra high textures don't mix too well, the game must be absolutely unplayable. Great to see the game works even better after the patch though.
Textures don't take much of a performance hit if you have the available VRAM and bandwith. I'm sure a lower GPU than the minimum specs (760) with 4gb could handle the ultra textures in this game but a 2gb 680 ? I don't think so.
why dont you try my settings? as i said, textures and environments on ultra, hbao+, shadows high, bloom off, vsync ON, stretchinf OFF, fxaa. and as i stated, i have 32gb ram at 2600 and a 4790k CPU, so i would say that my crappiest ocmponent here is my GPU and i stand strong in saying that a well optimized game will not require more than a 680 to play, and this is the case here as it has been with mordor and evil within. pure pr stuff. 680 combined with the patch and a very decent amount of ram and cpu power can run this game on ultra with some OTHER stuff toned down at a steady 30fps.
I set uplay to offline mode to avoid any patches until i hear that they actually improve things. So did this patch really improve performance in a noticeable way? Anyone else ?
What texture setting are you running ?
JuanmaWL
Member
7870 here. Same as before the patch
Wow how is it possible with a 2gb card ? The game stutters like mad on my 3gb if I set the textures to ultra.
Ok so after playing about 6 hours of the game
Geforce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
Intel Core i5 3340 @ 3.10 ghz
8GB Ram
playing with settings on high, v sync on msaa x2, SSAO and at 1080p
In paris I was averaging at 30, when im climbing or high up i go up to about 36 fps. When im in crowds the lowest i dipped was about 26 with huge groups of people around.
Interiors were a bit iffy fps wise with one building raising the framerate and another tanking it. During fights the fps is stable thankfully. I messed with antialiasing a bit with fxaa and turning it off and gained a few frames. When i turned eveything off and turned the settings to low, I could manage about 40fps on average but nothing looked good at all
Overall it is playable to me and that works, mostly just wanted to play for the story and the gameplay flows nicely.
Also does anyones framerate tank horribly when you get to certain parts of the menu? Went to change my weapon and fps went down to 15 fps at times.
OMG
Thank You kind sir
I've been waiting for someone to test on 750 Ti
Angel Abaddon
Member
Well, that's a pain in the arse. Using MSI Afterburner/RTSS to limit fps to 30, but in order to accept invites and the like, I need the uplay overlay. Problem is, the normal method of using "custom Direct3D support" in RTSS to enable overlays crashes the game at start up. Anyone know any other methods to getting RTSS and Overlays to play nice?
You could try disabling the RTSS overlay for Unity and setting the fps limit in Nvidia Inspector instead. My results are usually better with RTSS fps limiting, but give it a go, it's what I'm using for this game.
Angel Abaddon
Member
Unfortunately I tried turning off RTSS limiter and using NI, but whereas the former gives me a rock solid 33.3 frame time, NI is all over the place and causes minor hitches while keeping it "near enough" at 30 to show the limiter is doing its job.
With 1.02 I can now go to the two southeastern most sectors on the map without the game entering "photo mode" where Arno and all of the NPCs freeze in place but you still retain control of the camera. In return, the frequency of hard locks within the game where everything stops, including the sound, has picked up. Now I am getting them multiple times an hour. Hope Ubisoft keeps up the pace with addressing these issues via their patches.
Angel Abaddon
Member
Same, I've been getting the hard look pauses fairly frequently tonight, maybe once every 5-10 mins
PowderedToast
Junior Member
does this game need a quad core?
Ok so after playing about 6 hours of the game
Geforce GTX 750 Ti 2GB
Intel Core i5 3340 @ 3.10 ghz
8GB Ram
playing with settings on high, v sync on msaa x2, SSAO and at 1080p
In paris I was averaging at 30, when im climbing or high up i go up to about 36 fps. When im in crowds the lowest i dipped was about 26 with huge groups of people around.
Interiors were a bit iffy fps wise with one building raising the framerate and another tanking it. During fights the fps is stable thankfully. I messed with antialiasing a bit with fxaa and turning it off and gained a few frames. When i turned eveything off and turned the settings to low, I could manage about 40fps on average but nothing looked good at all
Overall it is playable to me and that works, mostly just wanted to play for the story and the gameplay flows nicely.
Also does anyones framerate tank horribly when you get to certain parts of the menu? Went to change my weapon and fps went down to 15 fps at times.
Interesting, so my i5 4570/GTX 750Ti/8GB Ram have the chance to play this if I go medium or 720p (which is fine for me)? I was under the impression it needs beefier build to run it at least.
Both of the minimum spec cards (680/HD7970) can run the game at ultra settings just fine. I don't think even a 2GB 680 would have problems with ultra textures at 1080p.
I know personally that I can run the game at ultra everything (FXAA) on a single 7970 at a pretty solid 30fps most of the time. The system requirements Ubisoft gave were bullshit.
Yep those have been reported on their forum twice: http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/951232-Game-randomly-freezes-for-a-few-seconds-5-10-seconds?
http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/950827-Game-freezes-during-10-seconds?p=10343433#post10343433
I've had it happen sporadically, even once during a cutscene. Something's going on...
I'm getting those as well. Can be quite painful.
JuanmaWL
Member
Damn that's a shame.
Do you know if GTX660 have the same performance?
Because 660 is similar to 7870.
I hope Ubi fix AMD card issues..
Far Cry 3, Prince of Persia and Splinter Cell Blacklist all run perfectly for me. The only games I had problems with were AC4 and Watch Dogs. And Unity runs fine for me too considering it is a new gen open world game. Dragon Age Inquisition, for example, runs fairly similarly based on benchmarks even though it is cross gen and doesn't look as good.
Wow, I wish I had a G-Sync monitor. I plan to get one soon. It will be nice to have low latency, lack of screen tearing and lack of stutter all at the same time.
Anyway, no you aren't the only one having a good experience. Quite a lot of people in this thread have said the same thing. I don't get the same high framerates that you do because I am on a single GTX 770 with only 2GB of VRAM, but I am still able to get a stable 30fps with a mix of high and ultra settings.
It definitely runs a lot smoother than AC4 in terms of absolute framerates because it isn't bottlenecked by poor multithreading, but since I cap at 30fps on both of them obviously the end result for me is the same. Although I will say that Unity has much better frame-pacing in terms of the consistency of the frame delivery, so there isn't any of that subtle stutter you get in some games even when you are maintaining a vsynced 30 or 60fps.
d00d3n
Member
Does anyone else get a very annoying "shaking/wobbling effect" when entering the map screen or when entering sub menus from the menu screen? Any solution for this? I have come to terms with 30 fps, pop in and visible seams in the geometry at this point, but the map/menu bugs strike at the core of the collectathon fun you are supposed to have with these games.
Edit: Sadly the bug was solved completely by disabling SLI
Edit: Sadly the bug was solved completely by disabling SLI
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