Watch Dogs 2 PC performance thread

Ok, this sux. Driving in the city or on the multi lane freeway, with temporal filtering or without it and just SMAA, frame drops in the 50s and sometimes 40s at 1080p. Most things are on ultra, no ultra textures yet as I can't download them. This is on 980ti/3770k.

Not happy to be honest. Not as optimised as I thought. And the thing is, the game doesn't look that great to be honest, and there's plenty of aliasing.

More testing, driving around and it seems it can't hold 60fps in most places.


I think I'm going to get a refund. Just driving around and the frame rate can't hold 60fps, it's constantly changing and is very distracting.


Sent a request for a refund. Wasn't a great port imo.
 
I played around with the settings a bit on my 5820@4.3, Titan X Pascal, 16Gb RAM, SSD, win10 setup.

The game has pretty severe aliasing issues due to its overall "boxy" design. I went with a 200% DSR resolution (+ post process) as my anti-aliasing solution to be able to take advantage of temporal filtering. 150% DSR is insufficient for a 2560x1080 native display imo.

As the NVIDIA guide clearly shows, a lot of the graphical choices have a negligible impact on performance. I ended up maxing everything out, except the expensive shadows that I lowered to ultra and the extra details that I fixed at 50%. Changing the shadow setting pushed me from an avg FPS slightly over 30 to about 50 in open world, and limiting extra details was necessary to prevent occasional drops below 30 depending on where you are looking.

The game now looks great and feels smooth played with a gamepad on a gsync display.
 
So is WD2 running in DX12? Overall its running pretty good on my rig (I5 3570/gtx980ti), but im still tweaking with some options. Never expected this would run so good lol
 
d00d3n said:
I played around with the settings a bit on my 5820@4.3, Titan X Pascal, 16Gb RAM, SSD, win10 setup.

The game has pretty severe aliasing issues due to its overall "boxy" design. I went with a 200% DSR resolution (+ post process) as my anti-aliasing solution to be able to take advantage of temporal filtering. 150% DSR is insufficient for a 2560x1080 native display imo.

As the NVIDIA guide clearly shows, a lot of the graphical choices have a negligible impact on performance. I ended up maxing everything out, except the expensive shadows that I lowered to ultra and the extra details that I fixed at 50%. Changing the shadow setting pushed me from an avg FPS slightly over 30 to about 50 in open world, and limiting extra details was necessary to prevent occasional drops below 30 depending on where you are looking.

The game now looks great and feels smooth played with a gamepad on a gsync display.
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Screenshots? Sounds meaty.
 
Getting massive framerate drops while driving around the city, from 60 to 35/40 on a 970 at 1080p. Graphic settings doesn't really make much difference.
 
So will i be better off running sli 970's or just one with temporal filtering? Texture packs still nowhere to be found, even under overview.
 
felipepl said:
Screenshots? Sounds meaty.
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I suck at taking screenshots, but here are some (I had to resize the pictures in paint to my native resolution, were too large to upload otherwise):

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Still some visible aliasing, so you can imagine that it would be quite a bit worse without DSR.
 
d00d3n said:
I suck at taking screenshots, but here are some (I had to resize the pictures in paint to my native resolution, were too large to upload otherwise):

Still some visible aliasing, so you can imagine that it would be quite a bit worse without DSR.
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Thanks!

Yeah, a shame about the aliasing, that's actually remarkably close to the IQ I got when playing the game on the PS4 Pro.
 
d00d3n said:
I suck at taking screenshots, but here are some (I had to resize the pictures in paint to my native resolution, were too large to upload otherwise):



Still some visible aliasing, so you can imagine that it would be quite a bit worse without DSR.
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I mean, damn. I think it looks great
 
so played a few hours (3570k 980ti 16gb ram).

so a mix of high settings with Temporal AA get me about 70fps in doors, and 40-50ish at outdoors cruising, which isn't too bad.

im getting major freezes at times though.

wonder how one can fix that.
 
Jeffrey said:
so played a few hours (3570k 980ti 16gb ram).

so a mix of high settings with Temporal AA get me about 70fps in doors, and 40-50ish at outdoors cruising, which isn't too bad.

im getting major freezes at times though.

wonder how one can fix that.
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If you don't have an SSD, get one already.

If that's not it, turn "extra detail" to off. It's a luxury feature set to scale with future performance.

If you've got both of those covered and still have the issue create a weird ubisoft/Nvidia alter in the corner of your living room and start praying for magic. :/
 
Jumpman said:
If you don't have an SSD, get one already.

If that's not it, turn "extra detail" to off. It's a luxury feature set to scale with future performance.

If you've got both of those covered and still have the issue create a weird ubisoft/Nvidia alter in the corner of your living room and start praying for magic. :/
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I do need to get one for gaming someday. been living off a 128gb ssd + 1tb hdd for too long lol.

Is my cpu not the bottle neck though? Always though ssd mostly just quickens loads.
 
mercenar1e said:
i wish Vivendi upon Ubisoft.
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Ouch... Harsh hahaha

I verified my files and it found a bunch of corrupt ones and it's fixing it right now... Might help



Edit: Nope... Must be Midnight PST. They make sure that you'll really want to go fuck shit up in Ubisoft San Francisco's offices huh?
 
I really can't decide.........would this run better on my 4790k & R9 Nano, or the Pro. Looks like the Fury X is only just over 30fps as a minimum framerate at 1080p, my nano, although running at 1050mhz will come in a little lower than that, but then thats with stuff at Ultra whereas Pro is what, High setting, could i get it running at 60 on High / Very High?

Surely a Fury X should be outperforming a 480, are the AMD drivers used in the benchmark optimised for the game?
 
Jeffrey said:
I do need to get one for gaming someday. been living off a 128gb ssd + 1tb hdd for too long lol.

Is my cpu not the bottle neck though? Always though ssd mostly just quickens loads.
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It's doubtful your cpu is a bottleneck unless you are trying to use "extra detail" which will push your cpu to it's limit. Overuse of that feature with hamper the balance of your system's resources.

Having an SSD for gaming is almost a necessity nowadays. Developers, fair or not are taking for granted that people who care about high performance will have one. So games almost require them. Faster loading times are a thing, yes. But lack of SSD also majorly affects the streaming of data as you play. And in many titles that manifests as intermittent freezes.

If you have the means it IS cyber monday for a little longer. 500GB-1TB SSD's are cheaper than ever before. :)
 
No ok, I found confirmation from Ubisoft on the official forums that it's supposed to unlock at Midnight EST.... I guess it's just Uplay sucking once again.
 
Im waiting for Origin to figure out their processing. Even when i purchased the game like a month ago. *sigh
 
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