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Watch_Dogs PC Performance Thread
- Thread starter VisceralBowl
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They did release a few patches for AC4 and performance/bugs did improve. I'm sure Watchdogs will get the same, if not more patches. Its a big property to Ubi, even if people don't think it is with the issues.
Robert7lee
Neo Member
I need help or advice please
I'm using riva tuner to limit the fps to 60, but I get screen tearing in game. Turning vsync on in game remedies this but there's an area early in the game where in your in the stadium and theres a crowd f people being searched, the fps are dropping from 60 to 30! Turning vsync off in game gets my fps back to 60 without drops.
Is there any way of having good frame rates without the screen tear in this section?
Gtx titan
I7 4770k
32gb ram
1080p display
Refresh rate 60
Ultra textures
I'm using riva tuner to limit the fps to 60, but I get screen tearing in game. Turning vsync on in game remedies this but there's an area early in the game where in your in the stadium and theres a crowd f people being searched, the fps are dropping from 60 to 30! Turning vsync off in game gets my fps back to 60 without drops.
Is there any way of having good frame rates without the screen tear in this section?
Gtx titan
I7 4770k
32gb ram
1080p display
Refresh rate 60
Ultra textures
i5 3570K (4.4GHz o/c)
GTX 780 (1100/7000 o/c)
SSD installation
8GB RAM
1920 x 1080
I've tried just about every possible combo suggested here for and I've finally settled on running with the following:
Textures: High
Preset: High, with HBAO+ and LOD set to High/Ultra
Vysnc: 1 frame
GPU MBF: 2
AA: Temporal SMAA
I have got the -disablepagefilecheck launch option on Steam but I have no idea if this even 'activates it', let alone if it actually does anything.
Thus far driving around the city during night/day/rain I maintain a locked 60fps with very little stutter (in fact I'd go so far as to say I've pretty much eradicated it as the only time I see any real judder is when the game is doing something like saving after a mission).
I'm just not willing to sacrifice dropping down to 30fps for any game to be honest - it was my original reason for getting back into PC gaming.
Finally I can enjoy the game...
GTX 780 (1100/7000 o/c)
SSD installation
8GB RAM
1920 x 1080
I've tried just about every possible combo suggested here for and I've finally settled on running with the following:
Textures: High
Preset: High, with HBAO+ and LOD set to High/Ultra
Vysnc: 1 frame
GPU MBF: 2
AA: Temporal SMAA
I have got the -disablepagefilecheck launch option on Steam but I have no idea if this even 'activates it', let alone if it actually does anything.
Thus far driving around the city during night/day/rain I maintain a locked 60fps with very little stutter (in fact I'd go so far as to say I've pretty much eradicated it as the only time I see any real judder is when the game is doing something like saving after a mission).
I'm just not willing to sacrifice dropping down to 30fps for any game to be honest - it was my original reason for getting back into PC gaming.
Finally I can enjoy the game...
cripterion
Member
It's fine enough here. And turning SLI doesn't make my game stutter, is this something due to the 700 line series, I notice everyone that reports that has one of them cards.
cripterion
Member
Still haven't been able to get into an online care, decryption today. Hacking and tailing works but takes like 8-10 minutes before finding someone.
Seamless transition driver wise?
I don't like the feel of having to turn shit down especially because of VRAM. Not about dat life.
I'd *really really* suggest a reformat, but otherwise if you do a proper cleanout, you should be fine. I did that on my 7970 system when I swapped in the 780 Ti, and back to the 7970 when I was short on time. No issues either way.
Keep in mind, if you're thinking about crossfire, AMD still has some wonky shit going on with 4K.
Objectively Bad Opinion
Member
Is performance similar?
I don't know if both drivers play nice nowadays, but I used to have both drivers installed at the same time and switched back and forth between Nvidia and AMD cards seamlessly with only a shutdown. Yeah, I'm lazy as fuck.
After several hours of tweaking and benchmarking, I've settled for the following, which affords me a fairly smooth experience with frame rates between 55-60fps at all times while on foot. What I find interesting is that no matter how "complex" a scene might be, performance doesn't seem to change. Walking around a barren downtown street in the middle of an overcast day seems to have the same performance impact as a heated shoot-out against dozens of cops during a wet, stormy night, while pedestrians run around for their lives amidst all the fire and explosions. That being said, driving still causes abrupt frame rate drops every few seconds, and I reckon only Ubi will be able to fix that.
- Specs: 3770K @ 4.5Ghz, 16GB RAM, GTX Titan @ 1136Mhz, 337.88 WHQL drivers, Windows 8.1 64-bit.
- Added "-disablepagefilecheck" to "Set Launch Options..." under Watch_Dogs properties on Steam.
- Force-enabled Anisotropic Filtering x16 through Nvidia Control Panel.
- System currently has no page file on any disk.
- Resolution: 1920 x 1080
- Refresh Rate: 60
- Aspect Ratio: Auto
- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- Vsync: 1 frame
- GPU Max Buffered Frames: 2 (Triple Buffering)
- Textures: Ultra
- Anti-Aliasing: Temporal SMAA
- Widescreen Letterbox: Off
- Overal Quality: Custom
- Level of Detail: Ultra
- Shadows: Ultra
- Reflections: Ultra
- Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+ High
- Motion Blur: On
- Depth of Field: On
- Water: Ultra
- Shader: High
- Specs: 3770K @ 4.5Ghz, 16GB RAM, GTX Titan @ 1136Mhz, 337.88 WHQL drivers, Windows 8.1 64-bit.
- Added "-disablepagefilecheck" to "Set Launch Options..." under Watch_Dogs properties on Steam.
- Force-enabled Anisotropic Filtering x16 through Nvidia Control Panel.
- System currently has no page file on any disk.
- Resolution: 1920 x 1080
- Refresh Rate: 60
- Aspect Ratio: Auto
- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- Vsync: 1 frame
- GPU Max Buffered Frames: 2 (Triple Buffering)
- Textures: Ultra
- Anti-Aliasing: Temporal SMAA
- Widescreen Letterbox: Off
- Overal Quality: Custom
- Level of Detail: Ultra
- Shadows: Ultra
- Reflections: Ultra
- Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+ High
- Motion Blur: On
- Depth of Field: On
- Water: Ultra
- Shader: High
I'm in GPU purgatory
Objectively Bad Opinion
Member
Yeah DX9 4k is a no-man's land on Crossfire, probably forever.
plumpblumpkin
Member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_A6Z3gkXlk
Sighs..This makes me depressed.
I hope The Division doesn't turn out the same way..
Sighs..This makes me depressed.
I hope The Division doesn't turn out the same way..
Just buy a Titan Z and be done with it.
lolololololololol don't really
Two 290Xs seem like they fit the bill for the most part. Or do the Step Up.
grandwizard
Member
I found out why the mouse controls feel so weird in this game, it's because it has sticky aim (aim assist) still there from the gamepad controls and there doesn't seem to be a way to disable it.
I made a video of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bpujvh6t30
I made a video of it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bpujvh6t30
The Division is on a brand new engine developed by Massive Entertainment, same guys who developed World in Conflict. I have no doubts in that game's graphical prowess because of that.
No, you have to force it I think. Easy enough though.
Someone over at Guru3D recommended it. It seems to make driving a tad smoother for me, though I admit I may have fallen victim to the placebo effect in this case. ;-)
That's right, no in-game AF as far as I can tell. Forcing it seems to make a pretty positive difference.
Didn't even have to uninstall my Nvidia stuff, just loaded up the latest Catalyst betas and was good to go.
Yes, with vsync off I am getting around 45-50 FPS. At this res you'd need dual GPU to get 60, I'm fine with a bit under that . I'll be going back to SLI or CF once GPUs with HDMI 2.0 get here.
I am still getting decent performance. The only time I get the dips into the 40s from the typically 60fps is when I'm driving fast and even then it's not constant. It's annoying, no doubt about it - but it's not frequent enough for it to hinder play-ability that much.
If I could complete GTAV with the framerate that was at, this is heaven compared to that. I average well above 60 without vsync and most of the time I'm at 60 except when driving at certain speeds.
1920x1080, Ultra settings, 1 frame buffer, temporal SMAA - 4770K@4.5Ghz, 780 SLI.
With all the problems people are having, it feels like I'm one of the ones with the problems - I feel like i'm doing something wrong for it not to be running badly. Of course, I expect far better performance than what I'm getting - but if most of the time its hitting my baseline (1080p60), I'm okay.
If I could complete GTAV with the framerate that was at, this is heaven compared to that. I average well above 60 without vsync and most of the time I'm at 60 except when driving at certain speeds.
1920x1080, Ultra settings, 1 frame buffer, temporal SMAA - 4770K@4.5Ghz, 780 SLI.
With all the problems people are having, it feels like I'm one of the ones with the problems - I feel like i'm doing something wrong for it not to be running badly. Of course, I expect far better performance than what I'm getting - but if most of the time its hitting my baseline (1080p60), I'm okay.
I'm beyond disappointed with how incredibly bad this game runs (read: Stutters) on my 780 SLI rig.
I wouldn't even call it playable, the thing that amazes me is that it doesn't even look all that spectacular :/
Hopefully Ubi release a patch to fix the issues, but i'm not holding my breath. Once again, PC Gamers are treated like Beta testers...
I wouldn't even call it playable, the thing that amazes me is that it doesn't even look all that spectacular :/
Hopefully Ubi release a patch to fix the issues, but i'm not holding my breath. Once again, PC Gamers are treated like Beta testers...
So I guess the question now will be sell a 780 and get a 6GB card or buy a second one and try for SLI.
I probably don't have the cash to do either in the near future anyway but that sucks that it's already coming to that. I'm just gonna set the textures to 'high" and pretend. Honestly though sitting back 10 feet away from my 50" plasmas, which is how I game most of these days, it probably won't even be noticable.
I probably don't have the cash to do either in the near future anyway but that sucks that it's already coming to that. I'm just gonna set the textures to 'high" and pretend. Honestly though sitting back 10 feet away from my 50" plasmas, which is how I game most of these days, it probably won't even be noticable.
KojiKnight
Member
I could be wrong, but I don't believe SLI will really help you if you're hitting the upper limits of vram (vram is mirrored between both cards right?)
I didn't know that but you are probably correct given the responses in this thread.
Tell that to me and my stuttering whenever I get in a car in the game.
Wag
Member
Yeah, I'm running Ultra everything a 3 Titan SLI setup (3440x1440) and it still runs like shit.
What exactly does GPU MBF do? I have mine set to the default 3. Would setting it to 5 make a difference?
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Ultra textures maxes out my 3GB 7970 and causes stuttering, so it seems to be a case-by-case issue.
Might be your AA setting?
Dat proof, Dat pudding
On a side note: Yeah i did buy the game today and i must say it's a fun game to play imho....it just is not that pretty imho and im on a rather high end PC. For the visuals....it should be butter smooth. The PS4 version seems to run nice on my bro's settings and its not far off or maybe on par with "high" PC settings.
I dont know what to think of this game as a whole because i only played 1 hour so far but i do love the sneaking around and the various stuff that is sprinkled all over the game that gives me a bit of joy to play. I just wish this game would have looked much better...but then again...this is a cross-gen game. Can't wait until old gen systems are dead so we can just go full throttle with new generation engines. THe new batman game upcoming is what im talking about, baby!
Are you sure the source of your stuttering is VRAM though? Are you seeing the VRAM limit being hit when monitoring it?
Sleeping Lesson
Member
That is what I am seeing in Afterburner, yes. I can turn everything down, including AA, and Ultra textures will fully saturate my VRAM.
What kind of CPU do you have? Are you OC? I have the same card but mine is OC'd to 1200mhz core/1650mhz memory and the only stuttering i get is just driving times at weird area's but its not that frequent.. My Vram gets close to maxing out but i am playing at 1080p and lowest AA.
Everything is on Ultra except shadows to High and lowest AA...my frames are around 50-60 most of the time..but remember my GPU overclock...its a huge jump in power for my 7970.
I do have 3770k@4.8ghz right now....and it is surely using all 8 threads unlike most past games.
Yeah - that is odd then. Because I don't see it maxing my 3GB of memory with everything on Ultra + Ultra textures.
The only way I get no stutter is on medium textures. I can max out everything else, even MSAA 8x, with no stuttering. Anything higher than medium textures and the stuttering comes right back. I've tried high textures with everything else low or off and no AA. The game still stutters and I just can't get into the game. It makes driving difficult and just takes me out of the game completely.
This is on GTX 780 Ti SC, i5-4670k, 8GB ram at 1920x1080.
I give up with trying to make it work from my end. Hopefully Ubi, NVIDIA or the community release something. The worst thing for me is not being able to send the message to Ubi because I already bought the game and apparently it's their best first day release so they don't really have any incentive to fix the issue.
This is on GTX 780 Ti SC, i5-4670k, 8GB ram at 1920x1080.
I give up with trying to make it work from my end. Hopefully Ubi, NVIDIA or the community release something. The worst thing for me is not being able to send the message to Ubi because I already bought the game and apparently it's their best first day release so they don't really have any incentive to fix the issue.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Phenom II x4 965 OCed to 4Ghz. My 7970 is also overclocked to 1125Mhz, memory clock to 1575Mhz. Stuttering goes away entirely when I drop the texture quality.
Acupunctur3
Member
I'm running Titans in SLI, 980x @4.5 Ghz and 12GB ram. Running it at 4K, looks gorgeous but quite a bit of stuttering while driving. Everything set to max but no AA.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Yeah I have no explanation. I mean, people with SLI 780Tis are getting worse performance than me, so who the hell knows. Ubisoft.
Dave_6
Member
I wish I could get Afterburner to work so I could see how much VRAM mine is using. I'm having the same issue with Wolfenstein where the OSD won't show up.
Yeah - that is what makes it even stranger. People with pretty much identical or better machines than mine are having more problems. It makes me worried that I've just happened into some specific configuration that works better than what many people are getting at the moment and it could all come undone and I wouldn't know how to get it back.
Because when I first launched the game and drove around, I *did* have really awful stuttering, I did experience it. I don't know what I changed or what changed on my system to massively improve my experience.
noomi
Member
SLI 780's here 1080P everything ultra TXAA x4 and im not going over my 3GB Vram...