mugurumakensei
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It's for the AMD processor listed.
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Watch Dogs specs revealed - 8 core CPU recommended
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It's for the AMD processor listed.
Yeah, I guess this IS a good choice for me to have gotten and admittedly that makes my computer as it is strong enough to be the 'eh screw consoles lets go PC' option... though I guess that IS a big reason why I'd rather wait on an upgrade since I need something to destroy consoles when I can already match them more or less.
Still not what most people would term a core.
VisceralBowl
Member
Naw man, I played all the way through and got 100% sync with it on. It was amazing. 15FPS in major cities and a silky smooth 60 everywhere else.
CambriaRising
Member
Oh PC gets the "we didn't have enough time to optimize this one" edition again. Joy.
honestly the sole reason I upgraded to a 680 when I did was Battlefield 3. I was running a lot of AAA games on max with my 560ti just fine otherwise, never felt like I was struggling a lot.
They should just have a 30fps lock option in the menu so people won't have to bother doing it through the drivers.
Yeah I know that, which is why I pointed as much out in the op that I think they're including hyperthreading with the count. lol >.>
Last time I played it was near launch and my i7960 @ 3.6 Ghz couldn't even maintain a solid 45 FPS. AC4 didn't fair much better for me either.
It has hyperthreading, which allows it to act like an 8 core I guess
Lasthope106
Member
Unoptimized game is unoptimized.
VisceralBowl
Member
One of those dual CPU boards with two Xeon E5-2420 was running the reveal. 24 threads and 12 cores ftw?
I wasn't directing it at you, just the way Ubisoft addressed it.
EmptySpace
Banned
watch dogs on ps4 will run on a 1.6 ghz jaguar cpu 6-core.
Ah, okay, just making sure!
VisceralBowl
Member
No you wouldn't have. That CPU is just fine. This is Ubisoft. Either its unoptimized or they are bullshitting.
prob both
Sure, but the minimum requirements for CPU are fairly low for today's standards. We don't know yet what exactly it is that is making the recommended settings ask for this much. We don't know the effects or resolution used for their benchmarks, or even the framerate target.
Is it for 1080p 30fps and PS4 settings? Then you're goddamn right this looks like an unoptimized mess. Those things don't mean anything, honestly. It's a shame they don't, but it is what it is.
It could be an impressively optimized port that, as long as you don't use max tessellation settings or whatever you can have it running and looking much better than consoles with only a 560ti, or it could be a mess that drops to 40fps for no reason in certain areas.
Only time will tell.
Saying it's Ubi so we should be careful is a fair point though.
Don't worry. Ubisoft messed up the wording, the 8 core CPU is for AMD only, not Intel. Your 4670k is leaps and bounds better than the PS4 CPU, and will run Watch Dogs great. 8 core Intel CPUs will not be needed in a long time for games.
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The Everyman
Well i hope my i5 2500k @ 3.30ghz will be enough, because i have no intention of changing it for a long time.
Maybe once Pascal comes around i'll think about it.
I_D
Member
Key word there.
Maybe Ubisoft doesn't know how cores work. Maybe that's why their performance always sucks.
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The Everyman
you're not going to be bottlenecked by your cpu in the slightest. have no fear.
ethomaz
Banned
FX-8350 have 8 cores and the i7 3770 have 4 cores but 8 thread (HT).
Anyone that told you any part can "futureproof" (nonsense term) your PC isn't worth listening to. 4670K will be fine for Watch_Dogs. Make sure you tweak that clock up.
EmptySpace
Banned
most minimum pc requirements runs the game on low settings.
i highly doubt ps4 will be "low settings". it is optimized, after all.
if you're thinking their "recommended" requirements will mean it will run better than a ps4, be prepared to be disappointed. recommended would probably mean that's what you'll need to be able to look at least as good as the ps4 version.
this is also one of the reasons why i'm discouraged to get back into pc gaming. sporting a 6-core cpu doesn't mean jack when the game only uses 2 cores or would use 6 but they don't use parallel processing at all.
It may just be a typo, but I don't think they're listing an i7 there alongside an 8 core AMD CPU is a coincidence. The engine is probably designed for 8 threads, and you get massive bottlenecks in performance without them.
Going off the PC version of AC4, that's a yes--sorta. GPU wise you'll probably be able to smash the game with heavy amounts of AA and goodies, but performance will be bottlenecked something fierce due to the shit CPU optimization.
I got so tired of the framerate in AC4 I just said fuck it and locked it to 30FPS and ran 8xMSAA because I couldn't get the damned thing to run anywhere above an average of around 45 FPS no matter what I did.
That is why I went with the PS4. I am running a 2500k and a GTX 580. I knew that going into this next generation I was going to need a video card upgrade, and that alone would be the price of a PS4, maybe a little less. But, I also had the feeling that more threads could become standard, regardless of frequency, and I wasn't about to upgrade my entire system rather than just get a PS4.
On top of that you have to figure that with the XB1 being the new baseline, people running at 1080p probably aren't going to see much of a difference outside of framerate between the PC and PS4 versions of games with even the most powerful hardware. It will be that kind of thing where the two would have to be side by side in order to see that the PC version has a tiny bit better of a draw distance or something.
VisceralBowl
Member
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The Everyman
its not like hyper threading literally does nothing. it splits the workload per core to process more threads simultaneously. if theyre recommending the i7 because there game is heavily threaded well then there ya go, it makes sense. listing "8 core / hyper threading on a 4 core" is kinda wonky.
EmptySpace
Banned
somehow i highly doubt this game will actually use parallel processing the right way.
Terbinator
Member
I'm fucked?
Absolutely. You can't even run the installer on that POS.
BrokenEchelon
Banned
Typical Ubisoft PC Optimization, or lack thereof.
Potential optimization issues aside--you're fine.
Sounds like Ubi.
ScepticMatt
Member
Well ... fuck.
It's high time for an Anvil port to Mantle/Bindless OpenGL
It's high time for an Anvil port to Mantle/Bindless OpenGL
Felix Lighter
Member
You should be fine. Every desktop i7 has at least 4 cores / 8 threads.
http://ark.intel.com/products/65523/intel-core-i7-3770k-processor-8m-cache-up-to-3_90-ghz
It's 4 core - 8 thread - 300$+
It's 4 core - 8 thread - 300$+