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Assassins Creed: Unity Framerate Is Atrocious
- Thread starter ShogunDarius
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....what the fuck? Did he just compare a movie to an INTERACTIVE videogame as his reason that 60 fps isn't a good idea? Wtf is wrong with them?
Seriously considering to cancel my pre-order just judging from the impressions around here and the general attitude from the devs. Their ignorance knows no bounds. The graphics look great in screenshots, but the pop-in and performance issues really worries me.
Good thing Dragon Age is around the corner.
captainraincoat
Banned
black flag was never this bad and i already see it as the superior game...this is ass creed 3 level of bughunting
All my gameplay has been post-patch atrocity.
In fairness: when the game hits 30fps reasonably consistently - which is usually only at great heights with few NPCs around - it's reasonably fun.
No. It's called poor optimization. See Watch Dogs.
Is there anyone else in the thread with similar performance?
You can play the game while it is downloading? Seems to be what he is saying. That suggests he is right at the start of the game. In terms of performance it might not be the whole story in that case.
CoachKevin
Member
Wow, this game is real broken. These guys are doing co-op and there is only a dot with no one there to kill:
http://www.twitch.tv/inventorblades
http://www.twitch.tv/inventorblades
QuicheFontaine
Member
Deja vu. That means they changed something in the Animus!
Link to comparison please?
Always-honest
Banned
BrainZEROX
Member
Come on, don't feed the alexandros. The thread goes sideways already no need to make it another PC vs consoles thread. For that one, everyone seems to loose, PC included.
Green Yoshi
Member
Did he say something about framerates below 30 fps, too? ;-)
Yeah I was watching BadGroll's Twitch stream yesterday and the clipping was atrocious.
Not a knock against AC, but it seems that series has always suffered from it. It must be the engine, it's been that way since AC II.
Also, some people said framerate was CPU limited - BadGroll was running a i7-4790K with a GTX970 and was consistently around mid-40s, with frequent drops into the low to mid 30s.
That wouldn't be so bad if those textures didn't make my eyes bleed.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Some of those NPCs pop in so late you'd have to classify them as DLC.
Well when they were designing the game and engine 4 years ago they were probably expecting the new consoles to have powerful CPUs like the PCs they were using for dev targets at the time. Turns out both consoles have shit CPUs. When you have hundreds of developers across 9 studios working on a game you can't be very nimble. I imagine it's like trying to steer a freight train. So they ended up with two choices gut the game and throw out or majorly scale back all their big plans for thousands of NPC, seamless fully detailed building interiors etc and make a game that performed well. Or just stay the course and try and get it to run as well as they could with the original design. They chose the latter and this is the result.
Well that and they were clearly a bit rushed to meet their release date. And given that this type of open world game is among the hardest to optimize and bug fix the result isn't too surprising.
enanogrande
Member
Nice.
samurai1226
Member
Cancelled my preorder, this is just bad. A lot of games are coming out this month, AC:U seems not worth my time in this technical state
Yeah. I don't know if someone with a better idea of what an engine like AC involves has an idea of whether it could be different, but these kinds of bugs have been in every AC game. I just would like to know whether they're a necessary part of an engine like this. GTAIV and V do have some weird streaming/pop-in issues too, but nowhere near as bad.
As I said elsewhere, with their 'back to basics' approach in Unity I would have appreciated their polishing the core mechanics and technology so that these kinds of issues are less prevalent, but with the huge crowds it seems like they're more prevalent than ever.
Sodding_Gamer
Member
Stone Ocean
Member
If sub 24 framerates aren't atrocious then what the fuck is it
Please explain the shitty PC performance.
AndyMoogle
Member
Wow... it's not like the series has been free of technical flaws before, but this is even worse than earlier games; and this is on much more powerful hardware too. The LOD issues might be the worst I've ever seen in a game.
Fucking Ubisoft.
I cancelled my preorder out of principle due to the parity policy, with the intention of buying the game in the second hand market sometime down the road. Now it looks like I won't even be doing that. No way am I putting up with a sub HD, sub 30 fps experience in 2014.
I cancelled my preorder out of principle due to the parity policy, with the intention of buying the game in the second hand market sometime down the road. Now it looks like I won't even be doing that. No way am I putting up with a sub HD, sub 30 fps experience in 2014.
we have a winner. pure gold.
Yeah..its not that. My opinion is this game was due next year and Rogue was to cover us through this gen. They have pushed for an early release after ACIV and WD sales from last/current gen.
You cannot tell me that this game has been optimised or is even finished, it makes AC1 look like a work of art. This game runs around 30 mostly and well under 60 on i7/980 set-ups.....yeah it is not a hardware issue.
What about it is shitty? Bearing in mind that 'I can't get 60fps at 1080p with everything maxed' doesn't qualify as 'shitty PC performance'.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
When does that embargo lift?
I played it for a few hours last night on PS4 and I would agree but it definitely has issues. Far more issues than Black Flag ever did.
Just did a refund through steam. My money is better spent on Dragon Age Inquisition. I'll be busy playing Valkyria Chronicles next few days anyway. May this game go through hell in reviews. Poor reviews and bad sales is the only way the devs will come to their senses.
Green Yoshi
Member
15 fps? If you could get used to GTA V on last gen consoles, you can get used to AC Unity on current gen consoles. If you want more visual fidelity and a higher framerate, you should own a decent PC.
EekumBokum
Member
So is the framerate as bad as AC2 PS3 or even worse? IIRC, that game had it pretty bad with a ton of pop in issues too
Lockjaw333
Member
Yeah, for those of you who are framerate sensitive and will be bothered by it, don't even bother with this game. Maybe they will release a patch that resolves the issues, but I doubt it.
On PS4 while free running in the city, I don't want to say its unplayable, but its far less playable than any recent AC game. Really hard to string together swift transitions when the framerate is really unstable and sitting in the what feels like low 20s.
Honestly if I were playing this on PC, it feels like something in my system is a bottleneck. I would lower some settings for sure...but the game is already at 900p on consoles, so I really don't know. Seems like they were way too ambitious with the amount of NPCs, current gen hardware cant support it.
On PS4 while free running in the city, I don't want to say its unplayable, but its far less playable than any recent AC game. Really hard to string together swift transitions when the framerate is really unstable and sitting in the what feels like low 20s.
Honestly if I were playing this on PC, it feels like something in my system is a bottleneck. I would lower some settings for sure...but the game is already at 900p on consoles, so I really don't know. Seems like they were way too ambitious with the amount of NPCs, current gen hardware cant support it.
MikeE21286
Member
I'd say this game is noticeably worse than GTAV. Fluctuations in framerate and pop-in are pretty jarring comparatively.