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[Chance Hale]

Anyways, have some screenshots in the meantime. SPOILERS
http://imgur.com/a/ZygmI

Don't use imgur for screenshots, they compress terribly. Use either minus, flickr or abload.

 

[Gareth Bale]

What you getting without txaa on?

 

[Dictator93]

I'm not, I'm just trying out the game maxed atm. As I said in the OP Ill try it with different settings later on.

Ill install the Driver now, gonna try it again.


Anyways, have some screenshots in the meantime. SPOILERS
http://imgur.com/a/ZygmI

Might want to add that I didnt hit 30 the entire cutscene... As soon as gameplay hit I got to 40-50. (Without the drivers)

Awesome looking scenes. Any chance you could upload images to a place that does not compress them so much?

 

[-Deimos]

Welp, no AA for me then.

 

[Kezen]

I'm not, I'm just trying out the game maxed atm. As I said in the OP Ill try it with different settings later on.

Ill install the Driver now, gonna try it again.


Anyways, have some screenshots in the meantime. SPOILERS
http://imgur.com/a/ZygmI

Might want to add that I didnt hit 30 the entire cutscene... As soon as gameplay hit I got to 40-50. (Without the drivers)

Honestly with a single 780 you had no chance whatsoever to run the game at max settings + TXAA and expecting 60fps.

It seems the game performs exactly as I predicted.

Welp, no AA for me then.

TXAA is the only AA option ? Haven't heard of SMAA, negligible performance hit and good IQ.

 

[dragn]

lolisoft

 

[MayMay]

Please do the above. Flickr, minus, and abload are good.

Oh, sry yeah this thread moves so fast and I'm trying to do alot of things at once atm so I missed that. One second.

Also, guys. I'm not "expecting" anything. I'm testing it out with max settings on purpose. Jeez.

Here are the screenies on abload.

http://abload.de/img/acu2014-11-1019-57-37mesx9.png
http://abload.de/img/acu2014-11-1019-57-297cs0x.png
http://abload.de/img/acu2014-11-1019-58-59v9svv.png
http://abload.de/img/acu2014-11-1019-57-41ljs5d.png

 

[jett]

I was barely above 30fps at all times. Sometimes it dropped into the 20s.

GTX 780

 

[alexandros]

Running a game all on max with a bunch of PC specific effects at 30fps doesnt mean the game is a crap PC version necessarily. It would be good to know how these exclusive effects affect performance.

OP hasn't installed the latest Nvidia drivers either, which is specifically for this game.

Yup. Some PC-specific effects are usually pretty heavy on the system, let's wait for more data before drawing a conclusion. Besides, 40-50 fps maxed out at 1080p doesn't sound bad at all.

 

[belmonkey]

Ubisoft Kiev ladies and gentlemen! Said it before and will say it again stay away from the PC version!

It's still yet to be seen how much higher the max PC settings are than the console settings, so it might just be a case of a game actually using pushing more effects and whatnot instead of running badly. AC4 ran just fine at console setting (fine as in the typical 260x / 750 ti could offer similar performance to consoles), so it will probably be the case that Unity runs a heck of a lot better once the settings are turned down from the enthusiast ones.

I'm still betting on a 750 ti + i3 running the game "fine". I guess we'll see though.

 

[Zombie James]

I was barely above 30fps at all times. Sometimes it dropped into the 20s.

GTX 780

Crazy :/

 

[JimJamJones]

 

[dex3108]

CPU/GPU load would be nice just to see if engine now properly supports multicore.

 

[alexandros]

Ubisoft Kiev ladies and gentlemen! Said it before and will say it again stay away from the PC version!

Settle down there partner, it's too soon for that. Much more data is needed.

 

[Rainy Dog]

Thanks for the initial impressions. Won't be picking this up until it's cheap and fully patched up but subscribed and will follow closely, should be an interesting thread.

 

[VisceralBowl]

Crazy :/

No driver installed yet.

 

[CyberPunked]

Considering the build up, i feel the performance is much better than expected. I would like to see some benchmarks without TXAA on though.

 

[alexandros]

Man those screenshots look beautiful.

 

[Buzzbrad]

My card only has 1gb of VRAM. I hope the reqs were over estimating big time but sadly I don't think that is the case.

 

[MarkV]

No driver installed yet.

But more important everything is on max, do we need to blame developers for putting in the game some high end features?


I can't wait to see screenshots of this game in the PC screenshots thread

 

[MayMay]

Considering the build up, i feel the performance is much better than expected. I would like to see some benchmarks without TXAA on though.

Its all happening. I can only do so many things at once. Maybe I opened the thread a bit too early - oh well.

 

[Windom Earle]

Ubisoft Kiev ladies and gentlemen! Said it before and will say it again stay away from the PC version!

Not surprised in the least. Also love this gif.

 

[Kezen]

30fps with 4xTXAA does not seem badly optimized to me. People are too quick to write this port off.

 

[nick nacc]

Lo and behold, I built my 1200 dollar beast just a couple months ago. And I already can't ultra a game. Feels bad.


i7 4790k
r9 290

maybe it's need for me to finally overclock

 

[GhostTrick]

Its all happening. I can only do so many things at once. Maybe I opened the thread a bit too early - oh well.

In any case, thank you for your efforts

 

[dragn]

no way im gonna play without txaa, turning down other stuff then with a 970

 

[Gaz_RB]

If I can get 1080p with a stable 30fps on high. I'll be content.

Yeah, I'm pretty easy to please too.

 

[Dr Dogg]

If I can get 1080p with a stable 30fps on high. I'll be content.

I said that back in August after hearing some of the dev diaries.

Will keep an eye out for benches and more over SLI performance and scaling before getting my toes wet. Well that and dealing with the Great GPU Shuffle of 2014 I've got going on

 

[orava]

Finally some clean screenshots.

 

[CyberPunked]

This is amazing. You can really see the improvements over the console version. HBAO+ works wonders.

 

[massoluk]

780 not strong enough to maintain 30fps fuckin ell

Well shit, I thought I'm safe with a GTX 970, may be not max everything afterall.

 

[UnrealEck]

Well he is talking about max settings plus the nVidia effects (PCSS for example is taxing) and TXAA which is also pretty damn taxing and he's on a powerful but not brand spanking new GPU.
I think it's still a bit poor performance but we probably need more benchmarks.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

Post more gameplay screens pls. Cutscenes look better than actual gameplay.

 

[Skyzard]

Never do 4x TXAA. Too blurry, stick to 2x.

 

[Peterthumpa]

The screenshot with the whole building doesn't look hot like the other ones.

With that being said, my Vita with Remote Play is ready to play this with no aliasing at all with the supersampled image coming from my PS4.

Dat 5'' OLED.
Dat eye strain.

 

[MayMay]

Never do 4xtxaa. Too blurry, stick to 2x.

There's no 4x or 2x setting. Its just "TXAA" in the options. Anyways Ill disable it and go with 4x MSAA and start from the beginning again. Gonna see what changed, my Internet is slow so downloading the driver takes a couple of minutes. Just gonna benchmark it without the nVidia effects.

Oddly enough I cant find a tesselation setting.. maybe its enabled by default.

 

[CyberPunked]

30fps with 4xTXAA does not seem badly optimized to me. People are too quick to write this port off.

Same. This performance is genuinely not bad at all considering it's one of the best looking games available. Only Ryse and Crysis 3 i feel outdo this game visually.

 

[dragn]

are there many stutters like watch dogs? or more fluid

 

[Kezen]

Lo and behold, I built my 1200 dollar beast just a couple months ago. And I already can't ultra a game. Feels bad.


i7 4790k
r9 290

maybe it's need for me to finally overclock

If you wanted ultra settings you should have aimed a lot higher than that. Can only blame yourself really.

It's only expected that "maxing out" game will require multi GPU setups.

here's no 4x or 2x setting. Its just "TXAA" in the options. Anyways Ill disable it and go with 4x MSAA and start from the beginning again. Gonna see what changed, my Internet is slow so downloading the driver takes a couple of minutes.

You're running 4xTXAA, like ACIII.
TXAA = MSAA performance wise.

 

[Denton]

Its all happening. I can only do so many things at once. Maybe I opened the thread a bit too early - oh well.

You dun goofed! (I do appreciate you doing this thread of course)

But so much doom and gloom based on extremely limited data.

 

[Skyzard]

There's no 4x or 2x setting. Its just "TXAA" in the options. Anyways Ill disable it and go with 4x MSAA and start from the beginning again. Gonna see what changed, my Internet is slow so downloading the driver takes a couple of minutes.

Ah, I see...dang, seems a tad blurry like that.

Hmm.

Thanks so much btw, still got 4 days before I can play :/

 

[Crossing Eden]

I said goddamn. PC version looks beautiful.

 

[ambar_hitman]

Size of day 1 patch?

 

[UnrealEck]

Can you try with everything maxed with no AA and no nVidia specific graphical features like PhysX and PCSS?

 

[orava]

Hair looks like plastic though.

 

[alexandros]

30fps with 4xTXAA does not seem badly optimized to me. People are too quick to write this port off.

Extreme overreactions in a PC performance thread? Surely not!

 

[stufte]

Damnit, now with the last minute SLI drivers, I wish I had got this for PC instead of ps4... I wonder how my 690 would do with it.

 

[Kezen]

Can you try with everything maxed with no AA and no nVidia specific graphical features like PhysX and PCSS?

There is no Physx.

Extreme overreactions in a PC performance thread? Surely not!

Unfortunately, along with the classic "my brand new PC can't run this at max, crap port!!".

Same old same old, if only people realized what settings they're running there would be a lot less disappointments.

 

[Skyzard]

Hair looks like plastic though.

It's real bad. Should have got the fur treatment the tigers in FC4 did.

 

[Edwards_Omatic]

I just bought a stupidly expensive gaming laptop with a 870m in it, and it won't even be able to run it properly by the looks of things.
Honestly, what's the point in a PC version when they cut off a massive chunk of their market by demanding tech barely anyone has to run it?

Ah well, at least those screenshots you took were pretty, OP.