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[SolidSnakeUS]

I just played a few matches of Kill Confirmed with basically everything at high, not max, at 1080p and it basically didn't drop from 60 FPS unless it was going back to a menu after a match was over. Very smooth. Mouse controls feel... not precise? Feels like a tad bit of lag or acceleration or something.

 

[Dictator93]

I said wow.

Extra textures + shadows are super taxing :

As a matter of interest the game is 900p on Xbox One, sub 1080p dynamic on PS4 and 60fps is not sustained.
Source :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KaDm3tTKKc

DAT utilization and load balance.

https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/image-quality-and-framebuffer-analysis-for-available-games-read-the-first-post.44653/page-112

Wellthereitis.jpg

 

[tallbroski]

Yes, but only for two people. I believe consoles support up to four (but I could be wrong).

Damn its about time, now all we need is support for multi monitor instead of sharing the same screen.

 

[CHC]

Just got a 29.3 Mb update. Wonder what it is.

 

[johnnydrama]

Does anybody know where Steam save files are located? I tried userdata folder and players folder but the game saves aren't there. I need to restart the campaign.

 

[Buburibon]

Does anybody know where Steam save files are located? I tried userdata folder and players folder but the game saves aren't there. I need to restart the campaign.

Look for the "new game" option that will erase your stats, etc.

 

[CHC]

IGN's carrying the torch of us oppressed, downtrodden PC gamers over here:

http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/11...ps-3-pc-version-plagued-with-issues-at-launch

 

[johnnydrama]

Look for the "new game" option that will erase your stats, etc.

Can't find it. Only shows me the resume option.

 

[Buburibon]

Can't find it. Only shows me the resume option.

Sorry, I'm at work so I can't walk you through it. I remember the option appears on the right side of the screen when pressing either the start or back button on the xbox pad.

 

[RulkezX]

Patch to address i5 performance is out.

 

[Kezen]

Patch to address i5 performance is out.

They are reactive I'll give them that.

 

[LordAmused]

Just got a 29.3 Mb update. Wonder what it is.

From PCDev Twitter account:

pcdev ‏@pcdev 2h2 hours ago
BlackOps3 PC - we are preparing a patch to address performance issues on some CPUs. Stay tuned...

pcdev ‏@pcdev 36m36 minutes ago
BlackOps3 PC update is Live! You may need to restart Steam if it doesn't update right away.

 

[Innolis]

Is there a noticeable quality change between High and Extra setting for shadows/textures?

 

[aravuus]

Patch to address i5 performance is out.

Did pretty much nothing for me. GTX970/i5-3570k, have to keep everything on low to get a fairly stable 60fps. Even then it seems to drop on some maps.

Fuck sake.

 

[RulkezX]

Did pretty much nothing for me. GTX970/i5-3570k, have to keep everything on low to get a fairly stable 60fps. Even then it seems to drop on some maps.

Fuck sake.

Game is flawless for me now

2500k @ 4.4
7970GE 3GB
8GB Ram

Sticks to 60 and now stutter at the start or matches or levels. Whatever the patch did fixed my game.

 

[seriosbrad]

The mouse input feel still feels kind of shitty, not 1:1 like most FPS's. The suggested graphical tweaks don't do much; V-sync disabled fixes 98% of it, you can turn those graphics settings back on. Something else is going on, I think it's engine level stuff.

 

[ramshot]

After 4 hours of the campaign and about an hour of MP now, I'm fairly certain this game is going to go down as a really good PC version down the line. A fair amount of people have problems, but when it works, it really works. It looks great, runs great. In SP there are some short drops in fps between action scenes, and the cutscenes do hang around 30fps, but I've seen no dips in performance when it matters after dropping textures to High.

Granted, it would be nice if all everyone got it functional out of the gates. But if you are one of the people who have it good, and I suspect most everyone will once they get some patching done, this is a good one. When you have a good number of people with buttery smooth performance, it usually means good things in the long run for everyone.

6700k @ 4.6, 980Ti @ 1420, 16 gigs DDR @ 2400, Win10, 1440p, Textures and Shadow Maps High, AA 2x SMAA plain

 

[Kezen]

After 4 hours of the campaign and about an hour of MP now, I'm fairly certain this game is going to go down as a really good PC version down the line. A fair amount of people have problems, but when it works, it really works. It looks great, runs great. In SP there are some short drops in fps between action scenes, and the cutscenes do hang around 30fps, but I've seen no dips in performance when it matters after dropping textures to High.

Granted, it would be nice if all everyone got it functional out of the gates. But if you are one of the people who have it good, and I suspect most everyone will once they get some patching done, this is a good one. When you have a good number of people with buttery smooth performance, it usually means good things in the long run for everyone.

6700k @ 4.6, 980Ti @ 1420, 16 gigs DDR @ 2400, Win10, 1440p, Textures and Shadow Maps High, AA 2x SMAA plain

Cutscenes don't drop to 30fps here. At least the cutscenes I've seen, 60fps all throughout.
On consoles they are apparently capped to 30fps.

 

[Dick Justice]

Is there a noticeable quality change between High and Extra setting for shadows/textures?

Curious about this as well. Seems like there's an absurd performance drop when using extra settings.

 

[ramshot]

Cutscenes don't drop to 30fps here. At least the cutscenes I've seen, 60fps all throughout.
On consoles they are apparently capped to 30fps.

That's quite interesting. I wonder if it has to do with having a 144hz refresh rate then. It's hovering around 27-30 for me during cutscenes without any sensible explanation for it.

 

[Kezen]

Curious about this as well. Seems like there's an absurd performance drop when using extra settings.

True in the case of textures and shadows.
"Extra" texture setting really cache an extraordinary amount of textures in your VRAM hence the huge drop.
I don't see the difference in quality between high and extra.

 

[shiftplusone]

has anyone done PC splitscreen yet?

Preferably over 2 monitors?

Me and my wife are going to play it this way, how easy is it to set up?

is it an option in the menu or do I gotta trick my monitors/nvidia thing?

 

[RobbieNick]

Just like Arkham Knight. I did it to myself again. I WAS gonna get the PS4 version, but hey! Greenmangaming had it for $39.99 so I was like, "Sure! I'll save 20 bucks and go this route." So what do I get? A stuttering framerate, poor texture loading and a odd and blinding strobe light effect on certain areas.

I was able to get rid of the strobe light effect by updating my drivers, but the rest remain. However, it does seem to work much, much better in multiplayer for me than single player. This seems more like an optimization issue that can be patched out more than anything. Maybe I just need a better card. I dunno.

 

[mxgt]

My mouse feels floaty as fuck, like there's massive acceleration if I set it to 1080p 100%, but if I set it to 80% it feels perfect

wat

 

[ramshot]

Just like Arkham Knight. I did it to myself again. I WAS gonna get the PS4 version, but hey! Greenmangaming had it for $39.99 so I was like, "Sure! I'll save 20 bucks and go this route." So what do I get? A stuttering framerate, poor texture loading and a odd and blinding strobe light effect on certain areas.

I was able to get rid of the strobe light effect by updating my drivers, but the rest remain. However, it does seem to work much, much better in multiplayer for me than single player. This seems more like an optimization issue that can be patched out more than anything. Maybe I just need a better card. I dunno.

Have you lowered the texture quality setting? I'm seeing so, so many people not do this across the internet and then complain about the stutters. I don't understand why Treyarch didn't have some sort of automatic detection system for this setting.

 

[IMACOMPUTA]

has anyone done PC splitscreen yet?

Preferably over 2 monitors?

Me and my wife are going to play it this way, how easy is it to set up?

is it an option in the menu or do I gotta trick my monitors/nvidia thing?

Haven't been able to figure it out other than to play windowed and span it across two monitors. Which is awful. It breaks the menus.

 

[SliChillax]

My mouse feels floaty as fuck, like there's massive acceleration if I set it to 1080p 100%, but if I set it to 80% it feels perfect

wat

Set the fps cap a few frames below your refresh rate.


I wish this game had HBAO+... I wish all games did. Nvidia has spoiled me bad.

 

[Detox]

Did they remove workerthreads from the config file?

 

[Deleted member 325805]

They just fixed the only "major" issue I had (100% CPU menu freeze). I can't remember the last time a CoD game worked so well out of the gate. Now they just need to fix a few small issues and it'll be perfect for me (blue screen at the end of a match, and tabbing out changing your display mode).

 

[Queen of Hunting]

Did they remove workerthreads from the config file?

Patch fixed it

 

[Smushroomed]

Does this game have chromatic abb. in the menus? Are some of the elements offset, or is it just me

 

[Kezen]

Does this game have chromatic abb. in the menus? Are some of the elements offset, or is it just me

It does, and I don't think it can be removed.

 

[fluffydelusions]

Anyone tried the game on laptop yet? 970m in particular.

 

[888]

So what setting is it that seems to blur the edges of the screens near where the grenade icon indicator etc. Cause I want to get rid of that.

 

[Samboread]

Hmm. Playing multiplayer works fine for about 10min-ish then display driver crashes.. got the latest AMD drivers for my 390

 

[MrCunningham]

I said wow.

Extra textures + shadows are super taxing :

As a matter of interest the game is 900p on Xbox One, sub 1080p dynamic on PS4 and 60fps is not sustained.
Source :
https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/image-quality-and-framebuffer-analysis-for-available-games-read-the-first-post.44653/page-112
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KaDm3tTKKc

God damn, this is abysmally bad. Do publishers do this on purpose to push gamers into buying the PS4/ Xbox One versions?

 

[Nokterian]

It is all working fine now? There swift treyarch.

 

[Kezen]

God damn, this is abysmally bad. Do publishers do this on purpose to push gamers into buying the PS4/ Xbox One versions?

I don't think so.
I believe this is just what happens when a texture settings require more VRAM that those GPU can handle.

Don't forget that you can lower settings on PC and get a very good experience. Ultra settings are meant to be punishing.

 

[MrCunningham]

I don't think so.
I believe this is just what happens when a texture settings require more VRAM that those GPU can handle.

Don't forget that you can lower settings on PC and get a very good experience. Ultra settings are meant to be punishing.

Well OK, that makes sense.

 

[kd-z]

The game is busted for me.

I have an i5 CPU, Steam didn't download any patches, but I did download the game a bit late in the day so maybe it downloaded it as part of the installation.

I used the NVIDIA GeForce Experience to optimize the graphics and performance and the game looks like shiiiiiit. It runs at 60 fps, so at least that's good.

I have two 760 GTXs linked by SLI and 8 gigs of RAM so I thought it should look reasonably good and run nicely.

Now I changed some settings a bit, the framerate dropped to 40+ and after about a minute of playing after taking control of my character the game crashes and Windows warns me about loosing memory. Not cool.

Tried adding the WorkThreads line in the config.ini file, didn't work. I'm really disappointed, I thought I would play through the entire campaign today. Than my friends stayed over for longer than I expected and now I lost an hour messing with the settings. WTF, Treyarch?

 

[PaulExcellent]

Lenovo Y50 - 4K screen user here.
i7/16GB configuration.

I had to fight with the laptop for like, 6 hours to get this thing to even run. The new "game-ready" drivers for the 860M are atrocious and make the game not recognize the card. To play this game you must roll back the driver to 355.98 and the game will actually run.

For performance: The story mode with everything on Medium at 1080p is running at 28-30 FPS, while the solo Zombies stays at a locked/constant 48 FPS. (The Y50 screen itself is locked to 48 FPS.)

It's kind of disappointing going from MGSV with its smooth 60 FPS at 1080p to this. :/

 

[Kezen]

The game is busted for me.

I have an i5 CPU, Steam didn't download any patches, but I did download the game a bit late in the day so maybe it downloaded it as part of the installation.

I used the NVIDIA GeForce Experience to optimize the graphics and performance and the game looks like shiiiiiit. It runs at 60 fps, so at least that's good.

I have two 760 GTXs linked by SLI and 8 gigs of RAM so I thought it should look reasonably good and run nicely.

Now I changed some settings a bit, the framerate dropped to 40+ and after about a minute of playing after taking control of my character the game crashes and Windows warns me about loosing memory. Not cool.

Tried adding the WorkThreads line in the config.ini file, didn't work. I'm really disappointed, I thought I would play through the entire campaign today. Than my friends stayed over for longer than I expected and now I lost an hour messing with the settings. WTF, Treyarch?

Have you correctly set your game, especially the texture setting ?
If it's a 2gb version of the 760 you might want to tone down textures to medium for example.

What are your settings ?

 

[ISee]

This particular problem seems to be on i5 only

I am on an I5 could someone please elaborate what the i5 problem is?

EDIT:
Whatever the problem was, it seems to be fixed now... hopefully.

Hi everyone,
We have made a patch to address performance issues people have been experiencing on some CPUs including Intel i5 processors.

Please keep the feedback coming, we are hard at work getting your issues resolved.

-TA_PCProd

I can't get the game to run at steady 60fps (it's 60 most of times, but sometimes it drops down to 50, for whatever reason. Even changing setting do not help in this situations.)

i5 3570k @4.2ghz
16gm ddr3 2400
970 @ 1400 mhz

1080p
everything on high
SMAA

 

[kd-z]

Have you correctly set your game, especially the texture setting ?
If it's a 2gb version of the 760 you might want to tone down textures to medium for example.

What are your settings ?

I changed the settings to what the GeForce Experience recommends and now the game is working and running at a steady 50+ fps, but it looks terrible. And i know my PC can handle much better looking games.

Texture quality is set to medium.
Texture filtering - high
Shadow map - low
Mesh quality - low
FXAA
1900x1200 resolution

Seriously, what the heck is this:

No way I'm playing this, hopefully they'll patch this soon.

 

[M2C3]

Once I dropped my textures from "Extra/Ultra" to "high" the game ran much better on my G1 980 Ti's. When the game runs around 140FPS at 1440p w/ GSync it's smooth as butter and plays amazing. That first mission has a serious mem leak; pushed my RAM usage to 13GB. After that, its dropped down to around 7.5GB with around 4.5 GB VRAM usage. Only campaign so far. Excited to jump back in later today. The game does make my top Ti push 80 degrees so I'm gonna switch them as the new Ti has a much better ASIC rating. Plus, I'm gonna install one of those Noctua NF-F12 industrial 3000 fans in the GPU fan slot on my HAF X. Bought a Noctua AF14 3000 for CPU exhaust. Bring on the noise baby!

To bad at that CPU usage up above. I expected more from this port as Blops 2 was really good.

 

[Kezen]

I changed the settings to what the GeForce Experience recommends and now the game is working and running at a steady 50+ fps, but it looks terrible. And i know my PC can handle much better looking games.

Texture quality is set to medium.
Texture filtering - high
Shadow map - low
Mesh quality - low
FXAA
1900x1200 resolution

Seriously, what the heck is this:


No way I'm playing this, hopefully they'll patch this soon.

I don't think they can, 2gb GPUs are simply doing to be very badly supported.

 

[Lovely Salsa]

does the game look amazing on max settings?

 

[kd-z]

I don't think they can, 2gb GPUs are simply doing to be very badly supported.

?
I had no trouble running Shadow of Mordor or Wolfenstein: The New Order at High (or High-Ultra even?) settings. The same goes for Dragon Age: Inquisition.
The way Black Ops III looks on my PC right now is just terrible though, isn't it? I don't have eye problems, right? That shadow is pracitcally made of huge squares.

 

[Tankshell]

My game keeps freezing and hard locking my pc. Grrrr. Running the game ready nvidia drivers. Anyone else?

 

[lordfuzzybutt]

does the game look amazing on max settings?

No, I do not think so. AO is bad, texture is kind of bad.