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Watch_Dogs PC performance thread [Read post #1215 before posting]
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maneil99
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The closer it gets to the end the closer we are to either a huge ban wave or dissapointment
I've heard it's mighty pretty.
As it should! I'm just hoping conversations go back to normal and the more eccentric people in this forum don't distract from the point of a performance thread.
Fried Food
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I feel someone with photo-fu should enhance this image to better reflect the current situation
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cripterion
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Sure, let the witch hunt continue.
The anticipation is killing me.
Chance Hale
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cheststrongwell
my cake, fuck off
This is my favorite Watch Dogs thread. Gonna be a lot of this....
......in the next 24 hours.
......in the next 24 hours.
You just admitted to pirating it. The fact you pre-ordered doesn't excuse that. Surely that's not what you thought?
Currently on my Macbook, but hopefully this will be evidence enough of my purchase.
Anyways, after about 15 hours I've finished the main campaign (and done zero online or side missions), so that will give you an idea of average longevity (not the 30 hours purported by Morin before release). Story is pretty generic but fun enough (maybe not for the full $60/£45). Past this, take things with a pinch of pre-day-1-patch salt.
My PC's specs:
i5-4670k overclocked to 4GHz
16GB 1600MHz RAM
NVIDIA GTX 770 2GB
Graphics: The game certainly has its moments, mainly in the cutscenes - soft shadows, good AA, IQ, etc. etc. As has been said many a time, the game's best moments are during the nighttime and raining. As much as it's beating a dead horse, daytime really doesn't make the game shine, and it feels very....last gen. It's here that the PS3/360 cancer spreads through.
Pop-in is terrible. Seriously, terrible. The main offender is traffic, where Ubisoft have some standard "headlights" animation in the background, and 2 or 3 cars popping in about 30 metres away from your location. It without a doubt breaks the immersion.
Performance: When it's behaving, on my rig the game averages a very playable 40-50 FPS, going higher when looking at the sky or in low population areas, lower when driving into parts of Chicago you haven't visited in a while and more intense firefights. I've set everything on max apart from textures which are on High. High textures recommend 2GB of VRAM (Ultra recommend 3GB), but it's safe to say until Ubisoft patch in some performance, you'll need much more.
I think we can say Ubisoft have fucked up again* with some sort of memory leak, because if you play for too long, gameplay stutters down to 5fps every 20 seconds, making the game unplayable. Turning textures down to Medium sometimes fixed the issue, but you really shouldn't have to do that with a 4th Gen Intel CPU and the 3rd best gaming GPU NVIDIA released last year.
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Anyways, after about 15 hours I've finished the main campaign (and done zero online or side missions), so that will give you an idea of average longevity (not the 30 hours purported by Morin before release). Story is pretty generic but fun enough (maybe not for the full $60/£45). Past this, take things with a pinch of pre-day-1-patch salt.
My PC's specs:
i5-4670k overclocked to 4GHz
16GB 1600MHz RAM
NVIDIA GTX 770 2GB
Graphics: The game certainly has its moments, mainly in the cutscenes - soft shadows, good AA, IQ, etc. etc. As has been said many a time, the game's best moments are during the nighttime and raining. As much as it's beating a dead horse, daytime really doesn't make the game shine, and it feels very....last gen. It's here that the PS3/360 cancer spreads through.
Pop-in is terrible. Seriously, terrible. The main offender is traffic, where Ubisoft have some standard "headlights" animation in the background, and 2 or 3 cars popping in about 30 metres away from your location. It without a doubt breaks the immersion.
Performance: When it's behaving, on my rig the game averages a very playable 40-50 FPS, going higher when looking at the sky or in low population areas, lower when driving into parts of Chicago you haven't visited in a while and more intense firefights. I've set everything on max apart from textures which are on High. High textures recommend 2GB of VRAM (Ultra recommend 3GB), but it's safe to say until Ubisoft patch in some performance, you'll need much more.
I think we can say Ubisoft have fucked up again* with some sort of memory leak, because if you play for too long, gameplay stutters down to 5fps every 20 seconds, making the game unplayable. Turning textures down to Medium sometimes fixed the issue, but you really shouldn't have to do that with a 4th Gen Intel CPU and the 3rd best gaming GPU NVIDIA released last year.
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seriously, Battlefield 4 is one of the buggiest pieces of shit out there, but on that game I get a flawless 60fps on Ultra. This era of dissapointing PC ports needs to stop.
fluffydelusions
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Spectrasonic
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I've read in other threads that you can. Ubisoft will let you play as soon as you get your UPlay key.
Proof ? Or just people saying they can run it?
You're screwed bro.
metsallica
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Doens't "grayed out" mean it's not installed in Origin?
KINGofCRA5H
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How come people who have already added it to their Uplay account can't play it yet, then?
gasp
Well its more of a pirate hunt really.
indigo-cyclops
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cripterion
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Yes, and I've explained myself with a mod exactly on why it is the case. As I said, feel free to continue the witch hunt, I feel some of you are being a bit hypocrite..
At the end of the day I still paid my game 49.99 euros. Others use Origin loophole, to get it cheaper, does it make any less moral?
PS : Also you didn't see me bragging on how I was playing the game early here, I just posted to inform someone that was wondering if it would run on his rig and about new nvidia drivers.
Spectrasonic
Member
Don't ask me, just something I read in the other Watch_Dogs thread.
That's probably his pre-order. LOL
He said his posting from his macbook, not his gaming PC.
fluffydelusions
Member
Ubi client so weird. I've already preordered and put in the key but here is what I see
On my origin, none of my games are grayed out even though I only got BF4 installed.
Net_Wrecker
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Robobandit
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How's the performance?
The Red Wizard
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You should raise that point with Ubisoft and other publishers/developers. It is ridiculous that paying customers are worse off than those who pirate the game.
It is likely that a similar thing would have happened if reviews weren't embargoed until release day.
Spectrasonic
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Again, just something I read. I can't confirm because I bouht the game on Steam and haven't been given a key yet.
VisceralBowl
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Chance Hale
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Not to promote bad behavior but the account suicide on the last page is one of the biggest laughs I've had on gaf.
Looking forward to Monday night, hopefully Uplay actually unlocks the game at midnight unlike Blacklist >_>
Looking forward to Monday night, hopefully Uplay actually unlocks the game at midnight unlike Blacklist >_>
metsallica
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Dawn of the Final Disc...
Well at least you bought a good game.
Nydius
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As I said in another thread earlier, when devs start offering demos on PC again, I'll stop using torrents as demos. I'm not going to blow $60+ on a product without being able to play a single second of of it, especially when said product is redeemed I lose any chance of a refund (with exception to Origin), resale, or exchange. If you think this has reduced the frequency with which I've bought games, you'd be extremely wrong. I've bought more games in the last year on PC than I did for the 3 years prior on consoles, and not just because of Steam sales.
As for the recent turn in this thread, I think it's pretty silly. Outside of multiplayer, people are able to play the base game and offer opinions on performance. Requiring proof of ownership to comment is a ridiculous added barrier and all it does is promote people trying to provide "fake" proof. Since the street date of the console version is in 2 days and since the PS3 and X360 versions are available through the same shady methods, is there going to be a moratorium on anyone discussing those versions? Will people start requiring proven purchaser status to discuss gameplay issues in future OT threads? At what point is the line drawn? This discussion jumped down a silly rabbit hole.
As for Watch_Dogs, I have a physical copy coming (FedEx Tracking number in my inbox as I type) from Best Buy because I blew all my lingering Reward Zone points and I already pre-purchased the Season Pass. Part of this was due to being able to play a couple hours of the game to gauge how it performed. If people don't like that, tough. I don't care for excuses from devs: If PC gamers are going to be expected to pay the same day 1 retail price as console gamers with no resale function or digital exchange/refund policies, there damn well better be a demo.
LabouredSubterfuge
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Does this mean Dennis's copy is real or no?
I got a key for buying another 770 last week and it doesn't even show up in my uplay yet. So i would say that is bogus information.
Dawn of the Final Disc...
Pretty sure it's gonna do a release date check and it won't let you play it . Especially since your using physical disc version.
At least your version can run at 60fps.
Spectrasonic
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Ugh, what a shame if it turned out everyone posting their screenshots in the thread were pirating it.
Not everyone, a few will probably have review copies.
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