Assassin's Creed Unity Asus Strix GTX970 & GTX980 Performance & Fix

[tinytomlogan]

The latest iteration of the wildly successful Assassin's Creed franchise forms part of nVidia's "free game" promotion. We take a look.



Assassin's Creed Unity Asus Strix GTX970 & GTX980 Performance & Fix

 

[barnsley]

Welp, hate to think what it'd be like for my 780Ti. Is this a video memory hog?

 

[Dicehunter]

Good read, I'm not buying this though, I only had access to it through my mates US Uplay account using a proxy.

Until they fix the optimization I am not touching it, Some of the bugs are actually terrifying ^_^

 

[gijoe50000]

Seems to run fine for me on 1080p with my 970 on ultra settings. Runs smoother than mordor which 'jumps' every once in a while.. maybe I'm just lucky? Only played for an hour or two so far though, but graphics are pretty amazing alright!..

 

[SieB]

I got this game for free off a mate who bought a 980 and already had it prordered.
And yes it is a Vram hog, i've noticed it using 3.8GB and it pretty much uses that much constantly, although I have 4GB so for me it isn't a prob but I can see that it might be for people with less.

Performance is pretty bad, instead of using AA i'm downsampling from 1440p using DSR which seems to be around the same as x4 MSAA whilst giving better performance.
With everything on ultra except for no AA and with bloom disabled i'm getting ~40-60fps.

The technical issues are more annoying than the performance in my opinion though, the crowd AI is dumb as shit with people just running around reacting in stupid ways, people spawn in mid air and walk through walls, there is stuttering, glitches, my control pad locks up and I can't use it. The list goes on, Ubisoft have not done well with their recent game releases.

I suppose in 4-5 months and after 5+ patches the game will finally be fixed, we are just the Beta testers at the moment.

 

[barnsley]

I got this game for free off a mate who bought a 980 and already had it prordered.
And yes it is a Vram hog, i've noticed it using 3.8GB and it pretty much uses that much constantly, although I have 4GB so for me it isn't a prob but I can see that it might be for people with less.

FFS, I really hope this isn't going to start a pattern. If so I'm screwed. As is everyone who has a 780(non 6gb version)/780Ti is a bit screwed and I love my 780ti .

 

[ShaunB-91]

Good read, I'm not buying this though, I only had access to it through my mates US Uplay account using a proxy.

Until they fix the optimization I am not touching it, Some of the bugs are actually terrifying ^_^

Hahaha, those bugs look quite funny tbh.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Seems to run fine for me on 1080p with my 970 on ultra settings. Runs smoother than mordor which 'jumps' every once in a while.. maybe I'm just lucky? Only played for an hour or two so far though, but graphics are pretty amazing alright!..

Our issues were all high res - max settings. 1080p runs fine hence us saying put it back to that to get it running

 

[WillSK]

Seems to run fine for me on 1080p with my 970 on ultra settings. Runs smoother than mordor which 'jumps' every once in a while.. maybe I'm just lucky? Only played for an hour or two so far though, but graphics are pretty amazing alright!..

I found mordor only jumps if you have the texture pack turned on

 

[nepas]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PkzIGSyjLQ

Lol,just lol

 

[lAnimal]

I don't have it yet, but everything maxed out on my brothers pc; 8gb ram, i5 3570, msi twin frozr V gtx 970, he's getting solid 40 fps. I didn't believe him but I checked, 8xAA and the lot. How come this only says 28? Is it the latest drivers from yesterday? :huh:

 

[nepas]

AC Unity is true next-gen. In fact, it is SO next-gen that it isn't even finished yet! I like to be on the cutting edge and I appreciate that Ubisoft is making games that it is still making, even weeks after you've beaten them.

I also love the forced integration with an app as well as a website. How that works is that you sign in with your uplay account to experience so many error messages that last gen could never display on screen at one time.

The game itself (no spoilers) centers around Arno, an Assasin in search of locked chests that require a cell phone game with micro transactions to open. You level him up by "hacking" into your bank account to drain real money at 60 FPS. The rest of the game runs at a solid 12 FPS which is TWICE as cinematic as a movie... No small feat! Once you've completed "playing" a website on your computer, Arno is finally ready to fall through the ground and enter a white abyss... The core challenge of the game, these moments where you simply fall into the sky that accurately existed under 1700's Paris, are some of the most nail-biting moments in any game ever made... Will the game crash? Will you have to hard reset your console? Results are random, so it will always be a surprise!

Many people just won't "get" this evolution of Assassin's Creed and should spend their time opening up a history book instead. It is there they could read up on Paris' floating people and long battle with pop-in. Even today, many Parisians only exist after you've already walked past them. It is these small details that Ubisoft has nailed and they deserve applause with tons of random audio pops just as you'd hear in the game's cinematics.

After playing this gem, I've decided to fly to Montreal tomorrow to begin playing 2018's Assassin's Creed 9. Unity's only shortcoming was that it was a little TOO finished, so I am hoping the Ubisoft guys will let me plug my controller into a broken vending machine in their studio that simply eats dollars that I put into it without delivering.

Update: Ubisoft has mentioned that they will be issuing a patch that may "fix" some of these historically accurate non-issues. For this reason, I have lowered my score to 1 star. If I wanted to play a game that was finished, I would not have purchased a Ubisoft game on day one. Boo to Ubisoft, we expect less of you.

Now THAT is what I call a review

Taken from Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/review/RTDOWG...SIN=B00J48MUS4&nodeID=468642&store=videogames

 

[NeverBackDown]

Game is terrible. Glad i didn't buy it.

On ps4/Xbone (don't know about PC) for A LOT of people they have a bug that won't let them start a mission and they get an error "Please finish installing the game to continue" Well no shit its installed. They're playing the damn thing aren't they.

Also wasn't impressed at all with the graphics. The color saturation is horrific. Everything is so damn white and grey.

 

[Wraith]

AC1 & 2 are the only games from the franchise I own I've ignored the rest, this one grabbed my attention and looks pretty but having just watched all the glitch videos and read through this thread I'm going to leave it for a few months, lets see if Ubisoft can somehow redeem them selfs with a MEGA patch :lol: it's going to need it!

 

[NeverBackDown]

They F'd up so badly now that even though game has been out 2 days they claim they are now going to start doing "early access" style of releasing so people can "help" make it a better game. Its mainly because they can just throw the "Not finalized gameplay" badge all over the screen.

 

[nepas]

ChangeList:1034362;Version: DEV;Branch://assassin/acu/pc;Project Name:ACUPC;Time:Wed Oct 29 06:10:55 2014;SDK:N/A;Exec:scimitar_engine_win64_f.exe;MD5:7e5e74e86c7797ac5484bdfb53572a99

So they release the DEV version as the retail............

Debbuging save games, this:

AC4BF[0]-tm_

Assasins Creed 4 Black Flag

Could they have screwed this up any more?This is sheer comedy gold from start to finish.

 

[Dicehunter]

AC1 & 2 are the only games from the franchise I own I've ignored the rest, this one grabbed my attention and looks pretty but having just watched all the glitch videos and read through this thread I'm going to leave it for a few months, lets see if Ubisoft can somehow redeem them selfs with a MEGA patch :lol: it's going to need it!

Honestly bud they are all good minus the performance issues in Black Flag and Unity, Black flag runs flawlessly apart from when you turn Physx smoke on and Unity, Well, Just no ^_^

Brotherhood is fantastic, Same with Revelations, Black flag is genuinely one of my most favorite games of all time, The sailing, The piracy, Sea shanties, The tropical landscapes, The water is just beautifully done with swirls, Huge waves, Winds, Battles, Boarding etc... It's a gorgeous game and runs well.

If you like the Pirates Of The Caribbean films Black Flag is right up your alley

 

[agent_x007]

I played few hours and I must say two things :
1) It looks great (insides of buildings are Awesome), BUT
2) WHY it must take SOOO much VRAM/GPU horsepower to run ?!

A GTX 780 Ti w/OC on Ultra High and Full HD can only do FXAA anti-aliasing.
FXAA
ANY level of MSAA/TXAA with this settings and Full HD res. = frame rate drops to ~20FPS (how often depends on MSAA setting, but even at MSAA 2x drops happen at least few times a minute); Reason u ask ?

It's out of memory !
3GB of VRAM are out of memory in Full HD res (checked in MSI Afterburner).
When I saw that I went : Whaaaaat ?!

DSR for my screen is also out of VRAM on x1.20 setting.
+ I know for a fact, that this game uses more VRAM than normal RAM on my PC.

Ubisoft is NUTZ - That level of video memory hogging is Crazy !
I mean srsly, what the hell this game does with all this VRAM ?!
And here is last bombshell (if someone didn't knew already) : Tesselation isn't in it yet !
End result : We have this much performance problems and DX11 isn't even fully implemented...
Future sure is interesting or this game isn't it ?

To end with high note this long post, here's my gameplay at Ultra High/1080 res with FXAA on current PC (w/OC) : LINK
Glitch searchers : There is a small one at the begining (hands on left are invisible for a split second around 1:14-1:17 mark).

 

[SieB]

At least they released a patch that fixes micro transactions on the PS4 though, that was obviously more important than the performance issues :lol:

 

[WillSK]

http://kotaku.com/new-video-games-shouldnt-be-so-broken-1658570535

Seems relevant