I already have the NVIDIA optimised driver with SLI profile etc
Still runs like crap.
Watch Dogs Pc specs
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I already have the NVIDIA optimised driver with SLI profile etc
Still runs like crap.
Not even surprised that it runs badly.
I was gonna buy the game but after I saw this chart, there's is no way I'd pay more than £5 for it on principle, no matter how good the game turns out to be. It screams loudly "this is a money grab".
I mean seriously, not even one edition has all the content included. If you want everything you need to buy 5 editions... that's just outrageous.
I'd encourage everyone to not buy the game on release or any "collectors editions", buy it later at a discount.
I was gonna buy the game but after I saw this chart, there's is no way I'd pay more than £5 for it on principle, no matter how good the game turns out to be. It screams loudly "this is a money grab".
I mean seriously, not even one edition has all the content included. If you want everything you need to buy 5 editions... that's just outrageous.
I'd encourage everyone to not buy the game on release or any "collectors editions", buy it later at a discount.
Have you tried adding -disablepagefilecheck in launch options/shortcut, and mouse smoothing can be turned of from the config file. Instructions if needed http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Watch_Dogs
Runs ok'ish for me, there are some weird drops when loading textures. But it sure runs better than ac4, even without proper drivers.
I've not tried these things, I'll give them a go later on.
nepas
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retail copies work instantly,only digital copies have to wait,lol
KING_OF_SAND
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I wonder if anyone has tried this with an AMD card just to see if it runs better than Nvidia.
nepas
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SieB
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Holy Vram usage, seen it go up to 3.2gb 
Time to buy one of those 8gb 290s J/K
Getting between 30-70fps on Ultra with Temporal SMAA. MSAA is not worth the performance hit, I prefer SMAA anyway, MSAA looks naturally smooth and blurry to me. Disabling motion blur seems to give a slight FPS boost as well.
I'm sure new drivers and or a patch will improve performance though, lets not forget it isn't officially released yet.
Time to buy one of those 8gb 290s J/K
Getting between 30-70fps on Ultra with Temporal SMAA. MSAA is not worth the performance hit, I prefer SMAA anyway, MSAA looks naturally smooth and blurry to me. Disabling motion blur seems to give a slight FPS boost as well.
I'm sure new drivers and or a patch will improve performance though, lets not forget it isn't officially released yet.
RamboOC
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In my opinion the graphis are terrible for the performance hit
Im going to play the game tomorrow once ot finishes downloading
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I also saw insanely high VRAM usage. It literally goes from 380MB at the desktop to 2.8GB (!!) with high (not ultra) settings just as your player loads in to the world.
Insane. Saddest thing though, it doesn't even look that great on high. I've seen other games look better with less VRAM usage.
I'm looking forward to patches and newer drivers but *shrug* I don't see how they are going to optimise a game that recommends 6GB of RAM and has 4GB as a minimum requirement in to running better.
We'll see.
Insane. Saddest thing though, it doesn't even look that great on high. I've seen other games look better with less VRAM usage.
I'm looking forward to patches and newer drivers but *shrug* I don't see how they are going to optimise a game that recommends 6GB of RAM and has 4GB as a minimum requirement in to running better.
We'll see.
WYP
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Holy Vram usage, seen it go up to 3.2gb
Time to buy one of those 8gb 290s J/K
Getting between 30-70fps on Ultra with Temporal SMAA. MSAA is not worth the performance hit, I prefer SMAA anyway, MSAA looks naturally smooth and blurry to me. Disabling motion blur seems to give a slight FPS boost as well.
I'm sure new drivers and or a patch will improve performance though, lets not forget it isn't officially released yet.
Is this at 1080p? Ugh, I was hoping I could run Ultra 1440p like i could on AC4
.I guess I'll see how it performs when it is released. Hopefully AMD can get a driver out for this.
SieB
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Is this at 1080p? Ugh, I was hoping I could run Ultra 1440p like i could on AC4
I guess I'll see how it performs when it is released. Hopefully AMD can get a driver out for this.
Yep, 1080p.
Performance is pretty bad, the FPS is all over the place with lots of stuttering and lag here and there. It definitely needs a patch or a new driver from AMD.
I can't imagine 1440p performance being very good if 1080p is anything to go by.
WYP
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Ugh, I'm very disappointed then. My Vram requirement will be obscene then too.
If any other recent ubisoft/Nvidia gameworks titles are anything to go by AMD might not be able to patch it much, given the gameworks code cannot be seen/optimized by Ubisoft or AMD which essentially makes AMDs performance in many ways is dictated by Nvidia.
SPS
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Why would we not want games to use more RAM? The majority of gamers have 64 bit machines now. I'm sick of seeing 32 bit games capped at 2GB, why must we battle with memory constraints? It only seems a lot because we are used to 32 bit games, doesn't mean it's unoptimised (yeah I know it doesn't run great at the moment but RAM usage isn't direct relation to that).
