Syndicate also exhibits far less pop-in.
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Assassin's Creed Syndicate PC Performance Thread
- Thread starter Crossing Eden
- Start date
Syndicate also exhibits far less pop-in.
keltickennedy
Member
And they brought back the dynamic day/night cycle. That is probably one of the biggest reasons why they had to tweak the GI that was in Unity.
Tested the game out again with these settings. Runs at 1080p60 w/ small drops on occasion (on the train is where I noticed). Cutscene frame rate is all over the place. Typically from 45-60
i7 2600k, 970, 8GB RAM, 7200RPM HDD
Here are a bunch of other screenshots I took. Don't want them clogging up the thread so I'll just link the rest
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5788/22703307997_45b6566cfa_o.png
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/780/23133292801_4425f59b59_o.png
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5764/22500558953_0c34b376bb_o.png
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/768/22729404479_3d56a88bc7_o.png
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5746/22498965254_5d6b8b6866_o.png
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5759/22498965944_fdc96d84a7_o.png
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5714/22500456933_bcdb3d008b_o.png
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5650/22729406589_c10e4be3ee_o.png
i7 2600k, 970, 8GB RAM, 7200RPM HDD
Here are a bunch of other screenshots I took. Don't want them clogging up the thread so I'll just link the rest
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5788/22703307997_45b6566cfa_o.png
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/780/23133292801_4425f59b59_o.png
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5764/22500558953_0c34b376bb_o.png
https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/768/22729404479_3d56a88bc7_o.png
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5746/22498965254_5d6b8b6866_o.png
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5759/22498965944_fdc96d84a7_o.png
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5714/22500456933_bcdb3d008b_o.png
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5650/22729406589_c10e4be3ee_o.png
chromatic9
Member
LOD is probably like Unity then
far left building
far left building
Garrett Hawke
Member
Getting a pretty solid 1080/60 during gameplay, my rig:
970
i5 4590
8GB RAM
These are the settings:
Looks gorgeous imo. Much better than Unity... it doesn't seem blurry in the same way Unity did. Also doesn't seem to have the ugly LOD buildings that Unity had. They're still pretty bad, but not as bad. Might be the fog masking it! That said the pre-rendered cutscenes look baaaaaad. Ton of aliasing, 30fps, compression... I also have the 30fps cloth glitch.
970
i5 4590
8GB RAM
These are the settings:
Get frame drops to the 50s during cutscenes + heavy alpha moments. Shame there isn't an option to adjust DOF, I would turn down some post-processing stuff to keep 60fps. But I'm on the pre-Battlefront drivers. Might change tomorrow.
Looks gorgeous imo. Much better than Unity... it doesn't seem blurry in the same way Unity did. Also doesn't seem to have the ugly LOD buildings that Unity had. They're still pretty bad, but not as bad. Might be the fog masking it! That said the pre-rendered cutscenes look baaaaaad. Ton of aliasing, 30fps, compression... I also have the 30fps cloth glitch.
chromatic9
Member
Must be the fog then
screen from Flandy posted above
Looks just as bad as unity so far.
Garrett Hawke
Member
Oh dear. -_-Must be the fog then
screen from Flandy posted above
Looks just as bad as unity so far.
I don't get why. If you go play Black Flag or any of the pre-Unity games the buildings are very low poly but they don't look outright ugly like they do here.
Must be the fog then
screen from Flandy posted above
Looks just as bad as unity so far.
Fyi
There was one more setting for Enviromental Quality above the one I I tried but I didn't test it since it required a restart
PHOENIXZERO
Member
Haha at the comments bitching about a 970 not being able "max out" the game out at 1080p and 60FPS with PCSS, MSAA and TXAA on while blaming the game/Ubisoft for their ridiculous expectations.
Any ideas? I got a free code from a Samsung SSD I bought if that matters. I have plenty of space and am obviously online.
I even tried a different HDD and it said the same thing.
EDIT: Found a solution. Start Uplay as administrator.
Yeah, had the same problem and that was also the solution.
LOL Uplay.
Karak
Member
Same since I first saw it on consoles thats the way I felt.
Garrett Hawke
Member
It has a VRAM bar but on the textures setting there's a note at the side saying Low is for 2GB cards, Med for 3GB and High for 4GB. But in my tests I had it on 4GB and was coming under the 3.5GB high speed memory the 970 has. If it scales then I imagine it would be 2.5GB for medium and 1.5GB for low.
According to various Reddit reports, not too well and low texture look like crap as expected. Developpers have stopped caring about 2gb GPUs entirely, you need at the very least 3gb and 4 is recommended for 1080p.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
Wait, so I don't need a VPN to unlock this early like on Steam? How?
Yea, I guess they don't want to use the RAM on PC like always, they'll just use the console textures and they have like 5GB VRAM available there.
Yautja_Warrior
Member
As much as I wanted the very good GTX 970, after seeing games that can already push it beyond it's power at Ultra Settings, I'm glad I decided to wait for Pascal now.
Consoles do not have 5gb of VRAM.
I don't see how using the system ram is going to help your 2gb GPU. It's a very low amount for AAA games and you know it.
Ah, the old "we'll pick the highest resolution your card reports" isn't such a great idea on the age of DSR. I think I'll turn that off before I launch the game, I hated it when on Unity it picked some ridiculous settings for me and the whole beginning cutscene ran at sub 10fps.Also for some reason the game auto set itself to 4K on my 970... I was wondering why I was getting sub-30fps.
I think I saw that there will be one. I imagine it will go up at the same time as Andy posts his tweak article for the game, assuming that there's going to be an article that is.
PS4 has 8. 8GB of VRAM. As a shared pool in total, but it still has 8GB of GDDR5 memory.
8gb of RAM total, 5/5.5 available to games to be shared between the CPU and the GPU.
So no, it does not have 5gb of VRAM. I assume the game must use 3gb of RAM for the GPU hence the similar requirements on PC.
No, I mean they can make use of the RAM to cache textures instead of just caching from HDD. On consoles the RAM pool is bigger and they don't have another medium to cache them on, they just have the one RAM pool and HDD. MGS V and even SW BF run fine on maxed textures on 2GB VRAM, but with Batman AK and AC S it feels like they just "settled" for that same RAM pool requirement from consoles.
I don't know if you get my point, I am not very articulate today.
CrichtonKicks
Member
Anyone got a link on how you can play this early? I assume it's not VPN? Preloading now.
I understand better now, my fault for not having thought about it this way. I suppose it makes sense to optimize for the sweet spot of the two consoles, from a pure time/result point of view.
KINGofCRA5H
Member
No surprise but this seems heavily CPU bound like most ubi games. Might grab a nvidia code for sub $20.
Running on a 970, 8gb, ssd, i5 3570k OC @4.2. From what I'm reading that should keep me close to 60 or at least most playable framerates on high settings @1080p.
The LOD issue is annoying but it will be better hopefully then the xbone unity slideshow I experienced.
off topic but I'd pay full price for black flag 2, just not as hyped for this
The LOD issue is annoying but it will be better hopefully then the xbone unity slideshow I experienced.
That's a reasonable expectation. 900p at the worst for higher framerates. Your rig is technically more powerful than current gen consoles fwiw.
i've been playing downsampled from 1440p locked to 30 and it's pretty solid. here are my pics from the ot. this is with txaa on.
Yep game looks downgraded from Unity.
That's not true. Granted, developers are taking advantage of higher VRAM counts but if they didn't care about 2GB GPUs - by not bothering with settings that scale to it - then I would not be playing any of the latest games with my 2GB GPU.
CrichtonKicks
Member
They dynamic lighting changes things quite a bit. I think the blue skies look there is probably the least impressive that the game looks.
I bought via Uplay - how do I open it up..?
Garrett Hawke
Member
I hope it'll go live in the UK on Uplay in a few minutes.
Doubt it tho
Garrett Hawke
Member
It didn't. :/ pretty embarrassing tbh. You would think on their own service they would be able to launch it at midnight locally...
indigo-cyclops
Member
I'd like to know this as well..
chromatic9
Member
5am UK and 6am CET for the unlock. ubi twitter
Will have to play it tomorrow night then. It's the 19th and I'm good to play right now, have been since midnight.
Will have to play it tomorrow night then. It's the 19th and I'm good to play right now, have been since midnight.
IcyRhythms
Member
What sort of CPU usage is everyone getting?
Garrett Hawke
Member
Chance Hale
Member
Someone try to fix/bring back the blood that was removed from the console versions. Been in the series for like 4 years at this point, really bizarre to have it gone. Unity had the best splatter system in gaming.
Garrett Hawke
Member
Unity's blood interacted reeeeeallly weirdly with clothes. Blotches would slip and slide all over the character models. Very strange.
wanderingprostheyltite
Member
Yeah it doesn't run great but damn is it pretty (especially coming off FO4). Was getting a locked 30 on a 970 prior to the Big Ben area opening up, there it can stutter and dip into low 20s with everything cranked @1080. Will probably turn pcss off.
Hopefully we get some nvidia drivers soon as I think first patch for Unity+drivers took me to a mostly locked 60 and took care of the stuttering.
Hopefully we get some nvidia drivers soon as I think first patch for Unity+drivers took me to a mostly locked 60 and took care of the stuttering.
D
Deleted member 325805
Unconfirmed Member
20fps with a 970? So it's completely broken then.