It only dropped for me every now and then anyway, but it seems to be more smoothed out overall based on what I have played. It's nothing like Blight Town in Dark Souls or anything, lol.
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Digital Foundry: Latest Assassin's Creed Unity patch boosts performance
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It only dropped for me every now and then anyway, but it seems to be more smoothed out overall based on what I have played. It's nothing like Blight Town in Dark Souls or anything, lol.
Well, that's good to know! I prefer to stay on rooftops anyway, so I'm hoping I'll be spared the majority of the performance issues if and when I pick up Unity.
Sounds like you got a huge CPU boost.
Anyway looks like PS4 got a nice CPU boost.
awesome sauce.
Haha so DF purposely held back on footage where the PS4 version goes way above 30fps. What a scam DF has become.
edit: PS4 version has better framerate handling large crowds post patch. Up to 5fps PS4 advantage. Thank you CPU boost.
The 2500K was released less than 4 years ago, don't make shit up to validate your point.
Wow this is a first, bragging about 30fps on PC. Setting the bar that low might as well be playing on console.
Head.spawn
Junior Member
That is a prime example of badly executed sarcasm.
He said he never drops below 30, at 1080p. The console versions drop below 20 at 900p.
3rdamention
Member
Wow PS4 performance has improved in sections there, but oh well......I guess.. Didn't know PS4 was unlocked going above 30 fps prepatch. Thank goodness for this site, at least DF isn't the only site doing this cause so many seem to take DF word as the only truth..
Beer Monkey
Member
Why is it so hard to patch the PS4 version, it just has a bunch of performance-degrading DO loops added due to Microsoft moneyhats?
(that's a joke; and it's also a joke on humanity that some people believe that)
I'm holding off on this, I'm thinking at some point the framerate will be even better and the price will be even lower.
(that's a joke; and it's also a joke on humanity that some people believe that)
I'm holding off on this, I'm thinking at some point the framerate will be even better and the price will be even lower.
Denton
Member
I was not bragging, but describing how it runs on a PC. Framerate never dipping below 30 (with 45+ in averages, if left unlocked) is fairly far from the 17-30 on console.
On release the game ran like dog on PC too though, on AMD cards. It took new Omega drivers to double the framerate. This patch increased framerate extremely mildly, almost unnoticeably.
The thing is...we do not know if the game is badly optimized, or if it is as optimized as it can get and the hardware performance simply isn't there to power it. They could probably get that stable 30 on consoles and 60 on PC, if they downgraded it. I would even welcome it, since 60 is so much more pleasant for me.
I wasn't "making shit up" (why so hostile?), I misremembered. Thanks for correcting me, I actually bought it in february 2011 for $250 so yes, that will be 4 years in two months. Still quite old.
3rdamention
Member
Considering the tons of bug this game had at launch, I don't know how can be well optimized.
Backfoggen
Banned
Who are these people and how are they measuring the fps?
I know what u mean bruh, technical analysis is totally about subjective irrelevancy.
totally empty, hi five!
Oooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhh.....
What on earth have digital foundry been hiding?
This game probably should have been, since it's not much of a current-gen one, either. It might have kept them from overstepping their boundaries.
I'll definitely be waiting and watching for the next AC game.
Denton
Member
Bugs and optimization or lack thereof are two distinct things, they don't necessarily have anything to do with each other.
In any case, the game is pretty bug free now anyway.
Not sure DF could miss an unlocked framerate on ps4 and fps parity post-patch.
keltickennedy
Member
They also missed the part where one shouldn't purposely alter screenshots of PS4 game to make them look worse.
Not sure if you are blind.
Obligatory cherry-picked example.
The game definitely feels smoother overall, but that still sucks. Look at how consistently shitty the framerate is in those seconds.
This should not be accepted, that kind of framerate on either platform is completely unacceptable in this day and age.
keltickennedy
Member
So you are blind, cool nothing wrong with that.
Crayon
Member
Hey well you know. Mistakes happen. lol. I'm surprised there aren't more alternatives than NXgamer but he seems to do an alright job for just one guy. It's not wise to give over all the authority to a single outlet like df. There needs to be some competition.
keltickennedy
Member
lol you can't serious can you? Tell me this how the hell did they miss all these parts where PS4 version goes above 30? Tell me why did they alter the screenshots of PS4 version of Metro to make them look worse? All these *mistakes* only happened to PS versions of games.
Actullay they did made a *mistake* about a Xbone game though, totally missed sustained massive framedrops in Far Cry 4, but *just happened* to record the one second drop in the PS4 version.
Eh, good read. Maybe the game might be fully fixed by Summer or early Fall?
Are we still in the whole Ubisoft "PS4 CPU" propaganda?
Are we still in the whole Ubisoft "PS4 CPU" propaganda?
keltickennedy
Member
The editing .. well.. cherry picking things is one thing (not that I agree with it, but it's like a white lie by omission). I'd even go as far as saying that when they were caught swapping one version for another of another game a while ago (seemingly always to the benefit of the XB) but got caught due to key prompts, it was probably a mistake. But do we have proof of that?
That is a damn serious accusation imo.
Umm that's not the only conclusion one can draw from it?
BouncyFrag
Member
I'm glad I waited on gettting this.
They did, after being pointed they quickly swapped in the *correct* version of the exact same screenshots. Since it took them no time to swap in, that only means they had the correct version all along, which also means they purposely altered the screenshots.
edit: they also had the correct screenshots in a prior article where they didn't compare PS4 to Xbone.
As for the Unity framerates. Was DF's article about Unity in its pre-day-one-patch state? NX Gamer's unlocked framerate on PS4 video was when sticking the game disc in and NOT patching it. Once you patched the game, the framerates got locked. Are you absolutely sure that DF's original face off video was from a pre-patched state and therefore got edited to give a pro MS bias?
SerTapTap
Member
...people aren't seriously believing Sony overclocked their CPU 10% for a third party single title, post launch, without a firmware update I might add, on a console that now has >10 million units in consumers homes? It's not the damn CPU. Unity was just broken. It's less broken, so it runs better. No conspiracies.
I think "that's the joke", as DF was placing the XB1 avantage over the PS4 version at release squarely on the "CPU boost". To their credit, that was also the apparent explanation by Ubi as well.
Where?
In the NXGamer video they look pretty much identical.
Edit: Ah, the DF video. Funny the framerate of the NXGamer video seem so much more stable in every instance (roofs or crowds) than in the DF video, for both machines. Wonder why...
Given the framerate discrepancies are over the percentage of difference of the CPU's I'd say it was more poor optimisation than any hardware difference.
Yeah, I don't get it. The very purpose of sites like DF requires them to be as platform as agnostic as possible. Otherwise, what's the point?
martino
Member
i have more faith in technical choice and editorial independance of df than tehcnical choice and independance choice of a networked youtuber....