What FPS and setting should I be running AC 4 on?

samyfist

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I currently have:
AMD 8350
8GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 760

At the minute I seem to be getting FPS like 30 with V-Sync turned off. After searching the internet some have said that installing Direct 3D Overrider and forcing triple buffering and forcing V-Sync gave them vastly improved performance on simmilar rigs to mine (60 FPS)

I am almost sure I have all the latest drivers installed for my GPU, what can I do to solve this? De-Frag my hard drive or maybe sweep my old drivers?
 

samyfist

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I am using:

Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+ (High)
Anti-Alliasing: TXAA 2x
Environment Quality: Very High
God Rays: Low
PhysX Particles: Off
Reflection Quality: High
Resolution: 1920x1080
Shadow Quality: Very High
Texture Quality: High
Volumetric Fog: On
 

samyfist

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Using the optimal setting with and without the Direct 3D Overrider seemed to give me even worse FPS that before, dipping below 30 and peak 40.
 

samyfist

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With EVERYTHING at lowest setting I get solid 60 constant. When I put environment quality to very high and texture quality to high I seem to get a constant 50.
 

samyfist

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I have turned Direct 3D Overider off, V-Sync is off in the settings and it is set to "Use the 3D application setting" in the nVidia control panel. I have a 60 Hz monitor if that helps in any way.
 

samyfist

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Very nice. I'll try messing around with triple buffering and adaptive V-Sync and see if that helps at all. Seems to be very badly optimized. (Also some people are reporting FPS improvments when they progress past a certain area, the area I am in now)

Thanks very much for your help!