Watch dogs fps drops on gtx 690

Guest · May 25, 2014

So I started playing Watch dogs yesterday and I noticed that the fps is really bad. When I'm in a high speed chase my fps just goes down to 10-15 for a few secounds then it jumps back to normal. I'm running max settings with textures set to high and SMAA. My cpu is not bottlenecking I checked.
PC specs:
I7 2600 OC to 4.3ghz
8gb ram
EVGA gtx 690
Asus p8p67 pro Motherboard
CM silent pro hybrid 1300W PSU

firo40 · May 25, 2014

I doubt its fully optimized for sli yet. Until better future sli support your screwed its the downfall of dual GPU graphics cards

lukelaw · May 25, 2014

As firo said, it's not built for sli just yet. and I just wanted to say you should sell your PSU and get one with a lower wattage to save money

Mouldread · May 25, 2014

Wasn't the game supposed to be released on 27 May?

13thmonkey · May 25, 2014

it's not out yet, so there'll probably be a day 1 patch.

13thmonkey · May 25, 2014

lukelaw :

how does that work exactly?

lukelaw · May 25, 2014

The high the wattage the less efficient the PSU is, 750w 80+ gold is cheap than 2000w 80+ Titanium (The best)

13thmonkey · May 25, 2014

do you want to do the sums....

lets say that the 1300W unit is 80% efficient and your 750W is 90% efficient at a 600W load point (assuming total system usage is 600W) Assuming it is being used for 6 hrs per day at full load and power is 10c/unit.

the 1300W unit will use 600*6*365*0.1/0.8/1000 dollars per year = $164 in electric costs
the 750W units will use 600*6*365*0.1/0.9/1000 doallars per year = $146 in electric costs.

So for $18 /year is it worth it? especially as the 750 will be working closer to it's limit, it therefore won't last as long.

watchdogone · May 26, 2014

Disable motion blur and lower textures (in display settings, not graphical) to high. These alone smooth out the gameplay immensely and get rid of that game-breaking stutter while driving quickly, even with everything else on high-ultra

Guest · May 27, 2014

watchdogone :

I tried that + adding the parameter -disablepagefilecheck and the game doesn't stutter so much now (but it still does once in a while). Still when I start driving mi fps goes in the 50's and when I stop it jups over 60. Bad SLI profile i suppose.

13thmonkey · May 27, 2014

Are you running a pirated version of the game? are you also mining bitcoins by accident?

Guest · May 28, 2014

13thmonkey :

Yes I always try the cracked vesion first to see how the game runs so I don't go trugh the AC3 nightmare again. Bitcoin mining i not a very good idea on a nvidia card and I don't do it.

13thmonkey · May 28, 2014

so, many of the torrents that hold the cracked versions have a bitcoin miner slid in with the game, guess what, you might be mining now.

now eff off and buy the game.

Guest · May 28, 2014

13thmonkey :

Bitcoin miners start using 100% of your gup if you don't use your pc for 1-5 minutes ( I know I had them before). I will wait for the game to get patched and star running properly. From what I see even the uplay version runs bad so I'm going to wait. Games like AC3 never got patched and I payed the full price for that game and I'm sorry I did.

algaceburator · May 28, 2014

Dude i have the same problem. I have gtx 680sli and and fx8350 overclocked to 4.5ghz. Its impossible to drive the car massive spikes. Game so poorly optimized. Wait for new patches because i cant play either. I don't have lags when i walk in game but its impossible to drive a car^^

Nachmanowicz · May 31, 2014

I also have a 690. And I went to check its temps, and GPU1 was 75C and GPU2.... 25C so, was it idling!?!?!? Im so confused.

dominirican3351 · May 31, 2014

its idling because watch dogs doesnt fully recognized second gpu

jsrocksursox · May 31, 2014

(First post on this website for me. You should feel special!)

I believe it's because of the poor optimization. When driving a car the game has to render out the environment and being a kinda bad PC port it struggles to do so at a good speed. So When i drive really fast it tends to have to load my surroundings which is what I believe is the problem.

POSSIBLE SOLUTION:
I don't get this issue when I turn the shadows down from Ultra to High. So it could be that but I believe the pop-ins is also a part of the problem. Game is choking up trying to render heaps of stuff at a fast rate. But if you are not TOO much of a graphics person it may not hurt to turn down shadows. Another thing that fixed it for me was the anti-aliasing. I turned that down enough that I was still getting good quality and performance.

I have a 770 and this game runs at about 50-60 fps on average. I get the same issue as you; framerate dropping to about 15-20 fps when driving fast or even just looking in a general direction with lots of objects. It is rather annoying that this happens and I hope they release an update fixing it.

Guest · Jun 2, 2014

jsrocksursox :

Oh well I give up on this game. It doesnt look half as good as a game like crysis 3 and it is just as demanding and it has tons of bugs and bad optimisation. Anyway I bought AC4 and that game is much better than watch dogs and runs at 60 fps locked. I may return to watch dogs when ubisoft fix their game (which maybe never as was the case with AC3).

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