Watch dogs on an AMD radeon 5970?

citroones · Jun 2, 2014

Hello, i was wondering how well my 5970 would run Watch dogs thinking drivers too

Currently my system is:

PSU: Seasonic 750W silver certified
GPU: XFX Radeon 5970 (with an arctic cooler)
CPU AMD Phennom ii x6 (1090 Thuban)
Motherboard: Asus 990Fx pro
Case: Cooler master storm stryker (With extra fans)

So well, i dont really know if that's enough to run the game "smooth" and i also know the driver support might not be there for my graphics card, and before all of you say "get another GPU" im just gonna say it does fine on a single 1080P Monitor and i might be abit restricted on the 1GB of ram per GPU tho..

Joseph DeGarmo · Jun 2, 2014

It will run on high settings at the most. You will need a GTX 780 Ti and i7-4930k to run the game smoothly on ultra settings.

citroones · Jun 2, 2014

Now, that is not correct a 780TI is not what i "have" to get i could get a 290 and a Fx 8150 if i wanted to, but i do realise that the game is better optimized for Nvidia

Immaculate · Jun 2, 2014

@ HIGH settings - http://www.techspot.com/review/827-watch-dogs-benchmarks/page4.html

@ Ultra - http://www.techspot.com/review/827-watch-dogs-benchmarks/page3.html

CPU Benches - http://www.techspot.com/review/827-watch-dogs-benchmarks/page5.html

No you dont need Ivy-E or a 780Ti...

770 is a good choice. I would even be satisfied with the 45fps of the GTX 760. I would look into the 4GB variants as the game suggests 3GB VRAM on Ultra. But you would never get those fps with those cards with the CPU that you have.
If I were to take a guess I would think more like medium settings.
the 6970 gets just 35fps on HIGH and thats with 2GB VRAM and an i7-4770K.

citroones · Jun 2, 2014

Immaculate :

sad but true, this is my 3rd graphic card tho, i actually had a 6970 before, it broke so i got a gtx 660 and then this guy came and wanted to trade his 5970 for my 660 seemed like a good idea, but hell im very limited by the 1gb frame buffer i have atm

Immaculate · Jun 2, 2014

just stick it out for Maxwell. Watch_Dogs .. as cool as the gameplay is, still doesn't quite deliver on the amazing graphics it was hyped to be. The car models are horrible. I wouldn't upgrade for a single game. The game looks much better at night than the day screen shots I looked at. still doesn't make up for the car models though.

citroones · Jun 2, 2014

Immaculate :

True that, and yes the car models are really horrible
the gameplay is cool somehow but really it isnt the game it was hyped to be
i can play everything but Watch dogs, oh and ye thx for the help and response

Kari · Jun 2, 2014

citroones :

keep your eye on the vram usage, I'm running the game on 1gig card as well and even when everything is set to low with medium textures the game will run out of vram after a hour or 2 (3 if you're lucky) and starts to stutter like crazy. It'll run fine at 36-48fps to begin with, but once it starts to trash the main memory it becomes pretty much unplayable. Sort of annoying if it happens during a long mission...

Joseph DeGarmo · Jun 2, 2014

The game needs 3 GB VRAM to run smoothly on ultra textures and maxed settings. That's why a video card like a GTX 780 Ti is needed. And yes, this game is very CPU-demanding, hence the need for more than four cores.

Immaculate · Jun 3, 2014

Why you unselect my answer Joe?
There really isn't a need for MOAR CORES! The 4670K @stock clocks and half the cores beats an 8350 @4.0GHz. A 780Ti is not NEEDED, they developed the game on 670s, a 4GB 770 is a much better price/performance card than a 780Ti.

pizdablan · Jun 3, 2014

citroones :

it will work if they decide to fix the crossfire issue not being utilized correctly, i use the same card textures on medium and everything else on ultra except shadows on high.
game runs smoothly, once they fix the crossfire issue the 2GB could be utilized so you will be able to switch to high on textures.

Kari · Jun 3, 2014

pizdablan :

Vram doesnt add up in crossfire/sli...

Immaculate · Jun 3, 2014

This thread is fail... at least we tried Kari..

citroones · Jun 4, 2014

Immaculate :

you did try, and it did help me out so thx =P

Immaculate · Jun 4, 2014

@citroones.. I know, you got the information you needed.. its the people that came in suggesting that SLI/CFX VRAM stacks...unselecting answers..saying $550 CPUs and $700 GPUs are needed..MOAR CORES!!..

citroones · Jun 4, 2014

Immaculate :

Indeed, i got the information i needed i just dont get why people have to argue with each other, and some even write stuff they dont know about..
Ofc everyone can make a mistake now and again, but well people should be nice i suppose, and once again thx for the help i got every bit of info i needed. Better wait for Maxwell!
Have a good one

CGurrell · Jun 4, 2014

If i can add my 2 cents, I have an r9 280x (full specs in my sig) and managed to run on mostly ultra settings with a few things turned down, constantly got 60+ fps. I'm sure once the game is optimised for AMD as well as nvidia then the performance on AMD cards will match nvidias offerings

You'll probably be happy with a GTX 760 or maybe even an r9 270x if you want to try and save a little, but I would definitely recommend the 280x. not met a game i couldn't run at 1080p 60+ fps on ultra (unless you count watchdogs because i turned shadow textures down to high...)

citroones · Jun 5, 2014

CGurrell :

the 280x is enough im well aware, and the AMD support should get better but for now i´ll wait for maxwell my 5970 got plenty of power for everything else but watch dogs (shame on you ubisoft!) i cant utilize crossfire, so my 2 5870 chips cant run both at the same time and im stuck with one

I had the same problem with Titanfall but that got solved quite fast, so i hope they will with Watch Dogs aswell!

Btw, a 5970 is almost the same perfomance as a 7970 i just lack the Vram and the 7970 is a 280x

pizdablan · Jun 8, 2014

Kari :

why you say such evil stuff?

Kari · Jun 8, 2014

pizdablan :

because that's how it works.
Each card has the same stuff in their vram.

Immaculate · Jun 8, 2014

Kind of how Titan Z has "12GB VRAM" its really just 2 chips hooked up to 6GB Vram. Each gpu can only access 6GB frame buffer. Same with multi card setups, if you have two 2GB cards in SLI its still only a total of 2GB. NOT 4GB, the memory is not shared.

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