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Watch dogs horrific fps

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September 7, 2014 2:17:10 AM

Hey guyss...im back with another question.....
I have a msi gtx 770 8gb ram and 4690 processor
im playing watch dogs at ultra, 1600x900 with txaax2 and txtures on high.
And im getting 37-42 fps...why is this happening? pls help me guyzzz..all other games work fine...

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September 7, 2014 2:26:28 AM

this game is badly optimized.. tweaking may help to gain fps
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September 7, 2014 2:27:57 AM

How is 37-42 horrific fps...its because its a demanding game and your running it basically on the maximum settings. 37-42 is very playable however if you want higher frames just turn down your graphics settings
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September 7, 2014 2:54:09 AM

1600 x 900 resolution is pretty low. You should run at the native resolution of your monitor as a starting point and then adjust other graphics settings.
37 FPS minimum is pretty good for a graphically intensive FPS games like this.
If you want higher FPS than this, drop your settings, particularly any anti-aliasing settings.
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September 13, 2014 8:20:40 AM

guyz.... but i have seen many ppl out there running it at max settings with the same gfx card.. and processor and getting minimum 40 fps at 1080p...my monitors resolution is 1600x900...and yea......i think i exaggerated the title too much. Hoewever i get drops to 2FPS!!!!! its crazy....when i turn around...it just drops down wayy to low!!!
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September 13, 2014 4:45:23 PM

Reduce the detail settings and see if it improves, if it does than the issue is your GPU, if it does not then it is other system performance (processor speed or having to read from disk when something that is required is not in memory).

Make sure you are running the latest drivers from the Nvidia website. You can be that they released a version optimised for this game after the games release.
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September 13, 2014 6:16:22 PM

As mentioned, the anti-aliasing takes out a lot of the fps, so don't set it too high (try MSAA 2x, it absolutely looks fine imo, and if the fps is still to low then SMAA). Also, maybe turn off Depth of Field too unless you really want it on.
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September 13, 2014 6:31:57 PM

Krishna1999 said:
guyz.... but i have seen many ppl out there running it at max settings with the same gfx card.. and processor and getting minimum 40 fps at 1080p...my monitors resolution is 1600x900...and yea......i think i exaggerated the title too much. Hoewever i get drops to 2FPS!!!!! its crazy....when i turn around...it just drops down wayy to low!!!


Lower textures to medium, settings to high, temporal SMAA that game requires a lot of vram.

Since you are playing at lower res, slowly start upgrading settings till you hit a sweet spot with fps.


http://hothardware.com/News/Optimization-Tips-And-Trick...
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September 13, 2014 6:55:27 PM

I wouldn't lower the textures to medium, the visual quality will drop quite a lot then - better tweak the anti-aliasing a bit and some less important settings like shadows.
Just don't put the textures on "ultra" :p 
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September 13, 2014 8:17:02 PM

All of the suggestions in the previous three posts are for a permanent reduction in image quality.
I suggest you reduce these initially to show it is the graphics card and then raise individual settings to see what you can use.

Here is a paragraph from the article linked above which suggests your GTX 770 with 2GB of VRAM will at best support High textures rather then ultra:
Ubisoft claims that Watch Dogs' "High" texture detail setting requires a 2GB frame buffer while its "Ultra" textures need 3GB of frame buffer memory. That might technically be true, but these figures should be treated as a minimum, not a max. Playing the game through with High Textures and "Ultra" details (the two settings are controlled separately), my system was dogged with repeated, jerky slowdowns when running a GeForce GTX 770. Switching to "High" Details improved the situation, but didn't resolve it.

This article is even better on tweaking the game, look at the section on textures:
http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/guides/watch-dogs-grap...

The drop in frame rates you are seeing is consistent with the game having to swap textures in and out of video memory.
I saw exactly the same thing in Skyrim with mods on a GTX 770 until I disabled MSAA.
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September 14, 2014 4:30:28 AM

all...this is okay....but two things still bug me
1) other gamers having the same stuff as mine are getting higher fps...one guy even with a 3570k had got more fps thatn me....
2) this sounds weird..but i had got more stable fps with ultra textures than with high txtures..
do u think the problem is with sumthing else...like should i unpark the cores of the cpu? or shud i oc it to 3.9? or do u jus think that the game requires i7?
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September 14, 2014 4:40:36 AM

Krishna1999 said:
all...this is okay....but two things still bug me
1) other gamers having the same stuff as mine are getting higher fps...one guy even with a 3570k had got more fps thatn me....
2) this sounds weird..but i had got more stable fps with ultra textures than with high txtures..
do u think the problem is with sumthing else...like should i unpark the cores of the cpu? or shud i oc it to 3.9? or do u jus think that the game requires i7?


I think this has nothing to do with your CPU at all. The CPU is more than fast enough.
The issue is your graphics card and the settings you have chosen.

Textures aren't the only thing that use video memory.
Select high textures.
For anti-aliasing, start with FXAA. I think you should be OK with temporal SMAA or TXAA. Do not use MSAA as TXAA is better and uses less resources on an Nvidia card.
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September 14, 2014 5:07:00 AM

ok..ill try that...but how is it that other ppl have a higher frame rate with better settings at a higher res of 1920x1080?? im jus curious....
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September 14, 2014 5:22:05 AM

Krishna1999 said:
ok..ill try that...but how is it that other ppl have a higher frame rate with better settings at a higher res of 1920x1080?? im jus curious....


All of the information on this game states that 3GB of VRAM is required for what you are trying to run.
We don't really know what graphics card your friends have or what settings they are using.
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