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Assassin's Creed III low FPS

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Game is definitely not optimized!

I rage when I saw the fps drop to the mid 30's
when I entered Boston.

Gpu usage went from 95+% to 20%-50% and spiked like crazy...

My specs:
i7-980x@ 4.3 GHz
Corsair Vengenence 12GB DDR3
ASUS P6X58D Premium
Ultra X4 1200W PSU
EVGA GeForce GTX690 4096MB GDDR5 512bit x2 ( Quad Sli Enabled)
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my guess its the nvidia drivers. i managed to max everything out on my aging pc and i get 30+ minimum in boston... here has been the odd droop when a set piece loads like eagle vision from a view point but genrally running about the game is silky smooth...
i would say if your not playing blops 2 then switch back to none beta drivers and see if your fps picks up. beta drivers tend to have game specific updates in them that can reduce performance on other titles.

I'm having poor performance as well, on the ship I would get constant microstuttering, 60fps down to 10 fps for a split second, but when I reached boston the framerate would go as low as 15 fps, crossfire doesn't work either, I even tried to force alternate frame rendering but the second card did nothing. What surprised me is that even with that horrible framerate my GPU was only at 20% load.

My specs:
i7 2600K
16GB RAM
2x HD6970 2GB.

Ubisoft really Sucks the game was released for the xbox and PS about 20 dayz later and the game was bugged and they released the PC version which i thought it's gonna be fine and it also have bugs not only the low FPS i also can't hear any of the voicechats between the characters so i can't figure out what i'm doing in the game :) 

Sandouby_96 said:
guys i've an gtx 660 it runs great with all new games (BF3, Crysis 2 , Metro ) and it gives more than about 60 FPS when playing BF3 on Ultra but when i tested assassin's creed III the results were terrible i cant exceed the 25 FPS even if i made the game run on Mid Settings .
PS I'm using the new driver 310.54 Beta !!!!


Be lucky i cant even get 5 fps, like literally. I would be happy to have 25fps

specs:
Intel Celeron cpu 450 @2.20GHz 2.19 GHz
2gb ram
Intel g41 chipset

I'm getting 55-60fps in boston on max settings (except shadow is only on high) @ 1680x1050. However once I was out of Boston into the forest area with lots of trees and shadow details, my FPS went down to the high 30s/low 40s.

I think the optimization for this game was a lot better than AC:Revelations, I couldn't even hit 50fps while standing on a rooftop in that one.

just started playing it and yeah for about 5 mins at the start of a new fame there is a small stutter every few seconds. it does smooth out on my 5870 which i managed to run the game at max 1920/1080 turning the shadows down a bit does help or you can run the game on normal settings rather than high or ultra... still looks pretty good at them settings also.

I play all assasin creed games, on pc. It suck on the first 2 weeks, so many bug and glitches, it normal it think for this game, just wait around 1 more weeks, i read it somewhere a big patch gonna release, hope it will help u and me at the same time.

But i can gurantee there will be something missing on the patch and only will be resolve on the 2-3 patch.

AT LAST FOUND A WAY TO FIX LOW FPS IN BOSTON AND FRONTIER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


[FONT=Comic Sans MS]I have a amd 4500m apu with 7640g(apu)+7670m(discrete) dual graphics.........
i was frustated earlier with the game performance and found out it was not only me....

So now either the game is perfectly fine after sequence 4....just before connor is handed over his uniform OR
this works

try this trick if you can....................

disable dual graphics mode from amd driver and run only on APU......just that

with dual graphics enabled my specs. from gpuz
7670m(discrete) max load=60%
7640g(apu) max load=90%

after dual graphics disabled
7670m(discrete) max load=94%
7640g max load=95%

please let everybody know if this works 4 u..........i am amazingly happy now:cool:[/FONT] :bounce:  :love:  :p  :p 

AT LAST FOUND A WAY TO FIX LOW FPS IN BOSTON AND FRONTIER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


[FONT=Comic Sans MS]I have a amd 4500m apu with 7640g(apu)+7670m(discrete) dual graphics.........
i was frustated earlier with the game performance and found out it was not only me....

So now either the game is perfectly fine after sequence 4....just before connor is handed over his uniform OR
this works

try this trick if you can....................

disable dual graphics mode from amd driver and run only on APU......just that

with dual graphics enabled my specs. from gpuz
7670m(discrete) max load=60%
7640g(apu) max load=90%

after dual graphics disabled
7670m(discrete) max load=94%
7640g max load=95%

please let everybody know if this works 4 u..........i am amazingly happy now:cool:[/FONT] :bounce:  :love:  :p  :p 
Anonymous

This should help a bit but it still won't be perfect:

Right click on AC3SP then go to properties > compatibility then tick the "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" box. That should take you from 25 fps to around 40 fps (it did for me anyway).

But yeah like the others have said I hope they patch it soon too. :) 

u can also turn vsync off and and use everything in normal...gave me steady 28-30 fps..game doesn't look great..but atleast u can play it without all the lag....change vsync value to "0" in .ini file...it can be found here..

C:\Users\Username\Documents\Assassin's Creed III

change the setting to read only after that cause the game will turn it back on if u don't make it read only

This problem has nothing to do with GPU i think. My gpu load dropped to 20% in Boston city area. I also checked cpu load and this is the problem. The first core has 100% load, the second and third +-40% load and the 4th only 10% load.

Also at 3.4 Ghz i only get about 15fps, but when i overclock to 4.5 Ghz i get 30 fps. So the problem is definitely CPU related. Seems like this game was not tested very much on pc... Petty because it looks rather good.

Hello tomshardware guys.Im just registred to this great forum.Hope i have good moments here with you gentlemans. :) 
BTW i think it comes from the extreme cpu-intensive nature of this game.In boston we see thousand of people and gaurds and ets.All these things consumes cpu power.I always have 99% gpu usage in games but in this one it never comes beyond 85%.In the other hands all cores of my cpu are +95%.in boston the frame goes less than 30 (to 29-28) which is a pain in the backdoor for me.i always managed to play games at 30 FPS.BTW Take a look at this video of my gameplay if you interest:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5pkqWP10pA&feature=yout...

All the best
Sina

Your CPU is quad core. Which means you get 2806 score per core. i3 is dual core, that means 5324 score per core. Now take into account the fact that most games don't use more than 2 cores and you'll realize why AMD CPUs are bad for gaming.

Sunius said:
Your CPU is quad core. Which means you get 2806 score per core. i3 is dual core, that means 5324 score per core. Now take into account the fact that most games don't use more than 2 cores and you'll realize why AMD CPUs are bad for gaming.


LOL.Even the 4 years old Prototype used 4 cores.So how u tell that most games dont use more than 2 cores?Please name those games.
Plus i3 is dual but has 4 threades.

Having 4 threads is irrelevant. The two games that use 4 cores are Battlefield 3 and GTA 4. Rest of them use just 2 cores mostly.

Take skyrim for example: a game that is most often limited by the CPU.



It doesn't scale with more cores. However, when you make those 2 cores faster:



And that is the reason AMD CPUs suck for gaming.

You are a real looser for just saying things like that, and i'll tell you why:

A game doesn't work with hardware, but with software; so no use talking about cores. Let's talk about threads.

For a Intel Dual Core you have 4 threads.
Same for AMD Quad Core, 4 threads.

That is so demonstrating how bad your arg was there. That is NOT the reason why you can say "AMD GAMING BAD"

Nor will you say "AMD is soooo bad that Intel Dual Core equals Amd Quad" since even if that is the case for game, the two cores of Intel CPU and the four cores of Amd CPU take the same place on a motherboard.

Things change for software other than games, heavily threaded, giving advantage to AMD's choice, but that's not the subject here.

What you CAN say for sure is "INTEL HAS BETTER HIGHEND CPU THAN AMD". Well yeah, you can say that, and they are so expensive and meaningless for playing because AMD cpu's are already more than enough.

Yeah guys, if you don't have a 40" screen, you'll be able to play to nearly everything with any cpu (dual, quad, intel, amd..) having a decent GPU, which is doing way more work in your game than your cpu really does.

This topic is not about a CPU low performance but about a GPU low performance.

You know why? Because when a game is published, they doesn't publish a CPU DRIVER in order to resolve bugs and low fps issues... but GPU DRIVER.

So instead of trolling your "hello look my stats which are showing that my cpus are soo better than yours" which btw doesn't help anyone in something called a TOPIC where the aim is to provide HELP to each other, you can start a new life: start by learning more about what you're talking about, and focus on the subject. And DO NOT follow others when you see that it doesn't stack anything good on a subject..


Anyway, I got something for low FPS on AMD's side:

There's a serious problem with CrossFireX for this game, meaning your fps won't fly high 'til you set off your dual gpu. I'm using only a discret card and it's working a lot more (even if it's not beautiful.)

Not a driver issue, more a CAP issue or a game issue i think.

For others, just wait for a patch from Ubisoft.

Good luck anyone.

Kynn said:
You are a real looser for just saying things like that, and i'll tell you why:

A game doesn't work with hardware, but with software; so no use talking about cores. Let's talk about threads.

For a Intel Dual Core you have 4 threads.
Same for AMD Quad Core, 4 threads.

That is so demonstrating how bad your arg was there. That is NOT the reason why you can say "AMD GAMING BAD"

Nor will you say "AMD is soooo bad that Intel Dual Core equals Amd Quad" since even if that is the case for game, the two cores of Intel CPU and the four cores of Amd CPU take the same place on a motherboard.

Things change for software other than games, heavily threaded, giving advantage to AMD's choice, but that's not the subject here.

What you CAN say for sure is "INTEL HAS BETTER HIGHEND CPU THAN AMD". Well yeah, you can say that, and they are so expensive and meaningless for playing because AMD cpu's are already more than enough.

Yeah guys, if you don't have a 40" screen, you'll be able to play to nearly everything with any cpu (dual, quad, intel, amd..) having a decent GPU, which is doing way more work in your game than your cpu really does.

This topic is not about a CPU low performance but about a GPU low performance.

You know why? Because when a game is published, they doesn't publish a CPU DRIVER in order to resolve bugs and low fps issues... but GPU DRIVER.

So instead of trolling your "hello look my stats which are showing that my cpus are soo better than yours" which btw doesn't help anyone in something called a TOPIC where the aim is to provide HELP to each other, you can start a new life: start by learning more about what you're talking about, and focus on the subject. And DO NOT follow others when you see that it doesn't stack anything good on a subject..


Anyway, I got something for low FPS on AMD's side:

There's a serious problem with CrossFireX for this game, meaning your fps won't fly high 'til you set off your dual gpu. I'm using only a discret card and it's working a lot more (even if it's not beautiful.)

Not a driver issue, more a CAP issue or a game issue i think.

For others, just wait for a patch from Ubisoft.

Good luck anyone.


I completely agree with the crossfire problem. Before I had 2 5870 x-fired while trying to playing this game and my fps would drop to around 10-15 while in the forest. Now with x-fire disabled and only running 1 5870 my fps is around 40-50. Huge improvement.

Kynn said:
You are a real looser for just saying things like that, and i'll tell you why:

A game doesn't work with hardware, but with software; so no use talking about cores. Let's talk about threads.

For a Intel Dual Core you have 4 threads.
Same for AMD Quad Core, 4 threads.

That is so demonstrating how bad your arg was there. That is NOT the reason why you can say "AMD GAMING BAD"

Nor will you say "AMD is soooo bad that Intel Dual Core equals Amd Quad" since even if that is the case for game, the two cores of Intel CPU and the four cores of Amd CPU take the same place on a motherboard.

Things change for software other than games, heavily threaded, giving advantage to AMD's choice, but that's not the subject here.

What you CAN say for sure is "INTEL HAS BETTER HIGHEND CPU THAN AMD". Well yeah, you can say that, and they are so expensive and meaningless for playing because AMD cpu's are already more than enough.

Yeah guys, if you don't have a 40" screen, you'll be able to play to nearly everything with any cpu (dual, quad, intel, amd..) having a decent GPU, which is doing way more work in your game than your cpu really does.

This topic is not about a CPU low performance but about a GPU low performance.

You know why? Because when a game is published, they doesn't publish a CPU DRIVER in order to resolve bugs and low fps issues... but GPU DRIVER.

So instead of trolling your "hello look my stats which are showing that my cpus are soo better than yours" which btw doesn't help anyone in something called a TOPIC where the aim is to provide HELP to each other, you can start a new life: start by learning more about what you're talking about, and focus on the subject. And DO NOT follow others when you see that it doesn't stack anything good on a subject..


Anyway, I got something for low FPS on AMD's side:

There's a serious problem with CrossFireX for this game, meaning your fps won't fly high 'til you set off your dual gpu. I'm using only a discret card and it's working a lot more (even if it's not beautiful.)

Not a driver issue, more a CAP issue or a game issue i think.

For others, just wait for a patch from Ubisoft.

Good luck anyone.


Are you kidding? Your post is littered with blatant lies. "A game doesn't work with hardware, but with software." What is that even supposed to mean? Obviously performance depends on hardware. A core is completely different from a thread. You don't know what you are talking about.

batman2 said:
Game is definitely not optimized!

I rage when I saw the fps drop to the mid 30's
when I entered Boston.

Gpu usage went from 95+% to 20%-50% and spiked like crazy...

My specs:
i7-980x@ 4.3 GHz
Corsair Vengenence 12GB DDR3
ASUS P6X58D Premium
Ultra X4 1200W PSU
EVGA GeForce GTX690 4096MB GDDR5 512bit x2 ( Quad Sli Enabled)


Your info is useful. Mine gpu usage goes to 20% too in boston. I thought its a cpu bottleneck. Can you post opera house gpu usage? Or anybody?
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