Is Boston really choppy for anyone else?
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Nov 25, 2012 3:18 am GMT
Played through for a bit, and the Opera House and the boat were quite smooth, but as soon as I got into Boston, my FPS took a huge hit. Anyone else have this issue?
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Nov 25, 2012 5:01 am GMT
No, I just have a single HD 6970.
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Nov 25, 2012 5:18 am GMT
It is for me, Yeah. I suspect it is just the city bits because I don't have much trouble in the Frontier or even in the Homestead.
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Nov 25, 2012 6:48 pm GMT
From: fi3rcedragon | #003No, I just have a single HD 6970.
godda be a driver issue then. using only one of my older GTX480's on max stays above 35fps
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Yes, fps nose dived. Went from 60 fps on ship to 20 fps in Boston... ><
And I just got done playing Revelations a few weeks ago and that game ran great with basically the same graphics so wtf. How could Ubisoft drop the ball like this?
Dec 6, 2012 5:10 pm GMT
Also I noticed if I fight at the edge of the docks looking towards the ocean in Boston I still get 60 fps, turn camera towards town and instant drop to 20 fps. It's highly depressing. The entire Assassin's Creed 2 trilogy ran beautifully on my rig too.
Dec 6, 2012 6:19 pm GMT
The game is poorly CPU optimized, it's about 80% CPU and 20% GPU, when it should make more use of the graphic card. I don't have a very powerful rig but the last 3 games ran perfectly in high and mid settings, and other modern games ran flawlessly. Also the game rendering everything beyond the horizon inmediatly but not as you advance saturates the CPU.
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Dec 6, 2012 9:38 pm GMT
My problems only start at Boston and New York too. Frontier, Homestead and etc run pretty good to me.
I think must be all the npcs on the cities. The cities in AC3 have almost triple more people than the cities of the older games.
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Dec 7, 2012 10:33 am GMT
I was about to come and ask the same thing. So, it's normal for Boston to have drops into the 40s, 30s and even 20s?
I'm on one GTX 580 after having had to take one out. I was happy I got 60fps at the start of the game, and on the boat (with shadows on High). But as soon as I reached Boston, bam, 40fps for the most part with drops into 20fps.
If this is normal though, I'll not worry as much. I'm only concerned because I have had so many issues recently with one of my cards (or possibly both) I'm not sure what is or isn't normal any more.
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Dec 8, 2012 8:19 am GMT
It's not choppy for me, but only if I keep the Environmental Details on High and the rest on max at 1080p. I get around 40 FPS with that, which is just fine for me. It seems to be using only one core of my i3-2120 fully, but the GPU usage maxes out. (560ti oc'ed to 940/1880/2180)
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Dec 8, 2012 1:54 pm GMT
narutoblast103 posted...It's not choppy for me, but only if I keep the Environmental Details on High and the rest on max at 1080p. I get around 40 FPS with that, which is just fine for me. It seems to be using only one core of my i3-2120 fully, but the GPU usage maxes out. (560ti oc'ed to 940/1880/2180)
I just realized that myself. I turned down the details and it runs not perfect, but better than it did before. I still get some drops, but I was getting some horrible drops when I reached the Frontier, and that was my only solution. Seeing as it has made Boston bearable, I'm happy for now.
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It's a lazy port plain and simple. Modern PC hardware shouldn't have trouble running a game that was designed to run on 8 year old consoles.
Dec 15, 2012 9:27 pm GMT
dark trunks posted...narutoblast103 posted...
It's not choppy for me, but only if I keep the Environmental Details on High and the rest on max at 1080p. I get around 40 FPS with that, which is just fine for me. It seems to be using only one core of my i3-2120 fully, but the GPU usage maxes out. (560ti oc'ed to 940/1880/2180)
I just realized that myself. I turned down the details and it runs not perfect, but better than it did before. I still get some drops, but I was getting some horrible drops when I reached the Frontier, and that was my only solution. Seeing as it has made Boston bearable, I'm happy for now.
Glad I could help. I'm sure I could get better FPS too, if only I could somehow get the game to properly use the cores. In a world where almost
everyone has a multi-core CPU, and GPUs 10x better than console hardware, it's a horrendous failure to not be able to run on the best settings and properly utilise the power of the hardware we have.
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Dec 17, 2012 7:13 pm GMT
Was really choppy for me too at first, updated nvidia drivers and it's pretty smooth now.
running on laptop with i7 @ 2.00GHz and GT 540M
Dec 19, 2012 6:08 am GMT
This game is poorly optimized in general. The previous games ran smoothly and I only get about 25-30 fps tops in this one. My hardware didn't change.
Dec 19, 2012 10:51 am GMT
It has to be CPU related. I have a 7950 which is way more than enough to run a game on this graphical level. My processor however is a phenom ii 940 and in boston my FPS chug into the 20's regularly regardless of how low/high the graphic settings are.
Really just feels like a bad port job, which is strange considering how well done the ACII trilogy was on PC. Also I remember alot of talk from the devs about how great this PC version would be compared to consoles.
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Dec 19, 2012 5:09 pm GMT
It is not your card, it is not your computer, its the games poor optimisation!! goto youtube and search for Assasins Creed 3 FPS fix. There is a video there that will tell you how to fix the horrible game lag of this poor port.
I have a high end computer and everytime it snowed i couldnt move cause of the lag, after applying this fix i can no play the game seemlesly at 60 frames per second.
Dec 20, 2012 4:19 am GMT
VipeyBunny posted...Was really choppy for me too at first, updated nvidia drivers and it's pretty smooth now.
running on laptop with i7 @ 2.00GHz and GT 540M
Could you tell me which drivers you have exactly? Thanks.
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Dec 31, 2012 6:19 pm GMT
Game runs like crap CPU wise. TUrn environmental quality to normal, I got a good 20 FPS or so out of it on my desktop....my laptop still runs badly tho....I just benchmarked boston at 16-18 FPS there.
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