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Read more.Nvidia improves Watch Dogs frame rates by up to 75 per cent, AMD a more sober 28 per cent.
Does nvidia's 75% performance boost actually mean that performance was terrible on old drivers, and now it's just acceptable?
Pleasantly surprised by this game so far. As often happens with Ubisoft games, the auto-configurator is extremely conservative. Unless you're desperate to conserve every frame-per-second you possibly can, you can push the settings higher on virtually every aspect of the display options without any noticeable problem, even on a recent but low level card like mine.
It looked as though there wasn't much difference between med and ultra in a recent pre-release YouTube video, but in practice you definitely will see a pretty significant difference. Ultra doesn't give you a supremely beautiful game, but it's a very well realised and likeable world. It's a collection of nice touches rather than a game that you'll desperately want to show off to people to prove your PC is great.
More importantly than all that, the gameplay is a lot of fun so far, and there are tons of things to do. I'm advancing the story very slowly due to doing so many side missions.
Might still not be acceptable - increasing from 1fps to 2fps would be a 100% boost, but still terribleOriginally Posted by scaryjim
Does nvidia's 75% performance boost actually mean that performance was terrible on old drivers, and now it's just acceptable?
There was definitely something weird going on. Guru3d published an article that attempted to show performance on various hardware, but they kept getting wildly different results for repeat runs using the exact same sequence. There's no support for dual GPUs, as far as I know.Does nvidia's 75% performance boost actually mean that performance was terrible on old drivers, and now it's just acceptable?
I don't know if there was a patch last night, but something seemed to be changed. I had one crash that dropped me out of the game, and I asked UPlay to verify the files. It did that, reported some problems and downloaded quite a bit of new data. Since then it's had no problems at all, so maybe I received some kind of update in the process of it repairing my install.
I think this is going to be another case like Assassin's Creed, where people with 780Tis are furious that their top tier cards are getting merely above average performance, while owners of low level cards like myself are over the moon that they seem to be able to push the settings quite high without any noticeable impact on performance. The same kind of thing happened with Black Flag recently. Either way, it's a nice game. I tend to look at this kind of release as a means for me to play console games at a higher quality and for less money, so I don't get angry about not being able to achieve 60+fps.
Along with Catalyst 14.6 Beta is that they are dropping support for Windows 8.
What? No they're not.
Un-updated 8.0 is being supported until early 2016, beyond that you need to update to 8.1 or higher.
Last edited by kalniel; 27-05-2014 at 11:18 AM.
It seems Watch Dogs is a Gameworks Title.
Performance with latest driver updates:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasoneva...ing-ecosystem/
It seems a GTX770 performs quite well when compared to the R9 290.
Last edited by CAT-THE-FIFTH; 27-05-2014 at 11:32 AM.
AMD are dropping support for Windows 8, http://www.anandtech.com/show/8058/a...tionality-more
At the end of the page it says...
Finally, AMD has also included a note that Windows 8.0 users will want to pay attention to. AMD is dropping support for Microsoft’s non-updated version of Windows 8 early; while Microsoft will be supporting Windows 8.0 until early 2016, AMD has ceased support for it as of Catalyst 14.6. Realistically speaking we expect that AMD’s drivers will still work if forced, but officially AMD no longer supports the OS and has removed the NT6.2 entries from their INF files.
Oh got you, I misread about MS. Yes, so you should patch to 8.1 if you want AMD driver support.
Some nice little boosts. Every time a new driver comes out I always (cynically) think "What were you doing before that has allowed you to miss this potential of performance?"
Shocking isn't it, that a hardware vendor wants you to install the last-but-one free update to your OS if you want to use their latest driver...
Well it does seem a bit odd (imho) Does 8.1 change the underlying bit's 'n' bob's that much that they need to drop support for 8.
After all, according to stats 8 has more users than 8.1 for some reason.
And fewer than Windows 7 I presume?
Simple reason is it's been out much longer. People aren't forced to upgrade to 8.1, so you'll find people still on the older version. How many gamers there are who would update their GPU drivers but not their OS I don't know, but presumably it's not enough for AMD to worry about.
I think it's more likely that a lot of OS security and functional updates aren't available to 8.0 users. AMD undoubtedly don't want to have to run Win 8.0 AND Win 8.1 validation platforms to test against. There's no good reason for anyone with Win 8 not to be updated to 8.1 (+ update 1, tbh). Plus there's the DX 11.2 update that's a Win 8.1 exclusive - that might have some bearing.
That didn't occur to mebut the DX thing explains a lot.
TBH i think Microsoft made a mistake by not pushing 8.1 via Windows update.
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