Watchdogs Performance

LtMatt · 24 May 2014 at 22:05

Looks like GameWorks title Watchdogs has gimped performance on AMD cards according to someone who is undertaking benchmarks. Cheers Ubisoft and/or Nvidia. (whoever is at fault)

Heisenberg · 24 May 2014 at 22:12

Hope it gets fixed ASAP. Not really acceptable with so many people these days running crossfire setups.

Martini1991 · 24 May 2014 at 22:16

Crossfire doesn't work and gives negative scaling as far as I've heard.

Either way, I'm not optimistic.

setter · 24 May 2014 at 22:18

Probably needs a profile update, seen this happen before on sli with a few games.

andybird123 · 24 May 2014 at 22:19

LtMatt said:
I approve of this limiting though. Force them down to high settings lmao.

and on a more serious note - lots of AMD evolved titles shipped without working SLI profiles and other FPS crippling problems, don't see what the big deal is

JediFragger · 24 May 2014 at 22:20

Martini1991 said:
Crossfire doesn't work and gives negative scaling as far as I've heard.

Either way, I'm not optimistic.

LOL, to be expected with these 2 companies tbh

Martini1991 · 24 May 2014 at 22:24

Negative scaling in crossfire isn't that uncommon, especially for an unreleased game.

But I don't have high hopes of AMD gaining tons of performance, I was unaware of Nvidia's performance edge, but if it's severe in this, then there's definitely a problem this time around.

MyBrainz · 24 May 2014 at 22:28

Anything said about single AMD cards? Or is this just a crossfire issue?

Btw does anybody know if there is a benchmarking tool in this game?

Also a friend linked me earlier to somebody streaming the Xbox version on Twitch Tv.

pgi947 · 24 May 2014 at 22:29

Just got this, updating drivers then performance review on its way...

Looking in the settings the only GW feature present is TXAA and HBAO+, neither is selected by default.

No bench tool, at least not in my 'copy'

Jono8 · 24 May 2014 at 22:31

Too much vram on AMD cards.

arc@css · 24 May 2014 at 22:32

Jono8 said:
Too much vram on AMD cards.

MyBrainz · 24 May 2014 at 22:32

pgi947 said:
Just got this, updating drivers then performance review on its way...

Looking in the settings the only GW feature present is TXAA and HBAO+, neither is selected by default.

No bench tool, at least not in my 'copy'

Thats a shame but cheers

pgi947 · 24 May 2014 at 22:33

Soft VRAM limit is 3GB, thats for the higher textures/water detail, 8xmsaa only requires a minimum of 2GB!

setter · 24 May 2014 at 22:51

From a quick read through the watch dogs thread in pc games, it seems that sli isn't properly utilised either. One user reporting a max of 50% gpu usage on sli 780's.

pgi947 · 24 May 2014 at 22:54

337.81 on and sitting through the mahoosive intro, which is engine rendered, sitting at 135fps with 95%+ usage on each card. Screenies and in game figures to follow shortly.

LtMatt · 24 May 2014 at 23:06

Good news, hopefully.

Sgt_Pepper · 24 May 2014 at 23:06

So where does the Nvidia bit in the op come from :rolleyes:

shankly1985 · 24 May 2014 at 23:10

No buy from Me then. Hate ubisoft anyway ripped me off so much in past. Might get one back on them this time

Heisenberg · 24 May 2014 at 23:10

LtMatt said:
Good news, hopefully.

Fingers crossed. People don't really have much cause for complain with it not running right before release. If it's still not right after release, then we can shout from the roofs.

LtMatt · 24 May 2014 at 23:12

Heisenberg said:
Fingers crossed. People don't really have much cause for complain with it not running right before release. If it's still not right after release, then we can shout from the roofs.

Agreed. Felt it was worth posting about after reading his tweets in the OP though. Will see how it pans out. No smoking gun as yet.