Assassin's Creed IV- Black Flag

csin82 said:
Has anyone tried this on a CrossFire setup yet? It's an nVidia sponsored game and they've already released drivers with AC4 support but nothing from AMD yet.

I've got a 1440p monitor - 1 7970 will probably run the game at 30fps but I'd hate to get it now, complete it, only for AMD to add it to the CAP list a month or so down the line and suddenly find I could have run the game much better. Also wasting £250 worth of hardware annoys me :-)
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yup tried it on a r9 290 crossfire setup runs like pants the the minute
 
I'm enjoying it so far & it runs very well on my now outdated sytem, a GTX580 & Q6600 Quad, Window 7 64 bit, 6 gig Ram, it preset me all on max settings except god rays on low & so far it runs flawlessly although not far into the game & reached the first city where I've being running amok :p
 
Pighardia said:
LOTS of naval stuff. It is how you travel from island to island, and there have been quite a few battles so far as well. It is good, but I could see it becoming a chore by the end tbh. I am pretty sure the story hasn't really got going yet for me, it has been pretty dire so far. Nowhere near AC3 bad though!
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You can fast travel from place to place, but it's your main source of resources to upgrade the ship (and you need LOTS of metal) so it's worth travelling and sinking stuff "en route"

But yes, it does get repetative - you need to board the ships to get all their loot (sinking it only gets half) but there is NO challenge in this and very little variety.


I also find that 'taking cover' during combat is pointless - the damage mitigation from it isn't worth the fact that you can let off two volleys (or more) in the same time, so you may as well just sink them more quickly.
 
Will perhaps pick this up in the sales but from looking at videos and screens, why are people raving about the graphics? It doesn't look any better than the Witcher 2 ( in fact i would argue the Witcher 2 was better looking in some regards) and that came out 2 and a half years ago.

If these are "next gen" graphics i am sorely disappointed.
 
For next gen, I expected something earth shattering, but this is far from it. It's a very small leap from AC3.

Gameplay wise, once you get your own ship, things become a lot more fun. You become obsessed on building something to rival the QE2 and you forget about the fact underneath it all you are supposed to be an assassin.

I've seen a lot of lads say it's impossible to max out fully 60fps on anything less than a 780 Ti / 690, which considering how it looks, suggests the game is very poorly optimised.

You don't need huge amounts of VRAM at 1080p, I can get away with 1.5GB.

Not bad, but if we were all expecting next gen to be a huge leap, it's not.
 
Michaeljcox24 said:
For next gen, I expected something earth shattering, but this is far from it. It's a very small leap from AC3.

Gameplay wise, once you get your own ship, things become a lot more fun. You become obsessed on building something to rival the QE2 and you forget about the fact underneath it all you are supposed to be an assassin.

I've seen a lot of lads say it's impossible to max out fully 60fps on anything less than a 780 Ti / 690, which considering how it looks, suggests the game is very poorly optimised.

You don't need huge amounts of VRAM at 1080p, I can get away with 1.5GB.

Not bad, but if we were all expecting next gen to be a huge leap, it's not.
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Well, it is next gen for console owners I suppose, but all they are experiencing now is a normal PC game.. albeit at lower frame rates and at 1080p if they are lucky. :) Woohoo!

I've never thought the term "Next Gen" applies to PC's as they get incrementally quicker throughout the year..

Most of the issues I had with running the game at 60fps are fixed now just by using d3doverrider and enabling triple buffering. Silky smooth now.
 
Yeah, it's not great on my 770 either. Without vsync it's a mess and with it on and set to adaptive it may aswell be off as fps often drop into the 40s and 50s and in comes the tearing. I regret not getting it on the PS4 now.
 
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