Watch Dogs - Ubisoft's Third Person Shooter

bradUK · 20 Jul 2014 at 11:52

Will do later mate, I'm on route to Dartmoor now :-)

Heisenberg · 20 Jul 2014 at 13:51

bradUK said:
There are no other issues. Latest stable drivers, fully stable standard clock speeds.

It doesn't look as good with the Ti.

I can't fathom how it could possibly make the game look worse. Frame rate changes or frame time changes, but surely not actually changing the appearance of the game.

arc@css · 20 Jul 2014 at 13:56

In recent years, I've found the IQ of both vendors to be pretty similar, though back in the old days I preferred ATi's more.

james.miller · 20 Jul 2014 at 14:11

I wouldnt assume its because hes bought an nVidia card, people have previously noted problems moving from 7950/7970s to 290s. Not IQ problems specifically but some people have found it to run no better or worse.

Skyfall said:
Upgraded to a 290 from 7970, every game's FPS increased by a nice margin except watchdogs, if anything performance seemed worse!

Now I see what everyone is so upset about.

opethdisciple · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:20

Any news on any new patches inbound?

Heisenberg · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:39

opethdisciple said:
Any news on any new patches inbound?

Doubt it. It's ubisoft after all. :mad:

bradUK · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:49

Firstly, I've been a helmet....

Had a few beers last night, autodetect spazzed out. Played it in "low" for about two hours..... I've just manually changed the settings and it looks ****ing sweet.

I love this card.......

james.miller · 20 Jul 2014 at 16:52

you donkey

bradUK · 20 Jul 2014 at 17:23

james.miller said:
you donkey

That's a fair assessment

arc@css · 20 Jul 2014 at 17:42

Muhahaha.

wunkley · 20 Jul 2014 at 17:47

All I can say is, everyone stop jumping on the ubisoft hate gravy train, get over to guru3d and try some of the latest mods.

It's one of the nicest looking games ever sometimes.

Heisenberg · 20 Jul 2014 at 21:14

Yeah it's great looking though i personally don't like the mods due to the bugs they bring (though i admit i haven't checked the newer ones as lost interest). Prefer a simple sweetfx preset. The Ubisoft hate from my part is that the game runs like ass

The1nonly1 · 21 Jul 2014 at 13:42

This game keeps crashing on me when i click on new game. I have tried repairing the game 4 times, turned off uplay overlay, turned off AA, all settings on medium even though i can run on high, tried windowed mode and it still wont load. Any ideas? I think i may have to uninstall and re download it.

trentlad · 22 Jul 2014 at 23:10

bradUK said:
honest confession

Good lad for being honest. He could have easily not posted anything.

wunkley said:
All I can say is, everyone stop jumping on the ubisoft hate gravy train, get over to guru3d and try some of the latest mods.

It's one of the nicest looking games ever sometimes.

I can't agree more. In fact, I'd honestly say my faith in The Division is completely restored due to how incredible this game looks and the actual content.

It's a seriously brilliant game but it's just such a shame it was released before being fully tested and ironed out.

Hodders · 23 Jul 2014 at 00:59

Really struggling with the gang 'takedown' side missions. Is stealth the preferred option, or is all guns blazing an option ?

ak22 · 23 Jul 2014 at 02:25

Hodders said:
Really struggling with the gang 'takedown' side missions. Is stealth the preferred option, or is all guns blazing an option ?

I used the stealth approach on most of the mission, try to spot all the gang members with CCTV camera etc before making your move.

CaNsA · 23 Jul 2014 at 02:27

wunkley said:
get over to guru3d and try some of the latest mods.

We shouldn't have to.

shamus21 · 23 Jul 2014 at 07:12

So is it worth buying this game yet or just give up and wait for it to turn up in the steam sales for a fiver.

wunkley · 23 Jul 2014 at 11:55

CaNsA said:
We shouldn't have to.

This is true. 3 or 4 geeky young lads have done the work that 300 or so paid professionals should have done. I've actually got into modding the game myself now too, it's become a bit of an obsession/ hobby! I now have a brilliant looking brilliant running game with zero stutter.

The groundwork was there for a very nice looking, enjoyable game. It just needed some tweaking.

Seems to me that ubisoft have the ability to make really great games, but they just **** it up slightly at the end

trentlad · 23 Jul 2014 at 16:12

Exactly, the code was already there so if ever there was a case of gaming politics then this would be it. I don't think the lads who discovered it figured out something the Ubisooft devs couldn't have done themselves.