Whassup with my settings??

ttaskmaster

ttaskmaster

ttaskmaster

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Heya,

I'm trying to play AC:IV - Black Flag, but am having some problems with the graphics settings...

Quick breakdown of the kit:
[email protected], running at 40% load in-game.
8GB 1866MHz RAM, running at 1/3rd capacity in-game.
Iiyama Prolite E2773HS, at 1920x1080
MSI 780 Lightning, no overclock. I have the latest Nvidia 780 drivers (v340.52).

Most games run just fine, even with everything maxed, but AC:IV is just weird.
While running around, I get framerate drops continually so that everything stutters. I also get these horizontal lines everywhere, the only way I can describe them is like the same effect Firefox has when you scroll down the page.

Have I missed something out, somewhere?

I've tried messing around with the graphics settings, but to no avail. I would have thought my 780 should run this game as smooth as silk, but hey-ho... These are what I currently have:

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[/url]AC4BFSP 2014-09-06 21-30-31-80 by ttaskmaster, on Flickr[/IMG]

What have I missed?
 
DOH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Managed to miss that one.

OK, that seems to have sorted the weird line thing.
I still get the occasional black jaggy and some stuttering when I run, but I assume that's the game lagging from loading off an HDD instead of my SSD?

I really should learn more about what all the settings do, at some point...
 
If you get tearing by scrolling on Firefox you can force v-sync on all the time in the nvidia control panel under 3D settings. The easiest way to tell if its a v-sync problem in Firefox is to load up a picture and zoom in to it so you have to scroll sideways to see all of it (or load a really big picture). If you scroll sideways it looks like the top part of the picture is lagging behind the bottom part, or vice versa, then you should be able to fix that by forcing v-sync on. Its what I do with chrome because I get terrible screen tear everywhere without vsync forced on
 
I had similair problems with this game too.

For me the best way to run this game was to disable V-Sync and download D3D overrider. Once installed enable V-Sync and Tripple Buffering then run the game with D3D Overrider open.

A slight annoyance, but boy did it make a difference to the smoothness of the game.
 
PHYSX has to be set to low or completely off to eliminate the stutter. It's basically broken in the game. Low works fine on my system.

Trust me, the stutter drove me mad as well until I found this out.
 
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