which is better. more treads or higher frequency ?

[Michaeljcox24]

I keep getting crashes in Assassin Creed Unity. Ubisoft have sais the 'acu.exe stopped working' crash is because peoples rigs dont meet the minimum system requirements.

I have a 2500K clocked to 4.5 under water. The recommended requirements are a 3370K, which as I understand it, is an I7.

So my question is, does it matter if its an I5 overclocked, or an I7. Would having less threads cause crashes? FPS is 55-60 on the 980 I bought over Xmas, but I still get the crashes

Do you think their excuse is a fob off? Should I swap the 2500K for an I7?

Thanks

 

[kaku]

It's BS for sure.

That's a generic Windows error message - it can be caused by almost anything. You need to dig in crash logs for more info.

 

[jambutty]

Ac unity is a truly dreadful PC port. Your CPU is more than fine for every other game.

You'll find you'll only get an improvement with an i7 if you play games like BF4 and Crysis 3, but even then minimal to say the least.

 

[Michaeljcox24]

Dont play either to be honest. Finshed crysis 3 last year.

 

[ghost.florian]

Blame it on the game. The CPU should not cause a visible decrease in FPS. Even a 970 SLI rig with a 4770k would not go above 60 FPS on Ultra settings.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/8738/benchmarked-assassins-creed-unity/2

Drivers and patches might have fixed some of the problems, but it's still de game's fault.

 

[james.miller]

game didnt crash once for me, lol

 

[wazza300]

it should be stable no matter what cpu you use

its either unstable oc or game/driver bug

 

[Ronald]

I have an i7 4790K/GTX 970, and ACU doesn't even go beyond the splash screen anymore with exactly that message.

It worked fine initially. Went as far as a complete reinstall of Windows, so I'm fairly sure it is a corrupted save game that I cannot find how to wipe from cloud. With only 3% progress, I don't particularly mind loosing it. Never crashed while it was running however!

Ubisoft support is not particularly quick either, so a .... poor impression of them so far...

 

[Michaeljcox24]

I've resolved the crashes by dropping the overclock down a bit on the 980's memory. It only showed up in a furmark stress test. Heaven, Valley, and 3D Mark Extreme were all rock solid stable.