[Multiple Sites] Watch Dogs GPU benchmark roundup

[2is]

I tried to run watch Dogs today after finding 30 minutes of free time.

I tried 7680x1440 but it seems that the game doesn't support eyefinity out of the box and there is currently no fix yet to fix the FOV and HUD. Widescreen Fixer or Flawless Widescreen don't have a fix yet.

So I decided to give it a try on my middle monitor, which is the Samsung 4k U28D590D. I tried Ultra settings with MSAA and MSAA is totally broken on 14.6 Beta and watch Dogs. It was a total slideshow... like 2 fps.

I found out that FXAA does a pretty good job without hammering too much on the performance.

I get around 60fps with my current config

• i7 4930k @ 4.5 Ghz
• Corsair Dominator GT 2133 Mhz 9-11-10-27
• Crucial M4 SSD
• Quad R9 290x (Stock 1000/1250)
• Everything is watercooled and nothing is throttling

When I go to an open area I see big FPS dips. I don't feel that the today's games are optimized for PCs. It is very frustrating to have good hardware and not to be able to run everything maxed out. In 2008, my BFG Tech 8800GTX OC 2 was running every games I wanted

I will have more time maybe tomorrow to test thouroughly but I bought new toys that I need to test today.

One of them is:

Games haven't been optimized for PC for years, not just today's games. Sad but true. That said, I still see light at the end of the tunnel. Watch Dogs was developed to work on last gen, current gen, and PC's. I think once dev's stop developing new games for PS3/360 we will get better looking games as well as better optimized games since the current gen consoles share a lot of similarities with PC's. DX12 should be coming out late next hear which will help with the API overhead a great deal, so that's another thing to look forward to.

 

[f1sherman]

I've been monitoring that thread, and so far, I still don't see anything different about the mod other than an excessive contrast ratio..

It's still vanilla ultra.

Me too, and I know what you mean. But you are wrong.
There's at least one big difference between this and retail ultra

:whiste:

 

[f1sherman]

One that should be clear enough just from that screenie

 

[toyota]

One that should be clear enough just from that screenie

and it should be clear enough that there is an edit button too and no need for back to back posts just to finish your thought... :whiste:

 

[f1sherman]

wow... you wasted more b/w telling me that, than I have by not following your posting guidelines

 

[PC_gamer5150]

is there anyone else that has been playing this game without issue?
I have? I got a free copy from evga for buying a 700 series card
and for the last 4 days have been playing ED and i am not experiencing any problems?
I have everything set to ultra or the highest setting except i use temporal AA
and add FXAA in my NVCP.
I also clamp the LOD bios.
this lets me play without any problems?
did they patch the game?

 

[tential]

WiP: Watch Dogs Kadzait24 XML Full MOD 1.0 - Check out real Ultra Graphics

The best part about the gaming community is even if a release is messed up, with enough work, we'll be able to fix it.

Which is sadly what I think people who make these games think.

 

[Enigmoid]

WiP: Watch Dogs Kadzait24 XML Full MOD 1.0 - Check out real Ultra Graphics

Like most games watchdogs has its ups and downs. The water in that shot is pretty amazing. However, I notice that the character models are pretty low quality. The vegetation could easily be improved as well.

 

[PC_gamer5150]

Like most games watchdogs has its ups and downs. The water in that shot is pretty amazing. However, I notice that the character models are pretty low quality. The vegetation could easily be improved as well.

IMHO even though the game needs a patch for optimization
i think they did a amazing job on the graphics.
I went and did some exploring in the map and found a boat called a taxi
and drove that out to sea at night time and made a right turn so that the whole city was now in sight and WOW!
looks really great! much better than BF4's city line.