VisceralBowl
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That is mighty cool. Can't wait to grab this on sale sometime soon.
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Watch_Dogs PC Performance Thread
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That is mighty cool. Can't wait to grab this on sale sometime soon.
Click for GIFs - by Dead Squallit -
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4840897&postcount=383
More in the link. F me sideways.
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4840897&postcount=383
More in the link. F me sideways.
flipswitch
Member
Are those shadow maps or stencil shadows from the car's headlights?
CyberPunked
Member
Here's a couple screenies using the mod:
It has also been reported to massively reduce stuttering. Remember this is still very early in development. Once he manages to unlock certain files, we will have access to all of e3 2012 shaders/effects.
It has also been reported to massively reduce stuttering. Remember this is still very early in development. Once he manages to unlock certain files, we will have access to all of e3 2012 shaders/effects.
Windom Earle
Member
With textures and shadows on high I was able to run the game without stuttering 99% of the time. Enabling those new effects might change that though. :/
edit: Would be great if the modder could improve things! (For shame Ubi)
CassidyIzABeast
Member
PC community doing the lord's work as usual.
Gareth Bale
Member
That sharpening is something they've applied after resampling the screenshots right?
Maybe you're talking about road texture shimmering. Stutter fix for the moment implies mess with mipmaps so a lot of shimmering will appear mainly in bump layer over roads.
By the way, dynamic bokeh dof minimizes a lot of that shimmering in the distance. I'm testing with ultra textures without mips for a lot of elements but creating new ultra textures with mips only for those more problematics textures so shimmering will be less visible. Only with that change, I can play with a lot of ultra textures without stutter in 2 gb gpu. TheWorse is doing more improvements that could be combined with those textures for a better experience.
By the way, his shaders improvements, at least for my case, don't affect performance for the worse. Instead, he's doing great optimizations using lower detail lod for distance in combination with dynamic DOF to hide those distant cuts. It's a good work.
MaLDo approved, now I'm excited.
Windom Earle
Member
Sounds amazing! I'll definitely check out the next release.
You guys should definitely check it out. While the DOF on foot is a tad aggressive for my taste, the lighting is just so much better. I mean, I was driving around just now and the lighting in the tunnels and in the downtown core is very much improved. Please do interject if you believe I'm imagining this, but I don't think I am.
cripterion
Member
Darkroronoa
Member
This is great, and now i am wondering what ubisoft is doing. Do they have a reason to have these locked/hidden?
Morphine_OD
Banned
This is amazing, daytime now actually looks good and headlight shadows are impressive.
finalflame
Banned
Really digging the changes, and with minimal performance hits on my 780 Ti @ 1440p. Stuttering even seems reduced. I think I'll bite the bullet and play it like this @ 1080p on my TV instead, should then be buttery.
Also hoping for an optimization patch from Ubi, though.
Also hoping for an optimization patch from Ubi, though.
Robert J. Sullivan
Member
what in the actual fuck ubisoft
Yeah I had something similar to this yesterday. Except everything was pink instead of red.
This game also constantly crashes my gpu. I have tried 14.4 and 14.6 beta drivers from AMD. 14.4 gives me bsod after 40 minutes and 14.6 crashes the game every 20 minutes. Switching on the air conditioner helps but it still crashes even when the pc isn't that hot... Just less often. Tried a driver reinstall and that did not help.
It is mind boggling how ubi has not released a patch after so long.
Edit: will try that mod later too. Does it affect performance?
Chance Hale
Member
What kind of performance are you getting? I have a ti and i53570k and it jumps around from the 30s-60s seemingly at random while driving around. Locking it to 30 isn't perfect either though because it then randomly drops down 27 every now and again :/ That is with Ultra/TXAA though
Is usually completely steady at 60 when indoors while on a mission.
I know some people never leave the confines of GAF or other communities but on Ubi's forums they say they have identified the problem and a fix is on its way regards to stuttering.
http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.ph...unplayable?p=10034755&viewfull=1#post10034755
There was another post by another mod in that thread saying they expected it by the end of last week but that seems to have been deleted. So it's back to watching and waiting.
Though from MaLDo's and the person over at Guru digging into this as well as what officially gets done fingers crossed this gets sorted soon.
http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.ph...unplayable?p=10034755&viewfull=1#post10034755
There was another post by another mod in that thread saying they expected it by the end of last week but that seems to have been deleted. So it's back to watching and waiting.
Though from MaLDo's and the person over at Guru digging into this as well as what officially gets done fingers crossed this gets sorted soon.
KaiserAlucard
Neo Member
Strange, for me the stuttering is much worse. Maybe because of my SLI?
FunkyLounge
Member
How did you get rid of that ever-present DoF?
Prophet Steve
Member
Turn off DoF in the game settings for now.
I'm just wondering cause they confirmed that a patch is in the works, https://twitter.com/SebViard/status/472036622171930624
Robert J. Sullivan
Member
kinda unrelated but is the patch ubi is working on going to fix mouse aiming ?
I can totally see why some of these graphical effects aren't normally in the game.
The headlight shadows are very obviously of a lower quality than the regular shadows. It's a pretty stark contrast, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's an "unfinished" effect. Also, the DoF is clearly not usable during regular gameplay. You can't see more than 10 meters in front of you, and the adaption to different distances it just slow as hell. I can't comment on the other effects because I honstely haven't noticed them yet.
Probably not. I obviously don't know for certain, but looking at past games it sounds highly unlikely. All Ubisoft games released in the past years has had negative mouse acceleration out the ass, and I can't remember it being fixed for any of them.
The headlight shadows are very obviously of a lower quality than the regular shadows. It's a pretty stark contrast, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's an "unfinished" effect. Also, the DoF is clearly not usable during regular gameplay. You can't see more than 10 meters in front of you, and the adaption to different distances it just slow as hell. I can't comment on the other effects because I honstely haven't noticed them yet.
Probably not. I obviously don't know for certain, but looking at past games it sounds highly unlikely. All Ubisoft games released in the past years has had negative mouse acceleration out the ass, and I can't remember it being fixed for any of them.
Robert J. Sullivan
Member
that sucks
i don't remember shitty mouse controls ever being patched out by a fan either so i guess i shouldn't hope for a mod or something
The mouse acceleration in Far Cry 3 was fixable with a tool that some guy developed, so there might be hope. It's obviously very unlikely though, which sucks.
Morphine_OD
Banned
Actually dynamic shadows from all light sources are identical as far as I can tell. Check out light posts on the road - same, exactly.
Calibrating DoF is an hour long task. If you aim a little higher up, you'll notice the DoF working correctly, so it's just the modder's problem, not the developers.
I'd say they're different. The shadows from the headlights are way too sharp, and they might not even be a perfect match to Aidens body.
About the DoF, yeah it might be fixable. However, considering that the "mod" is just changing a couple of digits in a file there are probably severe limitations to what you can do. It might be that you can't go any further than on/off. And no disrespect to him, but it doesn't really seem like TheWorse would know how to do anything advanced; he even said himself that he's a novice.
EDIT: Well, judging from what he said about 0.7 update I was wrong. I'm glad I was, though.
Cuban Legend
Member
I'd say they're different. The shadows from the headlights are way too sharp, and they might not even be a perfect match to Aidens body.
About the DoF, yeah it might be fixable. However, considering that the "mod" is just changing a couple of digits in a file there are probably severe limitations to what you can do. It might be that you can't go any further than on/off. And no disrespect to him, but it doesn't really seem like TheWorse would know how to do anything advanced; he even said himself that he's a novice.
we should be given the option to have the shadows be either SHARP like on the left, or dithered and smooth like on the right.
I'll ask the guy in the Guru3D thread and I'll use these screenshots to illustrate and maybe there can be a solution? They look so different ingame it can be a bit jarring.
You're free to do so, but as I said, I'm not sure that there's anything that can be done about it. Again: so far this mod is nothing more than changing digits in a file.
plumpblumpkin
Member
If he can get it to look like this again then wow:
Hmm dunno, it's looking better but still:
http://a.pomf.se/pslyru.webm
(i used both guys mods). TheWorse's effects are cool but do have some issues, worth it on the whole though I think.
http://a.pomf.se/pslyru.webm
(i used both guys mods). TheWorse's effects are cool but do have some issues, worth it on the whole though I think.
JudgmentJay
Member
Somewhat related?
"Ubisoft: Far Cry 4 on PS4, Xbox One Equivalent to PC Ultra High"
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubis...-One-Equivalent-to-PC-Ultra-High-446878.shtml
"Ubisoft: Far Cry 4 on PS4, Xbox One Equivalent to PC Ultra High"
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubis...-One-Equivalent-to-PC-Ultra-High-446878.shtml
lol fu ubi
hmm hopefully they're just saying the next-gen versions are looking good, more marketing bull
Netherscourge
Banned
Well, then the PC version better have a "SUPER-ULTRA-EQ-REMIX-ALPHA-HIGH" setting to account for it's far superior hardware.
