Watch_Dogs

SeventhSun>
Min CPU er en i3, men jeg burde stadig kunne spille spillet på low.

jaes>
Well, jeg er uenig i, at det ikke bør tælle med.

dRxL>
Kan du argumentere for det, eller er vi ude i en mere følelsesbaseret holdning?

jaes>

Jeg mener godt, der kan argumenteres for det, men så går vi fra at være på grænsen til off-topic til fuldblods off-topic, så det må blive en anden gang eller i en anden tråd :)

In contrast, the PC version still needs some work. In terms of pure GPU workload, there's absolutely no reason why a good high-end card like the GTX 780 or R9 290 shouldn't offer up a locked 60fps at 1080p at the highest settings, while the GTX 770 and 280X should be equipped to hit the same level of performance on the high preset. Not only do we see significant performance drops on high-end hardware, Watch Dogs also represents the biggest difference we've seen frame-rate-wise between the two vendors' equivalent cards. (Indeed, the gulf is enough to have AMD crying foul, suggesting that Nvidia's GameWorks integration makes the game extremely hard to optimise around the Radeon hardware, something its competitor strenuously denies. Bearing in mind that this bespoke integration seems to amount to two anti-aliasing modes and ambient occlusion settings, we're inclined to give Nvidia the benefit of the doubt.)

Politics aside, what's very clear is that those pursuing 60fps gameplay are facing a challenge. Texture management seems to be the major culprit - streaming ultra-level assets into and out of RAM simply doesn't happen fast enough, resulting in noticeable stutter. It's not a RAM issue based on our testing - we replaced a 3GB GTX 780 Ti with a 6GB GTX Titan, producing the exact same result. Only by lowering texture quality from ultra to high did we improve matters, and even then the stutter wasn't completely eliminated. We also factored out graphical quality presets too by dropping down to medium settings - and yet still we saw dips in overall performance.

Thus far, we've discussed high-end hardware in order to illustrate that the problems are deep-seated and that you can't buy your way out of the situation. However, on Nvidia GTX 780-class hardware, you can at least get something approaching 1080p60 on the highest quality levels with v-sync engaged. We also tried the GTX 760 and found that frame-rate varied uncomfortably around 30-40fps, and found that pursuing improved visuals at a locked 30fps was a better option than attempting to hit 60fps. Here we could have ultra-level presets with temporal SMAA at 1080p. Dropping down to the GTX 750 Ti gave us the same experience at the high quality level - effectively a match for PS4, but with a full 1080p resolution.