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  1. #11
    Originally Posted by Doctor_Hades Go to original post
    I have a relatively decent gaming PC (i7-4770K @ 4.0 GHz, 16 GB, EVGA GTX 1080 FTW, Windows 10 Pro v1607) and have played the game since the closed beta. I play this game at maxed out 2560x1440 settings (with v-sync and triple buffering enabled on a 25" 60 Hz display) and seem to recall that performance was very good during the closed beta. However, since the open beta the game's performance has been... to put it bluntly... abysmal and that follows on through to the final release build unfortunately. While I was using the early v378.xx drivers for the beta, I am now using the latest Game-Ready v378.66 WHQL driver and performance is still poor.

    To elaborate, the game just never feels smooth to play to play - panning the camera around the character is depressingly jerky and movement feels very stuttery - and MSI Afterburner's on-screen display shows why; the framerate constantly fluctuates between 52 and 60 fps and never remains at 60 fps. In fact, even if I look straight up at the skybox the framerate still doesn't hold 60 fps. Nor does it hold 60 fps on the Low preset. Something is clearly very wrong with this game, at least on my system as the benchmark in the closed beta showed a very high average framerate and a minimum above 60 fps as you'd expect on a GTX 1080 but that doesn't carry over into the actual game itself. GPU usage is between 50 and 60% and CPU is even lower, around 40-50% so neither component is being stressed by this game yet it cannot hold a locked 60 fps. You know something is very wrong if you look up at the sky and your framerate is still moving between 52 and 60 fps!!!

    Why does it act this way though?

    Now I did notice that one of my CPU cores is maxed at 100% with the other hovering around the 30% mark which seemed odd. DSOG did a performance analysis (http://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performa...mance-analysis) and pointed this out as a bug. After Google-ing the issue, I found a YouTube video that suggested the fix for this stuttering issue was to press Alt-Enter to switch to the desktop, open up Task Manager and then change the priority of ForHonor.exe from Normal to BelowNormal. Finally, uncheck Core 7 under Affinity for ForHonor.exe. Lo and behold, this fixes the horrid performance and the game then ran very smoothly for 99.99% of the time. It changed the game from being a sub-par experience into a very enjoyable one. The problem is that I have to do this every time I play the game.

    Research seems to suggest that this issue has been present since the beta, as many people have reported it, but it remains unfixed. Now I play loads of games on my PC and this is the only one of the current batch I'm playing (which includes Watch_Dogs 2, Battlefield 1, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, Hitman, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Resident Evil 7 and Sniper Elite 4 among others) that performances this way so the problem is evidently with the game not my system. The question is will the developers ever fix it?
    I Tried this it did not fix my issue
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  2. #12
    Ubisoft any word on this issue yet?
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  4. #14
    I also am having this issue.

    GTX 980ti
    i7-6700k
    16gb ram
    No Blutooth

    Have to restart to fix.
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  5. #15
    I am also having this issue.
    i7-7700K
    GTX 1070
    16 GB RAM
    No Blutooth

    The video posted did fix it some, but I am still get the stutters about every minute or so.
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  6. #16
    Would be great if we could actually have some kind of information on how they are working on the issues many people appear to have.
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  7. #17
    Hi,

    UBISOFT PLEASE!
    Another update and this issue still not fixed....
    Always 100% on CPU1 which gives awful stutter....
    We are a lot to have this problem, and I don't want to do this everytime I launch it:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKYM--PWFFA
    A FIX PLZ
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  8. #18
    jhoxis's Avatar Junior Member
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    Hello, same problem here. I play with mouse and keyboards. No FPS issues before patch.
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  9. #19
    Intel I5 4670
    GTX 1070
    8 gb ram
    FPS is droping from 120 to 25-30 sometimes
    Same issue/
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  10. #20
    For me, eventhough the game apparently runs over 30 fps, has constant small stutters, or lags, every second or so, but only after I play for a while. When I quit the game and launch it again, they are gone for a while (maybe an hour) until they return.
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