Hello everybody :-)
I know there is already a ton of complaints about stutter in WD2 on PC and so on but i just feel the need to add my experiences that i had with the game so far.
I bought it during a steam sale for 20 € so im not that sour that the game doesnt run that smoothly. For example other ubisoft- games work just fine for me like Far Cry Primal.
My specs are
Core I7- 4770K @ stock
16 GB 1600 MB DDR 3 RAM (GSKILL)
Gainward Phoenix GLH 1080 GTX
OS: Windows 10 1709 with newest drivers and OS- Updates.
So i replayed the first watch dogs and noticed that you guys @ Ubisoft added a setting in the grfx options for the max pre-rendered frames XD
So first watch dogs runs fine.. had to turn textures back to high (just my memories that ultra doesnt work at all) and set max- prerendered frames to 2.
I had prettey nice results like 88 % of the game. There are just areas in virtual chicago (2-3 maybe) that ALWAYS stutter when i drive through them. Its not like there is much going on @ the screen.. just like a loading stutter fpr 2-3 seconds.. framerate goes down.. and then skyrockets again. Its always the same in the same areas so i assume that there spaces are like transition zones from one area of the world to another. Not good but acceptable when figured out.
And then Watch dogs 2. Oh boy.. For me the game runs even worse than WD1 and because of the same damn transition areas! But now there are not 3-4 there are like 8-9 transition areas which causes the same kind of stutterin i had in WD1 and even for a longer period (up to 5 seconds). It doesnt matter if the gamesettings/ textures are turned to ultra or low. The game will stutter in the exact same locations. One in particular is the area form HQ. LEaving HQ looking left no problems sky high framerate. Looking right oh and there we go.. it stutters XD So its not only when driving even so when looking at some areas (even when these areas are mostly empty).
Ive seen videos of some people on youtube that dont seem to have these issues with the game. Because not many people seem to play it anymore i dont know if iam the only one still around stuttering my way thorugh virtual san francisco.
Ive gone so far and tweaked my Nvidia settings for WD2 in certain ways but it doesnt seem to do much if anything at all. Its funny because most of similiar games like GTA 5 and Witcher 3 run just fine.
I would love to hear what some of the guys from the devteam think what causes these issues. Sadly i think i will never get an answer to that. Maybe Win10 1709 causing the specific problem?
Hey! Thanks for your report. For reference, here are the minimum requirements for WD2. It is important to make sure that your drivers are up to date. Once you've updated your drivers, here are some steps to try regarding performance issues.
We would love to investigate this issue for you! Please submit a ticket with your msinfo and dxdiag files attached. These files are important when trying to investigate performance issues. Hope this helps![]()
Thank you for your reply. But i already wrote that all my drivers are up to date and that my specs way exceed the optimal/ recommendet specs for wd2.
Also no game played in 1080P should struggle to run flawlessly on a PC with specs like mine.
My grfx-drivers are a fresh after i wiped the older one with ddu.
Your offer is really kind regarding to investigate my issues but i think its a Win10, Geforce- driver and gameengine related problem.
WD1 has similiar issues but in a lesser scope than in WD2.
Also only one AA- setting is working properly which is temporal filtering.. using anything else will cause an unstable framerate even when my charakter is not in motion,
The Dunia- engine and the newer Assins creed engines run flawlessly on my system. Maybe the Wd2 Engine has issues with Microsoft anniversary update features (which i turned off by the way) or with newer nvidia drivers.
I think i will never resolve this.. i already pushed throgh wd2 and moved on to play other games.
If WD3 ever sees the light of day.. for the sake of god rewrite the engine for a better texture streaming performance!
Maybe you should read the user's post before you blindly spout minimum system requirements.
I am having the exact same issues. The game is near unplayable. It is not our computers; this is a problem with the game engine. It is a funny thing that I have NO DROPS in any other game, with 195 games in my steam library. I have already tried all of the official troubleshooting steps as well as those provided from every 3rd party across the internet. I have a ticket in; maybe it would be nice if someone from Ubisoft actually read the things; 3 weeks with not a single reply is a bit ridiculous. If Ubisoft doesn't want to acknowledge the problem, I am more than willing to take a refund at this point.
Windows 7
Intel 4790k @ 4.7ghz
32 GB ram (no page file)
Samsung Evo 850 1TB
GTX 970
Asus z97 deluxe
Nvidia 390.65
Ticket #: 05909013
Glad to hear an SSD helped you noizy__!
For anyone still having this issue, please submit your MSINFO/dxdiag files for a closer look.
I recently got the game and I'm experiencing the same issue. my PC specs are;
i7 10700k OC to 5GHz
RTX 2060 SUPER
32GB DDR4 3200MHz - Corsair Vengance Pro RGB
It was automatically set to ultra and I downloaded the textures but no change in performance. Are there any fixes I can try to stop the stuttering?
Just wanted to let everyone that is buying this game on the low in 2020 during the Ubisoft forward event know that these problems are still existent. I was very disappointed because this happens to be one of my favorite and most nostalgic games; I bought it when it came out in 2016 for the Xbox one and loved it.
My specs (playing 1440p):
i5 8600K
RTX 2080 Super 8gb
16 gb Gskill Royal @3200
I have the same problem as the thread’s starter: some kind of loading choke for 2-5 seconds at a time. I have the better textures installed, low or ultra doesn’t matter.