GTX 1080 (411.70) + i7 8700K in 1080p framerate lower than expected | Forums

[TROOPER181]

First Thank you for this great game i am having a wonderfull tour of the beautifull crafted islands..seeing how beautifull the game is i purchased the Ultimate edition right away, but what is not beautifull is the framerate, im struggeling to get higher framerates than 60fps because i have a 144hz monitor and the framedrops are very distracting ( even on a Gsync monitor).
in AC Origins i have much higher framerate overall than in this game and in my eyes they are both indentical games.
So please devs would you optimize the game a little bit more and make the game run much smoother rather than to let me go buy a RTX2080Ti?

[Bahamut_God]

I've got the same specs except GPU is 1080 Ti, I'm hovering between 90-110 at ultra (shadows turned down a little). Surely the difference isn't that dramatic between the cards though? What is your resolution scale set at?

[Ravwyn]

Hm, odd. I'm running the game on 1080p@120% supersampling via in-game setting and on a mixture of ultra & very high settings. On a 1600X @vanilla, 16GB DDR4 2966Mhz, 1080 @+90 core and +550 memory clocks. Most of the time I get a very stable 60 fps - with 20% headroom left (based on utilization). There are often situations where the framerate dips to mid-50s and even more so - when it rains or there are maaaaany NPCs in front of the player it dips down to 49 fps - in all other scenarios, its a flat and (mostly) stutter-free experience.

To achieve this - I needed to basically apply what I've learned in Origins:

-- A fair warning: These settings are merely what I prefer. I really like sharp & detailed shadows, a maxed out ambient occlusion etc. You may not. So if you can free up performance by dialing back shadows, ambient occl. - be my guest. A 1080p display not always needs supersampling, but the details on our beloved characters are so incredibly cool in Origins and Odyssey.... if you can, please use supersampling or NVIDIA DSR. Additionally - please adjust these settings if you are reading this and have ANYTHING below a 1070 Ti. I'm not saying your rig isn't god-tier or whatever else crap ppl these days say... I'm just telling you that these settings are tailored towards MY system and MY preference. An 8700K will get you through the maximum details more easily. Here we go ^-^ --

1. Use the ultra preset as a base - dial back environ. details (CPU), decrease vol. fog one step (it's virtually identical), decrease AA Setting to Medium (very similar quality),
2. Use the following NVIDIA Control Panel settings: 16x Anisotropic, Triple-Buffer forced ON, max. pre-rendered frames set to 1, Threaded-Optim. set to ON, Vsync set to ON (as well as enabling the vsync option in-game, didn't register this NPC setting on its own - for whatever reason)
3. Use a stable Overclock, if at all. Always stress-test your clocks in 3dmark firestrike, time spy (the actual stress-test, not just a few runs) and real-world scenarios like Origins. Take a walk down Alexandrias mainstreet and you'll see what streaming/CPU-bottlenecks look/feel like. Any dip or stutter in this area will give you EXACTLY what you need to find your Detail settings. If it works there, it works virtually everywhere else.

I guarantee you, if you at least try these settings - your FPS will stabilize in most scenarios. Rain, rendered cut-scenes and larger battles are your worst - worst case scenario. None of which are testable in the benchmark. Yet. Also - it starts to rain sometimes IN the benchmark - so please don't use it to compare frames, only the general performance/visual impact of a setting.

Have a great day, Malakas!