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  1. #1

    So how bad is it?

    After the massive disaster that was Watch_Dogs for PC, I've held off buying Ubisoft products on PC. I'm interested in both AC:U and FC 4 but before I'm going to spend any money on it, I'm interested in knowing how well it runs on peoples PCs.

    I've got a i5 2500k clocked at 4.4ghz and a GTX 670 slightly OC'd as well as 12GB DDR3 HyperX Kingston RAM. I run most things on their highest settings.

    So what's your experience? Is it disastrous or does it actually run OK?
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  2. #2
    Wow, I'm glad I didn't pay to be Ubisofts guinea pig again... no offence.
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  3. #3
    My config is an i5-2500 and a Geforce GTX 660, so maybe my config is closer to yours. I have everything turned to "high" (which is 2 levels below max, there's "very high", and "ultra"), and it runs completely smooth since the driver update.
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  4. #4
    This is far and away one of the worst launches of any game I've ever seen.

    And I can play the game.

    It CTD's, you cant rebind keys, you cant complete quests due to bugs that were present in FARCRY THREE, and those are just the problems I'm having.


    I hope we see a mass effect 3 ending-like community response to this game being so horrible. I'm not usually the type to feel entitled but I also don't like beta testing a 60 dollar AAA title. It's like they didn't test this game at all. Ubisoft owes us something.
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  5. #5
    Seeing as I can't even play at all yet due to instant black screen crash. I'd say yea you should hold off.
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  6. #6
    The Game Runs fine on High Settings on my PC with AMD 4170 / GTX660 / 8GB Ram so should run nice on your setup. With my other Rig, i5 3750k / Radeon 7950 / 8gb it's smooth on Ultra Settings however there is terrible Mouse Input Lag on both of my PC's, if you want to play Mouse/Keyboard you might want to wait and see if they fix that. It plays fine with the xBox360 Pad but if like me you want to play with Mouse/Keyboard the way FPS are meant to be played it ruins the Game
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  7. #7
    After the black screen crash, luckily resolved for me by an uninistall > re-installation, I've just started playing.

    My setup is a newish i5 @ 4 ghz, AMD 7950 @ stock, 8GB ram, game and OS (Win 7) installed on separate SSDs.

    So far performance seems pretty good, I'm running the High preset. I don't know what the framerate is, but it's smooth. (I'm playing on a Benq XL2720Z 144hz monitor but I only really get concerned about framerates when I play multiplayer). At some point I'll fire up Fraps and experiment with the video options.
    I did have problems with stutter / judder and jumpy mouse movement until I matched the game's max framerate to my desktop framerate (120hz), and turned on vsync.
    Mouse acceleration still seems to be present (in spite of it being off in the options) and makes melee attacks a bit harder than they should be, but it's not quite the horror story I was expecting.


    Originally Posted by Slawfaces Go to original post
    This is far and away one of the worst launches of any game I've ever seen.
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    I'm not usually the type to feel entitled but I also don't like beta testing a 60 dollar AAA title. It's like they didn't test this game at all. Ubisoft owes us something.

    If you read the message from an ex-Ubi employee, it turns out it's not the testing departments fault. They do test, and they do find things. The problem is the project management - they run out of time and resource to fix the bugs, so the game gets shipped with known problems still in-place. (The post was in reddit, I'll link to it if I find it again).

    Unfortunately in IT most projects with a fixed deadline run into these sort of problems. Ideally the programmers would prefer the deadline to be pushed back, but the accountants or senior management can block that.
    Throwing extra programming resource at it late in the project rarely works (teams become either too large, hampering effective communication, or new coders have too much of a learning curve to get over, and have to interrupt the senior guys to make progress, which lowers the efficiency of those senior people).
    The alternatives are to de-scope some of the development (difficult or impossible if marketing have advertised features), or to prioritize show-stopping bugs that affect the most people, and leave the rest to post-release patches. So you can guess what's happened :/
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