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  1. #21
    People who are saying they have not yet experienced stuttering in the game either cannot see it and won't see it or just lying to themselves and us. I can see a 5 FPS drop in any game I play without an FPS counter yet my friend can't. It's in the eye and it's ****ing annoying. Instead of replying "I don't get stutter" record and upload in 60 FPS and we'll decide for you.

    On topic. I am absolutely ****ing livid. I find out there's a patch and all it does is fix a grey screen. What the **** is this ****? I paid for your product and I get nothing in return. You may as well have given me 20-30GB download of nothing because I can't even play your **** with the amount of stuttering in this game. I've NEVER been able to play WatchDogs EVER. IT HAS NEVER BEEN FIXED. I tried low settings, high. ultra, stupid resolutions to the point that I'm squinting. Ubisoft aren't getting a penny out of me and if they do fix it (which they won't so no high hopes) I'm not saying thank you.
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  2. #22

    I hope none of you are actually holding out hope that this stuttering will ever be fixed, because if you are, you are just in for more disappointment. They outsourced the porting of the PC version to a Ukraine studio that has a history of terrible PC ports, I've tried contacting that studio directly and they just dont give a damn, they'll only re-direct you to tech support, who hasn't even responded to my ticket about stuttering that I submitted 6 days ago already.

    Not only does Ubisoft simply not care about the issue, they are also incompetent and incapable of fixing the issue. Just look at Watch Dogs, which is half a year old and still unplayable. Even if they cared enough that they wanted to fix it, they wouldn't even be capable of doing so.

    It's time to move on and just accept the fact that Ubisoft has conned you all once again, stolen your $60 and ensured you will never be able to enjoy a potentially good game. I'm sure these criminals have already spent your $60 on a bottle of wine to celebrate their thievery, while simply blaming the pirates to get away with it.
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  3. #23
    Great article on eurogamer with benchmarked frame times which hopefully now will be acknowleded by the devs.

    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...cry-4-face-off

    Quote : Sometimes the stutter is so bad, the PC displays the same image for 100ms, then the next for 80ms. Remarkable - and not in a good way
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    Originally Posted by BassMan_ Go to original post
    What blows me away is that the developers take no pride in the game. If I was working on this game, it would have been top priority to eliminate the performance issues. It is like they don't even care. I would be like... "Guys, we got to fix this stuttering, we can't release this." I am sure there are people who work for Ubi who feel the same and feel helpless because of the poor project management and unrealistic deadlines. I could not work for a company like that. I would feel guilty about being part of a scam to rob gamers. At the end of the day, you have to feel good and believe in what you are doing. I understand the need for a paycheck, but the developers have to take a stand internally and force change. Just like we as gamers have to stop supporting this trash. Do not pre-order and do not buy on day one. Make them earn our money.
    The words pride and ubisoft do not go together at all, They use to take pride in their games but those days have long since passed.
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  5. #25
    Originally Posted by WoodsGun Go to original post
    Great article on eurogamer with benchmarked frame times which hopefully now will be acknowleded by the devs.

    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/di...cry-4-face-off

    Quote : Sometimes the stutter is so bad, the PC displays the same image for 100ms, then the next for 80ms. Remarkable - and not in a good way
    Thanks for that WoodsGun. I'm glad that actual gamer websites are picking up on this too.
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  6. #26
    Originally Posted by Dicehunter-OC3D Go to original post
    The words pride and ubisoft do not go together at all, They use to take pride in their games but those days have long since passed.
    Indeed. I remember during the PS2, GC and Xbox generation, they were the best developer and could do no wrong. They were putting out new games like Prince of Persia, Beyond Good & Evil, Splinter Cell, Rainbow 6, Ghost Recon, etc. There was a focus on quality and innovation. Now they just pump out annual releases that are broken. They have become much worse than EA. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A company that was once loved and is now hated. These are sad times.
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  7. #27
    You guys are making more out of this then really need be ... Yes the game has problem stuttering ... Just turn down the Textures to medium and its pretty smooth and playable . There is something f-up with the texture setting in this game though . I am running pretty much everything on ultra 1080P , except I have postfx to low godrays to off , V-sync enabled in the nvidia control center and no motion Blur . I am running a I5 - 750 @3.60 , 8 meg of ram and a EVGA Superclocked 970 4 gb . It would be nice to run everything on max but its not happening yet , still no reason not to enjoy the game . Its fun as hell ... Running the textures on medium and mouse accel off improves the mouse action too ...
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  8. #28
    Originally Posted by jaguar_328 Go to original post
    Thanks for that WoodsGun. I'm glad that actual gamer websites are picking up on this too.
    No probs at all, and thanks for the thanks

    im happy as well to see some confirmation of it somewhere at least and having frame pacing tests makes it rock solid info.
    what card will ubi play next, thats the question
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  9. #29

    This may help

    I don't know if this has been mentioned yet in this thread so I will go ahead. There are a couple of things you can do to help alleviate the stuttering:

    In the gamerprofile.xml fine located in My Game\Far Cry 4 set: DisableLoadingMip0="1" GPUMaxBufferedFrames="1"

    Force Vsync and Triple Buffering through your graphics driver. Also enabled Vsync and Triple buffering in game.

    Also be sure to set God Rays to Volumetric Fog or Disabled. Enhanced/Nvidia setting kills performance.
    For anti aliasing the best option to use is SMAA. Anything else is too performance intensive and will cause stutter.
    For shadows select "Soft Shadows"
    Disable Tree Relief and Fur as well.

    You can turn all other settings to Ultra without too much of a performance impact.

    With the above settings I get no stutter while running around in the game world and get a solid 60 FPS on my R9 290x. The game only dips below 60 in the outposts and other heavily populated area's and then I may get a little stutter but its no different from what i would get on any other game when the frame rate drops. These settings really helped me a lot.

    P.S. it seems the mouse acceleration is tied to the stutter as well. To fix the mouse acceleration set UseMouseSmooth="0" Smoothness="0" in gamerprofile.xml. Also disable pointer precision in Windows. Finally you have to disable your mouse software if you are using gaming mouse. (the mouse software was the key to getting rid of the mouse acceleration for me on my Logitech G700s mouse). I was able to get the software running without acceleration, if I switched the mouse to on-board memory profiles, instead of automatic game profiles setting, but I would start out with just killing the software and then work from there.
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  10. #30
    Originally Posted by Joeyttt63 Go to original post
    You guys are making more out of this then really need be ... Yes the game has problem stuttering ... Just turn down the Textures to medium and its pretty smooth and playable . There is something f-up with the texture setting in this game though . I am running pretty much everything on ultra 1080P , except I have postfx to low godrays to off , V-sync enabled in the nvidia control center and no motion Blur . I am running a I5 - 750 @3.60 , 8 meg of ram and a EVGA Superclocked 970 4 gb . It would be nice to run everything on max but its not happening yet , still no reason not to enjoy the game . Its fun as hell ... Running the textures on medium and mouse accel off improves the mouse action too ...
    joeyttt63 for arguments sake I turned the textures down to medium (for the 40,000 time!!!!) just to prove to myself my eyes were not playing tricks. I still have a stuttering mess. Granted the stuttering mess is less than if I play on ultra but none the less it is still in my opinion unplayable. I'm not having a go at you joeyttt63 just to me its totally unacceptable that Ubisoft can release a PC port in this state. We build and buy expensive PC's and components to have the best experience possible we absolutely should not have to put up with these poor excuses especially when they are hardly free!!

    I'm running a 4790k,8 gig of ram at 2400 mhz,a 970 with latest drivers and windows 7. The cpu is still at standard speed as its a fairly new build and being my first I want to make sure I haven't messed anything up before overclocking!!
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