Pass minimum requirements for AC Syndicate but low fps

[Enderg312]

I pass the minimum requirements for AC Syndicate, had to turn on vsync due to screen tearing but for whatever reason I have low fps. Any site that I go to say I pass the minimum specs but I still manage to get a high of 13 fps. My main specs for my pc are an i7 860, r7 370 and 16 GB of ram. Also this low fps is on low settings. How do I get the fps up?

[BondiBlue]

Your CPU is below the minimum requirements. Also, keep in mind that the minimum requirements are minimums, so you shouldn't expect much from the game on that hardware. You're well below the recommended specs. 

[Enderg312]

13 minutes ago, BondiBlue said:

Your CPU is below the minimum requirements. Also, keep in mind that the minimum requirements are minimums, so you shouldn't expect much from the game on that hardware. You're well below the recommended specs. 

You do realize the minimum cpu requirement for the game is an i5-2400s and any site that I go to say that my cpu is better than it

[Somerandomtechyboi]

4 minutes ago, Enderg312 said:

You do realize the minimum cpu requirement for the game is an i5-2400s and any site that I go to say that my cpu is better than it

You can prob oc your cpu if you have a good board, most h55 and p55 can bclk overclock but thats for the non oem boards

[BetteBalterZen]

Just a thought; 

Since your build seems very old, maybe your case have very bad airflow because it's an older model or maybe dust have build up overtime, also maybe you should change the thermal paste on your CPU and GPU if that has never been done. All of this could increase clockspeeds / FPS

[Enderg312]

Could be dust and I haven't reapplied thermal paste since I got the computer, so good chance the paste needs changed. But I have only had the computer around a year.

[Master Disaster]

1) Your CPU is pretty weak, especially when paired with that GPU, potentially causing a bottleneck.

2) Tearing at such a low FPS indicates a possible bottleneck, essentially the GPU is being starved of data because the CPU cannot keep up.

3) AC Unity & AC Syndicate are both very well known to be resource hogs, difficult to run and buggy as hell.

4) The I7 860 is faster than the I5 2400s for multi threaded tasks, in single threaded tasks its up to 20% slower.

[tikker]

21 minutes ago, Enderg312 said:

You do realize the minimum cpu requirement for the game is an i5-2400s and any site that I go to say that my cpu is better than it

Looking at Passmark the 2400S scores a little better than the 860. The 2400S also supports the AVX instruction set, which the 860 does not. If the game leverages those that could result in better performance as well, in which case your CPU doesn't meet the minimum requirements.

 

The R7 370 seems to get around 20 FPS on 1080p high settings. Can't find any low benchmarks, but my guess is going to be your CPU is just weak as lower settings will effectively push more load towards the CPU.

[BondiBlue]

8 hours ago, Enderg312 said:

You do realize the minimum cpu requirement for the game is an i5-2400s and any site that I go to say that my cpu is better than it

Your CPU is not faster than the i5-2400S. It's just not. 

[Enderg312]

10 hours ago, BondiBlue said:

Your CPU is not faster than the i5-2400S. It's just not. 

According to what?

[BondiBlue]

20 minutes ago, Enderg312 said:

According to what?

Personal experience and benchmarks.

 

Here's the PassMark score of your i7-860: 2,855

Here's the PassMark score of the i5-2400S: 3,138

 

Sure, there's not too much of a difference, but the i5-2400S is the minimum the developers recommend, and your CPU is definitely below that. 

[Enderg312]

I watched people with the same cpu but a lower end graphics card play this and some how they are able to gain 40 fps while I'm only gaining 13 fps with a higher end graphics card.

[tikker]

If even 720p low runs at a mere 20 FPS, I'm not surprised it could even lower in different situations. The video refers to a "lag fix" though, which seems to increase the framerate susbtantially. Maybe try and find/use that?