Your Personal Watch Dogs in-game Performance?

[SkilledRebuilds]

AMD's driver page may not be updated, but GURU3d's is.

http://www.guru3d.com/files_details/amd_catalyst_14_6_beta_download.html

^CATALYST 14.6^

[ChrisxIxCross]

Driving stuttering is a common problem currently in Watch Dogs.

Go find the game's properties file and add this line "-disablepagefilecheck" it will most likely fix the stuttering when driving.

I've done that and I'm still getting really bad stutters/ frame drops, also i tried fullscreen borderless which didn't work either. On Nvidia 337.88 drivers as well. Tbh all massive city games NEED Mantle/DX12 due to being cpu bound. For example in one area i'm running around at 60 fps 99% gpu usage, then next thing i'm down to 30 fps 50%, it's absolutely ridiculous. This game is in need of some serious optimization patches. 

[Jobobee]

Mine is installing right now, so I'll let you know in a minute. So excited!

[SkilledRebuilds]

Found this:

Make a shortcut to the game and add "-disablepagefilecheck" without the quotation marks after the target and the stuttering should be extremely minimal (essentially just when driving very fast and loading new environments).

Example (under target): "X:\Games\WD\watch_dogs.exe" -disablepagefilecheck

Tried and tested on reddit.

Makes some unplayable machines playable.

 

Make a new thread if it works for you, mine isn't downloaded yet.

[Gullerback]

small tweak but change DefferedFXQuality in the config from console to PC for much better details and Effects on things like lighting, explosions,  etc

[ACatWithThumbs]

 

Found this:

 

Make a shortcut to the game and add "-disablepagefilecheck" without the quotation marks after the target and the stuttering should be extremely minimal (essentially just when driving very fast and loading new environments).

Example (under target): "X:\Games\WD\watch_dogs.exe" -disablepagefilecheck

Tried and tested on reddit.

Makes some unplayable machines playable.

 

Make a new thread if it works for you, mine isn't downloaded yet.

 

This fixed the stutter for me.

 

[Guest]

This fixed the stutter for me.

Where exactly is this done?

[clementk]

my laptop gets about 30fps on Ultra textures and ultra settings with FXAA but when i put textures and settings to high i get 50 fps with fxaa

[Fluffinator]

I'm guessing the games just poorly optimized since it looks like BF4 but plays terrible?

[SrN95]

Performance isn't too bad. Mouse acceleration and that is my main concern at the moment.

This was another thing I forgot to mention, the mouse acceleration in the menus vs in game is so off...I'm tempted to just buy a 360 controller to play it with at this point

[Analog]

After I installed the game and the fix as well, I get more than 75 FPS on ultra settings. The driving is no longer choppy as before the fix and there are no FPS dips. Just some mouse issues like for example sometimes it moves too fast and in others it is too slow... but I guess that is just how the game is. 

[RDilux]

i just uploading a video of the performance on a GTX 780m games runs pretty fine here 

[Gachr]

In my case (i5+GTX660) I was playing at High at the beginning and it was quite smooth, it lagging though when driving. I changed to medium and it works great ^^

[KieranFretwell]

Im glad its not just me having performance issues.. For me its unplayable at max settings and laggy at high settings, and the driving isn't that great the handling reminds me of burnout paradise.

[Gachr]

Handling is ok with me, still better than SR3 on a pad

[RDilux]

GTX 780m Watch Dogs Done!

[SLOWION]

Watch Dogs is running fine for me on my GTX 650 Ti BOOST at 1080P. In the video below I'm running medium settings with level of detail set to High.

 

I had an occassional hiccup at parts but overall smooth. This is with the latest Nvidia drivers btw

 

[CatCloud]

Watch Dogs is running fine for me on my GTX 650 Ti BOOST at 1080P. In the video below I'm running medium settings with level of detail set to High.

 

I had an occassional hiccup at parts but overall smooth. This is with the latest Nvidia drivers btw

 

D:

i have freaking 690 and im dying here! oh and my game just crashed after i hacked a sign, which is why im not playing right now 

I have it on Medium, ill try that -disablepagefilecheck thing and se if it works.

[ACatWithThumbs]

For me and my cousin it runs great now.
If you have 2GB Vram don't use ultra textures and AA over temporal SMAA or else it will stutter and crash after 15-30min.
If you set it up like this, install the newest driver, and do the display check thing it should work perfectly fine.
Also turn V-sync off and put the framebuffer to 1.
 

[Kooldown]

Anyone else getting really high GPU temps?

[Vrbas]

If you get stuttering need to lower textures. This game eats Vram

 

GTX 660 2GB anything past medium textures i get mass stuttering.

 

But medium runs butter smoothing everything else on high 50-60 fps. It's just so ugly with medium textures. Really hope they fix it.

[GrayFoxbr]

I cant belive that my x58 rig can play this game, I7930@3.6ghz,12gb of ram and a 780ti Classified(i know the system is unbalanced but im waiting for x99 to upgrade)

The stuttering is bad while driving a car but indoors im getting solid 80 FPS with all settings on ultra/FXAA. Outdoors FPS drop to 55~42, lowest i've seen is 38.

Also dropped the textures to high  and the stuttering remains.

Running 337.88 drivers

[HK_Rage]

750K, Radeon 270: I get about 30-45fps in downtown, sold 60fps with odd random dips to 20fps in pawnee.

 

Currently at ultra except for HBAO & Texture Quality which are set to 2nd highest settings (And ofcourse no DOF or Motion Blur).

[Mindtrickz]

small tweak but change DefferedFXQuality in the config from console to PC for much better details and Effects on things like lighting, explosions,  etc

 

lol.. It's placebo. changing that does nothing.

[ZiggyManSaad]

Runs like shyt for me. The cut scenes even drop frames. I crashed to desktop about 5 times in the three hours I put in to it. Not happy at all.