Watch Dogs mods are here.

[DeViLzzz]

It is amazing how many people in this thread don't care or don't understand the real important issue here.  It is the bait and switch issue.  Hopefully a group of lawyers and consumers will get together to start a lawsuit vs Ubisoft and ask for money for being lied to and for Ubisoft to permanently patch in the real graphics settings for pc in their own menu for the game.  It is not funny what Ubisoft did here.  They have been doing greasy things for well over a year now in regards to Wii U games and now this game. I hope consumers with the help of lawyers will make them pay and I hope consumers on their own will not buy Ubisoft products.

[Sharif]

now that's something i can get exited about

[imdavidh96]

You know what would go well with this????
working sli profiles

[CatCloud]

It is amazing how many people in this thread don't care or don't understand the real important issue here.  It is the bait and switch issue.  Hopefully a group of lawyers and consumers will get together to start a lawsuit vs Ubisoft and ask for money for being lied to and for Ubisoft to permanently patch in the real graphics settings for pc in their own menu for the game.  It is not funny what Ubisoft did here.  They have been doing greasy things for well over a year now in regards to Wii U games and now this game.  I hope consumers with the help of lawyers will make them pay and I hope consumers on their own will not buy Ubisoft products.

Has that ever happened in history? and been successful?

 

[DeViLzzz]

Has that ever happened in history? and been successful?

 

Yes there have been successful lawsuits similar to what this would be.  People have been compensated for things game makers and publishers have done wrong in the past.  It happened with EA for the Madden series at one point I know.

[AnnoyedShelf]

You get an achievement for doing the game's most interesting hack; a real one!

You also get an achievement for doing the impossible: Getting uPlay to work....

[ZiggyManSaad]

I'm sure this has been tried, but has anyone changed the settings in the field...

 

DeferredFxQuality="console"

?

[T6kke]

I'm sure this has been tried, but has anyone changed the settings in the field...

?

 

IDK why don't you change it, maybe to PC and see what happens. If the game has problems change it back and no harm done, maybe

[Misanthrope]

@Mods: Why is there no news items for this on the news section? This is clearly not merely a "mod" it's a legitimate news item.

[Altecice]

 

In one word: YES

 

BTW does this actually fix the map load stuttering?

[Misanthrope]

In one word: YES

 

BTW does this actually fix the map load stuttering?

 

According to TB no: it doesn't impacts performance it just enables more detail with no performance hit. Which means that it's likely a textures issue since from what I read, the two best ways to get it to run better is "high" textures instead of ultra and less/no AA filters.

[Vitalius]

According to TB no: it doesn't impacts performance it just enables more detail with no performance hit. Which means that it's likely a textures issue since from what I read, the two best ways to get it to run better is "high" textures instead of ultra and less/no AA filters.

Someone mentioned that the devs cranked VRAM usage way above what was necessary, and since textures are what usually fills VRAM the most (AFAIK), it could be due to that. 

Or it's just so terribly optimized. But considering the other stuff ("E3 mode"), I would expect them to have cranked up it's usage for no good reason other than to hinder the performance.

[Guest Generallee]

At first i read the title "Watch mods dogs are here"

 

"Mods dogs"

 

Im gonna be banned fo shure

[Altecice]

According to TB no: it doesn't impacts performance it just enables more detail with no performance hit. Which means that it's likely a textures issue since from what I read, the two best ways to get it to run better is "high" textures instead of ultra and less/no AA filters.

 

Alright thanks,  I wont bother I have two 290x's and I want to be able to play a game like that on Ultra... I will skip it for now

[Misanthrope]

Someone mentioned that the devs cranked VRAM usage way above what was necessary, and since textures are what usually fills VRAM the most (AFAIK), it could be due to that. 

Or it's just so terribly optimized. But considering the other stuff ("E3 mode"), I would expect them to have cranked up it's usage for no good reason other than to hinder the performance.

 

It's a little confusing since the "ultra" textures don't really look that much better meaning they could have been compressed to be playable at 2-3 gb of vram. My guess is that they just did a poor job, like Skyrim but well Skyrim has 3 fucking years ago.

[ZiggyManSaad]

IDK why don't you change it, maybe to PC and see what happens. If the game has problems change it back and no harm done, maybe

Didn't do anything. I don't get any of these great visual improvements everyone else seems to be getting.

[ZiggyManSaad]

Got it figured out. Had to switch from 7zip to WinRAR to extract the files. Hot dam does this look good now!

[deathjester]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n445hSGP_9Q&feature=youtu.be

 

Sabotage lyrics -Beastie boys

 

I can't stand it, I know you planned it

I'm gonna set it straight, this Watergate

I can't stand rocking when I'm in here

'Cause your crystal ball ain't so crystal clear

So while you sit back and wonder why

I got this f@#%*!% thorn in my side

Oh my God, it's a mirage

I'm tellin' y'all, it's a sabotage

So, so, so, so listen up 'cause you can't say nothin'

You'll shut me down with a push of your button?

But you, I'm out and I'm gone

I'll tell you now, I keep it on and on

'Cause what you see you might not get

And we can bet, so don't you get souped yet

You're scheming on a thing that's a mirage

I'm trying to tell you now, it's sabotage

Why

Our backs are now against the wall?

Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage

Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage

Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage

Listen all y'all, it's a sabotage

 

[cliff_182]

it looks awesome now with sweetfx
 

but wtf ubisoft
not cool!

also watch totalbiscuits views on this

 

[Hursig]

You know what would go well with this????

working sli profiles

I've read something about Far Cry 3 SLI profiles being used with Watch Dogs and it fixing a lot of the issues. I don't personally run SLI so I didn't read any details or follow up to see if it's actually a thing, but you could look into it.

[JantsoP]

I have being known about this for like 2 or 3 weeks.

Everyone is way too late..

[WAI]

here's a link to Steam Froum/Thread Guide for those with nVidia cards http://steamcommunity.com/app/243470/discussions/0/540743757578472810/. the RadeonPro program is useless and the sweetfx config program is crap as well. a video and pic samples to come shortly

 

Video...

 

[imdavidh96]

I've read something about Far Cry 3 SLI profiles being used with Watch Dogs and it fixing a lot of the issues. I don't personally run SLI so I didn't read any details or follow up to see if it's actually a thing, but you could look into it.

did not know about this thank you, i shall look into it

[ACatWithThumbs]

I have being known about this for like 2 or 3 weeks.

Everyone is way too late..

This isn't SweetFX that just changes the colors...

This is a mod that changes the actual ingame effects of the game such as dynamic DoF,rain effects,POM,bloom,dynamic headlight shadows ect.

The guy is now even working together with MaLDO the moder that made the Crysis 2 high res texture mod.

 

[Kenrox]

{ ====> MY GRAPHIC TEST <==== }

 

 

My "gaming" rig:
- "Monitor":                          iMac 27" (2560x1440) (late 2013)
- Hard Drive:                         Apple 3Tb Sata HD (1Tb Mac, 1Tb Win, 1Tb Storage)
- Processor:                         Intel Core i7-4771 @ 3.5GHz (turbo boost @3,9GHz + multithreading)
- Graphic Processor:             NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M (2Gb VRAM)
- Memory (Ram):                   8,00Gb DDR3 (ECC) @ 1866mhz
- Audio device:                      DAC SuperPro 707 + SONY MHC-NX3AV Hi-Fi
- Operative System:               Dual boot MacOSX 10.9 / Windows 8 Enterprise 64bit
- Gaming Platform:                Steam for Mac / Steam for Windows
- Keyboard:                           Apple wireless keyboard unibody
- Mouse:                               Logitech G700S
- Headset:                             Plantronics Wireless 995             
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaDWcHy5IMY&list=UUAo7untc1I_DnK4PQepJTfw

The game seems to be smoother than before, but there are some command response lags at high resolutions like 1080p or 1440p.

It is not only a matter of frames per second.

 

Anyway it look much much more realistic @ 1080p, and not very playable @1440p.

 

I will post more videos soon.