How to configur the videos settings to get a good 60 fps?

[Druzzil]

Hello all!

I've got a recent pc gamer:
I5 4690@ 3.5 Ghz
Ram: 8Go
MSI Geforce GTX 970

I can run all recently game in 1080p @ 60 fps, like the Witcher 3 for example.
In the case of this Assassin's Creed Black Flag, it's a nightmare. The fps is not stable and I've got a lot of drops to 30 - 40 fps, making the game laggy and the experience very bad.

I've tried to down the video settings, but I can't find the good setting... even in FXAA, it seems laggy (and ugly by the way).

Could you tell me what''s your vidéo settings to play with a good 60fps?

Many thanks, and sorry for my bad english!

[SenMithrarin85]

Where to do you have thse drops? If its places with lots of plants and trees, its your cpu that's the problem, not your gpu. I have to play at 900p because my 3.5ghz cpu still isn't enough on places like Salt Lagoon.

[demoguy]

Keep Vsync off, and if that doesnt work its the CPU.

[demoguy]

also a big diff between fxaa and msaa

[trek554]

lol a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 4690 does not struggle with this game in the least so ignore the cpu comments.

if you are using vsync then you will never maintain 60 fps as the game has issues with it. and the drops feel really bad as the game does not use triple buffering so framerate flat out hitches as it drops to 30 fps when not being able to maintain 60 fps with vsync. I used adaptive vsync for this game as that was the only thing that made it bearable with just the occasional tearing.

[trek554]

Originally posted by SenMithrarin85:

Where to do you have thse drops? If its places with lots of plants and trees, its your cpu that's the problem, not your gpu. I have to play at 900p because my 3.5ghz cpu still isn't enough on places like Salt Lagoon.

lowering your res makes NO difference if the limitation is the CPU...

[SenMithrarin85]

Originally posted by trek554:

Originally posted by SenMithrarin85:

Where to do you have thse drops? If its places with lots of plants and trees, its your cpu that's the problem, not your gpu. I have to play at 900p because my 3.5ghz cpu still isn't enough on places like Salt Lagoon.

lowering your res makes NO difference if the limitation is the CPU...

Well I don't gain a frame from changing video settings. When the fps drops, it stays like that regardless of what my video settings are configured to. Only lowering the res helps because that DOES affect the cpu.

[trek554]

Originally posted by SenMithrarin85:

Originally posted by trek554:

lowering your res makes NO difference if the limitation is the CPU...

Well I don't gain a frame from changing video settings. When the fps drops, it stays like that regardless of what my video settings are configured to. Only lowering the res helps because that DOES affect the cpu.

you have no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clue what you are talking about. if you are cpu limited then lowering the resolution will make no difference in framerate. if your framerate goes up when you lower the resolution then that means you were limited by the gpu. if you cant comprehend that then you have no business replying when people need help.

[SenMithrarin85]

Originally posted by trek554:

Originally posted by SenMithrarin85:

Well I don't gain a frame from changing video settings. When the fps drops, it stays like that regardless of what my video settings are configured to. Only lowering the res helps because that DOES affect the cpu.

you have no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clue what you are talking about. if you are cpu limited then lowering the resolution will make no difference in framerate. if your framerate goes up when you lower the resolution then that means you were limited by the gpu. if you cant comprehend that then you have no business replying when people need help.

Really smartass? Then why do I have the same fps with maxed settings that I do with everything bar environment quality on low?

http://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/assassins-creed-iv-black-flag-pc-performance-analysis/

Read that. The issue is cpu utilisation and scaling just as its always been with the AC games.

[trek554]

Originally posted by SenMithrarin85:

Originally posted by trek554:

you have no ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clue what you are talking about. if you are cpu limited then lowering the resolution will make no difference in framerate. if your framerate goes up when you lower the resolution then that means you were limited by the gpu. if you cant comprehend that then you have no business replying when people need help.

Really smartass? Then why do I have the same fps with maxed settings that I do with everything bar environment quality on low?

http://www.dsogaming.com/pc-performance-analyses/assassins-creed-iv-black-flag-pc-performance-analysis/

Read that. The issue is cpu utilisation and scaling just as its always been with the AC games.

wow you really are a special kind of stupid. stick to youtube commenting where you fit in.

[[N]Harry]

4690 holding him back LMAO. If you don't know anything about PC's then do not respond. You are misleading him.

[Flex]

RTEEEET

[SenMithrarin85]

Originally posted by NWhite™:

4690 holding him back LMAO. If you don't know anything about PC's then do not respond. You are misleading him.

Well a 970 shouldn't be bottlenecking a 3 year old game either. Several analysis sites state that the cpu coding is poor in Black Flag. Still i'm not staying here to be insulted. I bid you elitists/fanboys adeiu.

[Frannz]

This game is poorly optimized.
There is no bottleneck in it, just bad programming.

It doesn't use the cpu properly, making things like long distance settings too demanding on any machine.
It doesn't use gpu properly, alpha effects, smoke effects, etc., drop the framerate more than it should.

Also, Vsync uses double-buffering, which makes the game fall to 30Fps when it can't sustain 60 (which happens a lot because of poor porting)
You can disable vsync but the tearing is horrible in this game.
You can force it on the control panel, but somehow, to me, tearing still happens, guess frame pacing in this game is also problematic.

4790k
980ti
And I can't maintain a stable 60fps all the time.

[mattx]

Nice tutorial

[NaniteCloud]

Originally posted by FSP-S Falou:

Hello all!

I've got a recent pc gamer:
I5 4690@ 3.5 Ghz
Ram: 8Go
MSI Geforce GTX 970

I can run all recently game in 1080p @ 60 fps, like the Witcher 3 for example.
In the case of this Assassin's Creed Black Flag, it's a nightmare. The fps is not stable and I've got a lot of drops to 30 - 40 fps, making the game laggy and the experience very bad.

I've tried to down the video settings, but I can't find the good setting... even in FXAA, it seems laggy (and ugly by the way).

Could you tell me what''s your vidéo settings to play with a good 60fps?

Many thanks, and sorry for my bad english!

Yeah, it's not a perfect PC port, but there are some actions you can take to smooth out the frame pacing. The most performance intensive settings besides higher resoution is shadows, physx, and god rays. Keep Environment detail on very high because there is no measurable performance difference between low and very high. I have shadows on high (very high cost 15% more performance and soft shadows, even more). I recommend leaving physx off for this game as it can cause massive (15 fps) frame drops in this game. You can probably leave god rays on high as the performance difference between low and high is not as significant (3-5 fps).

Now to help smooth out the frame pacing, I recommend going to the Nvidia control panel 3D profile settings, select the Assassin's Creed BlackFlag (SP) profile, go to the Max Prerendered Frames[www.tweakguides.com] setting and set to 4. I actually have mine set to 6, which can be done by using a tool called nvidia Profile Inspector, which allows you to set the max frames to render ahead by up to 8. Note, for Radeon cards you can use Radeon Pro tool and set the "Flip Queue Size" for this game's profile. I believe the AC games benefit from setting higher max prerendered frames than the default of 3. They look smoother to me. Hope this helps!