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Uncle Baby Billy May 29, 2015 @ 2:16pm
FPS Drop in Certain Areas
Does anyone else experience some FPS drops in certain areas? I believe it's the foliage that causes mine, because one of the forest islands and the Assassin's island give me some drops to around 30 FPS. Is this normal?
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Chashmodai Jun 3, 2015 @ 4:05am 
The performance is a joke on this game. My GTX970 can't even max this game with 60FPS. Worthless optimizing.
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Snub Barracuda Jun 4, 2015 @ 4:11am 
Yeah, I have a similar issue with the foliage.

In some places, anything higher than the lowest environment setting causes my fps to drop under 30 fps regardless of any other settings' levels. In those areas during a big storm i get like 22-25 fps.

It's like flipping a light switch, foliage there = fps in the 20s , remove foliage = 60 fps. Increasing the evironment detail settings beyond the level where they first popped in doesn't seem to effect fps either, once they start to be drawn it's instant tankage.

Using a 2700k with a 560ti on W7 with 8gb of ram. In most other areas, even in large towns, i can usually hold near 60 fps with nearly maxed settings. Certain spots cause minor dips to 55, 50 or 45 respectively, but remain smooth feeling and are few and hardly noticeable in gameplay. (small corners and angles I can find while testing that I would pass by in less than a second while playing and maybe not even notice) Then I end up on some Island or area with a ton of densely layed copy and paste foliage in a certain spot and it becomes a chopfest.



It's too bad they have to make one of these every year and don't have time to get then working well before they release them. And then they have to move on to the next game without fixing huge problems that tons of customers are complaining about. The oddest part of it, is that doing so makes them more successful as a game company.
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Uncle Baby Billy Jun 4, 2015 @ 12:26pm 
Ah ok. Thanks for the response. I was worried I was having issues with the video card!
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iemander Jun 4, 2015 @ 2:03pm 
This is because of the way the game is handling v-sync. Turn off v-sync and the problem's gone, but of course you'll get screen tearing.

Your best bet is actually enabling triple buffering, but this can only be done with an external tool (Forgot which one).
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Chashmodai Jun 4, 2015 @ 2:05pm 
Originally posted by iemander:
This is because of the way the game is handling v-sync. Turn off v-sync and the problem's gone, but of course you'll get screen tearing.

Your best bet is actually enabling triple buffering, but this can only be done with an external tool (Forgot which one).
The tool is called RivaTuner.

I never play games with v-sync on. Performance is still horrible in this game, way worse than, say, the Witcher 3 or GTA V(in relation to their graphics) for example. A 970 should be able to max this game with 60 fps without problems.
Last edited by Chashmodai; Jun 4, 2015 @ 2:05pm
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King Bradley Jun 4, 2015 @ 5:35pm 
Originally posted by Chashmodai:
The performance is a joke on this game. My GTX970 can't even max this game with 60FPS. Worthless optimizing.
What's your cpu?
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King Bradley Jun 4, 2015 @ 5:35pm 
Try adaptive vsync.
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Chashmodai Jun 4, 2015 @ 5:35pm 
Originally posted by Kratos:
Originally posted by Chashmodai:
The performance is a joke on this game. My GTX970 can't even max this game with 60FPS. Worthless optimizing.
What's your cpu?
i7-4790K. Should be enough, don't ya think?
Last edited by Chashmodai; Jun 4, 2015 @ 5:36pm
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King Bradley Jun 4, 2015 @ 5:38pm 
Originally posted by Chashmodai:
Originally posted by Kratos:
What's your cpu?
i7-4790K. Should be enough, don't ya think?
You should post cpu when you post gpu since cpu is also important... Well damn. I have same gpu and worse cpu than yours and I am getting same cpu in 2 months so I gave up on this game cause it was like plays on 60 then fps drop to 40. But if it doesn't help... Try adaptive vsync like I said, some people said it helped. Also since your cpu is good try running on one core.
Last edited by King Bradley; Jun 4, 2015 @ 5:40pm
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Chashmodai Jun 4, 2015 @ 5:40pm 
Originally posted by Kratos:
Originally posted by Chashmodai:
i7-4790K. Should be enough, don't ya think?
You should post cpu when you post gpu since cpu is also important... Well damn. I have same gpu and not that good cpu and I am getting same cpu in 2 months so I gave up on this game cause it was like plays on 60 then fps drop to 40. But if it doesn't help... Try adaptive vsync like I said, some people said it helped. Also since your cpu is good try running on one core.
I play with v-sync off completely. I don't think adaptive v-sync is going to help me.

It's not that the FPS in locked to 30. I just have very low FPS, around 40-50. Don't get me wrong, the game is fully playable but it should run so much better with my specs.
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King Bradley Jun 4, 2015 @ 5:41pm 
Originally posted by Chashmodai:
Originally posted by Kratos:
You should post cpu when you post gpu since cpu is also important... Well damn. I have same gpu and not that good cpu and I am getting same cpu in 2 months so I gave up on this game cause it was like plays on 60 then fps drop to 40. But if it doesn't help... Try adaptive vsync like I said, some people said it helped. Also since your cpu is good try running on one core.
I play with v-sync off completely. I don't think adaptive v-sync is going to help me.

It's not that the FPS in locked to 30. I just have very low FPS, around 40-50. Don't get me wrong, the game is fully playable but it should run so much better with my specs.
Well it should not have fps drops at all... Like I said I have same gpu and not that good cpu and my game runs at 60 fps and then suddenly it would drop to 40-45. I don't have 50 lol.

By the way since I am gettin same cpu, how's your perforamnce on GTA V and Witcher 3?
Last edited by King Bradley; Jun 4, 2015 @ 5:43pm
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Chashmodai Jun 4, 2015 @ 5:43pm 
Originally posted by Kratos:
Originally posted by Chashmodai:
I play with v-sync off completely. I don't think adaptive v-sync is going to help me.

It's not that the FPS in locked to 30. I just have very low FPS, around 40-50. Don't get me wrong, the game is fully playable but it should run so much better with my specs.
Well it should not have fps drops at all... Like I said I have same gpu and not that good cpu and my game runs at 60 fps and then suddenly it would drop to 45. I don't have 50 lol.
Do you have everything maxed, including physx?
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King Bradley Jun 4, 2015 @ 5:43pm 
Originally posted by Chashmodai:
Originally posted by Kratos:
Well it should not have fps drops at all... Like I said I have same gpu and not that good cpu and my game runs at 60 fps and then suddenly it would drop to 45. I don't have 50 lol.
Do you have everything maxed, including physx?
Well I played this few months ago and I think I did max it. Can't rememer since there wasn't that much to change.
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King Bradley Jun 4, 2015 @ 5:46pm 
Originally posted by Chashmodai:
Originally posted by Kratos:
Well it should not have fps drops at all... Like I said I have same gpu and not that good cpu and my game runs at 60 fps and then suddenly it would drop to 45. I don't have 50 lol.
Do you have everything maxed, including physx?
You know one thing that comes to my mind, try changing it in NVidia control panel from auto recommended to your gpu for physics.
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Chashmodai Jun 4, 2015 @ 5:46pm 
Originally posted by Kratos:
Originally posted by Chashmodai:
Do you have everything maxed, including physx?
You know one thing that comes to my mind, try changing it in NVidia control panel from auto recommended to your gpu for physics.
Think that'll help? I'll give it a try tomorrow.
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