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Hillhome May 28, 2014 @ 10:34am
My watchdogs slow performance fix
I found this in the forums but things get buried fast so here's what I did!

My Games/WatchDogs/GamerProfile: Open the file with notepad then change...

From -> DeferredFxQuality="console"

To -> DeferredFxQuality="pc"

Then save the file, stick it back in the folder and play the game. This completely removed all stuttering while driving and also fixed the rather slow/poor performance overall in the game. I didn't change any other settings with for the initial testing but I can now have the pre-set on ultra while streaming and it runs great.

Hopefully this will help some of you out also. I take NO CREDIT FOR THIS FIND - I saw it pop up in a few other topics about various tweaks that were helpful to some people. I hope it helps those of you who may still need something to try and haven't found this one yet.
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Hillhome May 28, 2014 @ 11:31am 
Just a bump - again to see if it helps people!
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Emmanuel May 28, 2014 @ 11:37am 
Originally posted by Hillhome:
Just a bump - again to see if it helps people!
I tried it, and while it helped some, it didn't fix the issue entirely.
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Emperor Palpoutine May 28, 2014 @ 11:40am 
For more details: http://steamcommunity.com/app/243470/discussions/0/540743032558655712/

Hope it helps :)
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Petroph May 28, 2014 @ 11:41am 
Ya I tried that, as I was getting alot of stuttering, however, I put in a "-disablefilecheck", without quotes, on my "game startup options" on steam, and my stuttering issues dissappeared. Run the game on Ultra, with the exception of Shadows on high as that brings my fps to about 3 if on ultra, and AA off as I love my jagged edges :P.
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Hillhome May 28, 2014 @ 12:05pm 
Originally posted by Fabulous Platypus:
For more details: http://steamcommunity.com/app/243470/discussions/0/540743032558655712/

Hope it helps :)

Oddly enough I was getting tons of stuttering and I have a GeForce 770 4 gig video card so switching just to PC instead of Console helped a TON for me. I might try that filecheck thing also and bumping the buffer to 5 from 3 and see what that does! I'll post back when I'm done doing that but it won't be for another like 6 hours yet (working...)
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