Ubisoft screwed us again with 3 DRMs and crappy performance

[The Father]

for those kids that dont believe it, look at this screenshot:

https://image.prntscr.com/image/_6qmeqq0RBCMIAtGK8VnRw.png

and for those saying i dont own the game and im a pirate crying because i cannot pirate it, i own the game on UPlay.

Unfortunately Ubisoft will never change, its the same, this game will fry your CPU, it stresses all cores upto 100% even in main menu as soon as you start the game before loading your save or start a new game, it doesnt matter what kind of CPU you are having even the new i7 8700k or Ryzen CPUs, this will bottleneck your GPU, in other words your GPU will be under utilized and you will get 1/2 of the performance that it should give.

The reason was uncovered today, Ubisoft injected another DRM layer on top of Denuvo, this DRM layer called VMProtect, it is widely known for declining performance and was abandoned long time ago by publishers.

however, Ubi is Ubi, they dont care about customers and only care about themselves, alot of people on steam already refunded the game and others with more than 2 hours and who bought the uplay version are stuck waiting for a patch to remove this piece of crap called VMProtect.

So another thing back-fired on Ubisoft, with every major release they have to do sth stupid to get their own paying customers mad and screw them all the way.

i have the game on UPlay, CPU 4770k (4.6 Ghz) and 1080 Ti, the GPU utilization drops to 50% in Alexandria and CPU is 100% all the time, FPS drops to 30s with horrible stuttering.

The game seems to be well optimized without those kind of crap DRMs but unfortunately it got ruined by these shady practices.

when you start playing you will notice 100% CPU usage and 98% GPU, but then when you go deep into the game and start visiting crowded locations with NPCs, it is a disaster.

so Steam, UPlay, Denuvo and VMProtect , well done Ubi$hit for screwing your own customers, 4 DRMs for a game that will be cracked in less than a week,

here is the original thread on Ubi forums and ofcourse no word from Ubi$hit on this matter, silence only as usual as now the issue is out in the wild:

http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/1774494-This-game-has-a-high-CPU-usage-80-100

[Einstine]

Diposting pertama kali oleh IceTitan:

The thing is you don't listen or pay attention to private acounts or level 0's. You only consider what people with the game that actually spent hours playing it. Otherwise it's usually always a troll trying to sabotage game launch. It's happening at almost every single game launch, and post launch, Elex, Divinity OS 2, AAA games, Indie games. It's basicly like trolls that are payed to be trolls in a sense. Unless someone that has actual play time and can prove it, usually just ignore them. Because they likely don't have it or played it.

Bing Bing Bong!

[Volfuric]

Diposting pertama kali oleh SleeveDagger:

Diposting pertama kali oleh «🐾♂ Volfuric Dragneel♂🐾»:

with all the people complaining about cpu useage anyway. yet to see any proof of it

Except directly from Ubisoft

would love a link if you have one, even under ubi's list of known problems no sign of it

[Viper]

Diposting pertama kali oleh «🐾♂ Volfuric Dragneel♂🐾»:

Diposting pertama kali oleh SleeveDagger:

Except directly from Ubisoft

would love a link if you have one, even under ubi's list of known problems no sign of it

Sounds like it was a bluff...

[SleeveDagger]

Diposting pertama kali oleh «🐾♂ Volfuric Dragneel♂🐾»:

Diposting pertama kali oleh SleeveDagger:

Except directly from Ubisoft

would love a link if you have one, even under ubi's list of known problems no sign of it

its under Ubisofts known issues AMD high CPU usage causing overheating and low fps. I also have a email from support stating they are working on a fix

[Kai]

I ran the ingame benchmarks at different settings with my PC and noticed that the higher clock speeds of your CPU the better FPS you get out of it, which is a bit weird because actual performance varies as the game is still kind of buggy.

Ryzen 1700 stock CPU settings and Tweaked RX 580:

FPS/CPU/GPU/Score
Ultra High 35 / 27 / 28 / 4171
Very High 38 / 25 / 27 / 4392
High 43 / 23 / 23 / 5156
Medium 44 / 22 / 22 / 5312
Low 48 / 20 / 20 / 5776
Very Low 48 / 20 / 20 / 5771 (fluctuation)

When I overclocked it from it's base clock of 3.0Ghz that can scale up to 3.7Ghz turbo, to a constant 3.8Ghz:

FPS/CPU/GPU/Score
Ultra High 43 / 22 / 23 / 5199
Very High 48 / 19 / 21 / 5800
High 52 / 18 / 19 / 6257
Medium 53 / 18 / 19 / 6375
Low 59 / 17 / 17 / 7003
Very Low 59 / 17 / 17 / 7071

Fluctuates a lot, so jumps in performance is random.

Out of my 8 core 16 threads, only 1-2 of the threads randomly hits 100% utilization, most of the other threads barely hit 50% at times, meaning my CPU actually isn't being utilized properly.

AC Origin runs on Dx11, which uses a worse DirectX driver for my AMD GPU, which translates to less effective performance in general in hardware utilization... I wouldn't be surprised if Ubisoft pulled another stupid measure with their code again.

Whilst this game is running, UplayWebCore is also running:
This is in the command line

"C:/Program Files (x86)/Ubisoft/Ubisoft Game Launcher/UplayWebCore.exe" --type=renderer --disable-gpu-compositing --enable-smooth-scrolling --no-sandbox --primordial-pipe-token=EFD67E1543C8E24F91AB6F936BCB5DDA --lang=en-US --lang=en-US --locales-dir-path="C:/Program Files (x86)/Ubisoft/Ubisoft Game Launcher/locales/1/" --log-file="C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\debug.log" --disable-spell-checking --enable-system-flash --enable-pinch --device-scale-factor=1 --num-raster-threads=4 --enable-main-frame-before-activation --content-image-texture-target=0,0,3553;0,1,3553;0,2,3553;0,3,3553;0,4,3553;0,5,3553;0,6,3553;0,7,3553;0,8,3553;0,9,3553;0,10,3553;0,11,3553;0,12,3553;0,13,3553;0,14,3553;0,15,3553;0,16,3553;1,0,3553;1,1,3553;1,2,3553;1,3,3553;1,4,3553;1,5,3553;1,6,3553;1,7,3553;1,8,3553;1,9,3553;1,10,3553;1,11,3553;1,12,3553;1,13,3553;1,14,3553;1,15,3553;1,16,3553;2,0,3553;2,1,3553;2,2,3553;2,3,3553;2,4,3553;2,5,3553;2,6,3553;2,7,3553;2,8,3553;2,9,3553;2,10,3553;2,11,3553;2,12,3553;2,13,3553;2,14,3553;2,15,3553;2,16,3553;3,0,3553;3,1,3553;3,2,3553;3,3,3553;3,4,3553;3,5,3553;3,6,3553;3,7,3553;3,8,3553;3,9,3553;3,10,3553;3,11,3553;3,12,3553;3,13,3553;3,14,3553;3,15,3553;3,16,3553;4,0,3553;4,1,3553;4,2,3553;4,3,3553;4,4,3553;4,5,3553;4,6,3553;4,7,3553;4,8,3553;4,9,3553;4,10,3553;4,11,3553;4,12,3553;4,13,3553;4,14,3553;4,15,3553;4,16,3553 --disable-accelerated-video-decode --disable-webrtc-hw-vp8-encoding --disable-gpu-compositing --service-request-channel-token=EFD67E1543C8E24F91AB6F936BCB5DDA --renderer-client-id=3 --mojo-platform-channel-handle=2504 /prefetch:1

Interesting tidbit is if i set affinity to only my last 4 cores:
Thread 0 to thread 7 disabled, and thread 8 to 15 enabled

FPS/CPU/GPU/Score
High 49 / 19 / 20 / 5917
Very Low 55 / 18 / 18 / 6586

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1186436509

[Benis :DD]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Abook:

i have the game on UPlay, CPU 4770k (4.6 Ghz) and 1080 Ti, the GPU utilization drops to 50% in Alexandria and CPU is 100% all the time, FPS drops to 30s with horrible stuttering.

Your pc has issues, check if you have harmful software running in background. I never managed to go below 95% gpu load even in alexandria and I play on ultras (5820k@4.1Ghz and 1080ti).
Well if I go low resolution I'll eventually get 50% gpu load but at 1080p + 120% resolution scale my cpu always keeps the gpu busy.

[Gabi]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Cofagrigus:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Abook:

i have the game on UPlay, CPU 4770k (4.6 Ghz) and 1080 Ti, the GPU utilization drops to 50% in Alexandria and CPU is 100% all the time, FPS drops to 30s with horrible stuttering.

Your pc has issues, check if you have harmful software running in background. I never managed to go below 95% gpu load even in alexandria and I play on ultras (5820k@4.1Ghz and 1080ti).
Well if I go low resolution I'll eventually get 50% gpu load but at 1080p + 120% resolution scale my cpu always keeps the gpu busy.

Well if your playing this you do, it's called denuvo. Look into there history and tell me you have no issues with how they have done there code in the past.

[Benis :DD]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Gabi:

Well if your playing this you do, it's called denuvo. Look into there history and tell me you have no issues with how they have done there code in the past.

I dont have any issues with this game. It runs really good on my machine, but maybe thats because extra 2 cores that I've got?

[Gabi]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Cofagrigus:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Gabi:

Well if your playing this you do, it's called denuvo. Look into there history and tell me you have no issues with how they have done there code in the past.

I dont have any issues with this game. It runs really good on my machine, but maybe thats because extra 2 cores that I've got?

It could be many things, my point was more in windows 10 microsoft patched out the ability for them to use the exploits they had used previously for drm as it opened up your system to attack. The company behind this drm is shady as hell, even with denuvo they settled out of court for stealing code and so on. Hence not really a group I have much trust in, and also being denuvo all games with it will become unplayable as it require dialing in to a server to allow you to play. For example anytime you change hardware it will need to do so or will lock you out of your game. Some will say this will be patched out when the servers are turned off, but at that point they have alreadey made there money and have no incentive to (and historically such patching out of drm in such a curcusmtance is extremely rare, and the game is typically left unplayable, see Darkspore for instance).

[Kai]

It doesn't really utilize your CPU properly, if your CPU does overheat it might be something wrong with your game that's screwing with your system. Steam versions seems to activate a 'steam verison' command line.

The game is very much into 'core clock' and is a single threaded game that isn't very much optimized for more than 2-4 cores.

[Kalshion]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Cofagrigus:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Abook:

i have the game on UPlay, CPU 4770k (4.6 Ghz) and 1080 Ti, the GPU utilization drops to 50% in Alexandria and CPU is 100% all the time, FPS drops to 30s with horrible stuttering.

Your pc has issues, check if you have harmful software running in background. I never managed to go below 95% gpu load even in alexandria and I play on ultras (5820k@4.1Ghz and 1080ti).
Well if I go low resolution I'll eventually get 50% gpu load but at 1080p + 120% resolution scale my cpu always keeps the gpu busy.

Unfortunantly, as is quite common-place in the PC gaming community, most PC gamers have this mindset that their systems are never the issue when it comes to problems with a video game and if said game has some form of DRM it instantly becomes the scapegoat for *any* problems that the player is having.

Now, onward to the topic at hand.

For me the game runs prettty smoothly, I do get FPS drops every so often but it doesn't bother me, and by FPS drops I mean going from 60-70 FPS to 40-50 in Alex', which despite that drop is still quite playable for me and yes I do notice the CPU utilization but as it was already stated: it isn't an issue, so long as you have a decent cooler that is able to keep your CPU cool (so far my tempts haven't gone above 80 even with 100% usage)

Specs:

i7-3930k
16 GB's Ram
EVGA 1070 FTW

[Erudius]

https://i.imgur.com/ZjRPP4r.png - CPU/GPU loads for me
https://i.imgur.com/PCdqCcY.jpg - screenshot of Alexandria setting
https://i.imgur.com/ZjRPP4r.png - Vid of me running through the streets

Getting 30fps 1900x1200 (I don't care about 60fps) @ Ultra setting
Game installed on second SSD Sata3.


- in Alexandria
- with 2 monitors, with AC:O on in Borderless, Photoshop, Gamecaster, (x2) Interwebz Explorer windows, Chrome with 15 tabs open (mostly youtube), Uplay, Steam, Origins, HWinfo Sensor Monitoring, and typing this to the thread via the steam desktop app.
- also captured, watched and uploaded the sample video while it was running.

soooo.... I dunno. I can't complain... this is literally the first time I'm having fun in AC again since I dunno when. There are some issues, like not being able to get back into my boat that I'm bugged by, but the game runs great.

other info: 64mb ram; nothing is overclocked on this system.

[Viper]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Erudius:

https://i.imgur.com/ZjRPP4r.png - CPU/GPU loads for me
https://i.imgur.com/PCdqCcY.jpg - screenshot of Alexandria setting
https://i.imgur.com/ZjRPP4r.png - Vid of me running through the streets

Getting 30fps 1900x1200 (I don't care about 60fps) @ Ultra setting
Game installed on second SSD Sata3.


- in Alexandria
- with 2 monitors, with AC:O on in Borderless, Photoshop, Gamecaster, (x2) Interwebz Explorer windows, Chrome with 15 tabs open (mostly youtube), Uplay, Steam, Origins, HWinfo Sensor Monitoring, and typing this to the thread via the steam desktop app.
- also captured, watched and uploaded the sample video while it was running.

soooo.... I dunno. I can't complain... this is literally the first time I'm having fun in AC again since I dunno when. There are some issues, like not being able to get back into my boat that I'm bugged by, but the game runs great.

other info: 64mb ram; nothing is overclocked on this system.

Most people say its the best Assasins Creed ever. I am so much looking forward to playing it on Wednesday.