So I bought a 1080Ti to play this game and.....

[Dark Exsphere]

I was running a high end PC with a 6700k@4.2ghz + 980Ti Seahawk @1337Mhz + 2x8gb RAM @2400Mhz + Samsung 250gb SSD. I wasn't liking the performance of the game at all. In Alexandria, just running back and forth infront of the library could cause the framerate to dip down to the high 50's. Keep in mind in an open world game such as the Witcher 3 on the same rig, I was getting over 100fps with draw distance turned down a level and hairworks completely off. So naturally I was very upset since I love Assassin's Creed and I own basically every AC game on Steam.

This prompted me to buy a Asus GTX 1080Ti. Very expensive, extremely large card. Popped it in, ran AC Origins benchmark and I almost cried. Not only did the game still hit into the 50s, there was lots of stutter (I later fixed that after doing a manual download of Nvidia drivers and doing a clean install). I simply don't get it. Every single other game I have on steam runs easily over 60fps or atleast at 60fps locked (MGS5 doesn't go above 60). I cannot help but feel disapointed. Now what? I have like a 4000$ PC that can't run one of my favorite games at locked 60fps. Yeah you could turn down the graphical settings, but is that what you buy high end hardware for?

My resolution is 2560x1080 (ultrawide). Even if I make it 1920x1080, I still don't get over 100fps. I do not know how some YouTubers online with more or less the same system can run that benchmark (the scene where there are people walking) at over 80+fps. That is where my fps drops the hardest. The only difference between this YouTuber and me is the RAM speed. His is 3200Mhz and mine's 2400Mhz. Here is his video for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv9xfeHRA90&t=152s

Someone... help.... Even overclocking my CPU to 4.6Ghz didn't really change any of the fps numbers I was getting. Maybe minimums went up but it's too varied to state clearly what higher CPU clocks do for this game.

[mooner]

Try OC the graphics card memory and make sure your system ram is running on XMP. But it is a badly optimised game, wish it ran on dx12.

[Dark Exsphere]

Originally posted by mooner:

Try OC the graphics card memory and make sure your system ram is running on XMP. But it is a badly optimised game, wish it ran on dx12.

my card runs at 1974mhz (26Mhz less than the YouTuber) on its own and memory is at 5500ish mhz (~500Mhz less than the YouTuber) on its own. i think thats overkill. I'm thinking of purchasing 3200Mhz RAM and seeing if that helps. Can always return it back to Amazon as the ram is the only BIG difference. But holy man this is BS.

[wim1234]

lol the fps hunters at it again, funny
a drop to high fifties , well thats good ernuf for this game.

[mooner]

Yeah you’re right this game is BS. I have a 6700k@4.5 with a 2080ti OC’d and the frame pacing is still all over the place.

[Dark Exsphere]

Originally posted by mooner:

Yeah you’re right this game is BS. I have a 6700k@4.5 with a 2080ti OC’d and the frame pacing is still all over the place.

Go into Nvidia control panel and set the max pre-rendered frames to 1. That should fix it.

[Dark Exsphere]

Originally posted by wim1234:

lol the fps hunters at it again, funny
a drop to high fifties , well thats good ernuf for this game.

It might be. But, a game in 2017 and onward shouldn't run this poorly. It's that simple. Especially since every other developer doesn't seem to have an issue with the PC version. Witcher 3 runs great on consoles and PC. GTA5 same thing. Hell even Breath of the Wild runs better on PC and it's not even an officially supported game.

[Gin]

the more you aim for high fps , the less you will get.

Pc specs :

Case : Corsair 760T Graphite.

MSI Z97 XPower AC (this mobo is an overkill OC beast)
Intel Core i7 4790K
Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB RAM @ 1600 Mhz. (believe it or not)
MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X 8G.

this build is getting old, i know, but it runs AC Origins and Odyssey quite smooth between 50 & 70 fps, i haven't OC'd anything

i guess i'm lucky

[Dark Exsphere]

Originally posted by Gin:

the more you aim for high fps , the less you will get.

Pc specs :

Case : Corsair 760T Graphite.

MSI Z97 XPower AC (this mobo is an overkill OC beast)
Intel Core i7 4790K
Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB RAM @ 1600 Mhz. (believe it or not)
MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X 8G.

this build is getting old, i know, but it runs AC Origins and Odyssey quite smooth between 50 & 70 fps, i haven't OC'd anything

i guess i'm lucky

That is what I'm getting as well. If I benchmark at Ultra High preset (2560x1080), I get average of 72fps. Which on paper isn't bad. But the scene where the camera pans over the NPC's the FPS drops below 60. The rest of the areas are great. I have a theory that, the more the game is CPU demanding (100% usage here especially in that area i just mentioned), the more cores, and RAM is required. I intend to purchase Corsair 3200Mhz RAM CL16. I do intend to update my findings. If my theory is correct, faster RAM will and should result in higher FPS despite CPU usage being high.

[vasylbsas]

man, I support you, I also have problem falling framerate instead of when, I was very sad, I do not know why ubisoft games fail and lack polish. I have more than 50 games I am doing very well without any problems at least ubisoft if I have problem ACOrigin games, Watch Dogs 2 and Ghost recon wildland has problem fps crash and FC5 rebounds .. I think it is problem denuvo.

[Dark Exsphere]

Originally posted by sk.vasyl:

man, I support you, I also have problem falling framerate instead of when, I was very sad, I do not know why ubisoft games fail and lack polish. I have more than 50 games I am doing very well without any problems at least ubisoft if I have problem ACOrigin games, Watch Dogs 2 and Ghost recon wildland has problem fps crash and FC5 rebounds .. I think it is problem denuvo.

I would like to think it is denuvo but aren't there other games that use denuvo as well? MGS5, Battlefield 1, Tales of Berseria, Nier Automata, Shadow of War, Injustice 2 etc all use Denuvo and run completely fine. My theory regarding poor AC performance is that garbage AnvilNext 2.0 engine they are using. Their game engines, imo, are heavily console optimized. They push graphics and cpu optimization on the consoles so far up that the same optimization is difficult to do on PC. Every other game I mentioned above runs completely fine (ok fine Nier has some fullscreen and global illumination issue which can be fixed with a mod). If you look at the division, game uses snowdrop engine, runs completely fine. Looks pretty decent too. Ghost Recon and AC unity,Syndicate,Origins and Odyssey all use it and run pretty poorly. The only outlier is Rainbow Six Seige. But I think that game runs exceptoinally well because you play it in a box (instead of open world) and there aren't NPC's everywhere.

[wim1234]

Originally posted by Gin:

the more you aim for high fps , the less you will get.

Pc specs :

Case : Corsair 760T Graphite.

MSI Z97 XPower AC (this mobo is an overkill OC beast)
Intel Core i7 4790K
Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB RAM @ 1600 Mhz. (believe it or not)
MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X 8G.

this build is getting old, i know, but it runs AC Origins and Odyssey quite smooth between 50 & 70 fps, i haven't OC'd anything

i guess i'm lucky

no not lucky, i call it wise.
i can thelp having a laff at the ppl who buy expensive stuff and cant run it well enuf, thats funny. and most of the time the issue is at thier side too.

[Metalsie]

I've read places where having it installed on ssd can cause issiues with frame dips. Try installing it on a hdd if it's on ur ssd.

[FeilDOW]

You have a CPU bottleneck when you see FPS drops, use the in-game res scaler or DSR to render at a higher res to elevate the limitation.

Originally posted by Metalsie:

I've read places where having it installed on ssd can cause issiues with frame dips. Try installing it on a hdd if it's on ur ssd.

This is backwards, open world games like fast SSD's for streaming assets, a much slower HDD would cause stuttering when loading and streaming in assets while running into new areas.

[Dark Exsphere]

Originally posted by Metalsie:

I've read places where having it installed on ssd can cause issiues with frame dips. Try installing it on a hdd if it's on ur ssd.

installing it to a HDD from my experience DOES cause more stuttering. That's why i prefer SSD.

[Dark Exsphere]

Originally posted by wim1234:

Originally posted by Gin:

the more you aim for high fps , the less you will get.

Pc specs :

Case : Corsair 760T Graphite.

MSI Z97 XPower AC (this mobo is an overkill OC beast)
Intel Core i7 4790K
Corsair Vengeance Pro 16GB RAM @ 1600 Mhz. (believe it or not)
MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X 8G.

this build is getting old, i know, but it runs AC Origins and Odyssey quite smooth between 50 & 70 fps, i haven't OC'd anything

i guess i'm lucky

no not lucky, i call it wise.
i can thelp having a laff at the ppl who buy expensive stuff and cant run it well enuf, thats funny. and most of the time the issue is at thier side too.

Actually if you look at other people benchmarking this game they get similar results. I was hoping the 1080Ti would murder this game at 1080p. The biggest outlier here is that ram. When you buy ram all you think of is "it needs to be more than 8GB or else it won't be enough". And generally speed is ignored for gaming. However; as im trying to educate myself on this, it seems that RAM speed matters a lot in CPU intensive tasks, which includes gaming. This is why I intend on purchasing Corsair Vengeance 3200Mhz RAM CL16. I had to option of selecting 3000Mhz CL15 or 3200Mhz CL16 and opted for the CL16 one since latency shouldn't be as big as a factor than the speed itself.