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Watch Dogs Ultra System Requirements Released

Watchdogs likes to get into the 90's @ 100% fan speed. NZXT shipped a G10 bracket to me a month ago, but I haven't gotten it yet. Probably going to email them about it today.

Maybe I should give up trying to keep everything fitting an a micro ATX case, but hopefully getting the 290 on even an AIO will significantly help. The PSU is right below the card so it's not getting the coolest air and the card's backplate has about 2mm of space from my H80i on my 4770k, which is causing crazy heatsoak. At 3.9Ghz the coolant temp gets up to 70C. I feel like something is starving the fans though, I've got them setup as exhausts with a 120 in the top of the case as an intake right into them, and the fans are much quieter than when they were intakes, but the temps suck. I might try resetting the block, maybe it got wiggled or something when I was switching things around.

This is all with the side panel off, lol.
 
Lopez0101 said:
Watchdogs likes to get into the 90's @ 100% fan speed. NZXT shipped a G10 bracket to me a month ago, but I haven't gotten it yet. Probably going to email them about it today.

Maybe I should give up trying to keep everything fitting an a micro ATX case, but hopefully getting the 290 on even an AIO will significantly help. The PSU is right below the card so it's not getting the coolest air and the card's backplate has about 2mm of space from my H80i on my 4770k, which is causing crazy heatsoak. At 3.9Ghz the coolant temp gets up to 70C. I feel like something is starving the fans though, I've got them setup as exhausts with a 120 in the top of the case as an intake right into them, and the fans are much quieter than when they were intakes, but the temps suck. I might try resetting the block, maybe it got wiggled or something when I was switching things around.

This is all with the side panel off, lol.
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Lol really and you have a gaming edition

I'm using a Stock Reference
 
You make me sad. Most games stay in the 80's though, so I'm not sure what the deal is. I haven't played WD since I added my hella sick cardboard GPU brace, which lowered my temps, lol.
 
Lopez0101 said:
You make me sad. Most games stay in the 80's though, so I'm not sure what the deal is. I haven't played WD since I added my hella sick cardboard GPU brace, which lowered my temps, lol.
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Most of the time mines stay in the high 60s low 70s. Maxing out at 75*C. WD is the only game so far to pass that
 
Guess I'm just bad at computers and never get a break. 4770k OC's like shit, won't even do 4Ghz without giving me BSOD's. AIB 290 runs hotter than a ref board at lower clocks. Part of me is starting to wonder if something is wrong with my mobo. I think I'm going to start a new thread to get some help troubleshooting those BSOD's because they're annoying and almost always caused by a different .sys process each time.
 
Lopez0101 said:
Guess I'm just bad at computers and never get a break. 4770k OC's like shit, won't even do 4Ghz without giving me BSOD's. AIB 290 runs hotter than a ref board at lower clocks. Part of me is starting to wonder if something is wrong with my mobo. I think I'm going to start a new thread to get some help troubleshooting those BSOD's because they're annoying and almost always caused by a different .sys process each time.
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Wow that does suck. My i7-4770 does 4.173GHz without a hitch and it's not even unlocked.
 
Lopez0101 said:
Guess I'm just bad at computers and never get a break. 4770k OC's like shit, won't even do 4Ghz without giving me BSOD's. AIB 290 runs hotter than a ref board at lower clocks. Part of me is starting to wonder if something is wrong with my mobo. I think I'm going to start a new thread to get some help troubleshooting those BSOD's because they're annoying and almost always caused by a different .sys process each time.
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I've seen people struggling with the 4770K, i have managed to push mine to 4.3 ghz without touching a single configuration at stock voltages but that was only a minute test because i have the stock cooler and the temps at that moment went to almost 90 º while rendering a Video on Sony Vegas, then after that reverted to its normal multiplier value 3.9 boost and everything went to normal, highest temp while rendering with sony vegas ~ 74º.
 
3.8 seems to be the most stable for me, but that's stupid because it's under the boost clock. If I don't manually set it to 3.9 it runs fine. It's annoying.
 
Been playing the game some more. If there's one saving grace it's that it DOES scale somewhat in difficulty once you start doing tougher missions. I guess maybe I notice it more than some because I'm playing my first run through as bare bones as I can equipment wise to compensate for only being on Normal mode.

The only thing I've bought so far is a $1200 assault rifle, at the start of the game where they send you to a gun shop. For the most part I use whatever I pick up though. Some convoys can be tough if you have minimal gear and aren't careful how you do them. Like No Rules, which has a big wig mob boss and an entourage of limos, SVUs, and heavily armed and armored troops.

I ended up parking a courier van sideways across their lane on one end of a raising platform type bridge and activated the bridge as the target limo was on the center of the platform. This isolated the lead SVU and the target limo on my side of the bridge after they drove off the platform.

Taking cover from behind the van, they didn't even see me, making it an easy mop up with my SVD and SGR 12, followed by a quick rush at the target to get the requisite knock down. Other attempts from various vantage points with the SVD failed due to civilians calling cops and my getting caught in the middle of their battle, and/or getting flanked by either after re-positioning.

So it will no doubt be necessary to get very clever or gear up on higher difficulty modes, maybe both.
 
Ahh, the police will help the gang to kill you, must watch.
 
Durvelle27 said:
AA has a huge impact on VRAM

My settings when i shot that screen shot

Ultra Textures
HABO+High
4xMSAA
GPU Frame Buffer 3
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Near same setting here except blur is off and GPU frame are 5 @ 1920x1080 and mem usage is 3.8GB.


@Frag Maniac, one of the 1st things i did was to turn off online stuff, i did play though that mission and i got the guy trying to hide in a bunch of people. And was pretty sure it was a real person too as when they were changing direction the catch up was minimal like 1m as after then the AI been much easier to catch...
And i dislike how it pushes the online crap in your face too and should just let me pick one if i want to lol.

And if i was trying to hide my ID when buying cloths surly would not be online, it be in a bar\pub :p.
 
I since posting about the 2xEQ AA turned AA off completely after eventual frame rate drop offs while driving dipping into 35ish FPS average. Didn't really solve the problem though. I'm running Cat 14.6b and have the patch installed too.

Really getting tired of the poor driving FPS, and the mouse view lag problem is often horrible. I'll be in the middle of a nasty escape and as my vehicle gets damaged a lot find a good place to hop out and switch vehicles, then the mouse will take it's sweet time letting me swing the view around. I used to think it only happened while driving at times, but sometimes it happens on foot and it's very annoying.

Anyways, had some more epic missions, including a couple story missions involving big chases with helis, and a particularly interesting convoy in Pawnee called Small Town Justice with some very heavy armor troops that make the No Rules guys look like ice cream shop clerks. The odd thing is, I tried a method that got me killed in No Rules, parking one of those semi large reinforced cargo bed trucks across the road and using it's bed as a snipe spot.

The heavies managed to get quite close and I had to hop out when the 2nd grenade was tossed as the truck was taking lots of damage. I narrowly escaped death as it exploded and managed to take cover behind it to shotgun blast the remaining bodyguards several times in the head. Those suckers are tough. The two knock downs were then an easy mop up.

BTW, has anyone else noticed one of the NPC profiles in the game when scanning with your smartphone is "Former Abstergo Employee"?
 
So a lot of people are apparently having issues with hitching while driving and using Ultra Textures even on extremely beast PC's. I was having the issue was well and thought I was short on Vram but it turns out it never even touches 2048GB on Ultra with Temporal AA.

Thankfully they've announce a patch to increase PC performance.

A temporary fix which somewhat alleviates the issue seems to be adding -disablepagefilecheck to the end of the .exe.

I'm not sure why, but it helped.
 
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Lopez0101 said:
Guess I'm just bad at computers and never get a break. 4770k OC's like shit, won't even do 4Ghz without giving me BSOD's. AIB 290 runs hotter than a ref board at lower clocks. Part of me is starting to wonder if something is wrong with my mobo. I think I'm going to start a new thread to get some help troubleshooting those BSOD's because they're annoying and almost always caused by a different .sys process each time.
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You probably aren't overclocking the chip correctly. 4GHZ is barely an overclock. the chip boosts to 3.9GHZ on its own stock.
 
I know it's barely an overclock. I just ordered an air cooler and I'm ditching the H80i. It worked fine the first couple of months, but now the coolant is hitting 75C+ and CPU is throttling, even after reapply the heatsink. Not sure what's wrong with it, flipping the rad around it almost sounds like it's not as full as it used to be or something somehow. Anyway, other than adjusting voltages and multiplier, how else am I doing it wrong? I bumped it up to 4.1Ghz and it was fine, it just doesn't like to be stable 24/7 with F@H. Most BSOD's are .sys files and it's always random ones.
 
Lopez0101 said:
I know it's barely an overclock. I just ordered an air cooler and I'm ditching the H80i. It worked fine the first couple of months, but now the coolant is hitting 75C+ and CPU is throttling, even after reapply the heatsink. Not sure what's wrong with it, flipping the rad around it almost sounds like it's not as full as it used to be or something somehow. Anyway, other than adjusting voltages and multiplier, how else am I doing it wrong? I bumped it up to 4.1Ghz and it was fine, it just doesn't like to be stable 24/7 with F@H. Most BSOD's are .sys files and it's always random ones.
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Maybe its your HDD and you think its the OC. What are the errors? .sys sounds like maybe a corrupt file.
 
AphexDreamer said:
Maybe its your HDD and you think its the OC. What are the errors? .sys sounds like maybe a corrupt file.
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I'm gonna post a thread about it soon enough to see if anybody can help me out. But I was getting BSOD's on a previous format with no GPU while OC'ing and running F@H
 

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Sebastien Viard, graphics technical director for Watch Dogs, has tweeted that they're making performance patch for pc. No word about bugs/glitches fixing patch.
 

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Drone said:
Sebastien Viard, graphics technical director for Watch Dogs, has tweeted that they're making performance patch for pc. No word about bugs/glitches fixing patch.
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LOL, some of the guys on Twitter haven't a clue what they're talking about.

"3 r9 280x getting very poor performance + never use more than 3gb when I have9" :laugh:
 
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