2014 was a pretty interesting year. Watch_Dogs was finally coming out, Assassin’s Creed: Unity was planned for current-gen platforms only, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter had everyone hyped with its special techniques, a new Wolfenstein was scheduled to come out, and Dragon Age: Inquisition was aiming to put DICE’s Frostbite 3 engine into good use. And while we’ve seen a number of games hitting both old-gen and current-gen platforms, there were a few that released exclusively on current-gen platforms.
This year, we decided to break down our special article in order to cover both the most disappointing PC titles of 2014, as well as the most optimized PC games. So, time now to see what were the games that made us shaking our heads in disbelief.
But what do we consider great examples of optimized PC games? Let’s clarify on this. In our opinion, a game optimized for the PC is one that can scale on lots of multi-core CPUs and multi GPUs, that is not plagued by ‘console-ish’ side effects (like really low FOV, controller only on-screen indicators and mouse acceleration/smoothing issues), that packs lots of graphics options to adjust, and that also looks and runs great.
In short, we’re examining a game’s technical aspect, meaning that not only must the engine scale well on modern-day hardware, but also the developer must ensure that things like PC specific graphical features, PC technologies (like SLI and Crossfire) and PC controls are properly implemented.
With this out of our way, let’s take a look first at the biggest disappointments of 2014.
Biggest Disappointments of 2014
The biggest disappointments of 2014 were undoubtedly The Amazing Spiderman 2, Dead Rising 3, Dark Souls 2, Watch_Dogs and Assassin’s Creed: Unity.
Okay, we never thought that The Amazing Spiderman 2 would perform and look amazing on the PC. This was a mere port, however its performance issues affected both the ‘green’ and the ‘red’ camps. Naturally, there wasn’t any major update released to improve the game’s performance. The Amazing Spiderman 2 was a shoddy port. Too bad because Spiderman deserves a better game.
“During some scenes, our framerate was fluctuating between 35fps and 50fps while simply standing on the rooftops. We seriously don’t know what is causing those slowdowns, but we do know that the game suffers from major performance issues. Obviously Beenox has not polished the PC port, though we have to note that the game is ‘underperforming’ on Xbox One too. And while those slowdowns are not THAT severe on Nvidia cards, there are reports circulating the Internet that AMD users experience major issues.”
When Capcom announced that Dead Rising 3 was coming to the PC, we were screaming like little kids. Dead Rising 3 had major performance issues on Xbox One, therefore – and given the additional development time – we expected the PC version to be a better overall product. Unfortunately, Capcom dropped the ball on this one. Dead Rising 3 did not take advantage of more than three CPU cores, required a high-end GPU for underwhelming visuals, and did not receive any major updates. And given the fact that all previous Capcom games performed amazingly well on the PC, this one really shocked us.
“All in all, Dead Rising 3 is a mess. We kind of hope that Nvidia will offer a performance boost via an official SLI profile, however we do not expect to see a performance patch from Capcom. Dead Rising 3 requires a high-end GPU in order to be played with more than 50fps, despite the fact that its visuals do not justify such requirements. Add to this some instability issues (word has it that previous versions of the Geforce drivers are more stable than the latest one) and you got yourself a product that was released before it was fully ready.”
FromSoftware has done it again. While Dark Souls 2 is not THE worst optimized PC game of 2014, it is still one of those games that did not receive proper love from its development studio. The game does not even feature keyboard+mouse on-screen indicators, making it difficult to figure out what buttons should be pressed. Furthermore, the game’s lighting system has been severely downgraded. And did we mention those awful mouse acceleration side effects? Dark Souls 2 may be a great game – and thanks to the additional raw power of the PC the game does run better than its console cousins – but the port itself was awful.
“While there is a nice amount of graphical options to tweak, the game suffers from mouse acceleration side-effects. Furthermore, there are X360 button on-screen icons that are not explained at all in the main menu. Moreover, the PC version does not sport any major feature to justify Namco’s claims of it (a.k.a. the PC) being the lead platform. Dark Souls 2 is ‘functional’ from the get-go and once you figure out its control scheme, it can become really enjoyable. And while it is the definitive edition of Dark Souls 2, it’s not up to what we hoped for. Well, at least we can give kudos to FromSoftware for avoiding this year’s ‘Worst PC Optimized Title’ award.”
Watch_Dogs is a game we’ve been following closely these past years. It is the game that gave the word ‘downgrade’ a whole new meaning (alongside Dark Souls 2). While the original gameplay reveal looked spectacular, the final product was nowhere near that quality. Not only that, but Ubisoft had locked a number of options on the PC. Watch_Dogs also suffered from some awful stutters that were never completely resolved.
“All in all, Watch_Dogs is a mess. The game is underperforming on the PC, and cannot maintain constant 60fps even on high-end systems. Watch_Dogs is unable to take full advantage of more than five CPU cores, meaning that a lot of you will be CPU limited. Hell, even our i7 4930K was CPU limited as our GPU was never stressed during our playthrough.”
Well, we are pretty sure you all saw that coming, right? Truth be told, Assassin’s Creed: Unity could easily win our ‘Best Looking Game Of 2014’ award… well… if we had one. Unity looks phenomenal, there is no doubt about that. However, the game is still broken, even one and a half month after release. Ubisoft released a number of patches to address some of its issues, however the latest patch introduced brand new issues to the PC version. The game also suffers from the most horrible LOD system we’ve ever seen. Add to this a broken SLI profile thanks to the latest update, annoying stutters that have not been fixed as of yet and numerous unresolved bugs, and you got yourself a product that should not be out till next year.
“Assassin’s Creed: Unity is one of the most beautiful games out there, but it is also one of the most demanding ones. PC gamers have been asking for titles that push their hardwares to their limits, and at its Very Ultra settings, Assassin’s Creed: Unity does exactly that. Moreover, Assassin’s Creed: Unity looks visually better than pretty much all current-gen games (surpassing visually even Ryse or Crysis 3, especially if you take account Unity’s open-world nature). If Ubisoft manages to resolve all the bugs and glitches, and further optimize it, we can safely start talking about a masterpiece. In its current state, however, Assassin’s Creed: Unity is the epitome of an unfinished and full-of-bugs game.”
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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I will put there Far Cry 4 instead of Dead Rising 3!!!
except for stuttering on high end pc’s the framerates were pretty reasonable. taking about far cry 4 btw
FC4 optimization is the worst by far this year for a 1st person game !
Even watch dogs it feels better now than FC4 lol
Strongly disagree. Watch dogs is still utter s**t. Maybe your pc just isn’t cut out for the latest titles? Just because it runs crap on your pc doesn’t mean it’s not decently optimized
Strongly disagree. Watch dogs is still utter crap. Maybe your pc just isn’t cut out for the latest titles? Just because it runs crap on your pc doesn’t mean it’s not decently optimized
I thought Dark Souls 2 was a great port. I play with a controller anyways, so the K+M controls have no impact upon me. But still, the performance was PERFECT, it never dropped below 60 fps, and it may have been downgraded, but it still looks good. I think Dark Souls 2 doesn’t deserve to be on this list, it should have been FF XIII/XIII-2.
Yeah but thats the point, the K+M controls were terrible to play with, thats why its here!
so many games don’t work well with K+M, and in a year with plenty of terrible pc “ports”, ds2 doesn’t belong on here.
For a game of this nature, it should have fine K+M controls and it doesn’t. They didn’t even give on screen K+M control prompts, and thats PC gaming 101.
What do you mean a game of this nature? A game of this nature fits a lot better with a controller, imo. Yeah a lack of K+M prompts is unfortunate, but it doesn’t make it a bad pc game. It doesn’t make it a good pc version, and like I said before there were plenty of much worse pc games this year.
I mean ANY 3rd or first person game, not a fighting game or racing game, should have proper K+M prompts! There is no excuse! Not to mention the GFX downgrade! Its the sole reason i, an avid PC gamer didn’t give the game a proper try and it turned me off of DS2, because im not going to screw around learning controls that its not giving me properly, so its a fail in that way. Its such an easy and expected thing for a so called PC lead platform game and just look above, people have already said why its here.
Ehh, I still would rather use a controller for these action games, but like I said before this isn’t a bad port. Bad ports are games like FF13 or evil within. This game works fine, even with mouse and keyboard, it just might not be ideal.
Or Even Lords of the Fallen, a game that has “good” mouse and keyboard but crashes all the time and still doesn’t work. Why is that not on this list but DS2 a game that worked on day 1 here?
Fair enough, i see what you mean, but as a PC gamer as myself that uses K+M exclusively for all games this was a let down since i really wanted to give the game a fair shake…
Also i agree with the Evil Within assessment 🙂
Totally understandable, happy holidays!
Happy Holidays to you as well 🙂
dark souls 2 was a good port, wtf were you smoking
port?
Read:
FromSoftware has done it again. While Dark Souls 2 is not THE worst optimized PC game of 2014, it is still one of those games that did not receive proper love from its development studio. The game does not even feature keyboard+mouse on-screen indicators, making it difficult to figure out what buttons should be pressed. Furthermore, the game’s lighting system has been severely downgraded. And did we mention those awful mouse acceleration side effects? Dark Souls 2 may be a great game – and thanks to the additional raw power of the PC the game does run better than its console cousins – but the port itself was awful.
the port itself was not awful though, Durante himself said it was a good port. http://www.pcgamer.com/dark-souls-2-pc-port-mod-god-durantes-verdict/
Plus I believe the devs themselves said the pc version was the lead platform.
It’s splitting hairs. Really that should have been saved for an article about 2014 being the year of downgrades hitting PC simply so games could fit on consoles like Dark Souls and Watch_Dogs (I really want to see that article mainly because it could cause Dualshockers to have another temper tantrum and do another massive crying article.)
At least Watch Dogs runs great on consoles (stable 30FPS), on PC (few times more powerfull HW) it was released in terrible condition (FPS drops, stuttering, crashing, etc.) and never been properly fixed.
Watch_Dogs is anything but stable 30FPS on consoles. You picked the worst example to defend consoles. Congratulations.
http://youtu.be/3wpVKDg64Po
Look like stable 30 FPS to me, but I am not gonna argue.
I don’t see ps4 vids a lot, but those graphics make me want to cry. I take it the PC version isn’t any better..
watch dogs doesnt drop below 60fps for me
I don’t care really how the game behaves on one particular computer but how it runs across the platform! Game has issues it has been confirmed by many.
But thanks for unwanted info anyway.
there’s nothing special about my particular computer, people need to save some money get a good system and stop bi**hing like babies
No it wasn’t. Port is not just about running a game well. The game looks terrible for today’s standards, so of course it’ll run great. Other than that they didn’t try anything to enhance PC version. It was a straight and lazy port. Not only that but PC version got delayed version and it didn’t even feature Keyboard Mouse layout. What year is this? 2009? Let’s not even discuss how the game completely becomes unbalanced for some users when they run it at 60fps and how terrible controls are on Mouse Keyboard. Not to mention they downgraded the game and now selling DX11 features as a DLC.
I wouldn’t necessarily call the KB/M controls terrible. The graphics were also kind of okay but compared to DS1, you can see that From Software put way more effort into the sequel. Besides, most people play DS with a gamepad anyway.
I’ll repeat what I’ve said many times when it comes to the question m+k and pad:
It’s all about having the choice.
I’ve gotta say that I’m really enjoying my mouse, and Razer gaming keypad these past few weeks. It’s perfect to play games like GTA, and Battlefield with the thumb pad for directional movement. But it has taken me weeks to get used to it.
That sounds awkward. I know that the OFF-ON nature of keys is not always ideal, but there’s GOT to be a better solution to control than using thumbs!
Controlling what’s on-screen with one finger is not the optimum solution. The mouse works so well, for instance, because it allows you to use your entire arm, wrist, and hand which translates into a ridiculous amount of dexterity to manipulate what’s on the screen.
I can envision a sort of combination of joystick on ball joints with buttons on top that you rest your hand on, palm-down. Something like this could allow looking around and movement with one arm/hand, freeing up the keyboard hand for simple key commands rather than movement. Hmm…
Just think, W A S D, 4 way directional character/vehicle movement, vs. 8 way thumb stick for movement. The new Battlefield Hardline mode where you can drive (thumbstick) and shoot out of the car window (mouse) at the same time, makes playing much more fun, and accurate. But like I mentioned, it has taken me weeks to retrain my muscle memory after years of WASD.
Yes but at least From Software also tried to improve the KB/M this time around. It’s much better than the controls in the first game. I just think it’s stupid to say “From Software has done it again” when you can CLEARLY see the devs put much more effort into the port of the second game.
Plz read before act to harsh
the game is well optimized cause it look like 5 year old game thats why and no proper pc control
If you aren’t using a controller, DS2 was crap, its the reason i didn’t play it unfortunately.
worst keyboard and mouse controls ever, and dont say to use a game pad.
use a game pad.
worse than ds1? i doubt it.
This is a question i havent played 2
Dark Souls II, really? Dark Souls II looked and run great on PC.
You should have chosen Final Fantasy XIII which is a mess of a port that barely runs over 30 FPS on a decent rig due to the low GPU usage.
Haha, I kinda agree. Swapping out DS2 for FFXIII is a cool idea.
But the Dx11 & multiplayer version for DSII which you have to buy again 🙁
There have been no confirmations whether previous DS2 owners will be charged or not for the graphical update, perhaps for the extra content but we’ll have to wait and see.
Absolutely agree. Dark Souls II may have had a few problems but Final Fantasy XIII was a complete hack job.
I think john didn’t play FF cause they all look the same 😀
couldnt agree more FF13 and FF13-2 badly optimized on pc
DS2 was playable on a potato…baked,potato.
Dark Souls 2 was a fine port! Not amazing, but it was a solid port!!
Unity, Watch_Dogs, Dead rising 3, FC4 God Im getting depressed here…
WTF!!! Dark Souls 2 was a really good port.
You have very short memory ds2 was a rip off. Game was totally downgraded… So it deserves to be mentioned here 🙂
I’m not talking about graphical wise.. it was totally playable.. and didn’t encounter any issues…!
So here it is: Ubifail is #1 worst company this year 2014!
Well done Ubifail,you “amazing” us with ACU,Watch_hogs and FC4.
Keep going! 😀
Hmm FC4 is OK to me 😉 I like the FC Games. Also from the begining FC4 was OK on my RIG. Using CAT Omega
ubishaft has 3/3 this year they put 3 games on pc they were all a mess.
DS2 was decent. I can’t take you seriously DSOGaming
I disagree about DS2 being a bad port. Sure, the visuals might have been downgraded but performance was solid on a variety of systems.
ACU worst optimised game of the year and buggiest, unless you have a GTX 970 or above, R9 290X 🙂
Got to say though, I played the first part of the game with my new GTX 970 as I got ACU free and I’m in the 60-70s. FX-8350 seems to be holding up well.
Enemy Front should be on that list.
Enemy Front was very disappointing indeed…
instead on DS2 i go with Farcry 4. but anyway ACU takes the crown (and next year: ACV)
FC4 its extremly bad optimized !!!! i have a good PC and i can run AC UNITY extremly nice for example and extremly smooth using max settings!
Problem of all recent ubisoft games is that you never know how well your HW combination will perform. Some report issues even with very high end. Some are fine with mainstream HW. Optimized means it does run well on various HW + SW combinations! Anything else is unacceptable and reason why I warn about black box as gameworks.
For me worst pc port
1.AC unity
2.Dead rising 3- watch dog
3.risen 3
4.Wolfenstein the new order
Risen 3 is fine, the console version is bad and the PC version is nice and polished, unlike the buggy junk this year.
Wolfenstein: The New Order ran pretty smooth on my rig even without SLI.
graphics doesnt look good and it very demanding game
Yeah wolfenstein is a weird case, especially with sli, it doesnt utilize high end hardware but if you got weak or avearge hardware it runs ok, that is after the patches i heard it was garbage on release.
Any game that does not use Mantle or DirectX 12 is the worst optimized PC game of 2014.
No game is using DirectX 12 (It’s not out yet) and barely any game uses mantle so basically you’re saying almost every game was poorly optimized.
They are not maximising the full potential of PC hardware hence not well optimized. Until games start taking advantage of PC hardware like they do for consoles they are all worst optimized as far as I am concerned.
3 of the titles in John’s top 10 optimised games of 2014 use Mantle. 🙂
lol Try saying that when playing Metal Gear GZ at 4K. 1st DX12 game will be Halo 5. I can smell it.
i doube ms will give us the only thing they got that sells xbones. Sunset overdrive maybe since it sells like crap.
Well I heard a little rumor that Xbox1 might be the last Xbox. Consoles are becoming to much like PC’s now. And APU’s are getting better and better but at the same time. You can just buy a APU system around the same price as a console.. MS would be better off at being a PC/Tablet/Phone company anyways.
Those are thelast consoles period, they will be used as streamboxes in 6 years.
”The port itself you say” and by that you mean performance only, right ? But a port to PC contains a lot more things.
Well the developers did say the pc version was the lead version. So it wasn’t an actual port.
How was it the main platform then it didn’t even have keyboard + mouse on-screen indicators ?
This is marketing bs
Maybe, just maybe, maybe? they preferred xbox 360 controller over mouse and keyboard. As a result they didn’t even bother with having a keyboard and mouse indicator, which doesn’t make it a good pc version, but it still is believable that it is the pc version.
This isn’t a great pc version, but considering how inexperienced japanese devs are with pcs, ds 2 is an alright pc game. PC gamer, totalbiscuit and durante agrees with us.
See how Bloodborne looks. That’s what they planned originally for PC and ps4/x1 versions of Dark Souls 2. PC was suppose to be a lead platform, so later they would port this version to consoles (same thing happened with Tomb Raider and Sleeping Dogs).
But then something happened, and the PC version just ended up being a simple past gen console port, same as the first game. My guess is that Sony paid enough money so they hold the “next gen graphics” for Bloodborne (PS4 / Sony exclusive).
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When X is the main platform it means that they are developing their game to much the platforms full potential which means you have to develop for K+M.
No , it doesn’t matter if they preferred the 360 layout , actually most developers who develop on PC use the 360 controller. They had to make a K+M layout and they didn’t. Most PC users only have K+M so it would the only logical move to do so.
Many of us have a 360 controller (including me) but the majority is with a K+M.
Also like i said before where is the advanced lighting system which was shown on E3 and got ditched because the consoles couldn’t run it ? Ah yeah it got removed – because the PC was the main platform ! /s
IDK, some games naturally just play better on a controller. And dark souls really doesn’t require that many buttons that it would benefit from a Key board and mouse.
Well they removed the lighting systems to make the console version look not that much worse than the pc version, which is terrible. But doesn’t make DS2 a bad port. Like I said DS2 isn’t a great port, but it certaintely doesn’t belong on this list. IN a year with so many other bad ports like Evil within, or FF13, all I’m saying is that other games should have being mentioned instead of DS 2.
honestly have you seen how much more difficult it looks when you show keyboard keys on the screen instead of xbox buttons? It would be confusing for people and theyd probably be put off by it LOL
The Amazing Spiderman 2 – Never played.
Dead Rising 3 – Never played because of the stupid 30fps cap and poor optimization.
Dark Souls 2 – I think it is fine and was a lot better than the first game.
Watch_Dogs – Glad I got my refund.
Assassin’s Creed: Unity – Tested it out ran like a$$.
This ^
The Evil Within should have a spot there , who cares about the spiderman game in the first place ? Even if it was super duper optimized it would be a movie game we had no expectations in the first place , unlike TEW which was worse both in performance and expectations (the game who made RE was behind it , we waited for something better)
Yes unfortunately there are so many badly optimized games for PC, the list should be way longer x(
Well the requirments were fake with a garbage pc you could run it as well as consoles, that is 20 fps in the village the rest of the game runs better though.
I expected it to be the worst thing ever, but they patched it up quite fast.
As for expectatsions, yeah i think people put too much faith on the creator, but other than that its much better than the resident evil and dead space games we be getting all those years.
This was a horrible year for Console to PC ports for us gamers! 🙁
i would put evil within and drop dark souls 2. dark souls 2 didnt have many options but it performed super well.
AC: U not surpasess the Big Crysis 3 Game 😀 It’s fenomenal, sure but not like that 😉
Do you remember in C3 the first scene? and after demo it is actual Game 😀 and the Grass, Frogs 😉 etc. All Games are Great.
In WD i don’t have problems on My Phenom II x6 1100t BE Monster CPU
im Using the worst-Compiled-Mod the last ver. not the newest
All in Forum Guru3D.
Absolutely shocking port. Shame on Bethesda and Mikami-san.
There is a difference between good game and well optimized game and Dark Souls is certainly great game but it is badly optimized and missing some graphical features from other platform!
The Evil Within is one of the worst AAA games released this year. It was not only released in an appalling state, but game itself is tedious and flawed.
I am not arguing. It is, and the only protection is just not buying those games. For very much same reason I complaint with GameWorks which shatters platform into smaller fractions which never helps to stability of any platform in general.
Well they are japanese i expected the port to be uber garbage but they provided a way to get rid of 30 fps and black bars before release. The mouse aiming was fine and it run as well that is “bad” as the consoles, maybe i expected it to be a diaster and it didnt end up a disaster, but hey now with ground zeroes we can point that out every time they doing a pc port as an example.
Far Cry 4 remain the worst for 2014 still from all of the modern games such a lazy developers
damn consoles!
Can’t blame consoles for performance… That’s all the developers. FC4 is garbage for performance, and Unity last patch made me lose performance. U Just can’t Win with UbiSoft
Honestly fps wise the game runs very well for me, what doesnt run well is that it has to stutter every 2 damn seconds.
Wtf seriously wtf?
This is just the Top 5 – there were a ton of shoddy PC ports this year!
Far Cry 4 should have won a spot right next to Watch_Dogs – their performance and graphical options were nearly identical. Or, I should say, they both suffered from the exact same problems. There was more hype and disappointment surrounding W_D though, so I understand how that could make this top 5 list.
far cry 4 run a bit better and the aiming was better other than that same freaking stuttering.
On another note, aside from the stupid controls and choppy cut scenes, the environments in Dragon Age: Inquisition are gorgeous and run acceptably well!
The Black Bars Simulator 2014.
Black Bars Simulator 2015: The Order1886
Much cinematic.
such story.
Reason why i got the pc version and i will never play the order, holy crap i watched some gameplay eurogamer put up, boy they are not kidding with teh cinematic feelz, there are quicktime events for pulling a grenade, opening a door and throwing it in as you mash a button to melee stunned enemies. Its basicly max payne 3 with beyond two souls. Uber scripted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O82QmmqLKI&hd=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTuStoxrZaY&hd=1
one of best optimized game (heavy due to the quality)
The sad thing is Indy Developers this year and very low budget teams have really made a lot of the big shot AAA teams look like amateurs wrapping up 2014. Not to mention the shocker of the year for me that was done by Konami with Metal gear GZ that still blows my mind with it’s performance.
Great article thanks john
Yeah that’s problem of all ubisoft games apparently, we just have too weak HW, when even most expensive HW cannot run the game stably. LOL
No list of most disappointing or worst optimized games is complete without Ubisoft and their games ;p
i can max out any of these games no problem. and anyone even trying to play dark souls with mouse and keyboard deserves to be shot lol
yes and it seems most people aren’t even willing to do that, acting as if games must be played on a keyboard and mouse to qualify as good. total nonsense, half the games i play are best played on a controller and if you don’t have one handy to play these games dont f’ing buy them lol
Well sony japan created the new engine for bloodborne for From Software and is also helping them with the game. Sony is counting bloodborne as a first party release.
Isn’t it obvious that it’s the same engine they already created for Dark Souls 2?
How would you know? Plus they said it was a new engine, and fromsoftware said they would be using this engine for future titles.
Dead Rising 3 should be higher on the list… been several months with no dev support. It is stupid!
Dunno about the others but AC Unity almost made me want to throw my PC outta the window. I mean what the hell was that? 20 fps with low settings at 720p and that too on a 280x? and not only that, even if I notched up the settings to Ultra it would still give me the same result. This game was the most poorly optimized game I’ve seen in ages.
Screw you Ubisoft. Continue your circlejerk with Nvidia.
Dont know how to tell lyou this but its worse on consoles… no it really is worse and they still havent fixed it.
Ebolasoft has 2 choices
1.learn to make games in x86
2.die
I get about the the same frame-rate as Crysis 3 on very high, mostly 50-60s. Like I thought, they optimised it for 900 series better LOL.
it utilizes 8 cores too.
Yeah I’m surprised, since I expected my FX-8350 to performance worse than the i5 with an 970 and that’s just not the case. Watched some videos of other people’s frame-rates with an i5 and I’m pretty much matching them in ACU and Crysis 3.
I’ve noticed high CPU usage as well, all 8 cores are 80-90% +.
The game ran fine on my R9 280 with the Omega driver(never dropped below 30fps on ultra 1080p, SSAO, FXAA, just make sure you get the driver.
Yeah, omega drivers have given me a 10fps boost. But that still doesn’t excuse Ubisoft’s incompetence.
No mention of EVIL INSIDE??? How about Blatant Pandering – Age: Inquisition?
DarkSouls2… what… I played that on a 3-5 year old workstation LAPTOP and it worked flawlessly.
Wheres DragonAge:Inq? Even now, 2016, my MSI gaming rig cant seem to get a playable fps. Google it. Games infamus for being bs.