A couple of hours ago, Ubisoft released the highly anticipated PC update for Watch_Dogs. Naturally, a lot of gamers could not wait to get their hands on it and see for themselves whether the stuttering issue has been fixed or not. After all, Ubisoft claimed that it has added a number of performance improvements in this patch. Well, it appears this patch makes zero difference to the annoying stuttering, if not making it even worse than what it was before.
According to a lot of reports, this update does not fix the stuttering side-effects and in various cases it makes it even worse. We’ve been following NeoGAF, Guru3D, Reddit and Watch_Dogs official forum, and almost all users are reporting a far worse experience after applying the latest update. Even users with SLI Titan cards are experiencing major stuttering while driving.
In case you’re wondering, this patch also breaks compatibility with TheWorse’s mod, however there is a workaround. Here is what you have to do in order to re-enable TheWorse’s mod with this latest version of Watch_Dogs (or you can downloaded an updated version that Guru3D’s member ‘SoloCreep ‘ created from here). Kudos to Steam’s member ‘Elvis II’ for the guide.
“The mod uses the same method that Ubisoft uses to patch their games. It was always inevitable that an official patch would overwrite the mod files. The mod still works, you just have to unpack the files and repack them with the new patch.dat.”
We strongly suggest disabling auto-updates from UPLAY at this point. Those of you we’re experiencing worse performance can disable auto-updates and then delete both patch.dat and patch.fat. By doing this, you’ll be reverting back to the vanilla version.
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In your face, Sean.
EDIT: Just read the actual article
“Those of you we’re experiencing worse performance can disable auto-updates and then delete both patch.dat and patch.fat. By doing this, you’ll be reverting back to the vanilla version.”
This was nice service for the poor souls who bought this game or got it for free with a nvidia GPU. Hey, there’s something I forgot to post earlier: What has nvidia got to say about all this? Surely they must be furious at Ubisoft for delivering an anti-PC game in a PC collaboration. Any takers? John?
Sean = Sony Fanboy!
Sean is a fanboy for any of these corporations, Ubisoft included. Sick of all these apologists just excusing the outright contempt these companies have for PC gamers.
No I think you guys are just blind with rage that you cant see it for what it is. At least in my opinion. But let me explain before you get all steamed up lol.
I dont think Sean ever argued that ubisoft isnt screwing us over or has our best interests in mind. We all know they are pieces of crap and dont give a shit about us. So since thats out of the way, whats the real issue?
Because he provided an explanation why the textures take up so much vram? Well his explanation wasn’t completely poop. The way they dont re-occur the same frequency as other open world titles and they are really high quality on ultra for an open world game(character models as well on some) can and would lead to that much vram. They may have also used a different or non existent compression method rather than traditional DXT. I guess with the PS4 having so much ram, they didnt care?
But that doesnt explain the texture load suttering that happen to everyone even with enough vram. That is just straight bad porting and laziness when bringing the PS4 version over assuming thats what happened.
Correct me if I am wrong but is that what you guys are all up in arms about?
Also you guys need to stop with that sony/microsoft fanboy nonsense, if people want to game on pc and console, who cares?
Djinferno806 = Ubisoft PC dev. lmao!
right you caught me! damn….
“We all know they are pieces of crap and dont give a shit about us”
Yup thats why I am talking shit about my own company and myself…
Do you really use your noodle when you write things down or is your trolling just not really any good?
come on man go bother the console peasants over in neogaf and ign.
The guy is a twatt, it acts like he’s 10.
You should read his post on nvidia page…
People don’t want to hear consoles have more memory for video now, it’s just performance where it suffers. PC has always had badly optimised games even PC only so meh.
Shared memory. Between RAM and VRAM, but to GPU have acess only up to 3GB.
!Fanboy
It’s still slower and has to go across the bus again which causes latency, unified memory doesn’t do that. System RAM has to be accessed twice if VRAM runs out, one for the game memory and once for the graphics memory, which is slow.
Yep. Nvidia and AMD will do something about it!
AMD have already done something about it with APUs on PC, something game devs have been asking for a long time, but it presents a number of issues for PC’s, since they use memory for different things, unlike consoles.
Would be amazing Nvidia get into CPU market…and do something alike APU of AMD.
At least something that works!
Maybe you need to grow up. According to some people here, I’m a NVIDIA, AMD, Ubisoft, console fanboy because I have an unbiased view.
Why don’t you go read my comments properly instead of jumping on just one, Ubisoft are arseholes to PC, doesn’t mean they won’t fix such issue in time.
nope he is a pc gamer only
no, thats rude
Well considering this wasnt a TWIMTBP title and they only have like 2 or 3 features from games works that work just fine, they might not care. But you have to assume its still some bad PR even if Nvidia didnt work with the studio to optimize the whole game code for their cards.
Lol bro. I was thinking the freaking same shiit about that guy… sean. Lol
So I was wrong big deal, at least I didn’t boast about it like you, anyone who rants about a patch not fixing things before they didn’t try it is just a troll anyway
Relax, it’s just banter.
Well back on you then if it turns out that the patch is not the full version. :p
Full version of what? You mean they accidentally uploaded half a patch? Sure, that sounds like something Ubisoft would do. I’ve said this elsewhere recently, Far Cry 3’s multiplayer remained an unplayable pre-alpha mess and the community died down within literal weeks. And they actually made the editor worse with the last patch. Ubisoft is clearly running out of fucks to give, they must have realized a while ago that quality doesn’t actually matter when your customers will repeatedly pay 60 dollars or more based on false advertising.
Never paid full price for a Ubisoft game anyway, Watch Dogs is no different until they fix it properly and even then I’ll only buy it in a more than 50% Steam sale.
UbiFail as usual! What else is new?
Apparently, the true purpose of the patch was to disable any mods. The Metro series (2033 & Last Light) has this same annoying stuttering issue as well.
Done. I’m officially done with Ubishit games.
I just don’t understand what is the point on doing it ,i mean ,the want to handicap the pc to match the ng consoles capabilities and they kill their game by doing that ,they never get to make the idea they had for their game ,they betray their work and values ,their creative ideas ,the beautiful game they once imagined with so much potential and passion and a game that gamers loved and would change the industry as a whole ,it won’t ever exist just because they maked a horrible decision ,they screwed both pc AND consoles ,no one of both sides is happy ,they can’t say “as always we screwed pc gamers all over the place but at least we got good critics from console gamers” NO both are mad at ubisoft ,i just can’t find any logical explination.
honestly to me, watchdogs is the fckup of the decade.
Is this the bad management we kept hearing about in this industry?
They cutted a lot of features to add them as new for Watch_Dogs™ 2®
so true
sad but true, wolfenstein devs said they got plenty ideas for the sequel, cliffy b said many devs see the first game as damaging and expect to make the losses back from dlc and the sequel.
I bet my life that the story dlc and the sequel will add new weapons which will OFCOURSE OFCOURSE be ripped from other ubisoft games as per tradition.
In case you dont know the 1911, mp5 and goblin are ripped from fc3. Other weapons are ripped from future soldier and in their older games like blacklist and conviction they took assets from rainbow six vegas.
I do know ,and by the way the 92-fs showcased on the E3 2012 demeo wasn’t present on the game ,also ,in feb 2013 they showed another demo which looked almos identical to 2012 where they showed the reputations ,there were 4-4 reputations ,in the final version there is only 2-2 ,and also ,acording to the E3 2013 the blackout is aplied to the entire city while in the final game is only to 10 blocks ,sometimes even less.
They replaced it with the px4 storm, its a berreta too.
Yeah, I’m not even going to PIRATE them anymore! I mean I wasn’t paying for them, but now they’re not even worth that!
If you weren’t paying for them, you have absolutely no right to complain, filthy c*nt.
The pirated version is the exact same game, he has every right to complain considering that he wasted his bandwidth downloading it.
I’m more sorry for the poor souls who bought the damned game.
Uh no, only legitimate customers deserve support. Only legitimate customers have the priviledge for raising their voice, not the c*nts who get shit for free.
Then I guess people who got the game in a raffle, had their friend buy the game for them, or got it free with their video card shouldn’t get support?
Support is support, when people show off glitches and bugs that were put into the game you shouldn’t ignore them even if the person pirated the game or not.
You are just being a douche about it because you can, I want to have a rational conversation but all you do is call people cun ts.
“Then I guess people who got the game in a raffle, had their friend buy
the game for them, or got it free with their video card shouldn’t get
support?”
— They fall under legitimate. I’m referring specifically to those who pirated it. Sorry for the confusion, if any.
“you shouldn’t ignore them even if the person pirated the game or not.”
— The only time a company should bother fixing the glitches experienced by a pirate is when other legitimate users are experiencing it too.
That’s what I mean.
Of course DRM is a good thing at times, like silly things (Eyepatch in Alan Wake) or making the game incredibly hard (Earthbound, Serious Sam 3) but when it gets out of hand (Uplay, SecuROM, etc.) then people are going to get fed up with installing the game and just pirate it.
Registering your code, having to activate online, wait an hour for confirmation, is longer than having to download an ISO, install it, and just putting in the crack. This also leads to performance problems because the bigger the DRM is bloated, the higher the impact on performance. The biggest example for me is when I bought Arkham City when it had GFWL. The performance of the game on the lowest settings would only run at 12 fps at 720p, but after the steamworks update with the removal of GFWL I was able to run the game at medium settings at 30 fps at 720p. When people pirate, scene groups (The people that crack the game) try their best to go around the drm to where it doesn’t have to be used and bloating the game way less, improving performance of the game (I’m not kidding, this actually happens)
Majority of people pirate because of DRM or file size (Biggest example is W:TNO). The worse it is, the more it pulls people away from buying your game.
Piracy isn’t a terrible thing, but in my opinion I think only certain games deserve to be bought at full price rather than buying a shitty game at full price.
Watch Dogs was unbearable for me, I wasn’t able to finish it because of how much of the game that got advertised for it to be good was missing, and I felt that I wasn’t getting the product that I paid for. I felt ripped off, and it’s even worse that Uplay wouldn’t let me play the game so I had to download a crack of the game in order to play the game without Uplay on.
I can understand people cracking a copy they have already paid for before, and who haven’t been able to play it due to DRM issues and what not. What I do not forgive is those who pirate it just because they don’t want to pay for it, claiming DRM issues as an excuse. They are the scum of PC gaming and need to be culled out of any decent gaming community.
Well that’s a different matter but you can’t claim to be against piracy and then say hacking binaries is ok, that’s called being hypocritical. If you want to take the moral high ground then do it, don’t sit on the fence like you’re doing.
There is not grey area here, hacking the game files, binaries and sharing them is a licence infringement just like downloading a shared game.
You can’t crack the game you own either, that’s what licences are for before you install the game.
Back to what I said first then, it’s down to your morals in that regard.
Where did I say it’s okay? I said it’s understandable. As in “I can understand” why people would choose to go that route considering they have already paid for the game. I have nothing against such people even though I would prefer getting proper support through legitimate channels first, because support is something I’m entitled to as a paying customer.
nothing wrong with a drm that lets you try the game.
Well, you see it there in front of you, Ubisoft don’t give a sh*t and pirated version is actually better more often then not because it doesn’t have the junk. Pirating is overrated anyway, it’s a just a scapegoat for something that’s morally wrong considering you actually download the legal game in the first place but the licence just says you can’t share it and it’s not even the same as stealing.
If the copy of the version on the torrent sites was stolen then yes, it would be knowing downloading a stolen piece of software, however the one on the torrent site it a legal and bough copy by the person who shared it, so it’s not stealing or a crime, it’s a licence infringement.
What Ubisoft it doing is far worse than users morally wrongly downloading their game without paying for it, Ubisoft is giving us reason to stick it to the man, it happens all the time when people get upset with companies or governments.
“Pirating is overrated anyway, it’s a just a scapegoat for something
that’s morally wrong considering you actually download the legal game in
the first place but the licence just says you can’t share it and it’s
not even the same as stealing.”
— You ARE “stealing” the license when you are pirating the game, period. If you want me to get into details regarding copyright, I can.
“the one on the torrent site it a legal and bough copy by the person who
shared it, so it’s not stealing or a crime, it’s a licence infringement.”
— And how do you know this? Assuming it was legal, even then it was stealing, because you as a customer have no right to share it, because it’s not your software. You agreed to the terms and conditions when you purchased the game. If you don’t like the terms, don’t play the game.
“Ubisoft is giving us reason to stick it to the man”
— Nothing justifies committing a crime. What Ubisoft might do may not be right, but doing something illegal in return is not a solution. And if you really think pirates steal to send out a political message, you’re mistaken. Most pirates pirate because they can.
And yet the people who crack games have always encouraged people to buy the game if they like it. You make the assumption people downloading such files even know they’re illegally shared.
“have always encouraged people to buy the game if they like it.”
— Oh you mean that “please buy the game if you like it” message? Yeah, I know how effective that is. If a single message can turn a petty thief into Robin Hood, I’d try that shit out myself.
It’s a little know secret that such actions actually improve sales. Sony PlayStation game pirating was rampant yet Sony took no steps to easy stop it, they left the part of the board open to be chipped and trust me, they know exactly how their PlayStation was chipped.
If you need any more proof, go read what happened about The Witcher 2 and what CDPR has to say about it.
Piracy cannot be stopped unless people choose to stop it themselves, and that’s the only fact here. The only reason companies cannot crack down on piracy is because it’s not possible through software measures. If people want to steal, they will. But that does NOT make it right. People need to be aware of the ethics, most of all.
Companies, on their part, should make sure paying customers get much better benefits and service in comparison to these filthy pirates. Services that will make people WANT to buy the game. There are a few shitheads who’ll still pirate it regardless, but that’s natural given their c*nt-like behavior.
People do illegal things all the time for the greater good, they don’t care about themselves, sometimes it has to be done to make a point when no one listens
Doesn’t change the fact that it’s illegal, does it? And I don’t think piracy in general achieves any “greater good”, other than enabling you to play the game for free and pissing off companies. This is a video game, not a national revolution.
Tell that to Edward Showden then.
Heh, well he was a contractor for the NSA after all… that shit is way more serious than video games!
Funnily enough I pirate. Yet I own probably more games and support more devs then 99% of gamers. Steam account has near 1200 games in origin 30 uplay 10.
Company’s use as a scape goat its bs. PC there is no licence fee they make more 1 vs 1 then any other platform. most games are multiplayer now so with it being CD keys pirate copy just doesn’t cut it. AAA Devs are lazy indie devs are absolutly destroying AAA studios ATM.
How does anything you said make piracy legal? And I don’t recall single-player being extinct that you can claim most games are multiplayer now. People will take what they can as long as it’s free.
I was replying to your statement
Oh you mean that “please buy the game if you like it” message? Yeah, I know how effective that is. If a single message can turn a petty thief into Robin Hood, I’d try that shit out myself.
Only really starts getting illegal when you sell. Depending where you live so all this high horse stuff makes you look silly and argumentative.
Ah I see. Let me explain then… if you pirate the game first and then buy it, good for you. However, that doesn’t legalize piracy. You might buy the game after pirating it; a lot of people don’t.
“Only really starts getting illegal when you sell.”
— Please do tell me more about your understanding of copyright, I’d love to know.
with that i agree, this kind of situations lead me to piracy as well to try if the game actually runs on my pc and doesnt explode like the internet says, it its a mess, then why buy it?
Maybe when its properly patched and cheap, no point throwing 60 bucks to the trashcan.
poor souls? ubisoft has years of history with unoptimized titles so poor souls should start to think before they pay, but its great that community that pay off the damn game then fix it as well xDDD
Yep. I bought every damn released game of LiarSoft, they werent that bad in performance, but i have to agree…theirs games suck in performance…
He wasted his bandwidth? LOL. **IDEA COME THROUGH** buy a hard copy and stop bitching.
Why are you defending him? Did Ubisoft or anyone else force him to waste his bandwidth downloading the game?? It was his choice to pirate the game and he has to be accountable for that. I’m all for consumer rights, but this being entitled to everything BS is crossing the line.
I own a lot of their games and I haven’t been too disappointed. I did preorder Watch Dogs and cancelled at the last minute and God am I glad. Honestly I don’t even give a crap to pirate this either because I’m just over the game. On to better games with steam sale prices!
cool story extreme derp back to your playstation and imaginery 780 ti
thats Creazy 😀 +1 4U
fc4 is the last straw for me. if its as optimized as fc3 then we go somewhere.
Did anyone expect anything else with ubisoft?
Don’t worry everyone! Far Cry 4 will be much better and PC is the lead platform! Pre-order now!
HAHAHA NICE JOKE
And look at these screenshots! There is no aliasing because this is a true next-gen game rendered at full 900p and locked at a silky smooth 30 fps on all platforms.
and it looks the same on ultra as on the next gen consoles according to ubisoft.
They were saying the same thing how Watch Dogs had PC as there lead platform and ported it to PC. http://www.destructoid.com/pc-is-the-lead-platform-for-watch-dogs-247165.phtml
I don’t trust Ubisoft anymore. I’m not going to pre order there games on my PC. I’ll wait for the reviews not matter what bonuses you get for pre ordering.
Definition of insanity right here! Come and get it!
Lovely, just f#cking lovely.
cover this too
http://www.gamepur.com/news/15154-frostbite-dev-ubisofts-far-cry-4-ps4xbox-one-equivalent-pc-ultra-setting-cl.html
dice basicly saying “if ultra is the same as the consoles then you are not utilizing pc hardware”
yeah. john andersson f**ked farcry 4 devs in the azz 😀
Yeah it was like “damn and i thought we make a big deal about those things”
Totalbuscuit does, we do, dice devs do, its official, it now matters that the pc version has superior graphics than the console version.
After watchdogs though i would settle for fc4 to run just like fc3.
“Well, it appears this patch makes zero difference to the annoying
stuttering, if not making it even worse than what it was before.”
ubisoft patching at its best.
“In case you’re wondering, this patch also breaks compatibility with TheWorse’s mod,”
Ofcourse why wouldn’t it?
Then you wonder why people pirate games, gee could it be the tons of preorder dlc from diffirent venders which the pirated versions gets you for free, could it be the port is a mess and the pc version is months away from being playable, could it be that since the mouse is screwed up and needs editing files to fix it, the game stutters and needs editing to fix it and the patches ruin the mods, could it be that its more convinient to use a pirated premoded and prepatched version with all the dlcs than the official release?
its like when the infamous skullptura rip worked better than the actual fallout 3 legit release.
I think valve explained this perfectly “we offer a better service so for us piracy isnt an issue” Perhaps if ubisoft gone by that logic too things will be better?
Just now i was reading on gamespot that ubisofts ceo thinks always online drm isnt a solution and doesnt make much diffirence and they should focus on making a good game with good support and online features that are inacessable from pirated versions.
Funny thing is….it’s the same guy who said that in order for assasin creed 2 and splinter cell conviction to sell, they need that “always online” drm. To which i got to point out that they lied about conviction having online drm. You know ubisoft ceo’s it’s the same guy who said no future soldier on pc because everyone would pirate it when in reallity they couldnt find someone to port it to pc.
All those lies and horrible treatment of the pc is why pc gamers hate ubisoft.
I really dont get it, are french people alergic to pc? If not how come everything the 10.000 people who work on ubisoft make, is always a mess on pc?
Also why all their games play alike and use the same gameplay mechanics since there are so many diffirent studios ubisoft has and yet no one can come up with new ideas, but thats a topic for another day.
because the french canadians think they are better than everyone even the rest of Canada. Did you know they have been trying to splinter off and create their own country for years now? Im serious, a Country sandwiched between Canadian provinces because they are too elitist to be part of our Country.
Ive also been to Quebec and let me tell you their treatment of people if you dont speak french is disgusting. really…. Apparently english is good enough for the rest of the country but now them.
Not surprised they are this way with their business too.
ok done rant lol
It’s pretty sad but 100% true. They could just let the block due whatever win a minority vote so they can spin themselves off into there own country and be done with it. If they don’t do as they say they could just do a vote of no confidence and take the power back.
well that would be awkward, everytime I want to go to the east maritime provinces I have to cross a different country then back into Canada… jesus christ.
Can we just give them some island somewhere that wont bother anyone? Preferably close to France.
Canada doesn’t really have anything off of it’s coasts. Give them PEI and make it the new Japan. LMAO Harper also screwed over Canada. We are getting so many immigrants right now that it’s filling up super quick. Can you imagine what it’s going to be like in 100 years from now if this immigration rate continues? All the cities are expanding because of how many immigrants we are getting.
ya immigration is a huge problem now. I have nothing against it per say(i came to Canada as one when I was younger) but it just seems its gotten a lot worse and a lot of them are bringing nothing but laziness and tax payer money sucking.
LMAO and im down for the PEI suggestion. Poor newfies mght get an influx of all the old PEI citizens looking for a new potato haven.
Really interesting. What kind of people are immigrating into Canada now, and are they legal? I don’t suppose Canada has “a Mexican problem” like the US does, does it?
Well i live in central Canada and over the last 5-10 years ive seen a huge increase in east indians and asian/filipino descents. Im sure theres other as well but these are most prominent.
why the hell was my comment deleted john?
Because I said the influx of immigrants are mostly asian/middle eastern lately and a lot of them come over and just collect money but dont work? It is true unfortunately.
Im not saying all immigrants are bad but there is a trend.
FYI i came as an immigrant to Canada but I work and contribute to the economy.
sigh…
And yes this is unfortunately true, lots of these immigrants come over and bring their 80 year old grandparents and they get an equivalent or better deposit than some of the people who have been here working their whole lives.
Djinferno: Do you mind me asking what your nationality was before?
Portuguese.
I have dual citizenship now though. Comes in handy when going away to certain places.
Kool, im Ukrainian Canadian and was born in Canada. Nice to see some great stuff here 🙂
Did you hear about McDonalds being under investigation in Canada? My sister works there and they were in favor of immigrants over the citizens that have been here there entire lives. Ever since the investigation started my sisters has told me about when she walks in there she finds the manager explaining to the immigrants that they need to work there way up in the company to get better pay. They all pretty much got pay cuts to where they are supposed to be because of the investigation. There has been a ton of stressed out people ever since it started as well.
Before it happened there was even a full time employee that I won’t name. But she has a kid and had to drop her kid off at day care so instead of being there at 7 she would be there at 8. Just because of that one hour she was told that the system wouldn’t accept that and she was getting 0 hours of work for 1 or 2 weeks.
Like I’m not against immigrants or anything. But coming in, getting better pay doing the same job and taking other peoples hours on purpose especially when they have a kid and need it just makes my stomach sick.
mcdonalds has always done shady business it doesnt matter which country
Could be that your comment is awaiting moderation. But I don’t know why though.
hmm strange indeed, it would have said comment deleted. Oh well maybe just a glitch with disqus no biggie.
Not to be racist but it’s a lot of East Indian and Asians because they are so over populated that to they need somewhere else to go. It’s completely legal since Steven Harper became president. It used to be more strict how many people come but now it’s who ever wants in can get in pretty easily.
The biggest issue is I’m in Saskatchewan and a good majority of the land here is all farms. But if we continue to expand like this houses will have to go up. It’s actually growing pretty rapidly. There is a town about 45 minutes outside of here and they are planning to expand this city all the way to that town. But eventually there won’t be anywhere to put more houses except onto the farm land. But then where is the grain going to be grown?
Not to mention how distracting it is whenever characters in Watch_Dogs who are supposedly from Chicago speaks in a French Canadian accent. The biggest example being the white dreadlock guy, who totally broke my immersion with is “aboots” and “sorrrrrrys”.
Hmmm…
oh well lucky steam sale is on, going to have plenty of new games to play until this is all sorted out.
Okay, I’m not even going to bother. Already beat the game, was hoping to beat it again with performance enhancements, but I’m moving on. Uninstalled.
I feel sorry for user that yet believe in that crap company! DuckU Ubisoft
http://forums.watchuseek.com/attachments/f17/1140515d1372672743-dw5600e-bezel-dw5600c-pic-request-simpsons_nelson_haha2.jpg
Ubisoft needs to get their shit together. Apparently the Montreal studio is tearing its hair out over this. They need to address the current-gen and old-gen separately. Lumping all the platform-specific problems together is just baiting a shitstorm. Really sucks for people who can’t play it even with high-end hardware; they have every right to be upset.
I got a 4GB gpu that should run the game just fine. With high textures it’s recommended 2GB of Vram but that makes it stutter everytime I drive a vehicle too fast. Not to mention Ultra textures makes it a slideshow when driving. I have to use low textures for the game to work fine. *sigh*
Having to use “low” textures on a 4GB card is very sad indeed. I seriously hope Ubisoft fixes this for its own reputation’s sake.
seeing how AC3/AC4 wasnt fixed, I am worried it might fall under the same issue.
and future soldier.
This will never be fully fixed, Ubisoft got the peoples money so now they don’t give a damn!
futuer soldier, its still broken.
set it to medium textures and it works.
i tried every other fix outhere nothing works for me.
i fear for fc4
maybe ubisoft shanghai is the porting team for PC on FC4…
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO they made double agent on pc.
Its Like Ubi-Soft DONT want people to buy their game. Even 50% off in the steam sale probably wouldn’t move sales after this idiocy.
They already combined both official patch and TheWorse mod so you can have the lastest update with the latest mod.
Wtf??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LqTw0lXPxI
Placebo! LiarSOFT
i like how they said they dont need any more information and they got what they need so now they are working on a fix.
I love their games but i hate them as a company and their pc ports, god damn conondrum ¬¬
I would love to do a video and post it to youtube, dedicating to Ubisoft’s PC Games..i Had Enough of their junks!
it will have to include so many games, so many problems and so many smug stattments from ubi that it would take forever.
If they spend 1/3 of the time they spend making excuses, to support pc instead, then they would me the best pc dev outhere.
yes…i really have a lot to say to them! i’ve been buying their PC games since splinter cell 1, rainbow six era…am currently working on a video for splinter cell double agent.. 🙂 and was thinking if i should do more justice by putting all the bad port games including Prince of Persia 2008 and their starforce crap that made me unable to launch the game unless i crack it!!
double agent a game that crashes more than windows ME, then you got warrior within with a vysnc bug that causes prince to fall off a specific ledge if deactivated, two thrones having horrible negative mouse accelaration, the hawx games randomly swithcing weapons graw 1 and 2 be diffirent game from diffirent studio, far cry 2 threw bluescreens to me the first time i played it until i disabled one cpu core (yes i googled it and found another guy with that problem) assasin creed is rumored to run better on the leaked version than the full release, ac2 you got the always online drm, brotherhood had mouse accelaration and button prompt issues, future soldier was a disaster, the list never ends with ubisoft.
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The world feels plastic and hollow anyway, story is drivel and the driving feels all wrong, couple that with the downgrade and the stuttering. The game is just filler at best, no soul to it, I’d be pretty pissed if had I paid 45 quid for it.
Screw you Ubisoft, better fix it at some point or piracy will be on the rise with your games for good reason if you don’t fix your ways.
You know what? I dont give a damn about watch_dogs!!! ubifail games deserve nothing.
do you want proper patches from ubifail?Forget it!
Waiting for GTA V !!! 😉
Never mind guys, it’s not like the PS4 is uber optimised by any stretch of the imagination, even at 900p/high on other games claiming 60fps.
http://i.imgur.com/WdNXDw5.jpg
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Just link their official forum and you will see just how much they care about their customers(or should I say cash cows). Ubicrap doesn’t even give any statements regarding PC performance when so many people are asking them to. I know since I was one of those people back when AC 3 and 4 had the same problem until I gave up and thought “Fuck Ubicrap. I won’t buy any of their crap anymore.” I’m really really glad I didn’t buy Hype_Dogs
So there’s some rumours going around that this patch wasn’t the official big patch they promised but was a 40 mb pre patch. Apparently it happens often with some devs and it lays the groundwork for the bigger patch. Would make sense if nothing was changed.
And let’s be honest since when are these type of patches only 40mb?
I hope the rumours are true.
Hope the rumour is true, Ubisoft better explain themselves.
This is rather odd, I just tried 1600×900, high settings, MHBAO, high textures and 4xTXAA, no stuttering at all and a stable FPS on my GTX660. Superior anti-aliasing than PS4 and higher frame-rates.
http://i.imgur.com/bard88R.jpg
Same Settings as PS4, Temporal SMAA
http://i.imgur.com/YHdXBX5.jpg
Where is this update then because I havent had any update on Uplay?
Waste of time!!!
Everyone, just calm down and laugh at this gif: http://media.giphy.com/media/RwLX4BS7BSZSU/giphy.gif
My game is running better with the new patch and I am also able to find multiplayer games far quicker than before.
Someone call the wambulance #GOPCMASTERRACEGO. Pirates are upset “their” game doesn’t run smooth as advertised. People who drop 2k on gaming pc’s always end up shit on (2 years ago ago I was one of them, mainly for blizzard games/steam, etc). Such a waste and not worth the headaches. =( I wish devs would allocate the proper resources instead of shunning an extremely large amount of people
I totally understand the hate towards Ubisoft. But to pirate the game and say you have rights to the game is just BULLSHIT! I get it, you don’t want to pay $59.99 for the game, you want to try it out. I totally support consumer rights. But being a spoiled entitled child on the net is just crossing the line. You tried it, you like it, you buy it. You don’t, then kindly STFU and move on.
Game runs like shit after patch honestly, it was better before the patch. 3930k + TITAN
The bugs happens on quite a few games actually, sometimes the Att, enter trick can work because it refreshes the video memory and can enable triple buffer.
I think watch dogs rullz very well in ultra all max: cpu i7 4770k, gpu 2 SLI Titan z with 12 gigs VRAM and 32 giga ram, and for that no more update for anyoane.
everybody lost their mind about graphic… nobody notice the gameplay is nothing special
Hopefully AC Unity, from ubicon is an epic failure on PC. With sales not even breaking even I will only buy ubicon games at $4.99 then spend full price with money that I worked to earn. Frankly if ubicon is treating us like this then I would rather. Spend money on other games that actually care about the PC and not assassine comments from an assassine CEO named Yves Guillant, who we all know made up 93%-95% of all PC games are pirated. Frankly I hope the next few years are rough on ubicon and the company goes bankrupt with an assassine CEO such as Yves Guillant, leading the company. One generation of failing the PC community is over in his book another one has begun. Below I will attach the article that has his assassine views on PC gaming.
http://www.pcgamer.com/pc-gaming-has-around-a-93-95-per-cent-piracy-rate-claims-ubisoft-ceo/