As we’ve already reported, Ubisoft released a brand new performance patch for the PC version of Watch Dogs Legion. And, we are happy to report, that owners of high-end CPUs can finally enjoy the game with silky smooth 60fps, even while driving.
In order to test this patch, we used an Intel i9 9900K with 16GB of DDR4 at 3800Mhz with an NVIDIA RTX 2080Ti, Windows 10 64-bit, and the latest version of the GeForce drivers.
Update 2.20 brings around an 8-9% performance increase in the built-in benchmark. Prior to this update on our custom Very High settings, we were getting a minimum of 81fps and an average of 109fps. Now we are getting a minimum of 98fps and an average of 118fps. Below you can find our custom Very High settings.
The good news here is that the game can run with constant 60fps at 3328×1872 with DLSS Quality and our custom Very High settings. Even while driving, our framerate never dropped below 62fps. The game now feels silky smooth, though there is still room for additional optimizations. For instance, the game is currently limited by your RAM frequency. That’s why most PC gamers have been witnessing an underwhelming performance. Below you can find some benchmarks between DDR4-2666Mhz, DDR4-3000Mhz, DDR4-3600Mhz and DDR4-3800Mhz. Do note that these benchmarks are from the pre-patch version.
Due to these RAM bottlenecks, it’s still hard to achieve constant 60fps with Ray Tracing, even on Medium settings. In this particular game, Ray Tracing brings an additional memory overhead, which further impacts overall performance. At 2560×1440 with DLSS Balanced and Medium Ray Tracing, we had some drops to 55fps while driving. Don’t get us wrong, the game is at least playable and enjoyable now with RT. However, and for getting a completely smooth gaming experience, we still suggest disabling Ray Tracing.
Overall, Watch Dogs Legion runs better than its initial version. However, we believe there is still room for improvement. So, here is hoping that Ubisoft will keep optimizing the game with future patches.
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“Modern gaming”. Pay today, play whenever we fix our broken a** s**t.
And thats “if” they even fix them at all.
Early Access but paying at AAA price became the norm. Pirating a game never felt better.
This next gen game proves even i9 is not good enough.
What ? LMAO
while (true) keepDoingWork();
finishSuccessfully();
This infinite loop proves that no CPU can ever be good enough. Checkmate, hardware engineers.
And maybe because John wants a wider audience to read his articles instead of just people who complain about the wokeness all the time (which i dislike as well, but it is what it is).
you should have put with DLSS for accuracy sake
DLSS likely does little for the game under these conditions. It’s about reducing the resolution and this test was already with low resolution. DLSS doesn’t help with a CPU bottleneck.
Didnt notice much improvement..at all. Redownloaded the game after i read this article in the hope that it would show better framerate but alas.. it did not.
It’s not a great game but it’s fun enough for a quick blast now and again, the lack of a main protaganist really hurt the games narative in my opinion.
Also some horrible dodgy accents.
Watch Dogs Legion is literally is pro communist propaganda.
>Several anti capitalist symbols and story missions
>Several missions where you free “undocumented” immigrants
>Use of communist terminology
>The enemy you fight is wrongly classified as facist even though you have freedom to protest
>Ubisoft bans and censors someone for comments they made years ago
>Game feels like a broken mess made by communist grad students who just got a job at a company for having their pronouns “xir” on their resume
>rework of the famous communist quote “First they came…,” by Martin Niemöller for the marketing of this game
The funniest part about that is that this person was progressive and woke but not enough, because you can never be enough woke.
The funnier thing is that the game’s premise is that you are fighting fascism, but the police shows up when you attack people and its comical how many guns you have in uk and how everyone wants to help you and how much damage you can take, its like how in the real world all those far left activists who “fight the system” are in fact promoted by the system but believe they are fighting it, just like that in this game they think they are fighting the system but are in fact are the system’s brainwashed pawns.
yeah i saw that yesterday, my reaction was “how out of touch with reality you have to be to believe this nonsense? Its the exact opposite of what actually happens in real Britain.”
The people who write these games have no attachment to the real world, just whatever they read in media.
meanwhile on AC Vallhala offline mode still not work, the game say save game corrupt
Next game is 1984 but the Brits will play it irl.
They better bring back boring azz Aiden Pearce or Marcus as a main character. Don’t like to play as a bunch of random guy. Because it will make the game story hot mess…
Games aren’t made for people that actually buy games anymore. They are made for kids. Same reason AOC is on Twitch with actual Communists. Most of their audience is viewbotted but give it a decade and these kids will kill their parents just like they did in Communist Russia and China where the largest Holocausts of all time happened, that the public remains ignorant of because 5 companies own all their media. Companies like Disney who replaced the History channel with reality TV shows and Ancient Aliens while they buried stories on Epstein on their ABC “news” channel. Companies that never told you Weinstein had ex Mossad working for him and who avoid Mossad connections to Esptein. No kid has even heard of the USS Liberty and never will.
Anways…enjoy those Israel Loyalty laws that have now happened in 26 states where you have already lost constitutional rights to protest. Meanwhile idiots are focused on AIPAC puppet left and right actors who want people to fight for them. Wonder why the media doesn’t report these things. Oh yeah cus their CEO’s are mostly “chosen” and they purposely cause division and subvert you. Same reason you never about 4 year old girls being shot in Israel or their Supreme Court upholding live fire into unarmed crowds. Never hear about their chief rabbi calling black people monkeys recently either.
BTW look up AOC’s ancestry. Then put in a google search for “the Genetic Legacy of the Spanish Inquisition”. Now look at Columbus. The Rabbi’s know who he was and he was as “white” as the Conquistadors who raped and exploited the Native Americans. You are taught a fairy tale to hide REAL privilege and crimes against humanity while you take the blame.They also ran the Dutch Trading companies and were the primary slavers along with Muslims. The Barbary and Crimean slave trades are also hidden from you. Black men like Stanford fellow Thomas Sowell try to tell you, but people capable of critical though are now dying of old age and he is hidden from you in the media so that you think educated people actually agree on everything the media pushes..
The new slavery is financial and the same people own the banks owned the Dutch Trading companies. We are all slaves now and we have been brainwashed to worship our masters from the time we are children which BS like Little Einstein’s. A man who married his own cousin, whose inbred parents were cousins and who failed simple college entrance exams. Nikola Tesla called him a fraud in the NY Times. Good thing the “chosen” creators of Superman made Tesla a villian in the very first Superman cartoon. A fellow chosen screwed him over decades before (JP Morgan). Now people view him as crazy and a lunatic when they find out about him at all. Mark Twain never did.
In every movie and in every show they are the most moral person, never evil and always victims. They even have a ADL organization that was created when B’nai B’rith leader Leo Frank raped and murdered a little girl and tried to frame a black man for the crime. It didn’t work and they were so mad he faced justice they made an organization to make sure it never happened agian.
“Update 2.20 brings around an 8-9% performance increase in the built-in
benchmark. Prior to this update on our custom Very High settings, we
were getting a minimum of 81fps and an average of 109fps. Now we are
getting a minimum of 98fps and an average of 118fps.”
Not to defend this generic Ubigrind game too much but I believe you’re underrating the improvement when you say 8-9%. The minimums determine how a game feels and going from 81 fps to 98 fps is actually a gain of almost 21%. Minimums are also naturally what you work on when you optimize performance. There would be no point in increasing the highs, yet it would raise the averag! Hence you shouldn’t pay attention to the average at all imo.