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Watch Dogs

So I ripped one of my 680's out because a fan was failing and have a replacement set on the way.. Watch Dogs is virtually stutter free now running on one card instead of SLI on High Textures.. Even Ultra textures was playable..
 
I have a 6GB VRAM Titan and I get stutter while driving fast, its the game, not your graphics card. Borderless window mode is a bit better, but it still stutters to much to enjoy driving fast.
 
pontiac4life said:
I just switch to using one 680 and I still get the stutter just as bad
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Are you actually disabling SLI completely via Nvidia Control panel? Vsync set to one.. You should be able to drive nearly stutter free on High Textures w/ MSAA X2 @ 30FPS
 
Watch Dogs is 20% off for the next four hours as part of the Steam sale.

Not sure if I should get it for that price.
 
Guru3D is now hosting the WorseMod if anyone cares. The whole "stutter fix" thing didn't do anything on my system, so I went back to the vanilla version of the game.
At this point I think I'm going to shelve the game and come back to it once I either have an 8xx GTX card in the Fall, or the game gets some more updates. That driving stutter makes the day 1 version GTA4 seem polished. I turned the details down to almost nothing and it's still there, albeit reduced.
 
I've always wanted to try downsampling...is it possible to damage your video card or monitor by trying a really high resolution?
 
polonyc2 said:
I've always wanted to try downsampling...is it possible to damage your video card or monitor by trying a really high resolution?
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No.. It either works or don't work really. 2560x1440 is is easiest downsample most anyone can do without any effort... Above that usually you have to start playing with timings and such. It's really not worth it much. Because it's essentially a brute force SSAA. I keep a downsample resolution for games with no AA. GTA IV is a great game to downsample a little with to rid of jaggies a bit

2560x1440 downsampled to 1920x1080

http://i.imgur.com/YhWwc0y.jpg

Regular 1920x1080

http://i.imgur.com/NfMfiO9.jpg
 
styckx said:
No.. It either works or don't work really. 2560x1440 is is easiest downsample most anyone can do without any effort... Above that usually you have to start playing with timings and such. It's really not worth it much. Because it's essentially a brute force SSAA. I keep a downsample resolution for games with no AA. GTA IV is a great game to downsample a little with to rid of jaggies a bit
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nice...will give it a try at 2560 x 1600 first (since I have a 19:10 monitor)...ideally I would like to try 3840 x 2400...downsampling won't interfere with any mods I have installed right?

I see that [H] already has a dedicated downsampling thread...

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1700046
 
there's no point in downsampling in watch dogs as it supports plenty of proper anti aliasing methods. downsampling costs significantly more to get the same results as modern aa techniques.
 
These 'mods' threads on guru3d are getting weirder by the day. It's like they're some sort of cult populated by suggestive sheep. I keep trying to avoid it but keep having to pop in the odd post/ dig/ voice of reason, but it just angers the mob! Pathetic.

To top it all, one of the 'modders', TheWorse, just posted this angry reply to me:

"Defeat? I'm just tired of this. And people like you that only write because it's the internet. Bugs always happen and were fixed. I'm not ubisoft so don't expect me to make the new iCEnhancer for this game.

You and other people actually believe that it's possible to change the graphics of the game to be like e3 2012 while that's not even close to be true. Physx, high geometry quality, deferred lighting etc it's something that a simple person can't implement into a game."

Eeeeerm. I think you'll find it's you and that other 'modder' that are the ones making outlandish claims about trumping up the visuals to "e3" with their special notepad tweaking.

He's basically admitting it's all bollocks there is he not?
 
wunkley said:
These 'mods' threads on guru3d are getting weirder by the day. It's like they're some sort of cult populated by suggestive sheep. I keep trying to avoid it but keep having to pop in the odd post/ dig/ voice of reason, but it just angers the mob! Pathetic.

To top it all, one of the 'modders', TheWorse, just posted this angry reply to me:

"Defeat? I'm just tired of this. And people like you that only write because it's the internet. Bugs always happen and were fixed. I'm not ubisoft so don't expect me to make the new iCEnhancer for this game.

You and other people actually believe that it's possible to change the graphics of the game to be like e3 2012 while that's not even close to be true. Physx, high geometry quality, deferred lighting etc it's something that a simple person can't implement into a game."

Eeeeerm. I think you'll find it's you and that other 'modder' that are the ones making outlandish claims about trumping up the visuals to "e3" with their special notepad tweaking.

He's basically admitting it's all bollocks there is he not?
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Is he finally realizing his 15 minutes of fame were up 20 minutes ago? All those vague promises and ego when this started are now dwindling down into bad back peddling and denial?
 
styckx said:
Is he finally realizing his 15 minutes of fame were up 20 minutes ago? All those vague promises and ego when this started are now dwindling down into bad back peddling and denial?
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I think so. It's almost like mass hysteria, in the proper psychological sense of the word. Quite interesting really.
One thing I really can't stand is bullshitters though. Someone needs to counteract the waves of sycophantic 'believers' on there. I keep wanting to scream Emperors new clothes!!

Or not. What do I care :)
 
They can't even fix the problems these mods create.
I've been waiting for them to fix the flickering headlights for weeks and neither TheWorse nor Kadz can do it. It's an inherent problem with the way the shadows are implemented.
 
I seriously tried giving that dude real legit advice early one.. And he ignored it.

I flat out told him

Work on one thing at a time.. And perfect the tweak before moving on to the next.
When moving on to and perfecting the next tweak make sure it didn't affect previous tweaks

Very simple shit ya know? Yet.. He's like a bull in a god damn china shop changing numbers like a Vegas odds board during the NFL playoffs. Dude is clueless.
 
TaintedSquirrel said:
They can't even fix the problems these mods create.
I've been waiting for them to fix the flickering headlights for weeks and neither TheWorse nor Kadz can do it. It's an inherent problem with the way the shadows are implemented.
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of course they can't.
 
Yeah. It's fair enough trying to improve a game. All power to proper modders, but I think these 2 individuals are genuinely no better than I would be if I decided to waste a week of my life pissing about with a few extracting tools and messing about changing numerous values.

Their heads have inflated, and the whole situation has run away from them. To be honest it's the baying mob of believers I find more disturbing and outright annoying. They're the sort of people that really would fuck a horse if it had lipstick on.
 
Who cares about flickering shadows, bad tree animation, blur every god damn where when the screenshots l00k tot@lly l33t brahs..
 
wunkley said:
Yeah. It's fair enough trying to improve a game. All power to proper modders, but I think these 2 individuals are genuinely no better than I would be if I decided to waste a week of my life pissing about with a few extracting tools and messing about changing numerous values.

Their heads have inflated, and the whole situation has run away from them. To be honest it's the baying mob of believers I find more disturbing and outright annoying. They're the sort of people that really would fuck a horse if it had lipstick on.
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The last fight I purposely started with him was when he started doing color grading and posted a screenshot of his changes which were supposed to impress us.. I tried telling him there is nothing wrong with the colors in the game (they are actually good) and he's again changing dumb shit just for the sake of changing it. I even provided examples of how his stupid color grading over-saturated the blues.. Others even agreed his color grading was dumb and full of blue/purple.

Yet again, he got all defensive.. Refused to take legitimate advice and used the "it's beta" excuse..
 
wunkley said:
Aaahhh. It's like taking a sanity bath in here. Praise be for intelligent rational humans.
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This is what happens when Sony and Microsoft release shitty consoles. PC gaming gets a surge and every 12-year old builds their first rig and starts modding.
Throw in a new shitty AAA port, a few retards who know how to use notepad, and you've got a cult on your hands.
 
TaintedSquirrel said:
This is what happens when Sony and Microsoft release shitty consoles. PC gaming gets a surge and every 12-year old builds their first rig and starts modding.
Throw in a new shitty AAA port, a few retards who know how to use notepad, and you've got a cult on your hands.
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I completely lost track of how many different people are editing and repacking his mod now. I'm pretty sure every poster in that thread has their own distribution at this point.
 
OK, removed TheWorse's mod, and tried SweetFX instead. Is there some trick to get it to work with Watch Dogs? I have the configurator, downloaded a preset and applied it with the configurator tool, but in game whenever I press Scroll Lock to toggle it, there's no changes.
 
I do now, made sure to point the configurator to the 64bit dlls, still doesn't seem to be doing anything. First time using SweetFX in a really long time.
 
styckx said:
The last fight I purposely started with him was when he started doing color grading and posted a screenshot of his changes which were supposed to impress us.. I tried telling him there is nothing wrong with the colors in the game (they are actually good) and he's again changing dumb shit just for the sake of changing it. I even provided examples of how his stupid color grading over-saturated the blues.. Others even agreed his color grading was dumb and full of blue/purple.

Yet again, he got all defensive.. Refused to take legitimate advice and used the "it's beta" excuse..
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Did you say it just like that? Because I can see where he'd take offense to some of it. Granted, others are just not good at getting constructive criticism.

If you've ever wanted to see it in action, just swap "we" for "you" and see the difference in reaction by the other person. Or watch for it when you hear those words, they usually trigger a different response within.
 
One thing I forgot when going back to this game is the pop in, please tell me at least one those million mods just deals with draw distance and/or civilian density and nothing else...
 
I think I won't be buying this game after reading all the opinions, reviews, and feedback...
 
So basically we have a game that is optimized for 8GB graphics cards. When we get those, maybe we can stop stuttering. :)
 
TaintedSquirrel said:
Kadzait went on a rampage in TheWorse's Guru3D thread this morning.
Check his recent posts here:
http://forums.guru3d.com/search.php?searchid=5982701

Got himself banned again.
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I can't read any of those threads anymore. They're such a drivel of bold fonts, oversized bold fonts, screenshots no one cares about and self promotion of other threads.. So glad they made a specific forum for all those threads so I don't have to see them anymore.
 
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