how do I optimize my PC for gaming?

yeah I dont think it does need it, but its what they recommend. no game is truely optimised for even quad cores yet. bring on directx 12 for us nvidia owners! unless mantle goes cross card brand!!

op look at titanfall if you want a fairly decent modern game. the requirements are very low! then again even on max setting it still looks rubbish lol

Would need to upgrade that cpu also watch dogs is unoptimized just google it, ppl with high end rigs are getting stuttering and at 40 fps.

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AstaLaVista said:

Have you guys peruse the ubi watchdogs forum? it is full of complaints... from not being able to install to stutters, lags, freezes and the likes.

All points to normal ubi's ways of doing business but the most interesting part is that it seems the game is another bad coded port to pc... even though they claimed it would be done on a PC and then ported, hence, the heavy requirements.

I gotta say, it speaks volumes the amount of sheep out there buying games sight unseen just because they saw a trailer and it looked awesome!

Yea and not to mention it looks nothing like in the E3, they totally downgraded and released is with problems which is going to need major patching, hell even that may not even fully fix it.

AstaLaVista said:

Have you guys peruse the ubi watchdogs forum? it is full of complaints... from not being able to install to stutters, lags, freezes and the likes.

All points to normal ubi's ways of doing business but the most interesting part is that it seems the game is another bad coded port to pc... even though they claimed it would be done on a PC and then ported, hence, the heavy requirements.

I gotta say, it speaks volumes the amount of sheep out there buying games sight unseen just because they saw a trailer and it looked awesome!

Hm basicly it dosen't matter what PC you have if they don't optimise their games.

I finished Watch Dogs at low-med settings and it's poor game not worth 60$...

I even added another 4gb ram it helped with shuttering(not lag) so i was able to play it fine but it was still ood thing to save-quit after 1-2 hours memory leak or something.

Basicly the physics,ai,graphics everything is worse than in gta4,sleeping dogs or any other game from 2012-2014 no joke...

Im suprised people with 8 cores,16gb ram and titan cards with 3gb ram got problem to run this in ultra.

Also game got minimum 6gb ram required and yet with 8gb it never did use more than 4.5gb and funniest was message while gaming i was running low on ram while still had 3.5gb left :)

So all the hardware in ps4,xboxone is just for lazy developers so they don't have to optimise their games so my advice don't buy from ubisoft and support companies like Paradox they make wonderfull strategy games and optimise them.

So if that's what next-gen is about i think gaming is dead...

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@BDani use gamebooster and in nvidia pick every option to max preformance.

Insted of crapy Watch Dogs effects disable them all and use for example SweetFX.

Too put it simply Watch Dogs is not optimised at all.

Oh and impotant if you have 1-2gb vram on gfx use medium textures(lowest settings) if you have 3gb use high settings(medium) and for highest you need more than 3gb vram no idea if there is even such card...

I'm running Watch Dogs at ultra on a single reference 780 and apart from a bit of stutter when I'm driving it's fine. The 770 has a 4GB version and the 780 has a 6GB version, Titans have 6GB upwards depending on which version you buy, and some Radeon cards have more than 3GB I'm sure. So yes there are cards that have more than 3GB VRAM but Watch Dogs doesn't need it for highest settings.

Alex1986 said:

NO and NO.

Wrong and wrong.

Alex1986 said:

First of all if you get shutter it's still not fine...tip from me restart game once it starts to shutter it's prodobly memory leak helped me a least...

It started stuttering after I'd turned everything up to ultra, it was fine with three or four settings on high instead.

Alex1986 said:

Secound there is no card with more than 3gb vram even with sli you got only 3gb becouse card needs to mirror information so you still get 3gb...

GTX 780 6GB
770 4GB
Titan 6GB
Titan 12GB

Alex1986 said:

Third you think game is running fine when it's not look at ubi forums people with a lot better rigs got problems and your running this game fine on Ultra :)

If I can be bothered I'll ShadowPlay it. I'm not really bothered if you believe me or not to be honest.

Alex1986 said:

Also it's suppose to use minimal 6gb ram when it's not going over 4.5GB but only 2.6GB was Watch Dogs...

And? That's a bonus isn't it?

Alex1986 said:

It's not optimised can't you understand that?

Yes I can. I have read people are having trouble with it, I'm not saying they're not. I'm saying I'm not. I never said that because I'm getting decent performance 'it's fine' either so please don't put words in my mouth. This isn't the Battlefield forum.