Watch_Dogs Graphics Card Showdown & Benchmarking Procedure
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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the series of events surrounding watchdogs has been interesting to say
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the least starting with the leaked game that had coin miners injected in the
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code by the guy that hacked it ridiculous
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and then going into AMD complaining about NVIDIA gameworks and how it's
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actually kept AMD away from the developers of watchdogs and has kept
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them from optimizing the game to run on AMD cards and the performance issues
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that came from that which we'll be exploring more later and then people
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comparing screenshots and in-game footage to the e3 2012 footage that we
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see that we saw much earlier and then comparing that to how the same thing
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happened with far cry where with the early e3 footage it looked better than
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the final version that people actually received so after all of this crazy storm of news
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how does this game actually perform now while it's true AMD had very limited
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time with the game due to games works and all that kind of stuff kind of
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similar to how i had very limited time to the game due to not getting reviewers
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code which was not awesome uh it it
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isn't as bad as i expected when i saw the forbes article posted on our forum
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and i saw the massive amount of pages of comments and i read a lot of the
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comments and i read the forbes article i expected serious doom and gloom and then
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once i started testing the game it wasn't that bad the AMD cards are not
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that far behind their tier equivalent NVIDIA cards and looking into
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seriously this game needs patches so watch dogs patches in the future you can
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probably go see why in other people's actual reviews of the game but
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personally i believe it needs some serious patches and as AMD releases more
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drivers for watch dogs in the future i expect this gap to close up and i don't
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think this is going to be a terrible terrible issue although i am for certain
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that games work games works did affect things as far as day one launch goes in
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the future once AMD has had more time with the game and once watchdogs is able
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to release patches of their own i'll be more than happy to do stuff like 4k
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benchmarks and 2560x1440p and playing around with a lot more
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settings but as of right now it just kind of feels weird the game shouldn't
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really be as hard to run as it is i mean it's a good enough looking game but it's
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not exactly making my jaw drop the entire time i'm playing it and any
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system i throw at it is extremely under stress the entire time so i'm fairly
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interested to see what happens here and i recommend unless you have an
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absolutely ridiculously beast computer
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don't even bother with ultra textures because it's insanity it's going to
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destroy the vram on your cards and you're going to have some you're
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actually going to have some issues running it maybe if you have a six Gigabyte 780 ti or something that has
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six gigabytes of vram on it you can play around with that kind of stuff but that'll be up to you to figure out
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another thing that i might want to stay wary of is to take advantage of your
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GPU's max buffered frames because this game really needs it and it will really
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help i know the party started it's almost over
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where are you i'm on my way oh you made
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me this isn't exactly the most ambitious
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benchmarking run i've ever done essentially for the first bit i just
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kind of walk to a car while he's on his phone and then grab the first car that's
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closest to me and then drive around for a little bit although the reason why i used it is
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because i was able to find a pretty repeatable segment within a very short
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time of having the game uh in future benchmarks i'll probably
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find a different segment so that i can get a little bit more flavor into the
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benchmark try and get some explosions and what not going on except for
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the one little simple one that i have in this current benchmark just to show off
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the game a little bit more but then i'm also hoping that by the time i get that
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going on there will probably be patches and
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better drivers and whatnot to support those things as well and be done but hey
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you pay me right i'll keep them alive as long as you want i do work for a paycheck
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when you first get in this car just look right behind you at the thing on the ground over there and hold q and it'll
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make it explode what i do here is i take off at full speed out of the parking lot
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but then once i get onto the road just because it's random what car will be
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there i try to regulate my speed by tapping
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um w in a certain pacing and i can kind of
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compare about how fast i'm going depending on other cars on the road
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because the cars on the road are usually going about the same speed for every
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rune
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i never actually really stop for this benchmark just kind of weave in between
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cars and stuff it makes it fairly consistent because i just try to keep my speed about the same the whole time and
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just weaving between cars although it does make it so you have to kind of squeeze between things like that from
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time to time also this traffic light up here is
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avoidable by just making it green causing a crash and then
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going around the crash your benchmark should stop somewhere right about here
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this game has been really interesting to follow since launch due to all the
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controversy and stuff that's been going on around it tell me what you think
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