The Crew Video Card Showdown
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,023 words · ~5 min read
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the crew is an Ubisoft title so naturally I expect it to barely run at
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all and have a ton of issues right off the bat spoiler alert at least in my
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testing it was totally stable on all single card configurations that I ran
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but I think Linus is planning to do a test for our upcoming dual 980 versus
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Triple 970 SLI so down so stay
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subscribed for
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that from December 13th to 20th 2014 you
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can save on select Intel CPUs kns and ssds with special holiday rebates from
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select retailers click now to learn more well I haven't played any more than
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the first couple minutes of the game I can't say how good it is because of that
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but the internet seems to be pretty undecided on the topic from what I
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played however the PC Port seems fairly solid as it didn't crash on me once and
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I didn't see a single graphical glitch something that I can't say for any other
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recent AAA game releases
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so The Benchmark starts right at the beginning of the game honestly at this
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point in time I don't even know the protagonist name I don't know anything
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about what's going on all I know is that you're being chased by cops and if that's a spoiler you probably haven't
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seen any trailer or the box art for this game uh all you're going to actually do
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is just kind of Chase the checkpoints for the beginning so go through all
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these fields smash through a whole bunch of stuff what you're going to want to try to avoid is smashing through cops or
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really heavy things like that so farm equipment or cops is that will turn the
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front of your car too much and could actually affect the Benchmark when
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you're going across this highway there's about three cop cars that come on the
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highway so try not to t-bone them that unfortunate horse doesn't die by the way
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he just super humanly moves out of the way extremely quickly when you jump down
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into the swamp try to aim kind of in between the bushes here you'll see
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there's a a ramp if you're doing your testing here it's not super important
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whether or not you go around or over the ramp but if you do one or the other you
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have to do that consistently because it does make enough of a difference that it
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matters so go either over the ramp or around the ramp no big deal now if you
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kept on going straight there you would have actually finished the mission and continued with the game we're not trying
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to play this game we're just trying to Benchmark it so take a U-turn after you
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get past or go over that ramp and start heading towards the electrical Tower off
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in the distance what you're going to then do is get this freaking cop off of
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you and try to go around the right side of the Tower and onto the highway you're
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going to get into the far side of the highway so the traffic is actually going
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with you or the interstate or something I don't know this is somewhere in
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America so I'm not entirely sure and then you're going to go along this for
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the rest of the duration of your benchmark which should be another 10ish
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seconds unit down repeat unit down one
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thing to keep in mind when looking at our 1080p numbers is that there is a 60
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or 30fps limit on the game regardless of
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whether or not you're running vsync this resulted in the max FPS yes for our 290
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290x 780ti 970 and 980 to be at the
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exact FPS limit at 4K all of our configurations had a fair bit of trouble
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and the only card that actually hit the FPS limit at high settings was the 980
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even though I think it kind of just scraped it this game was surprisingly
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hard to run considering it's a car game but it also looks surprisingly good for
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a car game I'm impressed speaking of gaming I bet some of you out there are
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pretty entrenched in the new WoW expansion right above now well if you've
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been thinking I really do enjoy this new expansion but I wish I had something to
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keep me entertained while I tend to the endless duties of my Garrison then Hulu
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Plus has you covered they have tons of new content including episodes from
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shows like once upon a time and South Park they also have past seasons and
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episodes of shows like Archer and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia you can
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watch Hulu Plus on the majority of connected devices for about $7.99 per
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month but if you sign up using our link who plus.com Linus you get their free 2E
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trial of their service so check the link in the description down below all right
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guys thank you for watching as said in the beginning of the video if you want to see that dual 980 versus Triple 970
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video please stay subscribed like and dislike buttons are down below if you
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and whether or not you think the crew is Ubisoft continuing to dig or not if you
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in the video description down below to buy a shirt which isn't a super ugly
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Christmas sweater which has something to do with Harry Potter um anyways thanks
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for watching I'll see you next time