Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag Lag

[brutes7]

Hi guys,I am trying to run the game at max settings,but I feel slight lag.
My specs:
CPU: i5 3570k
Graphic card: Sapphire 7870 2gb
Ram: 8gb
Resolution: 1920x1080
Maybe updating graphic card drivers will work?thanks in advance

 

[junred56]

Here is the problem, first, your running an amd card which doesn't have the driver update needed to improve performance. Second, the game is highly unoptimized for pc and is extremely demanding even on high end rigs.
However, you could try updating the game to the latest patch and see if that works. Or, you could check this out, it might help. http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/810775-Improving-Performance-Frame-Rates-in-AC4-Black-Flag-with-mid-high-Nvidia-cards?p=9392052
Try lowering your settings a bit to reduce lag.

 

[Foldalot]

Check this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M45n5xjRUlQ (2:25)

Even 780ti can't get over 60FPS, not to mention 770, 280x, 290x, 780...

Also those GPUs are OCed, so it's clear that AC black flag is not optimized

 

[brutes7]

thank you a lot guys,so it's not my pc?I mean if the game was optimized good my pc could run it on high?thanks

 

[Foldalot]

Yes, if the game was optimized you'd run it on high 1080p without problems

 

[HEXiT]

its not that the game isnt optimized its the god rays (volumetric lighting) slaughter performance when set to high. setting them to low will have little effect on the visuals but will double your fps in some cases.

 

[Foldalot]

its not that the game isnt optimized its the god rays (volumetric lighting) slaughter performance when set to high. setting them to low will have little effect on the visuals but will double your fps in some cases.

In the video I posted god rays were off and 780ti still couldn't reach 60FPS avg.

Even if turning god rays off, or lowering their quality improves FPS, there's still an optimization problem with AC 4

 

[HEXiT]

well ive been playing on a hd 5870 which is about half as powerful and getting 45 fps. max settings(apart from godrays) with fxaa. 20 with god rays on high. it may be nvidia specific with the drivers coz im using older 13.6 amd 1s.

 

[Christopher Shaffer]

Please see my "fix" here: http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1896517/assassin-creed-capped-60fps.html

It doesn't lift the 60FPS cap, but it will improve your experience, and probably yield a solid 60FPS w/no screen tearing w/out Vsync.

 

[in_transit11]

Hi guys,I am trying to run the game at max settings,but I feel slight lag.
My specs:
CPU: i5 3570k
Graphic card: Sapphire 7870 2gb
Ram: 8gb
Resolution: 1920x1080
Maybe updating graphic card drivers will work?thanks in advance

believe it or not it probably has nothing to do with yourr system. In fact, i was having the same problems on my rig, which is beyond recommended requirements, and realized once i disconnected from the internet, regardless of graphics settings, i get full fps. while connected to the internet, I only was getting 15 - 20.

 

[Christopher Shaffer]

I also began running the game w/out Uplay and disconnected from the internet.
Whatever "enhancements" Uplay adds is bullshit and definitely affects performance.

I've noticed similar results in Splinter Cell BL and FC3.

 

[toadandcatfish]

I know older thread but.....for some reason when I researched this issue more I found a discussion about it on the NVIDIA forum. Apparently if you, WHEN in game (each time you run the game), open task manager and go to details and look for ac4bfsp.exe then right click and use set affinity and drop the last core and the lag should leave. It did for me and I run a GTX 750ti and I max all settings. hope this helps some one else.

 

[chrisdash]

Haha, more like "Assasin's Creep IV: Black Lag"... the game is clearly poorly optimized as is common for a console port. And common for UbiSchrott.
I have a 2500k running at 4.4GHz and a water cooled Radeon R9 290X running flat out at full speed without thermal throttling. The game will drop below 60fps on highest settings in certain scenes. I get 60fps most scenes but it doesn't feel like 60fps. I think it doesn't take VSync=On well, some games have that problem.

So your "slight lag" with a 7870 seems quite normal, actually it seems to be a very good result.

 

[misterjp4]

hello
i have problem....
i play in low but i lag.
this is my settings :

Windows 8.1
processor: AMD A4-6210 APU with AMD Radeon R3 Graphics 1.80 GHz
ram: 6,00 Go (4,94 utilisable)
système: exploitation 64 bits processor x64

can you help me and give me advice about how to don t lag or about the my settings thanks