Assassin's Creed IV - Capped at 60FPS?

[Christopher Shaffer]

I have this game basically maxed out, have shadows on high instead of "soft shadows", otherwise cranked.

Unless I hit soft shadows, the game literally sticks bouncing between 59 and 62 FPS.

I've even dropped settings to basically crap-level and still stuck at 60. Vsync is NOT on.

Anyone know a way to bypass this?

My monitor does 75Hz, so I'd like to hit 75FPS.

 

[tigerg]

Well, this is hard to tell without knowing what your graphics card is. For all we know your card is only capable of 60fps at those settings....

 

[meowmix44]

Dude, Assassin's Creed Black Flag is a pretty un-optimized, badly ported game. You have to stick with it and keep letting the game check for updates like I do. Ubisoft is being VERY lazy. In some areas, caps are 30 FPS, then 60 again. The game is not PC grade material yet, at least in terms of optimization.

 

[Christopher Shaffer]

Well, this is hard to tell without knowing what your graphics card is. For all we know your card is only capable of 60fps at those settings....

Oh my, you're right. I guess that's why it's hidden... In my signature... Right below my post...

You clearly didn't read the post, either. There's literally no more than about 2FPS fluctuation between maxed and low settings. It flickers between 59-62 FPS and never moves, regardless of settings as observed using MSI Afterburner overlay. It's CAPPED, its not my card.

If it wasn't, there would be a serious change from all very high settings to all low/off settings.

There isn't even a change with an additional drop on resolution.

It's capped. I'm trying to find a way to unlock the cap.

 

[meowmix44]

Well, this is hard to tell without knowing what your graphics card is. For all we know your card is only capable of 60fps at those settings....

Oh my, you're right. I guess that's why it's hidden... In my signature... Right below my post...

You clearly didn't read the post, either. There's literally no more than about 2FPS fluctuation between maxed and low settings. It flickers between 59-62 FPS and never moves, regardless of settings as observed using MSI Afterburner overlay. It's CAPPED, its not my card.

If it wasn't, there would be a serious change from all very high settings to all low/off settings.

There isn't even a change with an additional drop on resolution.

It's capped. I'm trying to find a way to unlock the cap.

Yeah man. That cap is VERY unnecessary. Wait till the updates start being made.

 

[Christopher Shaffer]

Well, this is hard to tell without knowing what your graphics card is. For all we know your card is only capable of 60fps at those settings....

Oh my, you're right. I guess that's why it's hidden... In my signature... Right below my post...

You clearly didn't read the post, either. There's literally no more than about 2FPS fluctuation between maxed and low settings. It flickers between 59-62 FPS and never moves, regardless of settings as observed using MSI Afterburner overlay. It's CAPPED, its not my card.

If it wasn't, there would be a serious change from all very high settings to all low/off settings.

There isn't even a change with an additional drop on resolution.

It's capped. I'm trying to find a way to unlock the cap.

Yeah man. That cap is VERY unnecessary. Wait till the updates start being made.

Posted this in a related thread, but I'll post it here, too:

As of right now, there doesn't seem to be a way to pass the 62.5FPS cap (confirmed by Ubisoft that this IS the cap).

However, you can get a much smoother level and steady rate of FPS with a little .ini trick.

In your Documents folder in the Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag folder you'll find a file called Assassins4.ini. Right click and click Edit and edit this in Notepad. Change your refresh rate to a value just above 60 for the values under "RefreshRate" and "DisplayableRefreshRate", 63-65 should be fine. Make sure the Vsync value is 0.

This will allow you to stick at a constant ~60FPS without FPS drops you see with Vsync AND it will prevent screen tearing.

The game seems to not know what to do with the "extra" frames if your card is pushing above the cap and so tears horribly w/out Vsync. Vsync, on the other hand keeps bouncing frame rates from ~32-62 resulting crappy, unsmooth gameplay.

I now have butter-smooth game play stuck @ 61-62FPS.

 

[Hugh is daft]

Well, this is hard to tell without knowing what your graphics card is. For all we know your card is only capable of 60fps at those settings....

Oh my, you're right. I guess that's why it's hidden... In my signature... Right below my post...

You clearly didn't read the post, either. There's literally no more than about 2FPS fluctuation between maxed and low settings. It flickers between 59-62 FPS and never moves, regardless of settings as observed using MSI Afterburner overlay. It's CAPPED, its not my card.

If it wasn't, there would be a serious change from all very high settings to all low/off settings.

There isn't even a change with an additional drop on resolution.

It's capped. I'm trying to find a way to unlock the cap.

Yeah man. That cap is VERY unnecessary. Wait till the updates start being made.

Posted this in a related thread, but I'll post it here, too:

As of right now, there doesn't seem to be a way to pass the 62.5FPS cap (confirmed by Ubisoft that this IS the cap).

However, you can get a much smoother level and steady rate of FPS with a little .ini trick.

In your Documents folder in the Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag folder you'll find a file called Assassins4.ini. Right click and click Edit and edit this in Notepad. Change your refresh rate to a value just above 60 for the values under "RefreshRate" and "DisplayableRefreshRate", 63-65 should be fine. Make sure the Vsync value is 0.

This will allow you to stick at a constant ~60FPS without FPS drops you see with Vsync AND it will prevent screen tearing.

The game seems to not know what to do with the "extra" frames if your card is pushing above the cap and so tears horribly w/out Vsync. Vsync, on the other hand keeps bouncing frame rates from ~32-62 resulting crappy, unsmooth gameplay.

I now have butter-smooth game play stuck @ 61-62FPS.

I love it when I overlook all of the simple things like this and assume that there is something large at play, I was having this issue even when I chucked a pair of over clocked 780's in. Thankyou for reminding me how stupid I can be sometimes..

Hugh

 

[Christopher Shaffer]

Well, this is hard to tell without knowing what your graphics card is. For all we know your card is only capable of 60fps at those settings....

Oh my, you're right. I guess that's why it's hidden... In my signature... Right below my post...

You clearly didn't read the post, either. There's literally no more than about 2FPS fluctuation between maxed and low settings. It flickers between 59-62 FPS and never moves, regardless of settings as observed using MSI Afterburner overlay. It's CAPPED, its not my card.

If it wasn't, there would be a serious change from all very high settings to all low/off settings.

There isn't even a change with an additional drop on resolution.

It's capped. I'm trying to find a way to unlock the cap.

Yeah man. That cap is VERY unnecessary. Wait till the updates start being made.

Posted this in a related thread, but I'll post it here, too:

As of right now, there doesn't seem to be a way to pass the 62.5FPS cap (confirmed by Ubisoft that this IS the cap).

However, you can get a much smoother level and steady rate of FPS with a little .ini trick.

In your Documents folder in the Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag folder you'll find a file called Assassins4.ini. Right click and click Edit and edit this in Notepad. Change your refresh rate to a value just above 60 for the values under "RefreshRate" and "DisplayableRefreshRate", 63-65 should be fine. Make sure the Vsync value is 0.

This will allow you to stick at a constant ~60FPS without FPS drops you see with Vsync AND it will prevent screen tearing.

The game seems to not know what to do with the "extra" frames if your card is pushing above the cap and so tears horribly w/out Vsync. Vsync, on the other hand keeps bouncing frame rates from ~32-62 resulting crappy, unsmooth gameplay.

I now have butter-smooth game play stuck @ 61-62FPS.

I love it when I overlook all of the simple things like this and assume that there is something large at play, I was having this issue even when I chucked a pair of over clocked 780's in. Thankyou for reminding me how stupid I can be sometimes..

Hugh

Not sure if this is supposed to be sarcasm, but nothing about my post suggests "chucking" any 780s, or that overclocking is necessary.

 

[Nitro192]

I tried the fix of editing the Assassins4.ini., Changed the refresh rate to 64 for the values under "RefreshRate" and "DisplayableRefreshRate" but everytime I start the game the "Refreshrate" reverts back to 60.

The only fix I found to work and give me constant 60fps with almost maxed out settings, Is to enable Adaptive Vsync in Nvidia Control Panel (Only GTX 6 series or later support adaptive vsync) Then I launch D3Doverrider and add AC4SP.exe to the game list and enable Triple Buffering but leave vsync off, then leave vsync off in game. Im getting amazing FPS with no tearing now and the game looks incredible with textures, shadows, and reflections on "Very high"

Again this fix worked for me, I used to get drops down to 30 but now I stay at 60 even in high action scenarios and in the middle of the larger cities, it stays flawless. but again this will only work if your card supports adaptive vsync

 

[streetsports]

This sucks...just built an sli 780 rig and they gave me this game for free...makes no sense why they would give you a capped game with a card like the 780

 

[Christopher Shaffer]

I tried the fix of editing the Assassins4.ini., Changed the refresh rate to 64 for the values under "RefreshRate" and "DisplayableRefreshRate" but everytime I start the game the "Refreshrate" reverts back to 60.

The only fix I found to work and give me constant 60fps with almost maxed out settings, Is to enable Adaptive Vsync in Nvidia Control Panel (Only GTX 6 series or later support adaptive vsync) Then I launch D3Doverrider and add AC4SP.exe to the game list and enable Triple Buffering but leave vsync off, then leave vsync off in game. Im getting amazing FPS with no tearing now and the game looks incredible with textures, shadows, and reflections on "Very high"

Again this fix worked for me, I used to get drops down to 30 but now I stay at 60 even in high action scenarios and in the middle of the larger cities, it stays flawless. but again this will only work if your card supports adaptive vsync

I will try this. Since installing G-Sync, though, it's a non-issue. But I'd really like to be playing at 120FPS over 60FPS. Luckily, G-Sync somehow gives about a 5-10FPS boost in games that it works well with (which is most, so far). I have been able to run the game and significantly higher settings with solid ~60FPS performance. Unfortunately, this game's use of MSAA and AO seems highly un-optimized, though the GF Experience profile helps a bit, as does Nvidia Inspector.