CPU intensive settings vs GPU intensive settings.

[Deniedstingray]

Im trying to get Watch dogs 2 to run as it is a very CPU stressing game but im having a lot of trouble. Does anyone know of a a list that shows which settings put more stress on which component? (GPU vs CPU)

 

[hang-the-9]

You probably would want to post your system specs, what settings you are running on and exactly what is "a lot of trouble" means as far as what is happening.

Most visual effects are in the video card, game logic and some calculations for particles are CPU.

 

[Deniedstingray]

You probably would want to post your system specs, what settings you are running on and exactly what is "a lot of trouble" means as far as what is happening.

Most visual effects are in the video card, game logic and some calculations for particles are CPU.

i5-4690k
1070 G1 Gaming
16Gb DDR3 @1666


My trouble is that the fps varies up and down by 40 fps the whole time i play and i was just wondering if there were any settings that are known to cause poor performance.

 

[hang-the-9]

You probably would want to post your system specs, what settings you are running on and exactly what is "a lot of trouble" means as far as what is happening.

Most visual effects are in the video card, game logic and some calculations for particles are CPU.

i5-4690k
1070 G1 Gaming
16Gb DDR3 @1666


My trouble is that the fps varies up and down by 40 fps the whole time i play and i was just wondering if there were any settings that are known to cause poor performance.

You have a good balanced system, did you check your temperatures while gaming? Are other demanding games running with less variance? Does lowering settings help things?

 

[Deniedstingray]

You probably would want to post your system specs, what settings you are running on and exactly what is "a lot of trouble" means as far as what is happening.

Most visual effects are in the video card, game logic and some calculations for particles are CPU.

i5-4690k
1070 G1 Gaming
16Gb DDR3 @1666


My trouble is that the fps varies up and down by 40 fps the whole time i play and i was just wondering if there were any settings that are known to cause poor performance.

You have a good balanced system, did you check your temperatures while gaming? Are other demanding games running with less variance? Does lowering settings help things?

Watch dogs 2 is a very "interesting" game performance wise. It seems to be above 90% cpu usage almost all the time and it would sometimes be at 100% 5-10 minutes at a time. My temps were 62C max after a 30 min session.However, After about 5-6 hours of troublshooting i managed to get it to run at a somewhat stable 60fps. Some settings use much more resources then they should in watch dogs 2 and i just had to keep messing with things until it worked.

This was just a case of bad optimization, I read that if you don't have an i7 you will have a hard time running at high settings and it looks like that is the case here.