I think my graphics card is flawed

[eNtro]

Hello,

I have r9 280x which i bought as used from a store with 2 years of warranty left.
I tried playing watch dogs and it's just horrible - 30-35 fps average walking in the street, drops to 20 while driving, and when i went up to the train it was 20 and stuttered every 2 secs and got to 10-.

there is no bottleneck and the setting where:
ultra detail 1920x1080 fxaa

And is there any software that checks performance that i can download?

 

[vrumor]

What are the rest of your system specs?

 

[eNtro]

What are the rest of your system specs?

i5 4690
8gb ram
650W FSP raider
B85-HD3

 

[moozilbee]

This is normal, Ubisoft are partenered with Nvidia and were pretty much payed to only optimize the game for Nvidia cards, so it runs horribly on amd cards. You'll never be able to run it on ultra with a R9 280, ultra settings are often unoptimized for everyone anyway, try dialing it down to medium and you might get playable framerates.

Your CPU and RAM are certainly up to scratch so it looks like poor optimization, though it might still be caused by heat issues. Download and install HWmonitor, run the game, check what temps your CPU and GPU get during gameplay.

 

[huilun02]

Watch Dogs ran fine on my PC with an overclocked 7950, at high settings.

Yes the game is better optimized for Nvidia GPUs, but the difference isn't huge comparing cards of similar performance.

 

[Geek Jed]

This is normal, Ubisoft are partenered with Nvidia and were pretty much payed to only optimize the game for Nvidia cards, so it runs horribly on amd cards. You'll never be able to run it on ultra with a R9 280, ultra settings are often unoptimized for everyone anyway, try dialing it down to medium and you might get playable framerates.

Your CPU and RAM are certainly up to scratch so it looks like poor optimization, though it might still be caused by heat issues. Download and install HWmonitor, run the game, check what temps your CPU and GPU get during gameplay.

Every game I have I run at Ultra.

 

[huilun02]

If you're having performance issues in just Watch Dogs, then the issue is probably caused by the game and not the card.

 

[maxalge]

Hello,

I have r9 280x which i bought as used from a store with 2 years of warranty left.
I tried playing watch dogs and it's just horrible - 30-35 fps average walking in the street, drops to 20 while driving, and when i went up to the train it was 20 and stuttered every 2 secs and got to 10-.

there is no bottleneck and the setting where:
ultra detail 1920x1080 fxaa

And is there any software that checks performance that i can download?

All free benchmarks:


Valley

http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/unigine-valley-benchmark-download.html

3dmark basic edition

http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/3dmark



Run them and post your scores, then we can see if anything is really wrong.



You need to tweak settings, with that video card you can't just set to ultra and expect to have decent frames.

As far as watch dogs is concerned you should be running these settings:

Vsync: 1 frame
GPU Max Buffered Frames: 3
Textures: High
Anti-Aliasing: Temporal SMAA
Level of Detail: High
Shadows: High
Reflections: High
Ambient Occlusions HBAO+ Low
Motion Blur: Off (personal preference)
Depth of Field: Off
Water: Ultra
Shader: High

 

[eNtro]

This is normal, Ubisoft are partenered with Nvidia and were pretty much payed to only optimize the game for Nvidia cards, so it runs horribly on amd cards. You'll never be able to run it on ultra with a R9 280, ultra settings are often unoptimized for everyone anyway, try dialing it down to medium and you might get playable framerates.

Your CPU and RAM are certainly up to scratch so it looks like poor optimization, though it might still be caused by heat issues. Download and install HWmonitor, run the game, check what temps your CPU and GPU get during gameplay.

nothing unusual, 60 on GPU and 40-50 on CPU