What FPS and setting should I be running AC 4 on?

[samyfist]

I currently have:
AMD 8350
8GB RAM
Nvidia GTX 760

At the minute I seem to be getting FPS like 30 with V-Sync turned off. After searching the internet some have said that installing Direct 3D Overrider and forcing triple buffering and forcing V-Sync gave them vastly improved performance on simmilar rigs to mine (60 FPS)

I am almost sure I have all the latest drivers installed for my GPU, what can I do to solve this? De-Frag my hard drive or maybe sweep my old drivers?

 

[bumnut53]

What resolution and what graphical settings are you using?

 

[samyfist]

What resolution and what graphical settings are you using?

I am using:

Ambient Occlusion: HBAO+ (High)
Anti-Alliasing: TXAA 2x
Environment Quality: Very High
God Rays: Low
PhysX Particles: Off
Reflection Quality: High
Resolution: 1920x1080
Shadow Quality: Very High
Texture Quality: High
Volumetric Fog: On

 

[Novuake]

Simple solutions first. Run Gforce Experience and see if their is any improvement.

 

[samyfist]

Simple solutions first. Run Gforce Experience and see if their is any improvement.

Using the optimal setting with and without the Direct 3D Overrider seemed to give me even worse FPS that before, dipping below 30 and peak 40.

 

[Novuake]

Are you using the GAMES optimal settings or are you using Gforce experience?

 

[samyfist]

Are you using the GAMES optimal settings or are you using Gforce experience?

I am using the GeForce Experience optimal setting for my rig

 

[Novuake]

OK cool. Try something. Drop settings to minimal and see if there is a drastic increase.

 

[samyfist]

OK cool. Try something. Drop settings to minimal and see if there is a drastic increase.

With EVERYTHING at lowest setting I get solid 60 constant. When I put environment quality to very high and texture quality to high I seem to get a constant 50.

 

[Novuake]

That is not a very large difference.
Should be much larger. When you drop the settings, do you have Vsync on anywhere?

 

[samyfist]

That is not a very large difference.
Should be much larger. When you drop the settings, do you have Vsync on anywhere?

I have turned Direct 3D Overider off, V-Sync is off in the settings and it is set to "Use the 3D application setting" in the nVidia control panel. I have a 60 Hz monitor if that helps in any way.

 

[Novuake]

Hmmm and it still runs at only 60FPS after setting everything else to minimum?

What motherboard, RAM and PSU do you have?

 

[samyfist]

Hmmm and it still runs at only 60FPS after setting everything else to minimum?

What motherboard, RAM and PSU do you have?

These are my specs here. http://i.imgur.com/O1kwbxo.png

(I was running AC IV in the background while playing this, don't worry that isn't my idle GPU temp)

 

[Novuake]

Just found this : http://i1.wp.com/alienbabeltech.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Untitled-1.jpg

Apparently your FPS is not that bad...

 

[samyfist]

Just found this : http://i1.wp.com/alienbabeltech.com/main/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Untitled-1.jpg

Apparently your FPS is not that bad...

Very nice. I'll try messing around with triple buffering and adaptive V-Sync and see if that helps at all. Seems to be very badly optimized. (Also some people are reporting FPS improvments when they progress past a certain area, the area I am in now)

Thanks very much for your help!

 

[Novuake]

Yeah AC3 and 4 is not optimized well at all! Oddly enough the game still feels fine at 45FPS.