low fps assassins creed 3

hey guys,

ijjust got ac3 on pc and while it's agreat game, i feel it isn;t quite optimized for pc. i gave an intel i3 core @3.2 GHz and an OC gtx 660. and yet, when i run the game on lowest settings i get about 50 fps in the city and frontier. running on very high goes down to 15 fps at times. i see no reason why a gtx 660 shouldn't be able to run tis game on very high settings with high fps count. anyone else having this problem?

I've a 670 and it ran perfectly fine at 60 frames maxed out everywhere except Boston, it goes down a little there, no idea what might be wrong, did you patch it up?

I've a 670 and it run perfectly fine at 60 frames maxed out everywhere except Boston, it goes down a little there.DanielDust

Yep, you shouldn't have any problems with that PC, the last Nvidia driver made AC 3 run a little better, install it if you haven't already.

Yep, you shouldn't have any problems with that PC, the last Nvidia driver made AC 3 run a little better, install it if you haven't already.

DanielDust

Your CPU is probably bottlenecking your GPU. An i3 seems pretty weak to be paired with a 660. It's only dual-core, isn't it? Some games rely heavily on the CPU. Like GTA4, for instance. I've got a dual core i5 in my laptop and, thanks to that, I don't get any more than 22-27 fps in GTA4, at any settings. My video card handles it well enough, as evidenced by the fact that my performance doesn't get any worse going from low/medium to high settings. Just runs like crap no matter what, because of the non-graphical stuff going on, which my CPU just can't handle.

Yeah it's the CPU since this game looks like it relies on CPU a lot (or just not optimized enough for GPU yet).

I have a Q6600 with a GTX470 and barely playable, yet at work the same video card with an i7 the game works perfect.

I'm waiting for them to patch it up and see if it helps.

It's one of the worst optimized pc games ive ever seen. I sometimes hit 25 fps while in Boston, and yet when I play a game like far cry 3 maxed out except post processing I have a solid frame rate at 45 through the entire game. It's weird because both games are made by ubisoft montreal and yet AC3 is just awful.

It's one of the worst optimized pc games ive ever seen. I sometimes hit 25 fps while in Boston, and yet when I play a game like far cry 3 maxed out except post processing I have a solid frame rate at 45 through the entire game. It's weird because both games are made by ubisoft montreal and yet AC3 is just awful.

Bishop1310

I had the exact same problems, had a phemon II 955 at 3.6GHz and a 670, switched to an i5 3570k and now it's smooth as butter totally maxed out at constant 60 fps. Definitely the CPU

i doubt it's the CPU because it isn't maxed out during play... besides' i run other demanding games like the witcher 2 and crysis 2 without a hitch...jbufv

i doubt it's the CPU because it isn't maxed out during play... besides' i run other demanding games like the witcher 2 and crysis 2 without a hitch...jbufv

I'm speaking from first hand experience and all the computer hardware forum guys here told me it wasn't the CPU that was the problem, I got a new one and all the problems are gone. My CPU and GPU were being used fairly well in games but the new CPU really opened up everything and let the whole system breathe. Now I have no bottlenecks anywhere and every game including AC III runs flawlessly

Also it's definitely the CPU in AC III because that renders all the NPCs you see and calculates their AI pathing. Much like every other game,. That's also why planetside 2 is a mess right now. Any game that has a lot of characters to render on screen will suffer from a poor CPU

[QUOTE="jbufv"]i doubt it's the CPU because it isn't maxed out during play... besides' i run other demanding games like the witcher 2 and crysis 2 without a hitch...seanmcloughlin

I'm speaking from first hand experience and all the computer hardware forum guys here told me it wasn't the CPU that was the problem, I got a new one and all the problems are gone. My CPU and GPU were being used fairly well in games but the new CPU really opened up everything and let the whole system breathe. Now I have no bottlenecks anywhere and every game including AC III runs flawlessly

Also it's definitely the CPU in AC III because that renders all the NPCs you see and calculates their AI pathing. Much like every other game,. That's also why planetside 2 is a mess right now. Any game that has a lot of characters to render on screen will suffer from a poor CPU