Another Watch Dogs thread

[Moe Zart]

Everyone said that the game stuttered on High and Ultra textures because of Vram bla bla bla, and that medium textures solved everything.

I'm still getting stuttering even with medium textures, it's mostly apparent when driving a car, like every area it's loading there's a 1 second freeze, but it's nowehre near as severe as stuttering on higher textures. SSD or not makes no difference whatsoever (as usual).

Does the game stutter for everyone else while driving (at medium textures)? Skyrim runs beautifully at Ultra, not a single stutter anywhere. I commend Bethesda for their effort, Skyrim is the only open-world game where I didn't have open-world stutter.

 

[Carfax83]

Everyone said that the game stuttered on High and Ultra textures because of Vram bla bla bla, and that medium textures solved everything.

I'm still getting stuttering even with medium textures, it's mostly apparent when driving a car, like every area it's loading there's a 1 second freeze, but it's nowehre near as severe as stuttering on higher textures. SSD or not makes no difference whatsoever (as usual).

Does the game stutter for everyone else while driving (at medium textures)? Skyrim runs beautifully at Ultra, not a single stutter anywhere. I commend Bethesda for their effort, Skyrim is the only open-world game where I didn't have open-world stutter.

What are your system specs?

The stuttering in Watch Dogs is NOT VRAM related. Titans with 6GB of VRAM also stutter.. It's due to how the game manages resources, specifically how it loads textures from storage and system memory to VRAM..

That process for some reason isn't happening fast enough, although the last patch coupled with that beta 340.65 driver improved things considerably for me. I'm now about 95% stutter free, and this is with ultra textures..

If you open resource monitor and play the game then exit and look at how much memory the game was using, I think you'll be surprised. Resource monitor says the game only uses about 2GB of memory, which is very low for a dense open world 64 bit game if you ask me.

Personally I think that's what is causing the stuttering. The game is pulling too much data from storage because it's not using enough system memory to cache textures..