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I meet all the other requirements for High graphical settings except RAM - after testing how this was effecting it I found that the game will run just fine until I start moving at speed or a lot of things start happening. Would upgrading from 6(2x3) gigabytes to 16(2x8) gigabytes help solve this? I assume it would, but asking for more expert opinions.
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Geokinesis posted:The best outfit is the chicago gangster one, mainly because then I imagine him to be a rogue detective tracking down the killers rather than a stupid hacker. How on Earth do you get the DLC to activate anyway? I preordered and it's as if I got nothing of what I should have gotten.
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May 28, 2014 11:40
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You should have the option to activate it via the "lovely" uPlay interface, at least that's where I activated mine. But uPlay is pretty badly designed, so there's that.
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May 28, 2014 11:41
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Mordaedil posted:How on Earth do you get the DLC to activate anyway? I preordered and it's as if I got nothing of what I should have gotten. Mine was just in the wardrobe in the hideout. Gangster one is pretty rad but I do dislike how they force the weapons onto you and you can't get rid of them. Finishing the very first mission and suddenly I have a tommygun, a 1991, a revolver. All under my coat.
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May 28, 2014 11:44
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Mordaedil posted:How on Earth do you get the DLC to activate anyway? I preordered and it's as if I got nothing of what I should have gotten. I got an email from GAME with the code, I entered the code and the Tommygun was in my weapon select and the outfit was in the wardrobe/shop menu.
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May 28, 2014 11:48
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Oh man. Song Unlocked: CREAM by the Wu-Tang Clan. Ok watch dogs you win you're the best.
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May 28, 2014 11:49
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Ugh, it says my code is claimed, gonna need to submit a support ticket.
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May 28, 2014 11:50
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hopterque posted:Oh man. wait wait how did you do this please tell me
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May 28, 2014 12:06
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ayn rand hand job posted:wait It unlocked during a story mission about half way through act 2.
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May 28, 2014 12:14
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Gonna recommend getting the steam pipe burst as soon as possible. Not only does it look great, but it leads to new ways of escaping
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May 28, 2014 12:29
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May 28, 2014 12:35
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How are people finding the keyboard controls? I couldn't stand them almost imediately so I switched to a controller
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May 28, 2014 12:43
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Soooo I just hacked into someone's apartment and I'm pretty sure I listened to them kill themselves  Then, y'know, I stole $200 from their bank account. How do you think we fund this operation? We're not exactly the march of dimes.
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May 28, 2014 12:50
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Soooo I just hacked into someone's apartment and I'm pretty sure I listened to them kill themselves If it's the one I think it is it's more bulimia than suicide. There is one that's a straight up suicide attempt though.
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May 28, 2014 12:53
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Party Plane Jones posted:If it's the one I think it is it's more bulimia than suicide. There is one that's a straight up suicide attempt though. Oh yea right, I totally took the gurgling noise to be something else. Well that's sliiiightly less dark I suppose.
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May 28, 2014 12:57
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Radical 90s Wizard posted:Soooo I just hacked into someone's apartment and I'm pretty sure I listened to them kill themselves I got one where I hacked into someone's home and found a body with the description: "Cancer in remission". Then I hacked the phone and it was a message from the guy's son asking for him to call back and that his grandkids were so excited to see grandpa again for christmas and they even bought him some presents! It was the most  thing ever.Gotta say I really like this game so far despite the uplay servers being gangbanged, so it's hard for me to gain access to the historical hot spots since you can't cancel out of it once it starts scanning for a connection. Lysdexique fucked around with this message at 13:03 on May 28, 2014 |
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May 28, 2014 13:00
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Time I got invaded, I shot a gun to try to expose the guy, and it didn't work, I still couldn't find him. Cops get called, we get into a big shootout and I'm just trying to run away at this point, cutting my losses and accepting I'd lose the invasion. An NPC sprints out and gets caught in the cops' line of fire. Player killed, invasion won. Thanks, cops!
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May 28, 2014 13:17
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Since I had not much to do at work, I decided to try out the app thingie. Apparently people really hate it when you chase them all over the map with your doom helicopter, spawning cop cars all up in their face. It's an interesting idea and the design of the thing is pretty slick, but since it uses the uPlay servers it kinda sucks.
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May 28, 2014 13:30
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Ugh. I've had like, 3 hackers where they haven't actually been inside the circle the game is forcing me to looking in.
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May 28, 2014 13:37
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Are you sure? Because like if you're on the very edge of the circle it still counts as being in the circle.
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May 28, 2014 13:49
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This seems to back up my finding that texture quality is the biggest system hog. I have 3GB video memory (HD7950) and the game automatically picked Ultra textures for me, so I kinda ignored that while fiddling with everything else. Then (after installing the new Radeon drivers) switching to High textures solved any lingering problems and made everything smooth on an ultra/high mix. http://hardocp.com/article/2014/05/27/watch_dogs_amd_nvidia_gpu_performance_preview/3 TLDR - you need 4GB video memory for ultra textures. Edit: Although this was at very high resolutions, so I don't know. Ultra textures are very nice, but the performance boost of High is worth it for me. Hopefully AMD can bring our some even better drivers that will allow me to raise the textures. Junkenstein fucked around with this message at 13:57 on May 28, 2014 |
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May 28, 2014 13:51
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So now I'm getting invaded constantly. Everyone loves to park in a car ready to make a getaway. Everyone gets grenade launchered. Yeah buddy you're not going to get it started in time.
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May 28, 2014 14:14
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TheSpiritFox posted:So now I'm getting invaded constantly. Everyone loves to park in a car ready to make a getaway. Everyone gets grenade launchered. I usually just casually walk up and shoot them right in the face before they can get the car started.
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May 28, 2014 14:20
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This game loving owns. Yeah, driving is kind of rough and takes some getting used to. I might try a 360 controller tonight to see if it's better than mouse and keyboard.
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May 28, 2014 14:26
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Ice Fist posted:This game loving owns. Yeah, driving is kind of rough and takes some getting used to. I might try a 360 controller tonight to see if it's better than mouse and keyboard. I found using a controller made it easier as you have more contextual control over go and stop - not just ON and OFF but you can slowly increase speed. Makes it easier for turning.
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May 28, 2014 14:28
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This game doesn't make a lot of sense sometimes. I'm just walking along hacking people and sightseeing when some guy runs past with a gun out, stops and then starts shooting at me. I just run away because the game won't let me knock him out and my phone shows no info on him. Seconds later the police search starts going off and the entire police force hounds me until I'm dead 
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May 28, 2014 14:29
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FallenGod posted:This game doesn't make a lot of sense sometimes. I'm just walking along hacking people and sightseeing when some guy runs past with a gun out, stops and then starts shooting at me. I just run away because the game won't let me knock him out and my phone shows no info on him. Seconds later the police search starts going off and the entire police force hounds me until I'm dead This is realistic because it takes place in Chicago.
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May 28, 2014 14:31
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I said come in! posted:This is realistic because it takes place in Chicago. There's two things to do in Chicago. 1. Shoot people. 2. Get shot. Take your pick.
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May 28, 2014 14:33
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I like how Aiden is pretty much an indestructible rock-man when it comes to diving out of the car door into oncoming traffic.
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May 28, 2014 14:35
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FallenGod posted:This game doesn't make a lot of sense sometimes. I'm just walking along hacking people and sightseeing when some guy runs past with a gun out, stops and then starts shooting at me. I just run away because the game won't let me knock him out and my phone shows no info on him. Seconds later the police search starts going off and the entire police force hounds me until I'm dead Would this be related to your reputation at all?
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May 28, 2014 14:35
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hopterque posted:Are you sure? Because like if you're on the very edge of the circle it still counts as being in the circle. No. I'll be in a city square and the other Fixer will be on the other side of the street on the corner outside of the circle. The circle will shrink towards the center of the square and the Fixer is in the same spot still. Tailing is neat I think. Are you mean to get a notice if you're getting tailed? Also I like ramming/nearly running the Fixer over just as the timer is running out.
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May 28, 2014 14:37
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So I had a horrible experience yesterday getting this thing installed (kept going from 6mbps to 1kbps. Once installed, I was able to play about 5 minutes of it then I would crash. Every new game or continue would crash after that. I tried all the internet remedies to fix it but nothing worked (including swapping graphics cards). Finally, I tried the last remedy that I didn't want to try, delete and redownload the game to the standard Program Files instead of (x86). Doing that fixed my crash to desktop. I think this is the first time I have had to do a work around to make a game work in probably 5+ years. Leave it to Ubisoft.
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May 28, 2014 14:39
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TheSpiritFox posted:So now I'm getting invaded constantly. Everyone loves to park in a car ready to make a getaway. Everyone gets grenade launchered. I just had this person hiding in the back corner of a coffee shop. Thanks for boxing yourself into a small space with 1 exit.
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May 28, 2014 14:40
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Daztek posted:The driving in this game is really easy when you're used to driving in APB:Reloaded. That explains why I was thinking that the driving was fine and wondering why everyone was complaining about it.
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May 28, 2014 14:49
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The billboard thing makes me laugh so hard. It completely changes the character. What kind of person hacks billboards like that? Autistic batman indeed.
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May 28, 2014 14:49
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Ahhahaha holy poo poo. Detonating a grenade on a dude and he yells out "TELL MY WIFE..TELL MY WIFE I WAS loving HER SISTER"
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May 28, 2014 15:05
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FallenGod posted:This game doesn't make a lot of sense sometimes. I'm just walking along hacking people and sightseeing when some guy runs past with a gun out, stops and then starts shooting at me. I just run away because the game won't let me knock him out and my phone shows no info on him. Seconds later the police search starts going off and the entire police force hounds me until I'm dead It's a shoot or get shot world out there.
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May 28, 2014 15:10
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I've actually been enjoying a lot of the music, but not all of it. It can be pretty hit and miss.
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May 28, 2014 15:12
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It has Move On Up by Curtis Mayfield in there. I'm not complaining. I'm guessing the music theme is music from Chicago? I like how the game assumes you want to stop Blume agents putting Bounties on you.
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IchGestalt posted:I meet all the other requirements for High graphical settings except RAM - after testing how this was effecting it I found that the game will run just fine until I start moving at speed or a lot of things start happening. Are you sure its RAM or is it graphical RAM? Big difference. You could be hitting the limits of the ram onboard your graphics card, in which case you're just going to need to buy a new card, no other way to upgrade. If it is main system RAM, then there' still the question of if you're hitting a bottlneck on speed or on size. If you've filled it up, then you're thrashing to hard drive which means its gonna go slow, so getting more will speed it up. But if you aren't full on system RAM, getting more will do absolutely nothing, you'd have to get faster RAM instead. How many things are running in the background? Try killing every program other than uPlay and Watch Dogs, (especially chrome, its a memhog) RAM usually doesn't help with games much unless you're too low, 6-8 GB should be plenty. RAM isn't a silver bullet like some gamers seem to think. I think you either need a new GPU (most likely), a new CPU, or faster RAM before you need just more RAM total. You probably need more dedicated graphics RAM though. Are you just setting everything to "high"? Do you know what the individual settings mean? Try putting it on custom. If the texture quality is what puts you over the edge, its probably graphics ram. Set everything to high and then turn textures to medium. And turn off SSAO completely. Junkenstein posted:This seems to back up my finding that texture quality is the biggest system hog. I have 3GB video memory (HD7950) and the game automatically picked Ultra textures for me, so I kinda ignored that while fiddling with everything else. Then (after installing the new Radeon drivers) switching to High textures solved any lingering problems and made everything smooth on an ultra/high mix. Yeah you really don't want to be playing with settings where the game needs more graphical ram than you have, performance is always going to be poo poo in those circumstances, since it has to stream between the gpu and the main ram constantly, which is really slow. Zaphod42 fucked around with this message at 15:46 on May 28, 2014 |
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