Assassin's Creed bad performance on PC

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So I've been playing Assassin's creed 3 on PC...

AND OH MY GOD. As soon as I get to Boston city I can barley get more than 24fps, I can play Battlefield 3 and Skyrim maxed out at a solid 60fps, I can get Assassin's creed 2 at way over 60fps so why the hell can't I play this? Before I got to the city. That game for me ran at 40-55fps, which for a 3rd person game for me is smooth enough. 

I may not have the latest decked out pc, but it's still decent (I would like to think).

My specs in a nutshell:

-Intel core i5 2500 (no k, I'm a noob @ ocing)

-12gb Ram (1333mhz)

-2x AMD HD6970 in crossfire

 

The game must be poorly optimized because I have found that the game doesn't support crossfire/sli so people will always be using 1 card, I've also read rumors that the game only uses 2 cores but I don't know about that.

Does anyone know how to increase performance? 

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how does changing states effect game performance?

 

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AC3 is a very crappy port. It doesn't matter if you change graphics setting because CPU optimization is non existent. Only thing that helped me was overclocking the cpu.

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I've heard of a lot of people having issues with AC3 on OCN, but personally I haven't had any issue with it and always got over 60 FPS. Low 20's is definitely out there for Boston though, you might have to wait for Ubisoft to address it or look into it on your own (I'm not of much help since I have a 8120 and a 560 Ti 448, not Intel/ATI.)

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i am having similar problems with my 680 it's just a bad console port i guess, like gta IV. 
We can always hope for a patch at some point in time

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have you updated your drivers? a lot of the time drivers will boost fps in games quite a bit.

if not, its a shit port. your hardware should kick that games ass.

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I don't think it is a gpu/driver problem. The gpu is, most of the time, ~40% utilized for me even when my fps drop.

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"have you updated your drivers? a lot of the time drivers will boost fps in games quite a bit."


Yes, I've downloaded the latest drivers, no performance gain that I could notice. I guess I'll have to sit tight and wait for a patch, I refuse to play that game at such a low frame rate. Too bad I can't return AC3 to my local store because of the used up seriel key, damn Uplay...

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I had to make sure everything was running at minimum quality to get it to run properly...every other game I have on my comp runs fine

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this is ubisoft form about it:

http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/727804-Low-fps-in-some-locations-probably-found-a-reason/page93?s=52d474ebb81daa35c93b1f74aa75461e

I have a very good rig but the game is just broke :(

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this might be a long shot but i play games on a 1280 by 1024 screen and i dont get issues with ac3 on frames and i run it full spec, so it could be the game does not like high resolutions on the pc, still means its a crap port though.

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Does this conflict still persist, or has it been resolved?

 

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I downloaded the new amd beta driver and my game runs perfect now :)