Getting 15-18 FPS on assassins creed 4 on an overclocked 780m

Something seems funny.

physx off, medium-high settings, FXAA.

First time I ran the game it had 50fps on the opening movie then crashed, then I restarted, ever since then the FPS has been on the teens, and it can't be integrated graphics.

GPU usage is at 99% yet the temps are only 50c, CPU usage also at 80% but only 50c. Messed around and turned on thread optimization and triple buffering and other settings, still no improvement.

It should get 35+ fps on ultra 2x MSAA or 50+ with lower settings as people recorded on youtube, dunno whats goin on.

 

Are you plugged in? GPU usage at 99% but only running at 50c sounds like it's running off the integrated chip. You may want to mess around with the Nvidia control panel and set that application to only use the discrete card.

 

As you have overclocked the thing your obviously not a complete retard, so sorry if this is slightly offending, but I´m gonna stick with Ronkmorris above and say it sounds like a simple software switch that´s keeping your discrete GPU from kicking in.

 

actually after that crash it seems that my gtx 780m is stuck at 324 core and 400mhz memory no matter what, even on 3dmark11 I was getting 11fps on the very first screen.

 

Use DDU to uninstall your drivers and install a fresh copy of the 337.88 drivers (they seem to be the most stable right now) and see if your core issue goes away.

If not, try using Precision X and enabling K-Boost.

If that doesn't work, you've got something else going on - what I would do at that point is get a linux ISO, use the universal usb installer to make a bootable USB key with persistent storage of at least 1GB and then boot it, download the nVidia drivers, install them, reboot, and grab Heaven or Valley for Linux and see if your frame rate goes back up.

 

I upgraded just now to 340.XX and replugged the power plug. Now it looks like it's working just fine and goes up to 978/1400mhz again at 80%ish load when playing, not sure if it was a driver issue or the initial crashing in asscreed 4 messed up the power options or something.

Kind of scared me, I'm moving to england in a few days and this barebones GT dragon can only be taken back in austria.

My 3dmark11 graphics score actually shot up from 8569 to 8750 too lol.

 

Glad its working again for you.

It sounds like you had a driver issue but reinstalling (or in your case, upgrading) fixed it.

nVidia's drivers are not so great lately.

 

Tested asscreed 4 again on fxaa-high-normal shadows and had 45-60fps on the first island depending on how vast the view is, but it kept crashing on cutscenes, gotta love ubisoft.

At least my GPU didn't go to !#^$ again.