Assassin's Creed III: Major 7970m Performance Issues

my laptop with 7970m goes into sleep mode after 5 minutes, any1 knows why?

 

This is bulls*it.... with 7970m 13.2 beta 5 drivers... and what ever i change nothing helps...

 

You may have a different problem. I'm running the same driver at moderate settings and my GPU usage never drops below 50%. Framerate will drop to 20 at times regardless of what settings I use.

 

even with my old dual core i5 and 5850m i got 20 fps.... is wrong/????
what do you mean different problem?

 

When will people realise it's the ing game's problem and not the card?

 

Isn't the problem related to GCN cards?

 

If it's the game's fault, why does it run fine on Nvidia/older AMD cards?

 

It's AMD's garbage driver support. If you add up nvidias improvements in their last 2 driver updates you'll see that they're 50% ahead.
The extra money you pay for nvidia goes into the driver support and all the extra features. Consider that next time you buy a CheapMD product!

Now let the hate commence for telling the truth!

 

What I mean is that it's not ONLY the 7970m. It's something common to many other cards.

 

Worked fine on my 570 back when I had it up. Since than nvidia improved the performance by another 25% or so while AMD didn't do ****.

 

It doesnt run well on my 680... not at all, Im talking 35-40 frames here, low utilization, should be atleast 60 imo.

 

I noticed it wasn't perfect on my 680m either, but I think it was still above 40. It hung around 70% utilization pretty much all the time. Still a whole lot better than my 7970m though. It was the one game that still ran like crap after the 12.11 beta drivers.

 

yeah I'm definitely not buying anything from ubisoft ever again, nothing works far cry runs like crap too now. Their Rayman series was really good until the new sidescrollers came again aka origins.

 

Don't know if you guys are aware of it but you can disable v-sync in one of the inf's. This gives me 90+% utilisation with my 680m on the frontier map. Boston still has issues but turning off v-sync has definitely given me a bump in fps. I'm sure the 7970m would benefit from this as well. I can't remember how I did it but I do remember it was straight forward. Google should be able to help.

 

Im already turned off and you can see my benefits from that in last page... And what ever i cahnge even 800x600 stil same 2% 16% max 20%
elsewhere i got about 60-40 fps. Until boston.... then usage went down.... http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/697384-assassins-creed-iii-major-7970m-performance-issues-6.html#post9083060
And core goes to 300Mhz memory goes to 150Mhz and every secound it jumping to max and min. is it becous of low usage it thinks that nothins is runing?

 

For one, this isn't the topic for this kind of question, lol. Second, it's in your power settings.

Want to tell me how one console is so much superior to another console while you're at it? I think the word you'll be described as often is "fanboy."

 

I haven't launched AC3 since getting it on a sale, so I'm not aware of options in it, but is there a way to toggle between dx9 and dx11 settings? If there is, try running it in dx9.

 

I duno what i did but now its 20-60 fps when i look to the ground usage goes up to 100% when I look straight its 20 fps but with 40% 50% usage.

 

nothing new. just exactly the same as this one since day one
<iframe width='560' height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AijjXy1NPoo" frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe>

 

So I've finally gotten around to playing this absolute wonderfully optimized game. The variety of FPS isn't even my problem with it going from 18 to 60 and everything in between (generally stays around 25-30). It's the fact that I can't play it without it freaking crashing every god damned 30 minutes. Steam has me logged at 6 hours in the game, but at least 3 of those hours are me replaying missions.

 

Yeah it's not pretty and ubisoft are saying they want to focus on PC more apparently, they need to work on their coding if so.

 

Just tried installing this game on my friend's notebook with a GTX 460M last week, and you know what, it worked perfectly smooth at Full HD and Normal settings, even in Boston and everywhere else in the game. My P150EM with 7970M cannot get over 30 FPS at any setting or res in Boston, what a joke. I'm not really sure if it is the fault of AMD or Ubisoft, or maybe both, lol.

 

so has there been any news on this front? i really wanna play this game but its just so ty dangling around 30 fps all the time...

 

I feel your pain; it crashes on my 7970M too. As far as I can tell, this problem is due to the atidxx32.dll module failing, which probable means ati drivers are the problem. This problem can be "fixed" by running the game in windowed mode, but unfortunately AC3 doesn't have that option. Hopefully a future driver release will fix the crashing. For a temporary workaround, I enter the game and set my graphics to 1366x768. Then I exit the game. When I relaunch, I repeatedly click on the desktop before the game loads, and when it does load, I get a 1366x768 game screen in the upper left of my screen. It's not windowed, so you can't move it, and alt-tabbing out and back in will scale the game to full screen. It's not ideal and it's tricky to get this to work because you have to be quick to click the desktop before the game loads, but it does seem to fix the constant crashing. Hope this helps.

 

Thanks for that. Yeah, it's atidxx32 which happens to be the dx11 part of the driver. But AC3 is forced in DX11 so we can't turn it on dx9 which would fix it as well as it being windowed which is also absent. Such a crap port.

 

You guys are still having those atidxx32.dll crashes with 13.1? I feel your pain, those were one of the main reasons I ditched my NP9150.

 

The problem still persists with the 13.2 beta. I guess all we can do at this point is submit the bug and hope amd fixes it.

 

I really don't think it's a problem with AMD at this point since both recent Ubisoft games crash frequently. If it is a problem on AMD though, it's probably due to the switchable graphics. I can't find anyone else running AMD that crashes based on this one .dll file except for others with 9150 or 9170.

 

But then there hasn't been a driver release that has boasted any improvements/fixes for the game either. I still think there are some optimizations to be had because even the desktop cards suffer from low frame rates.

 

Yeah, they'll probably fix it eventually. I know that 13.1 fixed the atidxx32.dll crashes in most games for me, but I guess it still happens in some games.

The atidxx32.dll crash is an AMD driver issue related to Enduro. It doesn't happen when running on the dedicated 7970m (in the M17x for instance) and it happened in a ton of other games before 13.1, so it's definitely not an issue with Ubisoft. That's not to say that AC3 isn't poorly optimized for AMD 7xx GPUs, but AMD still hasn't fixed it all these months after release.

 

AMD should raise their prices a bit,say 10%,and put every peny from that into driver development. Waiting months for an update is simply outrageous.

If they'd be cheaper than nv but similar in reliability I'd definitely consider buying from them.

 

I did suffer from crashes in AC3 in the past with Windows 8, then I switched to Windows 7 and the crashes gone (but not the FPS issue). Now I'm on Windows 8 again with 13.2 beta 7 and the I still experience some random crashes but not too annoying like before. So I don't think it is directly AMD's fault, maybe there is a conflict in drivers. For example, when I tried uninstalling Hotkey driver the last day, AMD driver got damaged too, and I had to reinstall Hotkey driver then Intel driver and finally AMD driver to get everything back to normal.

 

I tried reinstalling windows 7 to see if it would fix the problem, but it still crashes frequently on the 13.2b7 driver. The bunker hill sequences seem especially bad. If this problem was due to a driver conflict, I think more games would be giving me trouble, but it's just this one that crashes.