Except Unity is not on Steam lol. Ubisoft pulled FC4, The Crew, And Unity from the store. You have to buy it retail, grab a digital copy off of uPlay, or pirate it. most people will choose the latter because of how hard ubi has made it to buy their games.
Steam version of ubisoft games needed Uplay to boot and validate the key anyway. I didn't bother to buy AC4 on steam, i went directly on uplay. Of hard is it to add an extra shortcut on your desktop?
just about to post the same thing lol. file:///C:/Users/Jarred/Documents/AnandTech/NVIDIA%20344.65%20Gam…20for%20PC%20streaming%20to%20SHIELD%20devices%20with%20Android%20Lollipop
Ci7 4790k, dual GTX680s, and a HP 27" QHD monitor. The Geforce Experience seems to think I need to downscale the resolution to FHD and increase the clutter. It makes it look awful.
I don't use that program. I have a GTX 770 and Intel Q6600 over clocked to 2.99 Ghz and (can get it to 3.4 Ghz stable but the CPU gets a little warm) wants me to run a lot of games on lowest settings or medium low which look awful. If I mess with the settings they are almost maxed out, the lowest FPS I see is 45 FPS and FPS is locked at 60.
It's the same problem autodetecting settings has had since it was first a thing. If for whatever reason the autodetect fails to properly detect your hardware, it defaults to the lowest common denominator to make sure the game/application at least opens on your screen. Could be because of an unrecognized driver versioning, or hardware that didnt exist when the application was released and uses a different architecture, or any number of things. Doesn't matter if its Nvidias gaming app, or ATIs app, or the baked-in autodetect for the application or game.
Seems to happen way more with certain cards, to the point where I just stopped using the feature whenever its offered. I figure I'm gonna tweak whatever it would've given me to suit my needs anyway.
I don't get this 'Pick Your Path' bit. And, I think that Nvidia will soon understand that they don't really 'get' it, either. I am now officially 2 revs behind (344.48) but I also am still up to date. So, where it all goes pear-shaped is when Nvidia adds some refinement that helps one game but buggers any other game. And, because the release has the WHQL tag and a bigger number, all hell breaks loose. Nvidia, please remember that some of your customer base is dumb. Really, really dumb.
Nvidia did a heck of a lot more than just get this ready for Assassin's Creed Unity. The last drivers were HORRIBLY buggy for me. Performance was poor across all games and my GPU card was stuck running in "PCI-E 1.1 x16" instead of "PCI-E 2.0 x16". I honestly thought my GTX 780 was dying (even though I just got it last year) but the new driver update fixed this and all the other performance issues I had. Now I can run Assassin's Creed Unity all maxed out and it's nice and smooth for me. Likewise, it fixed the enormous amount of lag I got in "Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel" when Phys-X was being used extensively.
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RaistlinZ - Monday, November 10, 2014 - link
Anyone know if SLI works in AC:U?yannigr2 - Monday, November 10, 2014 - link
Probably Nvidia program the game. What do you think?Galcobar - Thursday, November 13, 2014 - link
Driver release notes should identify any SLI profiles it adds.Morawka - Monday, November 10, 2014 - link
Except Unity is not on Steam lol. Ubisoft pulled FC4, The Crew, And Unity from the store. You have to buy it retail, grab a digital copy off of uPlay, or pirate it. most people will choose the latter because of how hard ubi has made it to buy their games.einherjan - Monday, November 10, 2014 - link
They put them back up.rtho782 - Monday, November 10, 2014 - link
No, they only pulled them all here in the UK. Refuse to buy any UBISOFT games as they keep doing stuff like this.Da W - Monday, November 10, 2014 - link
Steam version of ubisoft games needed Uplay to boot and validate the key anyway. I didn't bother to buy AC4 on steam, i went directly on uplay. Of hard is it to add an extra shortcut on your desktop?Wolfpup - Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - link
And this is why I don't buy Ubisoft games on PC (save for the handful they've put on GOG). :-/squirrelboy - Monday, November 10, 2014 - link
"The release notes on the download page indicate this is a relatively minor update"It links to a file on your local drive, jarred
zodiacsoulmate - Monday, November 10, 2014 - link
just about to post the same thing lol.file:///C:/Users/Jarred/Documents/AnandTech/NVIDIA%20344.65%20Gam…20for%20PC%20streaming%20to%20SHIELD%20devices%20with%20Android%20Lollipop
JarredWalton - Monday, November 10, 2014 - link
Weird... I know I copied the URL from the browser address bar. I wonder how it managed to put in the local disk URL? Anyway, fixed now -- thanks!dgingeri - Monday, November 10, 2014 - link
And yet, the Geforce Experience still gives me the totally wrong settings for Star Trek Online and World of Warcraft.JarredWalton - Monday, November 10, 2014 - link
What GPU and CPU are you running?dgingeri - Monday, November 10, 2014 - link
Ci7 4790k, dual GTX680s, and a HP 27" QHD monitor. The Geforce Experience seems to think I need to downscale the resolution to FHD and increase the clutter. It makes it look awful.Zonther - Monday, November 10, 2014 - link
I don't use that program. I have a GTX 770 and Intel Q6600 over clocked to 2.99 Ghz and (can get it to 3.4 Ghz stable but the CPU gets a little warm) wants me to run a lot of games on lowest settings or medium low which look awful. If I mess with the settings they are almost maxed out, the lowest FPS I see is 45 FPS and FPS is locked at 60.Mushkins - Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - link
It's the same problem autodetecting settings has had since it was first a thing. If for whatever reason the autodetect fails to properly detect your hardware, it defaults to the lowest common denominator to make sure the game/application at least opens on your screen. Could be because of an unrecognized driver versioning, or hardware that didnt exist when the application was released and uses a different architecture, or any number of things. Doesn't matter if its Nvidias gaming app, or ATIs app, or the baked-in autodetect for the application or game.Seems to happen way more with certain cards, to the point where I just stopped using the feature whenever its offered. I figure I'm gonna tweak whatever it would've given me to suit my needs anyway.
croc - Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - link
I don't get this 'Pick Your Path' bit. And, I think that Nvidia will soon understand that they don't really 'get' it, either. I am now officially 2 revs behind (344.48) but I also am still up to date. So, where it all goes pear-shaped is when Nvidia adds some refinement that helps one game but buggers any other game. And, because the release has the WHQL tag and a bigger number, all hell breaks loose. Nvidia, please remember that some of your customer base is dumb. Really, really dumb.djnforce9 - Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - link
Nvidia did a heck of a lot more than just get this ready for Assassin's Creed Unity. The last drivers were HORRIBLY buggy for me. Performance was poor across all games and my GPU card was stuck running in "PCI-E 1.1 x16" instead of "PCI-E 2.0 x16". I honestly thought my GTX 780 was dying (even though I just got it last year) but the new driver update fixed this and all the other performance issues I had. Now I can run Assassin's Creed Unity all maxed out and it's nice and smooth for me. Likewise, it fixed the enormous amount of lag I got in "Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel" when Phys-X was being used extensively.