Ubisoft Points the Finger at AMD For Technical Bugs in Assassins Creed Unity

Ubisoft's Assassins Creed Unity has had a buggy launch to say the least, what with all the texture popping, low frame rates and entity glitching problems. A Ubisoft Public Relations Manager has recently pinned the blame solely on AMD GPU and CPU configurations. The bodily reason, however, lies within the gritty details of bad optimization and porting.

Assassins Creed Unity Bugs An example of the plethora of glitches present in Assassins Creed Unity (PC) - Credit URL

Ubisoft PR blames AMD for ACU - Bad porting and optimization can explain the problem ameliorate

Hither is a quote from the Ubisoft PR which tin be establish hither:

We are aware that the graphics functioning of Assassin's Creed Unity on PC may be adversely affected by certain AMD CPU and GPU configurations. This should not impact the vast majority of PC players, but remainder assured that AMD and Ubisoft are standing to work together closely to resolve the issue, and will provide more information as presently as it is available.

It goes without saying that I had serious trouble assertive that the entirety of the glitches present in Assassins Creed Unity are the cause of Catalyst Drivers (AMD). While modernistic drivers tin can be the cause of low frame rates in certain cases, they are not usually behind texture popping and entity glitches. One of the primary selling points of Assassins Creed Unity (from Ubisoft's Marketing) was the fact that the game supported 'thousands of NPCs on screen'. Well, they were correct near that, merely looks like they conveniently forgot to mention the performance striking that would ensue from using so many dynamic objects. We sent some emails and and plant out what is actually happening:

The game (in its current land) is issuing approximately l,000 draw calls on the DirectX 11 API. Problem is, DX11 is only equipped to handle ~x,000 pinnacle draw calls. What happens after that is a astringent clogging with most draw calls culled or incorrectly rendered, resulting in texture/NPCs popping all over the place. On the other manus, consoles have to-the-metallic admission and almost not-real API Overhead just significantly underpowered hardware which is not able to cope with the stress of the multitude of polygons. Simply put, its a very very bad port for the PC Platform and an unoptimized (some would fifty-fifty go every bit far every bit proverb, unfinished) championship on the consoles.

Games should be created with the target hardware in mind. And from what I have seen and then far, loftier end rigs built with the likes of Titans (Nvidia) and R9 295Xs are glitching as well. So unless the Titan GPU was secretly made by AMD, I am not really sure what Ubisoft PR is on virtually. The game appears to be barely functional, something that would automatically merit depression scores. The post-launch embargo on reviews seems to have foreshadowed the condition of the title. I really enjoyed Assassins Creed Black Flag, but to me, Ubisoft has been making bad calls after bad calls lately, and their PR is heading towards a jumbo railroad train wreck. Alienating PC users is one matter, simply at this rate, pretty soon, even console users will exist wary of their games. Notwithstanding, Far Cry iv has yet to be released, so maybe not all hope is lost even so (fingers crossed).