Watch dog starts stuttering and lagging after running for a while
As what title says, I can run the game smoothly for about 10 minutes, then it starts stuttering and switching to 5-10 fps randomly. I have the second update patched but that didn't help, and lowering the setting did not help either.
The game runs on my gaming laptop: CPU: I7-4700MQ @ 2.40GHz RAM: 8GB GPU: GTX765M
Best Answer
No one seems to know 100% as to why this occurs. I think its some kind of memory leak after a while that builds up to a point to where the bad performance and stuttering comes into play. Many people believe that its because the engine was designed around unified memory which is whats causing the stuttering on PC with its non-unified memory. One things for sure. The new patch that was supposed to fix the issue did not. The game engine was designed around unified memory and they didn't put very much effort in making it work properly on the PC's separate ram and Vram pools.. Which is rather odd considering this game was supposed to have been designed from the ground up around the PC.
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