Assassin's Creed Origins: How Heavy Is It on Your CPU?

[Forebode]

It's strange that the Ryzen cpu | gpu utilizations are low. What's the bottleneck? Is the game not optimized to run on Ryzen properly? Is this a Windows issue? Is it a chipset driver issue? Are there still remnants in geforce drivers when paired with AMD?

I'm not implying that ryzen should be on the top.. but it should point to a flaw somewhere if neither the gpu nor the cpu are near max on a game that maxes out on an intel.

Please post all the information of the ryzen test system including bios version.

 

[Burty117]

No, you just have both a legitimate copy and a pirated copy.

So I was spot on, you are one of "those" people...

It doesn't really matter if it looks as a gray area. What matters is what will be the charges against you. Don't forget that for those companies, 1000 downloads of an MP3 song, means 1000 lost customers, because all who download stuff, where going to buy it tomorrow morning.

You're completely ignoring that I'm talking about purchased goods, This game and Blu-rays to be precise but we can use your analogy of music:
If 1000 people buy an mp3 file but it only plays in a specific player, is it wrong to make it work so those 1000 people can listen to it on their phones?

Are you twelve years old? I really can't take you seriously with comments like this.

Good to see you felt the need to even say this...

I guess it depends on the user agreement that accompanies the product. If is says that you can make copies, then you can make copies, but probably not download someone else's copies. If it says that you don't have the right to change the program's code or remove parts of it, then you don't have the right to remove the DRM. If you don't like the user agreement, you just avoid buying that product, no matter how much you want it.

Almost anything else you buy (cars tend to be a good example) You can fiddle with and edit, sure you may lose your warranty for doing so, but it's not illegal (unless it's something crazy like removing your headlights from your car) and you certainly don't get taken to court by a car company for getting your car tuned to produce more power on it's stock internals. Another point to be made is, All users agreements pretty much ever made says "touch this, you die". I wouldn't be able to buy anything if I followed your rules, Or I'd have to buy everything 4 times over just so I can watch the same movie on my TV, Phone, iPad and Computer.

When it is about our personal choices, we can think whatever we like and do whatever we like. We just can't ask from a site to take the risk for us. A tech site is not just articles, but also people working behind it. As you said, morality and legitimacy some times point at totally different directions.

Very true, I'm not asking Techspot to do it if they don't feel comfortable doing it, I would never force anyone to do something they don't want to, I was stating my personal opinion on the matter (That's what comments sections are for) and also stated another website will do the tests anyway so even if Techspot doesn't, someone else will.

And just for the record. You have NOT figured me out.

I sincerely hope not.

 

[Jroc187]

Interesting test though only half the story:-

"The explosive accusation comes from noted game cracker Voksi, who tells TorrentFreak that an analysis of Origins' binaries shows the game adds a protection method called VMProtect on top of well-known (and now easily cracked) Denuvo DRM. Voksi alleges that Origins uses VMProtect's virtualization protection, which "tank the game’s performance by 30-40%, demanding that people have a more expensive CPU to play the game properly, only because of the DRM. It’s anti-consumer and a disgusting move." In a Reddit thread, Voksi further detailed how breakpoint debugging of the code showed VMProtect's code being "called non-stop" in the game's core control loop".
https://torrentfreak.com/assassins-creed-origin-drm-hammers-gamers-cpus-171030/
https://www.theinquirer.net/inquire...ling-gamers-cpus-due-to-anti-piracy-drm-tools

Heavier CPU usage is only a good thing if it's being used on the right thing. As many others are saying, it'll be far more interesting to wait until the game is cracked, then re-run these benchmarks again. We've already seen the result of just Denuvo alone for even simple games like Syberia 3 ("Game starts up about 40 secs faster without D sooo... yeah Denuvo kills performance... especially when you are using two Denuvos in one Game") and RIME ("Did you wonder why loading times are so long - here is the answer... after 30 minutes of gameplay it became 2 MILLION of "triggers". Protection now calls about 10-30 triggers per second slowing the game down. Don't forget each "trigger" is under VM + heavily obfuscated").

Normally I love Techspot's in-depth game benchmarking, but right now with the current dual-virtualization + obfuscation based DRM (deliberately filling up the CPU with junk instructions that literally do nothing but artificially cripple low-mid CPU's with nothing to show for it), it's impossible to do any serious performance tests on the game itself without measuring the impact of the badly implemented DRM more than the actual game itself.

I don't know if the higher ups at TechSpot would approve an article using a pirated copy of the game. It could cause legal issues.

Fun fact the game as not bean cracked yet. So there is no way to use a pirated copy

 

[faaaaq]

Forget about the CPU, even the GPU is a mess in terms of optimisation. You can't break the 120FPS mark at 1080p with medium settings using an 8700k and GTX 1080 Ti? Seriously? Sure it is "playable" on the highest end PCs, but you'll never be able to fully use those expensive 144Hz monitors.

Something is wrong, very wrong.

I have a 1080ti, an i5 4570, and a 1440p 144hz g-sync monitor. At 1440p, with most settings at high and some selectively lowered (like AA which is not super necessary on a 27 inch 1440p monitor), I can most definitely break 120hz..sometimes. Averages probably around 70, dips down to mid 40s pretty often in crowded streets/building, but out in the desert or in tombs/caves it sits happy between 90ish and 100ish.

Also, a side note, there is nothing necessarily "wrong" when current-gen top-end hardware can't absolutely max out a current-gen game. We have no indication the performance issues are due to something being "wrong," they could very well just be due to the game simply being built to look better than modern hardware can handle.
On the other hand, it could *definitely* be because the game was poorly coded. But we don't have any indication one way or the other. Based on how nice the game looks even at the mixed settings I am using...I am going to guess it is probably the first scenario, but again, we don't really know.