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In a slightly disappointing turn of events it seems that Ubisoft has imposed a 30 frames per second lock on The Crew beta, which launched today on PC and will end on Friday. Much like Need for Speed Rivals, the frame rate cap can be bumped up to 60 via a configuration file in the game directory but there is currently no word on what effect this will have on the game.
According to Ubisoft's community manager, the development team did this in order to provide an ‘optimal experience'. However, it seems more like Ubisoft is trying to achieve parity with the Playstation 4 and Xbox One: “Right now the team is focusing on providing an optimal experience for all players. You can unlock it, but it may affect the game's performances. Your call.”
While Ubisoft doesn't seem to think that frame rate is important to gamers in a racing game, it does understand that we like our multi-monitor setups and as a result, it will support 5760×1080 resolution: “The final game will run in 1080p with 30 frames per second on Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and PC, and will support up to 5760*1080p on PC for triple screen set-ups.”
Hopefully, uncapping the frame rate won't have any negative effects on the game. We will update this story once we have confirmation.
Update: Most users seem to be running the game fine at 60 frames per second with no issues. Change the configuration file and try it for yourself.
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KitGuru Says: This is just a beta so hopefully Ubisoft can get its act together before The Crew's final release. PC gamers don't like frame rate caps, it hinders the capabilities of our hardware. Have any of you guys tried out The Crew's beta? Have you tried uncapping the frame rate?
For anyone wondering where the file is, go to C:UsersNameDocumentsThe CrewPCScalability.xml, where Name is the name of your Microsoft or Windows local account, and open in a text editor. Find the FPS=”30″ entry, change it to 60, and save.
my game won’t start. It just gives me a blackscreen and soon after that ‘thecrew.exe has stopped working’. I run it as admin, both, The Crew and uPlay. Everything is up to date and my computer is able to run all AAA titles on ultra on 2K so I think that’s not the problem. Anyone can help?
Doesn’t really affect me, since I doubt I can get 60fps on med-high settings on my pc, so jokes on you… Ahhh, I need an upgrade.
I think it’s funny that they still lock the resolutions to 1080 in hight.
Granted, most monitors are still 1920×1080 but 1440 is on the rise and 4K is on the horizon.
Locking it to 30FPS seems daft, saying it may have a performance impact is like stating snow maybe cold.
They should have an option in the settings instead of hiding it in the config files.
PC gamers like options!
In before the “Human eyes can’t see above 30fps” bollocks.
http://30vs60.com 😉
Come on Ubisoft, show EA how to make a racing game. They seems to have forgotten.
In uPlay, go to your My Games screen, click on the arrow under the icon for The Crew, and choose “Verify files.” Had the same thing at first, and it cleaned up and re-downloaded the corrupted files.
The problem is that often games run all aspects of the game on the same thread or at least synchronise threads on each frame. This means that graphics and physics are intertwined. This is why some games can be difficult to port from console to pc. With consoles, they are locked to 30fps and the whole game has been designed to be locked to that framerate. So when you take it to PC and unlock the framerate or lock it to a different value it can sometimes lead to certain things behaving strangely as they haven’t been tested at that framerate.
I just played the beta and oddly enough, they do have the “fps lock” setting in the menu, but it’s greyed out and set to 30 by default. I think, they might actually implement the option to choose the limit later on, I mean why would they have it in the game then..?
nope. there’s no option such as ”Verify files” for me.
“The final game will run in 1080p with 30 frames per second on Xbox One, PlayStation 4” Hahaha, the PC master race wins again. “and PC” Fuck off Ubisoft
It can, people who say otherwise are dumb or their vision is horrible.
locked to 30fps or 60fps?
ffs when will the PC market have some decency back?? we pc gamers have powerfull machines that can outperform any of the todays consoles….stop giving us ports and start working!
but pc has 30 fps to man… cant you read?
Wow is it that powerful that it can power up a car?….
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Haha!…
Agreed. Same goes for 60fps vs 120fps. very noticable http://www.testufo.com
Is 60 the highest it can go?
Yep. I went and ruined gaming for myself when I bought a 144Hz monitor. Looks so much better but now every game I play that limits games to 60 FPS or less looks terrible to me lol.
I had a friend try to set it to 120, and it didn’t work. 60 is highest I have seen it confirmed to work.
It definitely felt like the game was running @ 60 fps to me when I tried the beta last night (unmodified).
Can you read? I don’t quite think you understand the comment. Re-read the last sentence.