Assassin's Creed

[Jebus]

Yep, that's where it started for me. It's VERY noticable, yet extremely odd how it just suddenly starts.

[EvilBoris]

Screen Tearing is caused by the frame rate not running at a multiple of 60, so it makes sense that when you enter a more complex area, I.e. one full of buildings and people that the framerate would drop causing it to happen.

[rmoxon]

Are you lot all playing the 360 version then? i'm just wondering if the PS3 version isnt as bad for the tearing...

[[nothing]]

Tearing is when the graphics go out of sync with your TV, it happens alot in first person games thats why they often include a V-sync option on the PC to make it better. It happens In 360 games quite often actualy but seems to be less abundant on the PS3 (or at least I havent noticed it on any so far), so if it bothers you maybe you should get that version of the game if you can.

Think I heard the PS3 version has a slightly smoother framrate too for that matter.

From IGN:

There is considerable texture pop-in and, on PS3, considerable framerate issues. Seeing the two versions side by side, there is no question that the PS3 version runs more poorly than the 360. This is most noticeable in the latter stages of Assassin's Creed. Unfortunately, it does eventually begin to affect gameplay.

*sigh*

I really would like to buy one of two more games for my PS3, just so I feel like I can somewhat justify spending over ?400 on it. Looks like another one for my 360 then.

[EvilBoris]

Well if the rumours are to be believed then the PS3 version has more framerate problems, so would theoretically tear more.
Unless for some reason they locked the framerate, in which case it will chug like you wouldn't believe.

[Ajay1986]

IGN's review gave a lower score to the PS3 version graphically and mentioned poor framerate and pop in issues.

Another thing i saw in the PS3 review was a comment about very very long load times, anyone playing the 360 version care to let us know what load times are like on it.

[EvilBoris]

With it being a free roaming game it doesn't load very frequently , and when it does load it is an interactive loading screen. You can run Altair around a cloudy mysterious area , it's kinda like an interactive version of the loading scenes in the Darkness. I didn't notice them to be particuarly long myself though (but I have only seen it like 3 times)

When you die it takes under 10 seconds to reload your last save (via a traditional loading screen), I've got nothing to complain about with the loading at all.

[Jebus]

I find the interactive loading screen boring to be honest. I noticed a review mentioned load times of "up to 5 minutes"...what were they smoking when that happened?

[EvilBoris]

It's alot less boring than a bar though

[dragz]

I would ignore most of the reviews for this game. Here's a example of why:

From the IGN review:

"Playing back-to-back with the 360 version, it's obvious that Ubisoft did not devote enough resources to the PS3 edition. The framerate is considerably worse, so much so that it begins to affect gameplay in the later levels. You can get through the first two-thirds of Assassin with the framerate being just an annoyance, but it becomes more of an issue for the final third of the missions."

From the Gamespot review:

"There are few differences between the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions. PS3 owners are blessed with a slightly more solid frame rate, although the 360 version features a little more contrast in the lighting, so it's pretty much a wash."

[Jebus]

Boris, at first yes

I must admit, I think I don't like it because of the

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future

aspects which I feel slightly tarnish the game. As I said in the headlines thread, if they kept the game just set in the

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past

I think it'd be a better game, but that's obviously down to personal opinion.

[EvilBoris]

That would screw the proposed trilogy up if they had of done that.

[Rubix78]

Mine is sent from Play.com now. All because I wanted the white tin case

[hugejeans]

Having played the first hour or so ,it does start very slow.Setting up the story ,lots of cut scenes.

Now that i have that bit out the way I hope it now picks up pace.

[Jebus]

That would screw the proposed trilogy up if they had of done that.

I know, but I think it would have made THIS game better, which is ultimately the one I'm playing...