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And Reddit has a lengthy thread with PC gamers complaining about the power of hardware it takes to get decent performance out of the game. Screen tearing is also an issue, making vsync all but mandatory unless you want a blazing headache. Other staffers with ATI cards reported crashes and blue screens when they tried to play the game It appears that streaming of assets is the major culprit as adjusting texture quality has much more of an effect than dialing back graphical presets." "We noted a lot of comments online about stutter and can confirm that this is an issue, even with powerful gaming hardware. "Perhaps more disappointing are the issues with PC performance," Digital Foundry wrote in its own look at the different versions of the game. This isn't the last issue you'll bump into, however. There is no reason these options shouldn't be available without having to edit. Setting these values should remove the mouse issues from the game, but the mouse and keyboard controls still felt wonky to me, so more tweaking may be needed. You have to get a bit creative here, so if you're playing on the PC, go to C:\Users\\Documents\My Games\Watch_Dogs\ and open the GamerProfile.xml file with a text editor. The mouse support feels like you're moving through a thick soup, and there's no option in the game to adjust anything but your sensitivity. However, the first problem with Watch Dogs on the PC isn't the graphical performance, but the keyboard and mouse controls. It's not the beast it once was, but it's not a bad gaming rig at all.

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I preloaded the Steam version of the game and was ready to play through the whole thing on my gaming PC. Gaming PCs tend to be more expensive than gaming consoles, but that's the point: If you have the means to throw money at hardware you should be rewarded with the best, most graphically rich version of the game. The PC version of Watch Dogs should be the best version of the game.
