The Crew PC Performance Video first 10 minutes

Ubisoft’s The Crew finally hits retail tomorrow on Xbox One, PS4 and PC after enjoying several Beta tests. With the full retail game in our hands we posted a The Crew PC performance video which showcases the opening 10 minutes and highlights how the game performs using the Ultra Settings with FXAA instead of the more resource hungry MSAA and High detail Shadows as opposed to Soft shadows which also add extra load. The game’s options offer a fixed 30 or 60 frames per second cap with no option to eliminate this in-game. For the most part The Crew sits comfortably at 60 frames per second but as the video highlights there are constant fluctuations. For your information the numbers in magenta indicate the GPU temperature, Fan Speed percentage and Frames per second. Be sure to take a look at the opening 30 minutes from the Beta in the second video.

Our System used:

CPU i5 3570K stock.
GPU R9 290X
8 Gb Ram

For your information, the minimum and recommended PC requirements are as follows:

MINIMUM
Supported OS
Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8/8.1 (64bit)
Processor
Intel Core2 Quad Q9300 @ 2.5 GHz or AMD Athlon II X4 620 @ 2.6 GHz (or better)

RAM
4GB

Video Card
NVIDIA GeForce GTX260 or AMD Radeon HD4870 (512MB VRAM with Shader Model 4.0 or higher)

RECOMMENDED
Supported OS
Windows 8/8.1 (64bit)
Processor
Intel Core i5-750 @ 2.66 GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ 3.0 GHz (or better)

RAM
8GB

Video Card
NVIDIA GeForce GTX580 or AMD Radeon 6870 (1024MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or higher)

OPTIMAL
Supported OS
Windows 8/8.1 (64bit)
Processor
Intel Core i7-2600K @ 3.4 GHz or AMD FX-8150 @ 3.6 GHz (or better)

RAM
8GB

Video Card
NVIDIA GeForce GTX670 or AMD Radeon 7870 (2048MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or higher

Written by: Rob Cram

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