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Revision as of 10:09, 29 March 2022
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Developers | |
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Ubisoft Montreal | |
Ubisoft Quebec | |
Ubisoft Bucharest | |
Ubisoft Reflections | |
Bad Blood | Ubisoft Paris |
Bad Blood | Ubisoft Annecy |
Publishers | |
Ubisoft | |
Engines | |
Disrupt | |
Release dates | |
Windows | May 27, 2014 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 77 |
OpenCritic | 79 |
IGDB | 81 |
Taxonomy | |
Perspectives | Third-person |
Genres | Action, Open world |
Series | Watch Dogs |
Watch Dogs | |
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Watch Dogs | 2014 |
Watch Dogs 2 | 2016 |
Watch Dogs: Legion | 2020 |
Watch Dogs is a third-person action and open world game in the Watch Dogs series.
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | ||||
Amazon.com | ||||
Epic Games Store | Complete Edition also available. | |||
GamersGate | Complete Edition also available. | |||
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Complete Edition also available. | |||
Green Man Gaming | Complete Edition also available. | |||
Humble Store | Complete Edition also available. | |||
Origin | ||||
Steam | Complete Edition also available. | |||
Ubisoft Store | Complete Edition also available. Standard Edition is part of Ubisoft+. |
- All versions require Ubisoft Connect DRM.
Version differences
- The Complete Edition includes the Season Pass.
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Access Granted Pack | ||
Bad Blood | ||
Conspiracy | ||
Season Pass | ||
White Hat Pack | Available only for PlayStation and the no longer sold Deluxe and Gold Editions. |
Essential improvements
Watch Dogs Settings Configuration Tool
- Allows for extensive settings changes not available ingame in a convenient GUI.
Skip intro videos
Skip intros[citation needed] |
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TheWorse Mod
- Restores E3 2012/2013 visual effects.
- Some of the restored effects may appear buggy, such as headlight shadows.
- Significantly reduces Field of View. See Field of view (FOV) to change this.
- Uses the built-in patch mechanism that Ubisoft provided and incorporates the version 1.3 patch.
- The version with MalDo textures allows ultra textures on GPUs with less than 3GB of vram. It removes mipmaps, introducing aliasing on distant textures.
Game data
Configuration file location
System | Location |
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Windows | %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\Watch_Dogs\<user-id>\GamerProfile.xml |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/243470/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <Ubisoft-Connect-folder>\savegames\<user-id>\274\ |
Steam | <Ubisoft-Connect-folder>\savegames\<user-id>\541\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/243470/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
Origin | ||
Steam Cloud | Reliant on Uplay for cloud saving. | |
Ubisoft Connect |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | Use Flawless Widescreen. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | Use Flawless Widescreen. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | Use Flawless Widescreen. To set custom FOV value see Field of view (FOV). | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | Fullscreen only if set to native monitor resolution | ||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | TXAA (Nvidia only), FXAA, SMAA, up to 8x MSAA and 2x SSAA. SSAA can only be enabled by changing SuperSampling ="0" to ="1" in the GamerProfile.xml file. |
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Vertical sync (Vsync) | In-game Vsync can result in input lag. | ||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | Anything higher than 60fps causes Aiden's coat to freak out | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | [citation needed] |
Field of view (FOV)
Flawless Widescreen[citation needed] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ← Backspace, Page Up, Page Down and ↵ Enter are not bindable. | |
Mouse acceleration | Uses forced mouse acceleration. | |
Mouse sensitivity | No true mouse input as the mouse emulates an analog joystick. | |
Mouse input in menus | Implemented with a software cursor, which is susceptible to framerate changes and will feel different from the normal OS/hardware cursor. | |
Mouse Y-axis inversion | Both X and Y axes can be inverted independently. | |
Controller | ||
Controller support | XInput only. | |
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | Default and three left handed presets. | |
Controller sensitivity | ||
Controller Y-axis inversion | Both X and Y axes can be inverted independently. |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers | ||
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Xbox button prompts | ||
Impulse Trigger vibration |
PlayStation controllers | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. |
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Generic/other controllers | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. |
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Additional information | ||
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Button prompts | Use DualShock Button Prompts mod. | |
Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M | Rapidly changes button prompts |
DualShock Button Prompts
- This mod adds PlayStation buttons, can be installed with Watch Dogs Mod Installer.
Mouse smoothing and aim assist
Disable mouse smoothing and aim assist[1] |
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Sensitivity="1" UseMouseSmooth="0" Smoothness="0" selAimAssist="-" Launch Watch Dogs, go to display settings in game and change "GPU Max Buffered Frames" to 1. |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Music, songs, sound effects and voices. | |
Surround sound | Auto configures up to 5.1 output[2] | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | Always enabled. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
Czech | ||||
Danish | ||||
Dutch | ||||
Finnish | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Hungarian | ||||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | ||||
Korean | ||||
Norwegian | ||||
Polish | ||||
Portuguese | ||||
Brazilian Portuguese | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish | ||||
Swedish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | ||||
LAN play | ||||
Online play | 8 | Versus, Co-op Drop in and drop out invasion mode for the singleplayer. Freeroam, online decryption (deathmatch), online race. 2-player co-op missions in Bad Blood DLC. |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Matchmaking | ||
Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
VR support
3D modes | State | Notes | |
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Native 3D | |||
Nvidia 3D Vision | See Watch Dogs - DX11 3DMigoto 3D Vision Fix. | ||
vorpX | G3D Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list. |
Issues fixed
Stuttering, even on PCs greatly exceeding recommended requirements
Increase priority of the process[citation needed] |
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Worse performance on the latest patch
Remove patch[3] |
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Low GPU Usage/low FPS in SLI
Don't use SMAA, use MSAA instead[citation needed] |
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Continue button greyed out
Revert to cloud saves[4] |
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Low frame rate
Generic fixes[citation needed] |
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RAM usage fix (stuttering and high HDD usage fix)[citation needed] |
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Enable Triple Buffering with V-Sync[citation needed] |
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Disable PostFX[citation needed] |
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Performance issues on AMD and Nvidia GPUs
- Doing such will not fix stuttering issues, the frame rate gain from the latest drivers is relatively minor.
Download the latest drivers[citation needed] |
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Stuttering on 2GB VRAM cards with ultra textures
Use Maldo textures[5] |
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https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/kadzait24-watch-dogs-mod-game-files-xml-wip-and-download.390092/page-117#post-4859919 (created on purpose of kadzait24 mod - textures are in unpacked files in patch\graphics\_textures and textures) Notes
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Audio
Voice audio not playing during cutscenes
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Gameplay
Minimap icons and crosshair dissapearing
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Frosting effect
Disable the MSAA antialiasing and the motion blur effect[citation needed] |
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Multiplayer
Unable to connect and play multiplayer
Instructions[6] |
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Frequent Crashes
Increase page file size[citation needed] |
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Notes
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Bedbug got killed on Mission "Not a Job for Tyrone" when you begin to hack the house
Instructions[7][8] |
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Notes
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Unable to remap keys if Bad Blood is not installed
Workaround trick[citation needed] |
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If you do not have the Bad Blood DLC installed, a bug prevents you from remapping any of the keyboard controls. In this situation, there are four unlabeled actions at the bottom of the list can't be assigned a key; as a result when you try to save other remapping changes, the game gives you a "Some actions are unmapped" error and refuses to save your changes. However, as long as you have Ubisoft in online mode and configured to sync saves to the Ubisoft cloud then the game does still save the changes to the Ubisoft cloud. So you can work around the problem with these steps:
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Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11 | |
Shader Model support | 5 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Cutscenes | Bink Video |
ctOS Mobile App
- A companion app was available for Android and iOS, releasing on May 24, 2014. It has been removed from both platforms' storefronts in 2017 and shortly after, fully discontinued.[9] As a result, trying to go into the in-game mode throws a server connection error.[10]
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | Vista SP2 | 7 SP1, 8 |
Processor (CPU) | AMD Phenom II X4 940 3.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 2.66 GHz |
AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHz Intel Core i7 3770 3.5 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 6 GB | 8 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 25 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | AMD Radeon HD 5770 Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible Shader model 5.0 support |
AMD Radeon HD 7850 Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2 GB of VRAM |
- 64-bit OS required.
- Supported Nvidia chipsets: GTX 460 and better, GT 500 series, GT 600 series, GT 700 series.
- Supported AMD chipsets: Radeon HD 5850 or better, HD 6000 series, HD 7000 series, R7 and R9 series.
- Supports the Intel Iris Pro HD 5200 chipset.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (243470) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Reddit - Mouse Acceleration Fix
- ↑ PC Gaming Surround Sound Round-up
- ↑ Watch_Dogs PC Update Does Not Resolve Stuttering, Users Angry With Ubisoft - The Dark Side Of Gaming
- ↑ Reddit - Lost Savegame Data
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ Reddit - Multiplayer Fix
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F0R1LbvknA
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw7t33uhcm0
- ↑ Reddit post about the app by an Ubisoft employee on r/watchdogs - last accessed on 2021-12-25
- ↑ Clarification by an Ubisoft employee to a comment - last accessed on 2021-12-25