are you using the latest driver? there are beta driver from Nvidia for AC4 iinm

have you tried forcing it to run on nvidia from the nvidia control panel?

weird... that scares me as I'm planning to play on my laptop this weekend.... 

GTX660M? Laptop? I honestly feel laptop is not really meant for gaming. If insist, perhaps just use lowest settings. Also the game is very CPU intensive not only GPU.

it displays nvidia logo in the front because the games features nvidia exclusive stuff like TXAA and HBAO+. TXAA actually doubles my framerate on my desktop while keeping everything neat. So, I guess it works then...

I've tried various settings, at most I get ~38fps @720p, so I kicked everything up a notch to maintain ~32fps, I guess that's fine though I will miss the beauty of the game later.
at least GTX660M is actually bearable to game on, decent quality with decent framerate... I use it only to game while travelling...

this game is not CPU intensive IMO, just stupid thread scheduling... I've observed this both on my laptop and my desktop. My laptop and my desktop are both on i7-3770K and i7-3630QM, 4 cores 8 threads. I checked the load on each thread, this game actually use only 2 threads to run  thus making the single thread performance really important for this game. I do heard there's a way to make the game load everything on each threads available, but not sure how is the effect on the performance. If it really can boost another 10fps, I should try.

Same goes to my GPU. Doesn't hit 100% usage at all. Most of the time it is around 70%.

This game does demands high resources but not because they really need to use those resources, simply because they don't utilize those resources properly. I just wished they do better job at optimization, but the way they do it right now actually makes the game reachable by more people unlike COD:Ghost. at the lowest settings, this game should be able to run on older machine; but the highest graphics settings will be impossible without the latest tech.

Console cheaper? I saw the price is equivalent to a GTX780. No thanks. Optimization is quite fair for Ubisoft title as they have new effects like TXAA, Godray and stuff compared to other games that is straight port from consoles with not additional effects.

well i won't see myself hesitating a couple years later for the price drop. i had rather game on my PC to be honest as i can do everything on it. not just gaming.

only reason to get a console is for exclusives. this is where these culprits forced people to buy their crap hardware.

It top AC2 for me though. But i missed the armor customization. And i remember when i get Altair's outfit it was bad arse!

Actually, I don't have much problem with Origin. But of course I wish they sell things on Steam as well, then I have one less library to think about. 

But, in terms of response to customer's feedback clearly Ubisoft is better than EA. I hate how Ubisoft distribute their game if we buy from them and all the non-functional tracking system, but at least they helped me solve my problem due to my carelessness before.
I think Ezio series is still better, maybe because his story is already completed that I feel that way and I'm yet to complete the game. But the character's awesomeness is on par...

I'd rate AC2 is better than AC4 by just a little margin... AC3 is not in this league... 

AC3 is too linear, side quests doesn't add anything to the gameplay... I think last time I played, I complete the game with very minimal upgrades... so I don't do hunting, crafting, upgrading all those things... in AC2 and AC4, I can't not do that... I have to... else, the game felt too impossible to win... especially with the ship battles...
btw, anybody wants to add me in Uplay, my ID is ampentium2.

Altair got outfit in AC4 meh? I didn't know that. I was talking about AC2 where you need to complete quests to unlock it.

power of the dual cutlass

joke aside, it feels normal to me at least. since I always use counter kill and kill streak. only brutes and captains need extra effort before can perform finishing move.

i feel the double counter kill is harder to perform, AI kinda like only 1 person attack at a time. but double kill is easier. and double headshot, awesome.

pistol sword, the most awesome weapon in the game

2 left, it needed a diving bell as the target is in smuggler cove. I've done all the templar hunt and the naval contract (priveteering, for me the templar armor is so-so and the golden gun is kickas gun.

actually templar's armor is the best for me. only bad thing is it doesn't have a hood. some of the cutscenes where you see edward lifting up the hood and it's weird when there's no hood for a templar's armor that edward trying to lift XD.

again it will be weird for a templar armor to have an assassin hoodie.