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Watch Dogs PC [Free] When Buying Nvidia Graphics Cards

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Watch Dogs PC [Free] When Buying Nvidia Graphics Cards
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LRSM on 28/05/2014 - 14:10 geforce.com (700 clicks)
Last edited 28/05/2014 - 23:04 by 1 other user
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First post!

GeForce Promotion - (www.GeForce.com/GETWatchDogs)

So I got an email from MWave today which included this Nvidia promotion. (http://www.mwave.com.au/product/nvidia-gift-watch-dogs-pc-ga…)

This offer is available for GeForce® GTX 660, 660 Ti, 670, 680, 690, 760, 770, 780, 780 Ti or TITAN Black graphics cards only. The promotion starts on the 14th of May 2014 and is available for a limited time or while supplies last. The offer is available from selected retailers only. Please check the product description of the graphics card you are purchasing to confirm that the games are included. Additional terms and conditions may apply.

It seems to be a good deal if you get a low end graphics card for some other purpose. Or if you're looking to upgrade it for the game.

The Galaxy Geforce 660GTX seems to be cheapest that this works with @$199 ex shipping (but you can pick it up from Mwave if you wanted). This may be valid with other stores too who are part of the promotion but I couldn't find a list anywhere.

My PC setup is fine, so I'll just be looking to get the game when codes calm down and I've seen some reviews :)

Thanks all!

Valid for purchases from 9th May 2014 until July 6th. You can apply for it through some manufacturers.

Links:

For other brands (Gigabyte, Galaxy etc) you email the reseller.

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    • bossmode on 28/05/2014 - 14:17
      +24

      Yep. But please don't let this discourage you from posting - good job!

  • edfrane on 28/05/2014 - 14:18

    Can I get it if I already have a card? or do I have to buy it now from some participating store?

    • cmdwedge on 28/05/2014 - 14:29
      +3

      No, if you own any of the cards above, just email Nvidia and they'll send you a code. Even if you got your card two years ago off your cousin for $150 because he gave you a family rate. I'm sure Nvidia will be good for it.

      • bobjane on 28/05/2014 - 14:45
        +2

        What are you basing this on?

        I couldn't find any info on claiming a code for past purchases.

        • cheesecactus on 28/05/2014 - 17:56
          +3

          Man i cant believe that worked. yeesh.

      • dom_christo on 28/05/2014 - 14:47
        +1

        care to explain how?
        have a GTX780, not prepared to buy another one :D

      • Draxxx on 28/05/2014 - 15:14

        This. I bought a GTX-780 2 weeks ago. Found out about the offer a day or two later.
        The T&C's state it was selected cards only and you had to use a code included in the box.
        So even though my card is in the list, no promo code = no game.

        • elli0t on 28/05/2014 - 22:38

          I bought 2 weeks ago too and we are included in the deal. As I posted below:

          Valid for purchases from 9th May 2014 until July 6th.

          You can apply for it through some manufacturers.

          Links:
          ASUS: http://www.asuspromotion.net/au/gtxheroesbundle/
          MSI: http://event.msi.com/vga/2014/au_sg/
          EVGA: http://au.evga.com/articles/00836/

          Also, for other brands (Gigabyte, Galaxy etc) you email the reseller.

        • Draxxx on 29/05/2014 - 08:19

          Oooh! Lucky! I bought mine on 9th May!
          Will email Gigabyte and see how I go..

        • Draxxx on 30/05/2014 - 15:10

          Nope.
          "Thank you for your kindly mail and inquiry. After confirmed, not all GV-N780GHZ-3GD are bundled with game code. The graphics card price may higher than others when bundled with game. Meanwhile, different distributors have various sales project, please kindly check if there is a game sticker / label on the package box. If yes, please contact your supplier (where you bought this graphics card) directly and let them assist you."

      • captaincabinets on 28/05/2014 - 17:16
        +6

        Haha. Troll successful.

      • spoonmugen on 28/05/2014 - 19:08

        its a trap!

      • HeXa on 28/05/2014 - 20:03
        +1

        tell them cmdwedge sent you and you get a free Titan Z as well

    • [Deactivated] on 28/05/2014 - 14:34
      +1

      EDIT: Wrong info

    • elli0t on 28/05/2014 - 22:35

      Yes, actually you can.
      Valid for purchases from 9th May 2014 until July 6th.

      You can apply for it through some manufacturers.

      Links:
      ASUS: http://www.asuspromotion.net/au/gtxheroesbundle/
      MSI: http://event.msi.com/vga/2014/au_sg/
      EVGA: http://au.evga.com/articles/00836/

      Also, for other brands (Gigabyte, Galaxy etc) you email the reseller.

  • RSM on 28/05/2014 - 14:22
    +5

    Thanks for the advice SpaceInvader112 - I've only put it up in case people were looking for this game in particular as opposed to an older game. I myself don't buy graphics cards based on what games are bundled - but it may come in handy for someone looking for game and card at the moment.

    I think its a better move to do game bundles this way as opposed to bundling with a CD in the box. This means that Nvidia can change the games to new ones if they come out and still promote their products.

    [edit] I think you have to buy a card for the promotion to be valid. Submitting a recently purchased card won't do it, but maybe check the terms and conditions (which I haven't read yet)

    • [Deactivated] on 28/05/2014 - 15:01

      You found a nice bargain. Keep it up!

    • SpaceInvader112 on 28/05/2014 - 18:19

      Agreed, sorry for my previous comment but I've just got used to seeing new games being bundled with new graphics cards in recent years. I'm sure your post will grab someone's attention who will see this as a good opportunity to upgrade :)

  • killergreely on 28/05/2014 - 15:05
    +1

    TIL a GTX660 is a "low end graphics card".

    • Ventak on 28/05/2014 - 15:17

      Well this makes me sad…I thought a GTX660 was pretty decent (far from the best, but still)…

    • Charity on 28/05/2014 - 22:32
      +1

      It's about a generation or 2 better than the Xbox1 or PS4. Console fanboys can only dream their 'next-gen' consoles had 660 performance.

  • Son of Matrix on 28/05/2014 - 15:24

    Wait for ebay posts to buy this game from people who want the graphic cards but not the game.

  • Vladdo on 28/05/2014 - 15:25
    -7

    Good luck trying to play watch dogs on a Geforce 660GTX lmao…

    • blahman on 28/05/2014 - 16:26
      +1

      660GTX can do ~50FPS @ 1920x1200 on high settings

      • ProspectiveDarkness on 28/05/2014 - 16:33

        Source? Youtuber TotalBiscuit has SLI'd Titans and only got about 50FPS at High on 1920 x 1080. Might've been Ultra, I can't quite remember, but SLI'd Titans are ridiculously more powerful than a 660 and the difference in performance doesn't sound equivalent here.

        • furythree on 28/05/2014 - 18:07

          Wtf if sli titans cant run it then who can.

          This has to be wrong

          Brb gunna buy this to test

        • blahman on 28/05/2014 - 19:19

          http://static.techspot.com/articles-info/827/bench/High_02.p…

          Actually mis-read it by a bit. ~42FPS for it. Ti version gets 50.

          @ 1680x1050 it goes 50FPS

          Seems like there's also an update from NVidia that suppose to bring big performance boost too.

  • Axelstrife on 28/05/2014 - 15:45
    +1

    is this game really that shit as people are saying?

    only asking as i won the non digital game in a caselol. so debateing myself whether i should flog it off when i get it in the post this week or next week whenever i recive it.

    • bossmode on 28/05/2014 - 16:17
      +1

      The game received a lot of hype due to its unexpected delays during development. The 2012 E3 demo of Watch Dogs was one of the catalysts that put followers into the expectations that this game, upon release, would have similar-to-better graphical fidelity than it's currently deployed with.

      The game as it stands does not look as aesthetically pleasing when you look at the 2012 demo and subsequently a lot of players aren't satisfied with the result… among the slew of technical errors and intermittent registration issues some are facing.

      In saying all this, however, the game is solid. It's fun to play and if you can let yourself get absorbed into the reality of things you really do feel a sense of connection to the people you find on the street: The profiler gives these NPCs enough credibility as a living entity for you to not carelessly raise your 1911 and blow their heads off.

      Beyond what everyone else is saying about the game, they have very well-thought and fleshed out mini-games. I was an avid Red Dead Redemption fan and I have not yet seen a Poker game mechanic done so flawlessly since then. It's immersing, enjoyable and has what garishly ambitious Poker players desired since the damn thing came out: Emotional gauge (yes, you can monitor other player's emotions).

      So overall, it's a fun game that will probably tide you over until you roll into the triple digits of timed gameplay - it has a lot of content and is well worth the $20 dollars which it will inevitably drop to (which I will then pick up) in a few months time.

        • giggles on 28/05/2014 - 18:27

          at 45Gb you must be kidding.

        • Gnostikos on 28/05/2014 - 19:02
          +1

          Some of us live near the exchange though.

        • leonheart1 on 28/05/2014 - 19:24

          45Gb

          Where'd you read that from?

        • bossmode on 28/05/2014 - 20:31

          Despite your expected downvotes, yes. You're right. More relevant in this case than most since multiplayer is negligible (I do like the cat&mouse game, though) when you consider the fact that pirated copies of Watch Dogs saves are transferable to legitimate copies.

        • giggles on 28/05/2014 - 20:54

          my bad, its 22Gb, or 13Gb presumably with video ripped. If I post a link to prove it at TPB it will be removed so just search if you like.

          I gave up downloading rips etc a while back as the cracks are all Trojans and the games are just too big nowadays. If you really like a title then buy it. I never thought I'd say that a while ago….but games are released with so many bugs and performance issues that get patched, you are better off with a legit copy that can get updates.

        • giggles on 28/05/2014 - 20:55

          (amar) so YOU'RE the guy with NBN…

        • Gnostikos on 28/05/2014 - 22:18

          (amar) so YOU'RE the guy with NBN…

          Nah, still on 3rd-world copper. But I'm around 1km from the exchange and with a Broadcom modem, I can extract every last Megabit from my line. On particularly good days I'm syncing at about 19Mbp/s. That's a gigabyte in about 6 minutes. For about 6 years, I haven't noticed any degradation in my line speed or stability. Can't complain.

    • blahman on 28/05/2014 - 16:19

      Seems like the reviews have been nothing but positive regarding this game and mind you it's just been released today or yesterday.

      • furythree on 28/05/2014 - 18:10
        +2

        Nice try ubisoft

        Member since 2010. That's dedicated corporate shilling

      • FrankMcFuzz on 29/05/2014 - 08:27

        I only trust Metacritic these days, since we all know Ubisoft, Activision and EA pay reviewers a criminal amount of money for positive reviews.

        http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/watch-dogs

    • Koolbargain on 29/05/2014 - 10:26
      +2

      Coming from GTA V. Yes this game is a piece of dog shit. The AI is horribly unrealistic, for example…A car stopped at a traffic light, you hack the traffic light while there are obviously cars already passing the intersection, the car stopped goes anyway and crashes into already passing cars.

      Also the graphics are beyond crap. Horribly textured, cars look terrible, trees are all jaggy and the city doesn't even feel alive. The cars float and drive unrealistically.

      • FrankMcFuzz on 29/05/2014 - 11:49
        +2

        This game a piece of dog shit? ….Did you… heh…. Watch Dogs Shit to find that out?

        Puts on sunglasses

        • Koolbargain on 29/05/2014 - 15:41

          This comment was so bad it was funny. +1 lol

  • Vladdo on 28/05/2014 - 15:56
    +3

    I get ~30fps @ 1080p on a 4.5ghz 3770k with xfire 7970s using the new beta drivers at medium settings..

    • ProspectiveDarkness on 28/05/2014 - 16:32
      +3

      Well shit. My 7950 doesn't stand a chance. Horribly optimised game. Can't even be maxed with twin Titans.

      • slowmo on 28/05/2014 - 16:43
        +1

        agree, utter rubbish at optimisation. i am running on 2x r9 290s with beta drivers, can't even turn on AA to max, only ultra settings with Temporal AA

        • ProspectiveDarkness on 28/05/2014 - 16:46

          Damn. What kind of FPS are you getting? What's your GPU Buffered setting at?

        • slowmo on 28/05/2014 - 17:09

          doesnt make adifference between 1 buffer or 5 buffers , i get strange artifacts when i max the display. i didnt get the fps, its just impossible to play with the max AA settings (not because it's slow, just artifacts start to appear)

        • Wally Simmonds on 28/05/2014 - 17:36
          +1

          The problem is Xfire and SLI. I'm getting around 30-50 frames at 2560x1600 with the default (think its ultra?) settings on a 930/290 system.

          Hopefully they'll be ironed out soon enough, but as someone who has had Xfire systems a few times now, it really isn't worth the bother imo (particularly if you want to play games on Day 1).

        • furythree on 28/05/2014 - 18:12

          (profanity) I just bought a second 780

        • Gnostikos on 28/05/2014 - 19:06
          +1

          So is Kotaku lying, or are you guys running your games at some stupendous resolution?

          Seems even the GTX 770 can comfortably handle this game @ 1920x1080 with everything maxxed. Guru3D also seems to reaffirm this.

          can't even turn on AA to max

          Define "max". If you're talking 8x/16x AA, then I'm A) not surprised and B) most demanding games won't run reasonably at those settings.

          Sounds to me like another textbook example of multi-GPU gaming falling flat on its face until driver development catches the hell up. Hence why I gave up on SLI/CF.

        • kheob on 28/05/2014 - 21:42

          Turn off GPU frame buffer or whatever. That's the most taxing setting I found.

        • slowmo on 28/05/2014 - 21:47
          +1

          @Amar89 yes. the max AA setting for this game is 8x and one would think with dual r9 290's 4gb would more than make up for the requirements.

          i'm running 1920x1080 with other settings max'ed out.

          and seriously, at that resolution, i shouldn't have any problems at all with CF'ed 290s. i am playing the game with 5 buffered frames without issues. just the AAs.

        • Gnostikos on 29/05/2014 - 13:17

          one would think with dual r9 290's 4gb would more than make up for the requirements.

          In an ideal world, yes.

          But SLI/CF performance never scales properly because no one cares about SLF/CF; not AMD or NVidia and certainly not video game developers.

        • slowmo on 29/05/2014 - 14:00
          +1

          @Amar89 I get that CF/SLI don't scale into 2x of performance, I never expected that, with that said, I'm running single monitor 1920x1080 with dual 290-4gb is generally considered 'overkill' because you "should" be able to run pretty much any game at/above 60fps with no artifacts. so the only logical conclusion is that the code is not optimised.

        • Gnostikos on 29/05/2014 - 17:25

          I still don't get how you can can complain. You are maxxing out the game by most everyone's standards (8x AA/16x AF is a pipe-dream and always has been). You're just being let down woeful drivers and shoddy game engines which you really have to get used to with multi-GPU setups.

          Multi-GPU architecture can barely be considered a consumer-ready technology.

          I had what was "generally considered" a monster rig when GTA IV came out and it still ran at slideshow framerates on my GTX 460s at the ugliest settings, when according to synthetic benchmarks I was beating out GTX 580s by 10%.

      • johnno07 on 29/05/2014 - 00:22

        I have a single GTX670. I'm running it 1080p on "High" settings and getting (to my eye) about 40-50FPS. Turning even just the textures up to Ultra smashes my FPS down to what looks like about 25.

  • samuel-1 on 28/05/2014 - 17:56

    I bought my card from www.cplonline.com.au, I emailed them and they dont have the offer yet :S

    Anyone else know another way to get the code?

    • giggles on 28/05/2014 - 18:28

      When you get your code post it here so I can validate it.

      • samuel-1 on 28/05/2014 - 18:44

        Funniest guy in all of ozbargains
        you made me giggle you donkey

        • giggles on 28/05/2014 - 20:52

          Your donkey giggled too? wow, that's eeh-awwsome.

  • NGPriest on 28/05/2014 - 19:39

    Where do we type AB54972?

  • revo on 28/05/2014 - 19:50

    Dammit, if I'd known about this I would've bought the 660 instead of the 750 :(

  • nnkc911 on 28/05/2014 - 22:18
    -1

    I have a AMD Radeon 5770 and my watch dog game keeps crashing. It is really laggy i needed to turn my resolution from 1080p to 800x600 to actually be playable with everything low (it looks really really horrible) I really want to play the game. Is it because my graphics card is getting too old? I am on a really tight budget to upgrade my graphics card. Any advice?

    • slowmo on 28/05/2014 - 23:36

      you would be far better off playing with that on a PS3

    • johnno07 on 29/05/2014 - 00:27

      Any advice?

      Delete the pirated copy you've downloaded (because surely you didn't actually buy a brand new AAA open-world game believing it would run smoothly with your 5-year-old GPU) and buy a console version instead. Otherwise, if you're serious about PC gaming, you're due for an upgrade, my friend.

      • Gnostikos on 29/05/2014 - 17:30
        -1

        Pirated copies are images of the original media people own. Since no updates have yet been released, thus negating any difference between pirated versions and the retail version, the poor performance some people are experiencing is solely due to hardware or game-inherent issues.

        The code that's injected into .dlls or .exes to bypass DRM/activation checks (which is actually far easier than people imagine) doesn't actually touch the game engine itself, those resources are wholly unrelated to the game shell.

        In this case it's mostly hardware-related I'm betting, since his GPU is ancient, but your argument sounds like we're talking about bootleg cassette tapes of originals in the 1980s.

        The 1s and 0s are still the same dude; despite the MAFIAA convincing people otherwise.

        Oh and you're talking to someone who's Steam collection numbers well over 100, so spare me diatribes about fairness and justice, and please stop peddling misinformation (a trait both sides of the copyright infringement debate are extremely prone to).

        I, like most every other honest consumer in today's age, have meddled with pirated stuff and I've never experienced this mythical phenomenon of some kind of "degraded" experience when running a cracked game. Nor are v1rUzzz/tr0j4nzz/w00rmzzz going to riddle your PC if you're not a complete, bumbling computer-illiterate fool.

        The big advantage of legally-owning games nowadays is the fact that easily-downloadable, standalone patches are almost a thing of the past; updates are now primarily delivered via digital distribution platforms which automatically replace older game files on the fly. So any critical, launch-day issues (and let's face it, what game doesn't have them?) typically remain unfixed for folks on the pirated versions for the most part. Some "scene groups" actually bother isolating and copying the patched content from their installation directories and uploading that, but that typically requires a re-engineered executable as the DRM/activation checks often change hashes after updates; hence why most "scene groups" don't go to those lengths.

        • johnno07 on 29/05/2014 - 21:14

          Amar, man - read my comment again. I said nothing about the quality of pirated vs retail games. I totally agree with you that they are generally of the exact same quality - sans DRM. You're talking to someone with a Steam library well over 400, so… well nothing - it's not really relevant.

          In this case it's mostly hardware-related I'm betting, since his GPU is ancient,

          That's exactly what I said! Read my comment again! You've just tried to start a huge argument, and spouted a ridiculous opening statement… without actually realising you're preaching to the choir.

        • Gnostikos on 29/05/2014 - 21:46
          +1

          Okay, point taken.

          But from the way you right off bat, went for the piracy angle (I mean he could very well be technologically-challenged or cash-strapped or a casual gamer; give him a break), I was sure you were inferring that pirated games don't work, which is an argument I've seen paraded around a bunch of times. So apologies where it's due.

  • Kiwi131313 on 29/05/2014 - 01:57

    Nice one mate! I am building my first gaming PC and I bought a GTX 770, should be here any day now. Watch dogs was going to be the first game I bought, you just saved me ~$50!

  • kfrankiw on 29/05/2014 - 16:33

    Great timing! Just received a new gaming PC with a GTX 760 in it - went to the MSI page, entered the S/N and got the code!

    First game is on the house!

  • samuel-1 on 30/05/2014 - 15:47

    how did you guys get your codes!?!?!

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