ASSASSIN39S CREED SYNDICATE FOR PC UPGRADE
ASSASSIN39S CREED SYNDICATE FOR PC PC
ASSASSIN39S CREED SYNDICATE FOR PC SERIES

Since the frame-rate was all over the place (and mostly much closer to the 30 end of things), I used my old friend RivaTuner Statistics Server ( RTSS) to cap it at 30fps.

It does seem geared towards 3GB (or preferably 4GB) VRAM cards for anything in the High-and-above range, though. Like many of those (such as in GTA V) it doesn’t seem to matter too much if you go over the limit by a small amount. You might notice that Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate employs one of those increasingly popular bar graphics, showing you how much of your GPU’s VRAM is being eaten up by various settings. SSAO, sadly, did prove too costly, and had to stay off. I initially left the shadows setting on “horrible, low-res jagged nightmare” (as you may be able to tell from some of the screenshots here), but after a bit of experimentation bumping back up to Medium didn’t seem to have any serious impact. They’re still not great on Medium, but they’re mostly adequate.

This also had the helpful side effect of making the textures look less like utter trash. Pushing the textures and ‘environments’ (level of detail and draw distance stuff) up to ‘Medium’ didn’t seem to make too much difference to performance. That’s in London proper, rather than the pair of self-contained prologue missions (where frame-rates were, for obvious reasons, much better overall).

With the settings altered to those shown on the graphics screens higher up the page, I was getting a wildly fluctuating 25-50 frame-rate at 1080p. Or possibly when looking directly up at the sky.

ASSASSIN39S CREED SYNDICATE FOR PC PC

Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate can indeed run at 60fps (though no higher, I don’t think), but the only time that occurred on my PC was when I was climbing a chimney and staring directly at textured brickwork. In fairness, I think it was trying to get me as close to 60fps as possible, which … look, I appreciate the effort, Syndicate, but that ain’t happening. Thanks a lot Assassin’s Creed, why not just push me into the street wearing a sign that says “I have a pretty shit PC” on it?

ASSASSIN39S CREED SYNDICATE FOR PC SERIES

In an exciting new development for the series on PC, it now attempts to do a ‘best guess’ for your hardware at start-up.įor me, it opted to switch everything to Low and stuck the resolution at 720p. The above images show what you get to fiddle about with in Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate in terms of graphical and display options. Anybody wanting to know about Nvidia’s latest FPS-draining effects will have to look at one of the many, many other places dealing with that end of the hardware spectrum.ĭriver note: I’m using the latest AMD one, 15.11.1. Such is the situation with Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate, which manages to perform a whole lot better than Unity did at launch, but still demands a fair few compromises on behalf of my under-spec system.įor the benefit of those out there with PCs just as old as mine who are considering the latest Ubisoft hood-and-stab-em-up outing, here’s how it performs. But it’s been clear from a few of this year’s releases ( Dying Light, The Witcher 3 and so on) that while this i3-2100/8GB/2GB 7870 set-up can still run the more demanding games of 2015, it struggles to do so terribly well.

ASSASSIN39S CREED SYNDICATE FOR PC UPGRADE

I’m not planning an upgrade purely on account of Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate’s PC port, of course. Hardware attempting to get through just one more modern Assassin’s Creed. They’re the veteran thief pulling one last job. You see, at this point my low-end Sandy Bridge i3 and 2GB VRAM GPU are kind of like that cop who’s one day away from retirement.

Welcome to a special edition of PC Version Impressions, which may also serve as a fond farewell to the viability of my machine as a long-term gaming platform.

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