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Assassin's Creed Shadows PC: the best settings for smooth performance and ray traced visuals


We've already discussed the improvements to the Assassin's Creed Anvil Engine and the transformative impact of real-tim…

We've already discussed the improvements to the Assassin's Creed Anvil Engine and the transformative impact of real-time global illumination - but how does this technology scale to lower-end hardware and how well does the PC version run more generally? If you watch the video on this page, you'll see how we tackle changes to all of the key settings to achieve our best balance of quality and performance, with specific set-ups targeting lower range GPUs and then everything else. Summarising, Assassin's Creed Shadows has a lot of scalability, meaning that even a lower-end system with a Ryzen 5 3600 paired with an RTX 4060 can achieve good performance overall.

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