Ubsisoft’s action-adventure game, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, is now available for PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs and the Steam Deck.
Before we delve into the best settings for the PC version of Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced, make sure you’ve updated your GPU drivers and Windows to their latest respective versions. Additionally, disable or close any unnecessary background applications in order to reduce the CPU overhead as much as possible. The settings detailed ahead should provide a more optimized balance between graphics and frame rate compared to the presets available in-game.
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Best Settings
The settings below are there to serve as a broad starting point for further optimization based on your specific hardware specs. As a result, you may need to further tweak some settings until you find a sweet spot based on your display’s refresh rate and the overall performance you seek.
DISPLAY
- Display Mode: Borderless
- VSymc: Off on a VRR/G-Sync supported display, else On
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- FPS Limit: set to max refresh rate of your display or preference
- Use Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Upscaler Type: NVIDIA DLSS on supported GPUs, AMD FSR otherwise
- Upscaler Quality: Performance
- Motion Blur: as per preference
SCALABILITY
- Raytracing Mode: Standard (or Extended if headroom is available)
- Raytracing Quality: Medium (or High if headroom is available)
- BVH Quality: High
- Character Quality: Ultra High
- Hair Strands: All Characters Medium (or All Characters High if headroom is available)
- Post Effects: High
- Particles Quality: High
- Water Quality: Low
- Texture Resolution Quality: Ultra High
- Loading Distance: Ultra High
- Geometry Quality: Ultra High
- Micropolygon: Medium
- Screen Space Effects: Medium
- Light Source Quality: High
- Shadow Quality: Very High
- Cloud Quality: High
- Fog Quality: High
- Terrain Quality: Medium
- Scatter Density: Ultra High
- Deformation: High
- Terrain Texture Quality: Medium
How Does Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced Run On Steam Deck?
DISPLAY
- Display Mode: Borderless
- VSymc: On
- Resolution:1280 x 800
- FPS Limit: 30
- Use Dynamic Resolution: On
- Upscaler Type: AMD FSR
- Upscaler Quality: Custom
- Minimum Dynamic Resolution: 25%
- Maximum Dynamic Resolution: 100%
- Resolution Scale: 90%
- Motion Blur: as per preference
SCALABILITY
- Raytracing Mode: Off
- Character Quality: Ultra Low
- Hair Strands: Off
- Post Effects: Very Low
- Particles Quality: Ultra Low
- Water Quality: Ultra Low
- Texture Resolution Quality: Ultra Low
- Loading Distance: Ultra Low
- Geometry Quality: Ultra Low
- Micropolygon: Low
- Screen Space Effects: Ultra Low
- Light Source Quality: Low
- Shadow Quality: Ultra Low
- Cloud Quality: Low
- Fog Quality: Very Low
- Terrain Quality: Ultra Low
- Scatter Density: Ultra Low
- Deformation: Low
- Terrain Texture Quality: Very Low
As seen in the above video, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced often dips below its target frame rate of 30 fps on the Steam Deck using the lowest graphical settings. That said, it is able to run at or close to the target for the most part. As such, we consider the game barely playable on Valve’s handheld device.
