Ubisoft’s action role-playing game, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, is now available on PC, and we’ve put together the best settings for getting optimized performance on mid-end system specs.
Before we delve into the best settings for Assassin’s Creed Shadows on PC, 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 Shadows 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.
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- Display Mode: Borderless Windowed
- Vsync: Off on a VRR or G-Sync supported display, otherwise On
- Resolution: as per the max resolution of your display or preference
- Frame Rate Limiter: Unchecked on a VRR display, otherwise Checked and Frame Rate Target set as per your preference
- Use Dynamic Resolution: Off
- Upscaler Type: NVIDIA DLSS if supported by GPU, else Intel XeSS or AMD FSR3
- Upscaler Quality: Quality
- Raytraced Global Illumination: Diffuse Everywhere
- Raytracing Quality: Medium
- BVH Quality: Medium
- Screen Space Effects: High
- Light Source Quality: Low
- Shadow Quality: Low
- Texture Streaming Pool: Very High
- Post Effects: High
- Water Quality: Medium
- Particle Quality: Low
- Loading Distance: Very High
- Drawing Distance: Medium
- Micropolygon: High
- Terrain Quality: Ultra High
- Deformation: Low
- Scatter Density: High
- Virtual Texture: High
- Character Quality: Low
- Hair Strands: Off (or On on a capable GPU)
- Cloud Quality: Low
- Fog Quality: Low
How Does Assassin’s Creed Shadows Run On Steam Deck?
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- Vsync: Off
- Resolution: 1280 x 800
- Upscaler Type: TAA
- Raytraced Global Illumination: Diffuse Hideout Only
- Minimum Dynamic Resolution: 25%
- Maximum Dynamic Resolution: 65%
As seen in the video above, Assassin’s Creed Shadows runs at a largely consistent frame rate of 30 fps on the Steam Deck during gameplay. As such, despite the graphical compromises, we recommend playing the game on Valve’s handheld device.
