Low anti-aliasing does seem the key to getting solidly over 60fps at 4K. I did some comparisons with it on high and low, and low doesn't seem to blur the image or lower the internal resolution in any way. The difference is entirely imperceptible.
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Assassin's Creed Valhalla PC performance thread
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The toggle does not work which makes me think hdr is weird.
What seems to work is enabling hdr in windows and turning it off in game.
Trust me. Colors and nits look correct this way. With hdr on in game and windows the hdr is too dark and seems to be sdr.
Same!!!
Horizon looks SO much sharper as a game and with HDr especially.
This looks....muddy? Even with sharpening cracked to 100.
It just looks like it isn't native 4k or that antialiasing, no matter the setting, is completely muddling the image.
Odyssey and Origins did not have this problem.
This games looks and performs worse than a game released almost 4 years ago, horizon zero dawn.
I. Dont. Get. It.
I was gonna play this on a ps5 but I figured my 1070 can play it all be it at medium setting at 1440p. Sucks but I'll take it so I can play smoothly.
Depends what you call smoothly my 2070s is struggling to hit consistent 60 on low to medium at 1440p
strange, i havent really been struggling. But Odyssey was also VERY CPU intensive right?
Just about... even though I wasn't keen on the visuals of WD: Legion initially, at least with Ray-Tracing enabled @ 4K60fps it looked like something I would expect out of a cross gen title, which wasn't the most impressive but still way more better looking than this game. And then you add games like Horizon ZD and RDR2 to the equation, both of which are FAR more technically/visually impressive open world games from 2-4 years ago...
While the actual graphics feel dated in a lot of ways, I'm finding the HDR to be extremely solid on my LG CX. I'm not getting the raised blacks I got with WD Legion and this game feels like it was made for an LG CX as 800 nits was the default. I'm turning on HDR in Windows before starting the game and I'm getting a great result (3080 with HDMI 2.1)
only turn HDR on in windows 10. Don't turn on in-game HDR. It makes everything dark
I keep getting a weird freezing issue. Only fix seems to keep the game at 30FPS, like the game will completely freeze and then eventually resume. Weird. Even happening on medium settings. A shame, I really like this game so far.
Anyone have the issue where when you only have windows 10 hdr enabled and hdr disabled in game where the graphics are sort of pixelated/ weird colors / just not right?
Didn't RTSS cause that problem for years and years in Assassin's Creed games? It hooks the SwapChain and doesn't implement all of the HDR stuff, so when HDR games aren't busy crashing they're sending commands to set HDR colorspace / metadata nowhere.
i did a fresh install of UBI connect and the game. the game wont start. first time having problems with a ubisoft game. but i got them all before on steam.
Three hours. 4K 60 all To the highest non ultra preset. Enabled the DRS and lowered shadows and clouds. Lowered depth of field to low as well, more of a personal preference. Outside of villages I get very much a rock solid 60. In towns it drops to 55ish or so. Certain cutscenes make it drop to 45 the lowest I've seen. Had a raid where it hovered around 50, guess due to the alpha effects all over the place. My 3900x at 4.3 locked seems unbothered by this game while the 3080 is sweating for its life. I think a patch could solve some of the issues though. I am content with the performance and these settings, just wish itperformed better in towns and in some of those cut scenes.
Game's definitely not in HDR mode until you use the in-game toggle, BTW.
That's scRGB colorspace, until you toggle the in-game switch, it's running an 8-bit SwapChain in Rec 709.
If you change to a 16-bit SwapChain without changing the ColorSpace, the image will be blown out. So these reports of things darkening, are very likely the correct behavior and you just need to set the exposure / peak luminance accordingly.
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11/11/2020 03:17:50.992: [ DXGI ] [!] IDXGISwapChain::SetFullscreenState ({ Windowed }, 00000000h) -- [ ACValhalla_plus.exe <AK::MusicEngine::GetDefaultInitSettings>, tid=0x429c ]
11/11/2020 03:17:50.992: [ DXGI ] [!] IDXGISwapChain::ResizeBuffers (6,3840,2160,DXGI_FORMAT_R16G16B16A16_FLOAT,0x00000840) -- [ ACValhalla_plus.exe <AK::MusicEngine::GetDefaultInitSettings>, tid=0x429c ]
11/11/2020 03:17:51.024: [ DXGI ] [@] Return: S_OK - < DXGISwap_ResizeBuffers_Override >
11/11/2020 03:17:51.024: [ DXGI ] [!] IDXGISwapChain3::CheckColorSpaceSupport (DXGI_COLOR_SPACE_RGB_FULL_G10_NONE_P709)
11/11/2020 03:17:51.024: [ DXGI HDR ] [#] Color Space Supported.
11/11/2020 03:17:51.024: [ DXGI ] [!] IDXGISwapChain3::SetColorSpace1 (DXGI_COLOR_SPACE_RGB_FULL_G10_NONE_P709)That's scRGB colorspace, until you toggle the in-game switch, it's running an 8-bit SwapChain in Rec 709.
If you change to a 16-bit SwapChain without changing the ColorSpace, the image will be blown out. So these reports of things darkening, are very likely the correct behavior and you just need to set the exposure / peak luminance accordingly.
So hdr in windows and then toggle in game? And then adjust exposure and paper white accordingly?
Because if I launch the game without hdr in windows and then toggle in game it won't enable hdr properly.
Oh well. i am done trying to play the game today, been at it for hours trying to start the game but it just wont.
so turns out the console version (xsx) runs mostly at 1600pto1800p and maxes out at 4k when not under load-so the pc version seems to be roughly on par if you have similar hardware? (say, a 2070 and a zen 2)
So you need HDR enabled both in Windows and in-game? No HDR for me then via Shield streaming :(
Runs pretty good at ultra preset with shadows and clouds reduced on my 1080 ti and 3900X at 1440p HDR. Medium AA and 100% resolution scale, don't really see much jaggies.
Either I'm used to the frame pacing issues or the shader compilation is real. Runs pretty smooth, some of the long field of view in the 2nd area are super solid.
Either I'm used to the frame pacing issues or the shader compilation is real. Runs pretty smooth, some of the long field of view in the 2nd area are super solid.
Well there's no way my computer can even attempt to run this one. I guess I'm out until I can afford a new PC build. Ars Technica's review was also not light on how anything less than a PS4 Pro is going to struggle with the battle mechanic.
There's another executable in the game directory - should be ACValhalla_plus.exe. Try that one.
I had a problem like this with ubisoft games where they just won't launch unless I install the games on my C: drive. Maybe it's the same case for you?
already tried that, nothing seems to work. there is a lot of people having the issues. the game being released today, i did a google search and there's a lot of topics on the ubisoft forums already. really wanted to play but i guess not today. sometimes this is the reason why console gaming is so much better regardless of the 30fps, shit just work lol.
Well just spent like an hour trying to make the game launch. Really simple stuff... just launch the game. Had to give up on the Epic client and use the Ubisoft one and then it would launch. Why? Hell if I know its the first time I've used any of these clients. I'm guessing they are crap. These other clients are always crap.
Start up the game and turns out my 1070 can't even anymore. Getting like 30-40fps on High at 1440p with dips into the 20's sometimes. I guess it's time to dig into the settings and start tweaking away.
Honestly, the endless search for a 3080, and constant need to mess with settings is starting to wear thin on me. Might just buy a Series X and plug and play this gen. Too old and not enough time for this shit.
I haven't been following your saga but sounds like maybe same issue as me. Have you tried launching from the Ubisoft Connect client? Soon as I launched it from there I got prompted to update, and it also automatically installed what I think was some dx12 stuff. Idk went by too fast. Then it worked fine.
Start up the game and turns out my 1070 can't even anymore. Getting like 30-40fps on High at 1440p with dips into the 20's sometimes. I guess it's time to dig into the settings and start tweaking away.
Honestly, the endless search for a 3080, and constant need to mess with settings is starting to wear thin on me. Might just buy a Series X and plug and play this gen. Too old and not enough time for this shit.
I haven't been following your saga but sounds like maybe same issue as me. Have you tried launching from the Ubisoft Connect client? Soon as I launched it from there I got prompted to update, and it also automatically installed what I think was some dx12 stuff. Idk went by too fast. Then it worked fine.
I was really hoping this was my issue but I just checked my speeds and they were already 3600mhz :<
i own the game on Uplay (i know it was a different know, but it's Uplay). This is the first time i have an issue with an AC game, but all previous games i got on steam. what a god damn nightmare.
In the Nvidia control panel the default was set to RGB on my tv for my 3070. I changed that to YCbCr444 which is the setting I want to utilize correct?
I'm at work, but my fiancé is home playing it and says it gets "choppy" in cutscenes.
Which I found odd, did the settings for her before work and have it set to adaptive quality, 60fps, couple settings like clouds and shadows lowered to medium.
Ran the benchmark a few times and it did great.
But it's also running on a GSync ltimate PG35VQ. So I feel like the drops would have to be insane for her to notice it being "choppy" ...
2080ti FTW3 Ultra, 3950x, 16gigs ram, and installed in on a freshly formatted older Intel SSD.
Any others having similar issues with cutscenes?
Yes, for me they stutter and tear like crazy. Haven't been able to fix it.
I had this issue, but the cutscenes get better as it goes along - it isn't entirely elminated, yet it wasn't nearly as horrendous as the initial cutscenes where I thought Gsync had entirely failed. I've gone back to playing Watch Dogs and hope a patch will fix this issue soon, not that Watch Dogs performs all that well either lol.
I have a 4670k and a G1 1070 and in game settings i had to lower clouds and Shadows to high and DOF and Blur off and i can play at 1440p 40fps just in settlements at 60fps in the Open areas,no stutters at all its great my CPU utilization is at 60%,great performance nothing to do with recent WD Legions i have field of view at 100% and 60fps cap on the NVIDIA Control panel and v sync of in game.
is this normal?
You get the same fps at me but I have 8700k and a 2070s lol.
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Is it just me or does this game look worse than maxed out witcher 3? Lol. And it runs way worse. Like skellige has way more vegetation/just generally looks better than this.
Try Crackdown 3 and Gears 5 both available on Game Pass (so you can play them with a $1 trial) and the best examples of HDR games I've played full stop PC or console.
Have you managed to solve the issue?
I'm still having issues after a lot of troubleshooting with the bank on one end and Ubi support team on the other. I thought it would work today but it's still the same kind of error with no solution in sight.
Nop, still nothing. The banks here are still closed (its 8AM) so I can't reach them yet