Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Expert warns – stay away from performance mode

Actually, the update to the performance mode Assassin’s Creed Valhalla should do better. As a technology guru now reports, the opposite threatens.

Update from November 27, 2020 – Apparently the new patch for Assassin’s Creed Valhalla isn’t quite as flawless as hoped. After this Update 1.0.4 was unlocked for the Viking Adventure yesterday and the two new ones Graphics brought more and more complaints from now Fans. These claim that Update I made the performance worse and made the game on the PS5 almost unplayable for some.

One of the first reports of performance problems with Assassin‘s Creed Valhalla came from John Linneman at Digital Foundry. He recommended that on Twitter game not to update at all, because the new version often drops the frame rate. These would be particularly noticeable in performance mode. Linneman has since deleted the tweet, but have been reporting on since then Reddit always more Fans to word that they also increased problems on with the game on PS5 to have.

Im PS5-Subreddit writes u / Jaim66 on the subject: “Before the patch, I only had noticeable screen tearing in the cutscenes on the PS5. Now it is practically unplayable in performance mode because the screen tearing is as bad as in Xbox gameplay. ”Others write that their frame rate would drop from 60 to 40 at times, which would lead to noticeable stuttering. But that doesn’t have to be the standard, a lot of the comments at Reddit also reports that after the Update had no problems. We’ll wait and see if Ubisoft comments on it.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Update 1.04 with new graphics modes for PS5 and Xbox Series X

Originally posted on November 26th: Montreal, Canada – Assassin‘s Creed Valhalla has been out for a few weeks and is sending Fans to medieval England to cause chaos there as a Viking. Ubisoft now has a new one Update for the Action-Adventure which is available for download now. Update 1.0.4 brings a few fixed bugs and quality of life improvements above all a new feature for the PS5 und Xbox Series X. Fans, which Assassin‘s Creed Valhalla as Launchtitel for one of the Consoles Bought are allowed to move on to new ones Graphics looking forward.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Update 1.0.4 unlocks performance and graphics mode

According to Ubisoft’s official patch notes, the download size of the Updates between 2.5 and 5.3 GB, depending on which platform you are on Assassin‘s Creed Valhalla owns. The smallest Update comes for the PS5, the largest 5.3 GB package, owners of the Xbox Series X download here. All other versions are in between a little over 4 GB. Once downloaded, the new graphics modes for PS5 and Xbox Series X selectable. A performance mode leaves that game run at 60 FPS with variable resolution, while the quality mode promises 30 FPS at maximum resolution.

Also has Ubisoft on the Xbox Series X The increasingly occurring problem of screen tearing has been accepted and promises improvement with the Update. Apart from that, other technical problems were fixed, such as sound problems, errors in the lighting effects or the general stability and performance. The memory menus of Assassin‘s Creed Valhalla have been revised and Cloud Saves have been removed so that they are no longer accidentally overwritten. An error with the VRAM / RAM was also fixed on the PC. However, nothing has changed in terms of the high system requirements of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla: Various bug fixes and improved Quality of Life in Update 1.0.4

Besides the technical stumbling blocks Ubisoft Montreal also tinkered a little with the gameplay itself. Above all there are some ironed out bugs. After this Update For example, crows will no longer fall randomly from the sky and the Player character should no longer get stuck in certain places. For the purpose of improved Quality of Life available in Assassin‘s Creed Valhalla now also individual categories for runes, so that these can now be categorized according to weapon runes and armor runes.

There are many more repairs in the Update 1.0.4 than the ones we have listed here. For a complete list, check out the patch notes from Ubisoft look at. Happy couple Fans recently got Assassin’s Creed Valhalla for only 10 €. However, it wasn’t an exclusive offer, but rather a small slip with a comma.

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