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Update: Ubisoft has since confirmed that PC owners wanting to play Assassin's Creed Unity should have at least a GTX 680/ Radeon HD 7970 GPU and an Intel Core i5 2500K/ AMD FX-8350 CPU. a 64-bit OS is also required. Also, laptop GPUs aren't “officially supported”. It is still recommended that you own at least a GTX 780 or an AMD R9 290X along with an Ivy-bridge Intel Core i7 3770 CPU.
Original Story:
The official Assassin's Creed Unity PC specification requirements may have leaked and they are pretty high. Minimum CPU and GPU requirements may restrict the game to those who built a fairly high end PC sometime in the last two years. Minimum CPU requirement features Intel's Sandy Bridge Core i5 2500K or an AMD FX-8350. The recommended CPU is an Ivy-bridge Intel Core i7 3770.
PC owners will need at least 6GB of RAM, a trend that began to surface just last year. On the GPU side of things a GTX 680 or Radeon HD 7970 are the minimum while the recommended GPUs include a GTX 780 or R9 290x. The game will also require 50GB of free hard drive space. The overly high minimum Processor and Graphics Card requirements restrict the game to those who built fairly high end PCs sometime since 2012.
This information came from IntraGames, the South Korean publisher for Assassin's Creed Unity amongst other Ubisoft titles. The publisher has since taken these system requirements down but not before NeoGAF got a good look. The game is due to come out in a few weeks time so Ubisoft should be revealing the system requirements any day now.
Do note that this is based on speculation, Ubisoft has yet to comment on the specification reveal or officially announce anything. While these requirements are fairly high and limiting, they don't contain a ridiculous VRAM requirement, which is a nice change of pace since recently games like Shadow of Mordor and The Evil Within have demanded up to 6GB.
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KitGuru Says: It's possible that Ubisoft has completely overshot the requirements to avoid having to test or optimize for lower end hardware, or it could mean that Assassin's Creed Unity will be pushing current PC technology pretty hard and making some pretty nice graphical advances. However, considering the publisher's recent comments regarding PC development and optimization, the latter seems unlikely. What do you guys think of this? Does your rig meet the minimum requirements? A Sandy-bridge Core i5 and a GTX 680 seems a bit excessive for bare minimum requirements.
So does that mean it’s a console port?
While I don’t think those are unreasonable for RECOMMENDED specifications (the i5 and 680) for minimums they are a tad high, at least in the GPU department.I would have liked to see the gtx 460 be the minimum. To be fair though, those who want to have a system, leave it untouched, and have it play the latest game 5 years later should buy a console. The 680’s nearly 3 years old, and the code i5 sandy bridge chip is, i think, nearly 4 at this point.
Those specs are higher than consoles, so surely it must be some mistake or terrible god awful PC optimisation
Most likely the latter.
screw neogaf
Considering Ubisoft’s horrible coding on their games, I wouldn’t be surprised.
I can run Shadows of Mordor on an old quad 2.6 and a 2gb 7870 on very high and average a 52fps so I call Bull on all the high specs these games keep announcing, Almost seems like they are trying to convince PC owners the new (ahem) gen of consoles have some welly when all they are doing is poorly optimising PC versions to make consoles seem worthwhile..
Yes, but the difference between i5 2500K and new Haswell i5’s isn’t bigger than 15%, so 2500K is still relevant CPU. For me, the specs are so high in order to force users to buy expensive GPUs (maybe it’s agreement between Ubisoft, AMD, nVidia and Intel). There’s no logical explanation to need 2500K and GTX680 to run a console port at minimum graphical settings.
Erm, minimum of 7970? Wut.
Not just higher, but orders of magnitude higher. If it were like console specs we’d be talking hd 7790 or thereabouts.
I agree What Rob says …. These req are bullshit. MY 7year old rig could nicely run that and my rig that i use alowed it to go on ultra….
Processor :
Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2120 CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3300 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)
Video: Geforce GTX 650 vram 2 gb
Ram: 8GB
I just finished my Haswell E build with a 5960X, 32 gigs of 2800 DDR4, with three gtx780 ti cards in tri SLI.
Hopefully I am good to go for at least two years.
I can run Shadow of Mordor on medium pretty fairly… (haven’t checked fps yet)…. will I be able to run this game?
Toshiba Qosmio x770
intel i7 2630 qm – 2ghz
nvidia geforce gtx560m
8gb RAM
having an i7 is good but you only have 2Ghz, and your graphics card isnt that great for a laptop. the 560 couldve probably run it, the 560m… I dont know, Im amazed you can run SoM with that xD I have an 870m and I have 35-40 fps on SoM on high/ultra. Im guessing the specs should approximately be the same.
EDIT:
so, I actually went to check the AC black Flag requirements, and you dont pass actually. AC IV asks for a minimum of an Nvidia Geforce GTX 260. Which you do not have at all, as your card is more like a 250 or a 240.
Also to note, your processor speed is also too low as AC IV clearly asks a 2.6 GHz processor, so yeah, your probability of being able to play this game is fairly low.
I ran black flag in medium pretty well actually… High would begin to lag a bit… All of this considering that this PC has high overheating and framerate drop during gaming…
define pretty well -.-
Sorry ah can i run this ac in ultra with my intel core i7 4770k ,amd radeon r9 270 and 16gb RAM,and asus maximus iv hero motherboard?
I think you misunderstood me. I would like the minimums to be something like a core i3 (a totally reasonable cpu for a modern pc game, even a console port), and a 460 for the GPU. the i5 sandy bridge and 680 would be good recommended specs
There’s a difference, SoM has very few things going on in one instance. Compare it to Unity’s massive scale of NPCs and improved graphics. I mean it obviously requires a decent CPU but a minimum i5-680 is ridiculous. You really cant compare SoM to Unity.
yeah but the consoles graphics are so limited … they are nothing to compare with PC
The “but can it run Crysis?” meme just got updated
I tried it now, I get 22-30 fps with all the graphics settings set to “normal” using the max res on my pc 1600×900.
You should probably know that under 30fps a game is considered unplayable… You are also not playing on an HD resolution.
will i even think of running it on lowest resolutions and settings
core 15 4200m 2.5 ghz
6 gb ram
gt 820m 2gb multi gpu
because my PC doesn’t have HD resolution 1600×900 is the max. For me it’s very playable or I got used to it… If i drop the settings to low fps spikes to 40’s. But well I’m starting to lose hope with playing ACU.
I would disagree that it has anything to do with NPCs on the screen. In SoM you can have massive battles involving tens of orcs plus their generals plus your orcs and generals in strongholds with already existing patrols, animals, slaves etc. and along side that battle there can be others around you where NPCs battle other NPCs (like a random battle between monsters and orcs in the distance). However, I think AC might require more hardware resources because of their jump to “seamless buildings” they demonstrated during E3 and video footage.
I’m sorry :). I misunderstood the part where you say how old the 680 and 2500K are. Anyway, I also agree that these parts will be great for Recommended, although GTX680 and 7970 are far better than XBOX One’s GPU and on lower resolution (1280x720p, 1280×1024, 1680×1050) the game should play fine at lower end GPUs (7950, GTX760, 7850 and etc.).
Well , i will understand thosre requirements when i see the game , but the way im thinking if console can play it smooth @900p with such a bullshity hardware in it then i dont undestand it completely … .If it rusn on ps4 on xone it should run on commodore 64 aswell , gotta be shitty port something is going on and its not good
maybe in windows in 320×240 mode 😀
dude answer is No u cant play it just look at requirements and look at your PC , you can probably RUN it but play it no i dont think so
http://i.imgur.com/D45293T.jpg?1
those specs aren’t always that linear, how many times have I perfectly played games my PC hadn’t minimum riquirements to play? That’s why I’m asking here, to people who know more than just to compare PC specs with what game companies say.
After launch of consoles something weird is going on , first they releasing shitty ports , then caping frame rate to 30 i think nobody would release such a heavy requirements without a reason . But hey lets wait for a release then we can talk again
well regarding caping frame rate to 30, in most cases there is a way to undo that, but yeah I agree with you.
It sucks for me because PC ports are being more and more shitty after time, benefiting the consoles. I’m not getting a console, ever… Unless someone decides to offer me one.
Because it’s not an investment I’m willing to do, I’m no kid anymore, and although I love video games I can’t afford to spend that kind of money on video games, I have other priorities.
In the PC it’s all better, convenient… I can use for work, or playing, whatever… Not to mention I much prefer most kinds of games played with keyboard and mouse, unless it’s a racing game or something like Dark Souls.
In the end having a console sitting at home would be just stupid, not counting the fact that I live in a different place during the week which has a shitty TV so fuck that right? xD
Weak spec requirements. Im ready to go but still getting it on console.
The Graphics system in the PS4 and Xbone are AMD architecture based on there 7870 card. Sure your right if you said nothing compared to a high end PC
Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU@ 3.2 Ghz
Video: sapphire r9 270x 4gb gddr5 with boost and oc ddr5
RAM: 16 GB
Well can I Run ACU cuz some websites told me (Let the site Know If i can Run the game, 10% chances )
I played every games in Ultra.. What about this game…..
Hopefully, unless VRAM requirements go through the roof.
By the way, if you still can, I’d recommend you take back your 780 Ti’s. Nvidia will be releasing the GM200 quite soon (likely within 6 months), and that will probably come with 6 GB of VRAM. I’m going to get one of those for the time being, and then probably another one next year. I have a 5820K at the moment, which will be more than enough to run this game.
Yeah right Ubisoft… That game will run on a weak XB1 or PS4, but need a 1500$ uber PC? You really think we are all idiots or what? It’s obvious that you padded the specs like crazy to avoid to spend money to optimize the PC port.
I used to like Ubisoft. Not so much after all the recent bullshit they spew on 30FPS cap is more cinematic, dowgrading game on purpose etc…
But they could still try and make it a bit easier on your machine, what with tessellation, or render detail distance, AC4’s recommenced specs aren’t even as high as Unity. I feel like they didn’t even try to hard on optimization
pfff AMD …
unless, got Nvidia GTX Titan or so or better one.
I also have the feeling that optimization is going to be a big problem with Unity. Ill wait for TotalBiscuit video since he covers this with all PC games.
will i able to run this game on ultra at 1080p 60 fps with the settings below?
i7 3770k 3.5ghz
16gb ram
gtx 780 3gb rog poseidon edition
guys.. can I run this game on my pc ? and what settings do you guys think ? thanks
GTX 760 Ti OEM
i7 4770 @ 3.4 GHz
8 GB Ram
2 TB Space
Windows 8.1 Single Language
1920 x 1080p Acer Monitor
I am so disappointed when the system requirements for this game comes out.. I’m not even met the minimum requirement.. I just bought this PC earlier this year :’|
am i able to play this game if i have i3 and gtx 660? i think not dammit
i’m a huge fan of ac series but now i’m not able to play this yayy…..
am i able to play this game if i have i3 and gtx 660? i think not dammit
i’m a huge fan of ac series but now i’m not able to play this yayy…..
i have win 8.1 64-bit, video card 7850 and apu cpu 6800k can i still run it??
i have win 8.1 64-bit, video card 7850 and apu cpu 6800k can i still run it??
What the fuck is wrong with game developers nowadays?a 7970 gpu is minumum ha.LOL.Everybody cant upgrade their rigs whenever a new game is out.
I think GPU brands pays a lot to game producers for these nonsense requirements.