It’s no secret that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla requires a lot of resources to run. Even so, it’s still not running properly on many devices, even high-end ones.
If you follow the easy steps in this guide, we can guarantee you’ll increase your FPS and enhance your performance.
You’ll simply be advised to turn down any settings that you can do without and optimize the ones that can work in your favor.
However, before you optimize any settings, make sure that your system meets the minimum, and preferably the recommended, requirements listed below:
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Minimum System Requirements
Processor | AMD Ryzen 3 1200 (3.1 GHz) or Intel i5-4460 (3.2 GHz) |
RAM | 8GB |
GPU | AMD Radeon R9 380 (4 GB) or Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 (4 GB) |
OS | Windows 10 (64-bit) |
DirectX | DirectX June 2010 Redistributable |
Sound | DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card with latest drivers |
Space Required | 50 GB |
Graphics Settings | Low Preset |
Recommended System Requirements
Processor | AMD Ryzen 5 1600 (3.2 GHz) or Intel i7-6700K (4.0 GHz) |
RAM | 8GB |
GPU | AMD Radeon RX 570 (8 GB) or Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 (6 GB) |
OS | Windows 10 (64-bit) |
DirectX | DirectX June 2010 Redistributable |
Sound | DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card with latest drivers |
Space Required | 50 GB |
Graphics Settings | High Preset |
It’s imperative that you meet at least the minimum system requirements. If you’ve checked that, let’s move on to what you came here for – the best possible optimization.
Update Your GPU Drivers
As with any other game, your first option is to update your GPU drivers. We highly recommend that you check for updates every now and then as AMD and Nvidia generally release new drivers before big game launches. That applies to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla too.
This is fundamental in terms of optimization because these driver updates boost performance, increase FPS, fix stuttering issues, among others.
To update your GPU drivers, open AMD Radeon Software (For AMD GPUs) or NVIDIA GeForce Experience (for NVIDIA GPUs) and check for any updates. If there is an update available, download and install it.
Once the download is finished, simply click on the green Express Installation and you’re good to go once it has finished installing.
If you’ve made sure your GPU drivers are running the latest version, you can now move on to adjusting your settings.
Best Graphics Settings For Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
Follow these instructions to optimize Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. Overall, setting most of the settings to ‘Medium‘ will provide you with the required frame rates to fully enjoy your gaming experience. If you have an RTX 3080 or RTX 3090 GPU, feel free to set some of these settings to a higher value.
If you still experience issues, you can lower some of the settings such as Shadows and Character Textures as these impact performance most.
We recommend adjusting the following settings:
- Open up Assassin’s Creed Valhalla
- Go to Options and click on the Graphics tab
- Set Graphics Quality to Custom
- Set Adaptive Quality to Off
- Set Anti-Aliasing to High for the best visual experience
- Set World Details to High for a great-looking game as there’s a big difference between the Medium and High setting in this case
- Set Clutter to High for a nice balance of detail and performance
- Set Shadows to Medium for the best balance of detail and performance. We don’t recommended setting this to Low
- Set Volumetric Clouds to Medium as this is not worth setting to a higher value
- Set Water to Medium for the best balance of water detail and game performance
- Set Screen Space Reflections to Off
- Set Environment Textures to High
- Set Character Textures to Medium. Set it to High if you have a powerful graphics card
- Set Depth of Field to Off for the best visual experience
- Set Motion Blur to Off for the best visual experience
And that’s it! If you’ve closely followed these steps, you should now have higher frame rates and an increased performance.