Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced PC Performance Review

Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced PC Tested

Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced has arrived, but is it better than the original?

Ubisoft has given us early access to Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced for testing, their remake of 2013’s Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag. The game is a from-the-ground-up remake of the original, with almost no code from the game’s original incarnation. The game uses Ubisoft’s latest incarnation of their Anvil Engine, which means this remake has the same technological underpinnings as Assassin’s Creed Shadows (see our PC review here).

Combat has been refined, graphics have been improved, the game’s story has been refined, and new content is now available. In pretty much every respect, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag has been improved with Resynced. That said, does the game’s new PC version run well? That’s what this review is all about.

Does it stutter?

Shader compilation stutter and traversal stutters have plagued many modern PC releases. That’s especially true if a game runs on Unreal Engine 5. Thankfully, Ubisoft has done a great job with Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced. Overall, the game runs without major stutters, and the game’s shader precompilation step completes quickly when the game first boots. During gameplay, PC gamers can expect an almost stutter-free experience. If you play the game with the right graphical settings, you should have a smooth experience.

In this review, we will test Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced’s PC version on a wide range of GPUs. We will also be testing the game’s VRAM usage, graphical settings, and supported upscalers in depth. So please go to the appropriate page in this review to see that data.

GPU Drivers

When testing Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced’s PC version, we used the latest Nvidia and AMD GPU drivers available at the time of testing. These drivers were AMD Software 26.6.4 and Nvidia’s GeForce 610.74 driver for Windows 10/11.