Assassin’s Creed Valhalla PC Performance Review and Optimization Guide

AA and Resolution Scaling – The Real Route to Boosted Performance  

When looking at Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s individual graphical settings, it has become clear to us that the game’s Low and Medium AA setting can provide gamers with significant increases to performance at the cost of minimal, nigh unnoticeable graphical downgrades.

On page 6 of this review, we noted that moving Valhalla’s AA setting from High to low delivered us a staggering  18.2% boost in-game performance. Below you can see the graphical impact that this setting has on the game. Can you even notice a difference?

(Low AA VS High AA)
  

While the game is in motion, the impact of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s low AA setting becomes even harder to notice, making it a must lower setting for performance conscious gamers. Lowering this setting along is enough to get an RTX 2080 Ti to run Assassin’s Creed Valhalla within our demanding test scene at an average framerate of 50 FPS. In less demanding scenes, 60 FPS framerates are possible.

Resolution Scaling

Achieving 60 FPS framerates on a 4K screen can be challenging, especially if you aren’t a lucky owner of an RTX 3080 or RTX 3090 graphics card. That said, sub-native resolutions can deliver gamers excellent visuals, albeit at the cost of a little blur.

At 80% scaling, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s visuals become much blurrier, but not blurry enough to make the game unplayable. Yes, it is not as good looking as before, but the extra performance and smoothness that resolution scaling can provide make it worthwhile in many cases.

(80% Resolution Scale VS 100% Resolution Scale)
  

Before scaling your resolution down, our recommendation is to first lower Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’a AA settings. Below is a test which showcases how Assassin’s Creed Valhalla’s performance scales with resolution percentage with an RTX 2080 Ti at high settings.