The hardware demand for modern games is getting higher and higher, and the recommended settings on the Steam page do not mean that players can get a high-quality experience.In a recent interview with PC Gamer, the technical director of Assassin's Creed: Shadow, which will be released next month, discussed the performance of the game.

Now more and more games require your graphics card to support ray tracing, and technical director Pierre F promised that Assassin's Creed: Shadow doesn't force it, and Ubisoft has also specially developed "solutions" for old graphics cards, sayingThe game will be allowed to run the graphics card before the stronger but older RTX, and the game will use a software ray tracing method developed specifically for this - similar to the Lumen solution for Unreal 5 engine.

He continued to promise that the team had “worked to support graphics cards before RTX (GTX1070, GTX 1080TI and equivalents)” and said: “These products are still performing strongly at the moment but lack hardware ray tracing. To further emphasize our goal of thisWe have developed a proprietary software ray tracing global lighting solution to support a brand new dynamic hideout.”

For graphics cards that support ray tracing but have poor performance, the technical director said that the game also provides a "selective ray tracing" mode, in which the game will only enable ray tracing in the hiding place.He explained: "The reason for this is that the hideout (of this game) allows players to make extensive customization, which is unprecedented in Assassin's Creed. Because of this, we cannot use traditional, pre-orderComputed global lighting technology, so a real-time approach is needed. In all other games, such as in the open world, ray tracing is not used.”

In addition, the game uses the company's "exclusive micropolygon system" to allow players to lower the model polygons. Pierre himself is confident that the game can have an excellent experience on low-end hardware, saying: "Even if this game isIt will also look great at the lowest settings and everyone can enjoy the experience.”