Optimal graphic settings for for Assassin's Creed Origins

[Wonka0998]

Background Information:

 

I wanted to play all the AC games in historic chronological order. I started with AC Odyssey which is the latest game released and also the one located farthest back in history.

I finished it completely with all the DLCs and I'm now playing Origins, which is historically the next one and was the game released right before Odyssey. But man it's like that game wants to kill my PC!

 

I played through Odyssey with the optimized settings from the HardwareUnboxed video and not even in Athens I got below my FreeSync range (44 FPS). I had a solid 60+ FPS experience with dips of 45-50 in large cities as I mentioned.

I tried to apply the same graphical settings that I had in Odyssey as best as I could in Origins, but at the very beginning of the game I was getting 40-48 FPS in Siwa. It worsened when I got to Alexandria and I decided to do something about it when I started getting frame drops in the low 30s.

 

I went ahead and used the High preset as well as disabled volumetric clouds and lowered the water to Medium.

I was able to remain at about 50 FPS, but as I continued to play in Alexandria I started getting drops below the FreeSync range and it became unbearable with all the tearing and that kind of things.

The current settings get me above 60 most of the times, but I don't want to have the drops below 44 FPS because that kills me in the cities. This really bothers me because it didn't happen in Odyssey which is even more demanding.

 

I was unable to find much in the older posts about the game since it was released a few years ago. When people complained about poor optimization they got responses saying that just because the game is demanding and pushing the boundaries of hardware doesn't mean it's poorly optimized. But well if Odyssey was poorly optimized, I find Origins is even worst.

 

Request:

 

1) Can anyone please help me with the best Radeon Software graphic settings for this game in particular, considering my hardware?

2) It would be nice to also have the global settings in the general sweet spot as well, if someone can help with that too.

3) Can anyone advise what would be the best in-game graphical settings for Origins with my hardware specs, considering the Radeon Software graphic settings?

 

I know I might be asking for a lot, but I would much appreciate any help with this since I find the many available settings a bit overwhelming, especially after I did my own research and failed to get good results.

 

Hardware Specs:

 

CPU: Ryzen 5 2600 @ 3.92GHz

Graphics Card: AMD RX590 Sapphire Nitro+ (stuck)

RAM: 16GB DDR4 @ 2993MHz (can't get it any higher than that without crashing LOL)

AMD RADEON Software version: 20.2.2 (current recommended version)

 

I can provide any additional information that might be required.

 

Thanks a lot for looking into this! 

 

- Wonka0998

 

[Jurrunio]

Hmm? That's oddly bad since my 1060 mobile runs high settings 1080p in Origins with similar frame rates as you do in Odyssey (60fps when nothing's going on, 45-50fps when all hell breaks loose). It does make sense that Origins is not as optimized as Odyssey since it's also the previous game in the franchise (same video engine as stuff but still).

 

Cant help with actual settings though, Geforce cards may behave differently to Radeons

[MartinKweh]

I have Ryzen 5 3600 and an RX580. i cant remember the exact setting but i managed to play it between 50-80 fps depending on the location at medium-high-very high. mixed setting. i cant remember exactly my setting but i enabled adaptive anti aliasing or something. 

 

also, assassins creed Odyssey runs far smoother than origins for some odd reason.

[Wonka0998]

A little update, I have turned the graphic setting down to the medium preset with clouds and ambient occlusion off. I still see the same FPS drops.

I ran the MSI Afterburner and started checking on some hardware resources usage to see what was going on and apparently when I see those FPS drops, the GPU is being used between around 30-50-90 percent, instead of running at 99% as it always does in pretty much any other game while I'm playing.

 

It's not a CPU bottle neck because the CPU usage is nowhere near 100% either. It's not thermal throttling because I normally run the fans at 100% since I don't care about sound because I use headphones and run a gigantic fan in my room to cool it down (tropical whether struggles). The GPU thermals don't even reach 70°C.

 

Any other game always runs just fine, I don't know what's going on with Origins that it refuses to use my hardware...

I might try reinstalling the drivers and see if that helps.

[Wonka0998]

Ok I had some time this night to play around with this matter.

I completely uninstalled the drivers I had, made sure Windows was updated and installed the latest drivers (20.4.1) making sure to mark the factory reset checkbox just in case. After doing that, I ran the following tests:

 

1) Medium custom settings

2) High custom settings

3) Odyssey optimized settings

4) The very lowest settings possible

 

They ALL were getting the same FPS drops. It's just that the f*cking game doesn't want to use my hardware! GPU usage still goes to 30% usage when I get the drops, no matter what graphic settings I have in place.

 

Even in the one area I was seeing the highest FPS I got 60 in the lowest settings and like 59 in high. The Odyssey optimized, which is like a high-very high mixup, was getting me around 53 FPS in that same area. I think even my laptop with a Quadro M1000M would get higher FPS in the lowest settings...

 

At this point I think might just have a bad game install, so I uninstalled it and I'm going to try again once it finishes downloading again.

 

I think the next update is going to be the last one, regardless of the results.

If this doesn't work, I'll just embrace it and continue playing the game as is. I might lock the FPS to 30 and enable V-Sync to see if I can get a console like experience LOL

 

[Wonka0998]

It was the game install. After reinstallation the frame rates were more related to my graphics settings than to whatever was going on before.