What does it take to run Assassin's Creed Odyssey PC at 1080p60?
Assassin's Creed Odyssey on PC version is utterly gorgeous, with the ability to scale well beyond consoles in terms of visual quality, frame-rate and resolution - but to play this game at its best, some serious hardware is required. Yes, careful settings management helps - and we've got you covered here - but even getting to 60fps with a console-equivalent look requires some meaty kit. Mainstream GPUs like GTX 1060 and RX 580 have the horsepower to get the job done in terms of the graphics requirement but even the enthusiast's price vs performance champion - the Core i5 8400 - can't keep you locked to 60fps.
It's clear that Odyssey is heavy on your PC - puzzlingly so in some respects - but Ubisoft does at least deserve credit for a great options menu. The graphics presets are all marked individually to show how many individual settings there are, plus there's accompanying artwork to show the impact that any given change makes. The only major criticism I have here is one common to many recent PC games - too many of the options require a restart once you've adjusted them, making optimisation and fine-tuning a pain.
Beyond that, the only missing aspects in configurability are massive warning stickers for specific settings, along with general performance prognostications - which is to say that in this game, ultra high means ultra high. Similar to prior AC titles, both the ultra high and very high global presets add decadent amounts of detail into facets of the image. They exist to make the game look as pretty as possible and also to scale the experience onto really expensive set-ups - or future hardware.
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