The thirteenth major installment of the long-running Assassin’s Creed series has finally landed on all major platforms except for the Switch on October 5, 2023. The game is also set to release on iOS next year. Following the journey of Basim Ibn Ishaq from being a street thief to a member of the Assassin Brotherhood, AC Mirage is Ubisoft’s attempt to go back to its original Assassin’s Creed roots. Judging by the reviews so far, this attempt is more or less an okay one. A flawed but welcome attempt. Now, being an Assassin’s Creed game, a lot of loyal fans are eager to try this one out, and we will be helping players like you get the best FPS possible while also keeping the lag to a minimum.
One major thing that has become clear over the last few years is that some developers, especially the AAA and AA ones, are focusing less and less on optimization. Redfall, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Forspoken, and Immortals of Aveum are just some of the best examples of that in 2023 alone. As for Ubisoft itself, the French video game development and publishing studio has had quite a lot of hits and misses with its titles in recent years. Its console games, especially Nintendo Switch ones, are top-notch when it comes to optimization, while on the PC front, they’ve remained somewhere in the middle. The previous three Assassin’s Creed titles were marred with bugs and other issues. AC Mirage, on the other hand, seems to be on the good side of the optimization part, as evidenced by its minimum and maximum requirements. But what are the best settings for running the game to get high FPS and low input lag? Well, more details on the same are shared below.
Assassin’s Creed (AC) Mirage Best Settings for High FPS & Low Input Lag
Windows and other Miscellaneous settings
Before you mess around with the game’s own settings, you need to configure your PC first. The Windows OS also plays a big part in how a game runs, and the following settings will help you choose and enable the best ones.
To start, open Windows Settings and click on Gaming. You will be presented with three options: Xbox Game Bar, Captures, and Game Mode. Select Game Mode and toggle it On. This will enable Game Mode, which in turn will help with gaining better FPS and less lag. Overall, a good boost to performance. By the way, you should also toggle off any kind of option in both the Captures and Xbox Game Bar sections. Unless you are looking to record your gameplay, both of these options are quite useless. And even then, you have better applications like OBS and such for recording purposes.
After this, it’s time to change the power plan. If you are someone who games a lot or uses resource-heavy apps a lot, always have your power plan on either Balanced or High Performance. Although the latter is much more suited for heavy use. To change your power plan, open Control Panel and click on Hardware and Sound > Power Options. From here, you can select the right power plan.
Another cool new feature that you should use is Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling. However, it’s only available for NVIDIA GTX 1000/AMD 5600 or later GPU users. Your PC also needs to be on Windows 10/11. So, if you satisfy both of those prerequisites, enter “Graphics settings” in the Windows search bar and open it. Right at the top, you will come across an option titled – Hardware-accelerated GPU scheduling. Toggle it on and then perform a reboot of your PC. This will give another nice performance boost, and you will be able to play AC Mirage without worrying much about fps loss or other performance issues.
Also, don’t forget to update your GPU drivers. It’s absolutely crucial that you do that. It’s going to help you a lot in getting the best performance out of your GPU. Now, when it comes to getting the latest drivers, there are two ways to do that. One is through the official website of the GPU manufacturer, and the other is by downloading it through the Nvidia/AMD’s companion apps. We suggest you try out the latter one, as you will need it for the next part, i.e., turning on Image Scaling. Once you are done updating your GPU drivers, and restarting your PC, launch the companion app for your GPU, and look for Super Resolution (AMD users) or NIS/Nvidia Image Scaling (Nvidia users) option. Make sure to turn it On.
In-game Settings
Now, when it comes to configuring in-game settings, there’s only so much one can do due to the sheer build variety among players. However, we’ve done our best here to give you the most optimal settings for AC Mirage.
**For high-end build users**
Screen
- Image Calibration: [as is]
- Iconic Color Filter: [as is. On if preferred.]
- Field of View: [user choice. Default is 100%.]
- FPS Limit: Off [60 if streaming.]
Display
- Active Monitor: [as is]
- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- Aspect Ratio: [as is or user choice]
- Resolution: [as is]
- Refresh Rate: Native
- VSync: Off
- Resolution Scale: 100%
Graphics
General
- Graphics quality – [dependent on your GPU capabilities. Very High recommended.]
World
- World Details: High
- Clutter Density: Medium
Environment
- Shadows: High
- Volumetric Clouds: High
- Water: High
- Screen Space Reflection: On
Textures
- Environment Textures: Very High [VRAM dependent]
- Character Textures: High [VRAM dependent]
Postprocessing
- Depth of Field: [user preference]
- Motion Blur: Off
- Adaptive Quality: Off
- Upsample Type: [GPU dependent.]
- Upsample Quality: Quality
- Sharpen Strength [as is]
**For low-end build users**
Screen
- Image Calibration: [as is]
- Iconic Color Filter: [as is. On if preferred.]
- Field of View: [user choice. Default is 100%.]
- FPS Limit: Off [60 if streaming.]
Display
- Active Monitor: [as is]
- Window Mode: Fullscreen
- Aspect Ratio: [as is or user choice]
- Resolution: [as is]
- Refresh Rate: Native
- VSync: Off
- Resolution Scale: 100%
Graphics
General
- Graphics quality – [dependent on your GPU capabilities. Very High recommended.]
World
- World Details: Low or Medium
- Clutter Density: Low
Environment
- Shadows: Low or Medium
- Volumetric Clouds: Low or Medium
- Water: Low or Medium
- Screen Space Reflection: On
Textures
- Environment Textures: Medium or High
- Character Textures: Medium or High
Postprocessing
- Depth of Field: [user preference]
- Motion Blur: Off
- Adaptive Quality: Off
- Upsample Type: [GPU dependent.]
- Upsample Quality: Performance
- Sharpen Strength: [as is]
Gameplay
General
- Screen Shake: Off
Sensitive Content
- Blood FX: Off
Don’t forget to save these changes and then restart the game. Try out the aforementioned in-game settings, and then use the game’s Benchmark feature to check how much FPS you get. Of course, you can alter these settings as per your liking and then once again use the Benchmark feature.
Players can also try overclocking their CPU and GPU to get more performance out of their build. From what we have seen so far, Assassin’s Creed: Mirage is a GPU-heavy game, so you can overclock your GPU first and then check out the results. Applications like MSI Afterburner and such are used by many to overclock GPUs. To add to that, some GPUs come out factory overclocked from the beginning. You can usually identify them by the OC suffix in their name. But if you are satisfied with whatever results you’ve gotten before, then there’s really no need to overclock your GPU or CPU, for that matter.
Note: GPU/CPU overclocking can be detrimental to your GPU/CPU’s health, so do this with extreme caution.
That’s all you need to get the best possible performance out of Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed: Mirage on your PC. Compared to past AC titles, this one is quite optimized, so that also helps in achieving a stable enough FPS. Now that you can play the game at a comfortable FPS, why don’t you check out how to change difficulty settings in the game? And as always, don’t forget to check out DigiStatement. Also, read: Assassin’s Creed (AC) Mirage Crashing, Not Launching, Stuttering, FPS Drops, Black Screen Issues: Is there any fix yet
