It’s been more than a month since the release of Assassin’s Creed Origins and users with CPUs that lack SSE 4.1 or 4.2 support are still unable to play the game. This is an issue that plagued numerous games in the past. However, and contrary to other developers, Ubisoft does not seem willing to patch the game. Continue reading Assassin’s Creed Origins is still not working on CPUs without SSE 4.1 & 4.2, like the AMD Phenom II CPUs →

Ubisoft has announced that it will release a new patch for Assassin’s Creed Origins in December. According to the French company, this update will add a new “Nightmare” difficulty level, and will an enemy scaling option. This enemy option will automatically scale the lower level enemies to players’ level. Continue reading Assassin’s Creed Origins – December patch will add Nightmare difficulty and two new quests →

Back in October, Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed: Origins which uses the latest version of the Denuvo anti-tamper tech. Not only that, but Ubisoft has protected Denuvo with VMProtect. The French company has put VMProtect on top of Denuvo. And while some may claim that this implementation is eating additional CPU cycles, Ubisoft has managed to protect its game from pirates for an entire month. Continue reading Ubisoft has managed to protect Assassin’s Creed Origins from pirates for an entire month →

Yesterday, Ubisoft released a new update for the PC version of Assassin’s Creed: Origins. As we’ve already reported, this patch introduces annoying stuttering issues on quad-core CPUs; stutters that were not present in the launch version. However, and contrary to various reports, Ubisoft has not downgraded the game’s visuals. Continue reading Assassin’s Creed Origins suffers from stuttering issues but has not been downgraded at all →

Assassin’s Creed: Origins is a pretty interesting case on the PC. Ubisoft’s latest title is among the most demanding PC games of 2017. And while it scales wonderfully on more than four CPU cores/threads, the game suffers from optimization issues. The French company has just released a new patch for the PC version and so we decided to benchmark it. Continue reading Assassin’s Creed: Origins still needs further optimization improvements, patch 1.05 benchmarked →

Ubisoft has revealed the release notes for the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Origins patch 1.05. According to the release notes, this patch will improve performance and stability on all platforms. In addition, it will fix some infinite loading and black screen hang, and will feature some PC-specific fixes. Continue reading Assassin’s Creed Origins – Patch 1.05 will improve performance and stability, will come with PC-specific fixes →