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Ubisoft’s new renderer to increase performance

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Ubisoft has yet to reveal the official required system specs for its next stealth-em-up, Assassin’s Creed Unity. Reports from random places on the internet, however, seem to suggest that the minimum specs will be quite forgiving. We’ve seen the game in action, and it’s rather impressive so how’s that possible? According to DSOgaming, Ubisoft’s got a magic new renderer.

Speaking to Ubisoft’s Pipeline Technical Director, James Therien, DSO got the scoop on the game’s new engine and renderer, and how this time… this time dammit, Ubisoft’s game on Pc will support multiple cores properly.

“Globally, our engine scales very well to multiple cores. Unfortunately, we hit different bottlenecks on different platforms. Traditionally, on higher-end PCs, we would be graphic driver bound, negating the benefits of having more cores. On ACU we completely changed the renderer architecture to drastically reduce the number of draw-calls we make to the driver. You should see much more scalability on ACU.”

Ubisoft is finding new ways of pushing hardware to its limit, using a rendered that does much the same thing that DirectX 12 and Mantle.

“As I said, we totally rewrote the low-level renderer for ACU. One of the reasons is to deal with the same types of issues that are solved with Mantle and DX12. We’re finding ways to push the hardware to its limits.”

I’d really love for this to be true – but Ubisoft has shown time and time again that its PC ports just don’t utilise PC hardware very well. I am an eternal optimist though; so I’m going to keep on hoping.

Once again, Nvidia and Ubisoft are buddying up for this, which means it’ll have extra graphical bells and whistles if you’re part of team green.

Assassion’s Creed Unity is coming to PC, PS4 and Xbox One on October 28.

Last Updated: August 27, 2014

23 Comments

  1. Alien Emperor Trevor

    August 27, 2014 at 12:44

    Coming to my PC 28 October… 2016.

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    • Rinceable

      August 27, 2014 at 12:47

      lulz

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      • Alien Emperor Trevor

        August 27, 2014 at 12:53

        I haven’t finished 3 yet & Black Flag is scheduled for next year. I plan these things hehe.

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        • Rinceable

          August 27, 2014 at 12:54

          Good boy.

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        • Sith JJ

          August 27, 2014 at 12:55

          I so badly want to play black flag. My gf and I were just talking about the pirate ship we were on for it (when I involuntarily met Rince – who turned out to be nicer than I anticipated).

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          • Rinceable

            August 27, 2014 at 12:55

            You fucker.

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            August 27, 2014 at 12:57

            The ship stuff in 3 is cool, so I’m ready for more… just not now – I’ve already spent around 60/70 hours playing 2.3 & 3 now.

          • Rinceable

            August 27, 2014 at 12:58

            Yeah, but after William’s “in depth account” of the ship controls I am not sure I am interested… Tehehe

          • Alien Emperor Trevor

            August 27, 2014 at 13:02

            I think we established that William can’t play it properly when he complained about not being able to fire a broadside straight ahead ;P

          • Rinceable

            August 27, 2014 at 13:03

            BWAHHAHAHAHA

          • Rock789

            August 27, 2014 at 13:22

            And… Don’t forget meeting me… You’re gonna be scarred for life for that one! 😉 🙂

            But AC:Black Flag Definitely worth the play – great game. 🙂

          • Viking Of Science

            August 27, 2014 at 13:52

            I Remember that launch, I missed it due to reasons, saw pics, looked like fun.

  2. Rinceable

    August 27, 2014 at 12:47

    But will it run on uPlay?

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  3. Sith JJ

    August 27, 2014 at 12:53

    Nvidia. Pah.

    (says the guy who used it his entire life)

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    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      August 27, 2014 at 12:57

      RED TEAM!

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      • Admiral Chief Assassin

        August 27, 2014 at 13:08

        BOOYAH

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  4. Rinceable

    August 27, 2014 at 12:55

    Really not feeling the love for this for some reason. Though it does look rather nice. Just want something not set in the usual European past.

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    • Rock789

      August 27, 2014 at 13:24

      You, sir, are weird! :p

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  5. Ultimo_Cleric N7

    August 27, 2014 at 13:03

    I still miss Ezio

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    • Admiral Chief Assassin

      August 27, 2014 at 13:07

      Indeed, what a character!

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      • Guest

        August 27, 2014 at 18:38

        I miss Altair. I prefer protagonists of the stoic and/or silent variety 😉

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  6. Admiral Chief Assassin

    August 27, 2014 at 13:08

    I DON’T BELIEVE YOU UBISOFT!!!!

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    • Sith JJ

      August 27, 2014 at 15:33

      No one does anymore

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