Assasin’s Creed Shadows coming to the Mac day 1.

[Jimmyjames]

Seems like good news even If I’m not a huge Ubisoft fan.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S & More! | Ubisoft (US)

Official Site. Experience an epic historical action-adventure story set in Feudal Japan! Pre-order now Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation®5, Amazon Luna, macOS as well as Windows PC through the Ubisoft Store and the Epic Games Store.

www.ubisoft.com

 

[dada_dave]

Nice. Same not hugely interested myself, but a good sign nonetheless.

 

[diamond.g]

Y’all see the ridiculous system requirements (especially compared to PC)?

 

[Jimmyjames]

Y’all see the ridiculous system requirements (especially compared to PC)?

Yeah. It’s difficult because the screenshots I saw only mention desktop gpu cards, and as discussed elsewhere, desktops aren’t really a thing on the Mac currently. Not sure why we need rt turned on by default as far as I can tell.

 

[exoticspice1]

Yeah. It’s difficult because the screenshots I saw only mention desktop gpu cards, and as discussed elsewhere, desktops aren’t really a thing on the Mac currently. Not sure why we need rt turned on by default as far as I can tell.

Mac Requirements:

PC requirements:

I have a AMD 7700X and RTX 4070 Super PC, so I'll see if can actually manage 1440p at 60FPS at high like the reqiurements mention.
Interesting enough on the Mac to get "simliar" config i.e (1440p high) you need an M3 Max/M4 Max but the game can only manage 30fps. I wonder why? The CPU can surely handle 60fps.

Also I wonder how Metal FX compares to DLSS4 and FSR4? Did Apple even update MetalFX in macOS 15?

 

[exoticspice1]

desktops aren’t really a thing on the Mac currently

M2 Ultra was actually mentioned which is a desktop only SKU SoC. Maybe M4 Ultra can do 4K at 60fps on high?

 

[throAU]

I have a AMD 7700X and RTX 4070 Super PC, so I'll see if can actually manage 1440p at 60FPS at high like the reqiurements mention.
Interesting enough on the Mac to get "simliar" config i.e (1440p high) you need an M3 Max/M4 Max but the game can only manage 30fps. I wonder why? The CPU can surely handle 60fps.

Probably need a max to get enough vram.

Also while m series GPU is great for what it is, it isn’t a desktop gaming focused GPU.

 

[dada_dave]

Probably need a max to get enough vram.

Nah a base M4 (16GB) has as much (more in theory) VRAM as the 4070 Super (12GB).

Also while m series GPU is great for what it is, it isn’t a desktop gaming focused GPU.

True the 4070 Super is a bigger GPU. My other guess is that since they don’t differentiate between M3 and M4 Max nor between binned and full models that another part of the lower expected performance is based on the lowest common denominator of the binned M3 Max even though the full M4 Max can be 50% faster.

 

[throAU]

Nah a base M4 (16GB) has as much (more in theory) VRAM as the 4070 Super (12GB).



True the 4070 Super is a bigger GPU. My other guess is that since they don’t differentiate between M3 and M4 Max nor between binned and full models that another part of the lower expected performance is based on the lowest common denominator of the binned M3 Max even though the full M4 Max can be 50% faster.

As much potential vram yes. But don’t forget RAM for the processor side as well.

 

[dada_dave]

As much potential vram yes. But don’t forget RAM for the processor side as well.

That shouldn’t be much of an issue … if the Mac port is properly coded. And even then the M4 Pro would have more than enough. The Max is generally overkill for video game VRAM - heck at their relative compute powers so are the base and Pro.

In general, 1440p is not going to stress VRAM capacity much, not on 16GB systems on up - heck they’ve got a 10GB 3080 as part of their minimum requirements for selective ray tracing 1440p High 60fps.

 

[diamond.g]

That shouldn’t be much of an issue … if the Mac port is properly coded. And even then the M4 Pro would have more than enough. The Max is generally overkill for video game VRAM - heck at their relative compute powers so are the base and Pro.

In general, 1440p is not going to stress VRAM capacity much, not on 16GB systems on up - heck they’ve got a 10GB 3080 as part of their minimum requirements for selective ray tracing 1440p High 60fps.

It will be interesting to see what DLSS settings they used for this requirements/recommendations list. Everything listed has upscaling enabled by default. With the new transformer model it is possible these numbers are for the quarter resolution upscale. Maybe that is too pessimistic.