Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows launches today and will be playable right away on NVIDIA’s GeForce NOW. If their PC isn’t good enough to comply with the fairly demanding system requirements, users can purchase the game on Steam or Ubisoft Connect and stream it via the cloud.
If you own an Ultimate subscription, you can also enable ray traced global illumination and reflections, not to mention DLSS Super Resolution and Frame Generation. The Ultimate tier runs on RTX 4080-class hardware, so you can expect similar performance to what Francesco De Meo reported in his review of Assassin’s Creed Shadows:
At 4K resolution, NVIDIA DLSS Quality and Frame Generation, and the settings in the screenshots below, the game ran extremely well on my system (i7-13700F, RTX 4080, 32 GB RAM) with no visible stuttering, often hitting the 120 FPS mark, except for cutscenes, which are sadly locked at 30 FPS to retain a cinematic feel. The in-game benchmark also returned excellent results with unlocked framerate, hitting an average of 117 FPS, 99 1% low, and 93 0.1% low.
Check out my article for more details about the PC version of Assassin’s Creed Shadows and how it runs on high-end hardware (AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D/GeForce RTX 5090).
The other highlight of this week’s GeForce NOW lineup is Bugbear’s combat racing game Wreckfest 2, which is also out today (in early access via Steam). Here’s the full list of weekly GFN additions provided by NVIDIA:
- Assassin’s Creed Shadows (New release on Steam and Ubisoft Connect, March 20)
- Wreckfest 2 (New release on Steam, March 20)
- Aliens: Dark Descent (Xbox, available on PC Game Pass)
- Crime Boss: Rockay City (Epic Games Store)
- Eternal Strands (Xbox, available on PC Game Pass)
- Fable Anniversary (Steam)
- Motor Town: Behind the Wheel (Steam)
- Nine Sols (Xbox, available on PC Game Pass)
- Quake Live (Steam)
- Skydrift Infinity (Epic Games Store)
- To the Rescue! (Epic Games Store)
