Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood PC gets 3D Vision and Eyefinity Support
Every Assassin’s Creed game released so far has been delayed on the PC for a few agonizing months and the extra time hardly provided any benefits. While you may assume that Brotherhood will share the same fate, Ubisoft has stated that the PC version will have some considerable advantages over its console brethren (pun not intended).
In an interview with PCGamesHardware, David Columbe of Ubisoft spilled some beans about the PC version.
As expected from a console to PC transition, the PC version will feature scalable settings, AA and AFÂ support, ATI Eyefinity and Nvidia 3D Vision optimization.
“We have the luxury of fully focusing our efforts on the PC version after shipping the console version, giving us additional time to develop features and fix bugs. Most of the effort for taking advantage of powerful CPUs was done for AC2 so we focused more on the graphics side of things.”
“Graphically we’ve added some image processing effects such as SSAO and better level of detail transitions. A brand new shadow algorithm was also developed to increase the overall visual quality.”
The game will benefit from multi core processors, supporting all the way up to eight cores.
“On AC2 we did a great job of refactoring the rendering engine to use multiple processors. We automatically detect the number of processors and hardware threads and split the workload appropriately. The rest of the engine (AI, sound, etc.) has been multithreaded since AC1.”
But since it’s a console port, the game is optimized with DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 and 11 capable hardware will add no extra benefits.
” All iterations of AC were developed with DX9. On AC1 we experimented with DX10 but the benefits were not quite there. Vista had just been released and drivers were not mature yet so it wasn’t as great as we would’ve liked.
On AC2 and ACB we decided to concentrate our efforts on DX9. Nevertheless we are quite happy with the visual results. We manage to visually impress the players and give them a great gaming experience. In the end, that’s what matters most!”
No word on whether the game will support Dedicated Servers or resort to its own matchmaking service. AC: Brotherhood is expected to release on the PC on Feb 22.
