Summary
Assassin’s Creed Miragewill use Denuvo, according to a newly emerged leak. This bit of unofficial insight into Ubisoft’s upcoming game also provides a basic breakdown of its PC performance, thus delivering some real-world resource consumption metrics to go along with theAssassin’s Creed Miragesystem requirements that were revealedearlier this week.
Ubisoft has been a Denuvo client for many a year, with the vast majority of its contemporary titles implementing some iteration of the anti-tampering software. And whileDenuvo remains a controversial topic among PC gamersdue to its perceived performance impact, its developers have always been quick to point out that their solution is only as good as its implementation, positing that the software can have a negligible resource footprint if leveraged correctly.
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AlthoughUbisoft historically struggled with using third-party software in PC games,Assassin’s Creed Miragewill still add to the list of its titles featuring Denuvo. That’s according to Reddit user CamurAtes, who recently leaked about five minutes of footage from the upcoming game, in addition to offering a breakdown of its PC performance. According to their insights,Assassin’s Creed Miragewill use between 3GB and 6GB of GPU VRAM at a 1080p resolution, depending on the exact graphics settings. That range is consistent with Ubisoft’s official system requirements mandating between 4GB and 8GB of VRAM for playing the game on an FHD display.
The leaker also shared a screenshot of their in-game benchmark score achieved with the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti and Ryzen 7 5700X, revealing that their PC managed an average of 74 frames per second during the test. The results imply that the $200 AMD CPU was the bottleneck during the evaluation, which is consistent with the observation that the game never used more than half of the 12GB of VRAM that the RTX 4070 Ti has available. TheAssassin’s Creedfranchise has a long track record of CPU-intensive games, withMirageapparently being set to continue that trend. A balanced rig should hence be better at eking out performance fromMiragecompared to a high-end GPU in an otherwise modest PC.
And while it’s possible that the presence of Denuvo adds to the game’s CPU footprint, that’s not necessarily the case. After all,Watch Dogs Legionwas proven to run the same with or without the controversial DRM. Meanwhile,Assassin’s Creed Valhallawasn’t exactly lauded for its PC performance, but there was never any indication that Denuvo was the culprit responsible for that state of affairs.
Denuvo ostensibly won’t be the only polarizing addition to the upcomingValhallasequel. Another recent leak suggested thatAssassin’s Creed Miragewill also feature microtransactions, which will reportedly be limited to cosmetic bundles.
Assassin’s Creed Miragereleases October 5 for PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. An iPhone 15 Pro port is slated for early 2024.
