Sure, we’re all itching to set off with Eivor and start raiding the English countryside and playing an unhealthy amount of Orlog, but what are the Assassin’s Creed Valhalla system requirements for PC? Ubisoft has published its recommendations, and there are quite a few configurations for PC owners to consider.
As is standard, you have minimum and recommended configurations for the upcoming Viking game. Those will get you 30 fps at low and high presets, respectively. That’s certainly not the ideal way to play Valhalla, but the tradeoff is that you won’t need cutting-edge silicon in your PC to make it work.
Ubisoft also has a recommended setup for 1080p at 60 fps using the high preset, which bumps the requirements up a bit. Things really start heating up as we move into the 2K and 4K recommendations, though – the recommended setup to achieve 30 fps at 4K on the game’s ultra high preset requires both a high-end GPU and a beefy processor. Across the board, Ubisoft requires 50GB of storage space, and recommends using an SSD for all but the minimum configuration.
Refreshingly, that’s only about half the size of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey’s install footprint with all the DLC included. But we’ll have to see whether Valhalla expands with additional content or a potential high-resolution texture pack (which, to be clear, isn’t mentioned anywhere in the published requirements).
| Performance | Preset | CPU | GPU | RAM | |
| Minimum | 1080p / 30fps | Low | Ryzen 3 1200 – 3.1 Ghz / i5-4460 – 3.2 Ghz |
R9 380 – 4GB / GTX 960 4GB |
8GB |
| Recommended | 1080p / 30fps | High | Ryzen 5 1600 – 3.2 Ghz / i7-4790 – 3.6 Ghz |
RX 570 – 8GB / GTX 1060 – 6GB | 8GB |
| Recommended | 1080p / 60fps | High | Ryzen 7 1700 – 3.0 Ghz / i7-6700 – 3.4 Ghz |
Vega 64 – 8GB / GTX 1080- 8GB | 8GB |
| High | 1440p / 30fps | Very High | Ryzen 7 2700X – 3.7 Ghz / i7-7700 – 3.6 Ghz |
Vega 56 – 8GB / GTX 1070 – 8GB | 16GB |
| Enthusiast | 1440p / 60fps | Very High | Ryzen 5 3600X – 3.8 Ghz / i7-8700K – 3.7 Ghz |
RX 5700XT – 8GB / RTX 2080 S – 8GB | 16GB |
| Ultra | 2160p (4K) / 30fps | Ultra | Ryzen 7 3700X – 3.6 Ghz / i9-9700K – 3.6 Ghz |
RX 5700XT – 8GB / RTX 2080 – 8GB | 16GB |
Note that you’ll need a 64-bit version of Windows 10 and a GPU that supports DirectX 12 to run Valhalla – it’s the first Assassin’s Creed game to use the new rendering API. You’ll also need RAM running in dual-channel mode.
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The Assassin’s Creed Valhalla release date is coming up soon, so now’s the time to start shopping if you find your PC coming up short.
