System requirements

PC System Requirements

Below you’ll find options for 1080p low, 1080p high, 1440p high, and 4K ultra settings. Past versions of Assassin’s Creed PC ports have struggled even on monster hardware, so I’m looking forward to flexing that benchmark tool across several different CPU and GPU configurations. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla would undoubtedly benefit from Nvidia’s DLSS technology which uses machine learning to improve image quality and performance. However, Ubisoft is partnered with AMD on this title. And yes a GTX 1080 being required to hit 1080p / 60 FPS on High-quality settings?

Minimum Configuration - Low preset 1080p 30 FPS

• Processor (AMD / INTEL): Ryzen 3 1200 - 3.1 Ghz / i5-4460 - 3.2 Ghz
• RAM: 8 GB (Dual-channel mode)
• Video Card: AMD R9 380 - 4GB / GeForce GTX 960 4GB
• Storage: 50 GB HDD (SSD Recommended)
• Operating system: Windows 10 (64-bit only)
• DirectX Version: DirectX 12
• Additional note: Requires GPU with DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_0) support

Recommended Configuration - High preset 1080p 30 FPS

• Processor (AMD / INTEL): Ryzen 5 1600 - 3.2 Ghz / i7-4790 - 3.6 Ghz
• RAM: 8 GB (Dual-channel mode)
• Video Card: AMD RX 570 - 8GB / GeForce GTX 1060 - 6GB
• Storage: SSD (50 GB)
• Operating system: Windows 10 (64-bit only)
• DirectX Version: DirectX 12
• Additional note: Requires GPU with DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_0) support

Recommended Configuration - High preset 1080p 60 FPS

• Processor (AMD / INTEL): Ryzen 7 1700 - 3.0 Ghz / i7-6700 – 3.4 Ghz
• RAM: 8 GB (Dual-channel mode)
• Video Card: AMD Vega 64 - 8GB / GeForce GTX 1080- 8GB
• Storage: SSD (50 GB)
• Operating system: Windows 10 (64-bit only)
• DirectX Version: DirectX 12
• Additional note: Requires GPU with DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_0) support

2K Configuration - Very High preset 1440p 30 FPS

• Processor (AMD / INTEL): Ryzen 7 2700X - 3.7 Ghz / i7 - 7700 – 3.6 Ghz
• RAM: 16 GB (Dual-channel mode)
• Video Card: AMD Vega 56 - 8GB / GeForce GTX 1070 - 8GB
• Storage: SSD (50 GB)
• Operating system: Windows 10 (64-bit only)
• DirectX Version: DirectX 12
• Additional note: Requires GPU with DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_0) support

2K Configuration - Very High preset 1440p 60 FPS

• Processor (AMD / INTEL): Ryzen 5 3600X - 3.8 Ghz / i7 – 8700K – 3.7 Ghz
• RAM: 16 GB (Dual-channel mode)
• Video Card: AMD RX 5700XT – 8GB / GeForce RTX 2080 S – 8GB
• Storage: SSD (50 GB)
• Operating system: Windows 10 (64-bit only)
• DirectX Version: DirectX 12
• Additional note: Requires GPU with DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_0) support

4K Configuration – Ultra High preset 2160p (4K) 30 FPS

• Processor (AMD / INTEL): Ryzen 7 3700X - 3.6 Ghz / i7 - 9700K – 3.6 Ghz
• RAM: 16 GB (Dual-channel mode)
• Video Card: AMD RX 5700XT – 8GB / GeForce RTX 2080 - 8GB
• Storage: SSD (50 GB)
• Operating system: Windows 10 (64-bit only)
• DirectX Version: DirectX 12
• Additional note: Requires GPU with DirectX 12 (Feature Level 12_0) support

Plot (wiki)

Assassin's Creed Valhalla is an action role-playing video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft. It is the twelfth major installment and the twenty-second release in the Assassin's Creed series, and a successor to the 2018 game Assassin's Creed Odyssey. Set in 873 AD, the game recounts a fictional story of the Viking invasion of Britain. The player controls Eivor, a Viking raider who becomes embroiled in the conflict between the Brotherhood of Assassins and the Templar Order.

As a young child, Eivor was forced to witness the death of their parents at the hands of the rogue Viking warlord Kjotve the Cruel. Eighteen years later, an adult Eivor continues their pursuit of Kjotve to take revenge on him. While their latest attempt fails, they are at least able to recover their father's axe. Upon touching the axe, Eivor experiences a vivid vision of Odin. Curious about the vision, Eivor consults the local mystic Valka. Valka induces another vision in Eivor that shows Sigurd missing an arm before a giant wolf attacks both him and Eivor. Valka interprets the vision as a prophecy that Eivor will eventually betray Sigurd, which Eivor remains skeptical of. King Styrbjorn of the Raven Clan, Eivor's adoptive father, chastises Eivor for continuing their hunt for Kjotve, which risks open war their clan has no chance of winning alone. Sigurd, Styrbjorn's son and Eivor's adoptive brother, then returns from a two year raiding expedition, bringing riches and a pair of mysterious foreigners, Basim and Hytham of the Hidden Ones.

Sigurd presents Eivor a gift he received from Basim and Hytham, a Hidden Blade. He then begins a campaign to take down Kjotve once and for all. After retaking a village from Kjotve's forces, Eivor and Sigurd are met by King Harald, who offers his support in eliminating Kjotve. With Harald's reinforcements, Sigurd leads an assault on Kjotve's stronghold. Basim and Hytham reveal to Eivor that they followed Sigurd to Norway in order kill Kjotve themselves, but agree to let Eivor do the deed. Eivor kills Kjotve in a duel and his fortress is seized. In light of their victory, Eivor, Sigurd, and Stybjorn travel to Harald's kingdom for a clan gathering, where Harald announces his intention to unite all of the clans of Norway into a single kingdom united under his rule. Styrbjorn pledges fealty to Harald, which makes Sigurd furious. He and Eivor take their loyalists in the Raven Clan to leave on an exodus to England, where they can found their own kingdom free from Harald's rule.

Eivor, Sigurd, and the Raven Clan settle in an abandoned Viking camp in Mercia and dub it Ravensthorpe. In order to secure their position, they decide to make alliances with the local Viking clans and Saxon kingdoms. Basim and Hytham also reveal that the Order of Ancients is present in England, and enlist Eivor's help in eliminating the Order's agents. Eivor also experiences visions reliving Odin's attempts to avert Ragnarok, with Odin and the Aesir drinking a magical mead that will ensure their souls will be reincarnated as humans after Ragnarok. Eventually, Sigurd, after recovering an Isu relic called the Saga Stone, begins to believe himself descended from the gods. However, Sigurd is captured by Fulke, an Order agent who is convinced Sigurd is an Isu descendant. Eivor and Basim track Fulke to her stronghold and kill her, but not before she tortures and maims Sigurd, leaving him traumatized and missing his right arm.

Sigurd, still convinced that he is a god, decides to return to Norway with Eivor in tow. There, Sigurd uncovers a hidden Isu temple with an advanced computer system. Both Eivor and Sigurd connect themselves to the computer and are transported to Valhalla, where they can enjoy endless battle in paradise. However, Eivor quickly comes to realize that the Valhalla they are in is merely a virtual simulation and breaks out of it along with Sigurd. They are then confronted by Basim, who reveals that Eivor, Sigurd, and himself are reincarnations of the Isu Odin, Tyr, and Loki respectively. Wanting to take vengeance for Odin's mistreatment of his son Fenrir, Basim attacks Eivor. Working together, Eivor and Sigurd manage to trap Basim in the temple's computer. Realizing the folly of his actions, Sigurd abdicates leadership of the Raven Clan to Eivor. Depending on Eivor's choices throughout the game, Sigurd either decides to stay behind in Norway or follows Eivor back to England, where they are given a hero's welcome by the Raven Clan.

In the present day, Layla Hassan, Shaun Hastings, and Rebecca Crane have exhumed Eivor's corpse in North America in order to find answers about the mysterious strengthening of Earth's magnetic field,[g] which is beginning to disrupt global satellite communications. Viewing Eivor's memories, they are able to deduce that the magnetic field is emanating from the Isu temple where Eivor defeated Basim. Layla travels to the temple, but is forced to bring the Staff of Hermes to protect herself from the lethal amounts of radiation the temple is now generating. Once inside, she connects to the temple's computer, where she encounters Basim, who had been trapped for over a thousand years. He shows her how to manage the magnetic field to ensure it doesn't pose any more threat, but steals the Staff of Hermes and escapes the Temple, just as he and Aletheia planned. Now trapped in the temple, Layla encounters two beings called the Reader and the Listener (implied to be Desmond Miles and Ezio Auditore da Firenze), and agrees to work with them to find a way to prevent humanity's inevitable extinction. Meanwhile, Basim visits Shaun and Rebecca and requests a meeting with William Miles. As Shaun and Rebecca leave to retrieve William, Basim enters the Animus in order to learn all of Eivor's secrets and find out where his children have gone.