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Assassin's Creed Unity will not reach 1080p/60fps on consoles

AC Unity will run at 900p and 30fps on consoles, according to the game's senior producer, due to CPU restrictions.

Ozzie Mejia

October 6, 2014 12:00 PM

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Assassin's Creed Unity appears to be taking the franchise in new places with both single-player and co-op. However, while it appears to be moving forward in a gameplay sense, it looks to be at a standstill from a technological sense.

Videogamer is reporting that Unity will run at 900p and 30fps on both the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game. Unity's senior producer, Vincent Pontbriand, states that the publisher is aiming to design both console versions equally. Ubisoft had previously stated that Unity was aiming for 1080p and 60fps for both console versions. This appears to no longer be the case, with Pontbriand noting that the issue appears to be CPU-related.

"Technically we're CPU-bound," he said. "The GPUs are really powerful, obviously the graphics look pretty good, but it's the CPU [that] has to process the AI, the number of NPCs we have on screen, all these systems running in parallel We were quickly bottlenecked by that and it was a bit frustrating, because we thought that this was going to be a tenfold improvement over everything AI-wise, and we realized it was going to be pretty hard. It's not the number of polygons that affect the framerate. We could be running at 100fps if it was just graphics, but because of AI, we're still limited to 30 frames per second."

Assassin's Creed Unity is still in line to release on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 on November 11. Thanks to posters gmd and ant_hillbilly for the tips.

Ozzie Mejia

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Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?