Assassin's Creed Valhalla

Name · 11 Nov 2020 at 00:45

This is rubbish, refunded.

Radox-0 · 11 Nov 2020 at 00:58

Fod HDR saw someone post about cranking contrast up in NVCP to max, then within the game paperwhite at 800 and Exposure to around 1.5. Using it on OLED and does look better for me with those tweaks. HDR not quiet up there as Odyssey, but think that may the color pallette of that game is much brighter in general. Still with those tweaks, for me at least now find HDR okay, much better the SDR either way. Hopefully we guide from HDTV test or something.

Tombstone · 11 Nov 2020 at 01:02

Name said:
This is rubbish, refunded.

I didnt even know you could refund it, thats good news for people who dont like it

Tombstone · 11 Nov 2020 at 01:02

The humble start of my English village

Kelt · 11 Nov 2020 at 02:10

Tombstone said:
The humble start of my English village

Think your horse has problems.

Tombstone · 11 Nov 2020 at 02:16

Kelt said:
Think your horse has problems.

I have noticed that it seems to be fond of bones and chasing carts

Bravetart · 11 Nov 2020 at 07:24

The water is certainly better than the Thames in Watch Dogs Legion, which looked absolutely awful. Not sure if it was due to the settings I was using...

I played a couple of hours last night and enjoyed it so far. HDR seemed to work fine for me...and works well at 32:9!

Radox-0 · 11 Nov 2020 at 08:49

Water in legion is linked to screen space reflections. Turn that setting down too much and water will look horrible. With Ray Tracing on the water in legion looks better then Valhalla imo, but without Valhalla does a better job without.

Kronos · 11 Nov 2020 at 08:54

Dano said:
Just log into the rewards website and claim it.

Errm, I did that weeks ago when I first received the CPU but obviously the game had not been released then.

Bravetart · 11 Nov 2020 at 08:54

Radox-0 said:
Water in legion is linked to screen space reflections. Turn that setting down too much and water will look horrible. With Ray Tracing on the water in legion looks better then Valhalla imo, but without Valhalla does a better job without.

Hmm, I was lazy and used Geforce Experience to choose the settings for me. Might need to tinker a bit.

Dano · 11 Nov 2020 at 09:34

Kronos said:
Errm, I did that weeks ago when I first received the CPU but obviously the game had not been released then.

Okay, you just sit back and wait for the email to arrive instead of even spending a minute to try it... :rolleyes:

Radox-0 · 11 Nov 2020 at 10:15

Hardware Unboxed has there setting's review guide up. largely self explanatory looking at settings but could be easy way to tweak few things.

Glanza · 11 Nov 2020 at 11:29

Will give the settings a try, the RDR2 ones they did improved performance back at launch.

Ben Boros · 11 Nov 2020 at 11:37

Radox-0 said:
I will check my SLI rig later, but I doubt it. Did not have SLI in recent AC games, and given way SLI is going doubt they would have it here.

Would be much appreciated if I can get some feedback from someone with a similar set up. I didn’t have an SLI set up when playing the previous games so I didn’t actually know about the previous incompatibility with SLI!

Kronos · 11 Nov 2020 at 11:41

Dano said:
Okay, you just sit back and wait for the email to arrive instead of even spending a minute to try it...

What? I am sorry I did not make myself clear. I spent far longer than a minute trying to resolve this but it seems the problem is widespread and AMD as yet are not responding to emails. Hope that clarifys things for you.

Dano · 11 Nov 2020 at 11:46

Kronos said:
What? I am sorry I did not make myself clear. I spent far longer than a minute trying to resolve this but it seems the problem is widespread and AMD as yet are not responding to emails. Hope that clarifys things for you.

Well you did state it was weeks ago you logged in, had you stated that you had logged in during the last couple of days it would certainly have been a lot clearer.

Dirk Diggler · 11 Nov 2020 at 12:25

Kronos said:
Errm, I did that weeks ago when I first received the CPU but obviously the game had not been released then.

Log in now and it'll redirect you to claim the game via embedded Ubisoft log in.

Matt_West_Mids · 11 Nov 2020 at 12:30

Bravetart said:

The water is certainly better than the Thames in Watch Dogs Legion, which looked absolutely awful. Not sure if it was due to the settings I was using...

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Bravetart said:
I played a couple of hours last night and enjoyed it so far. HDR seemed to work fine for me...and works well at 32:9!

Maybe its a settings thing in that case both look great to me!

eekfek · 11 Nov 2020 at 13:09

The HxD fix for ultrawide cut scenes works, tested on 21:9 with no probs.

Link <---- to post with full info

This leads to Hor+ scaling Cutscenes without Black Borders.

--> Open HxD
--> Press Control O
--> Choose the Game's Exe (''ACValhalla.exe'' in \Uplay Folder\Assassin's Creed Valhalla)
--> Press Control R
--> Go to Hex Values (on top)
--> Search for 39 8E E3 3F and change it with 8E E3 18 40 (or other resolutions)
--> Activate Search direction all
--> Press Change everything (bottom middle)
--> (Should change 22 values) Go to the top left and save it where the normal exe is, changing it with the old one. If you have problems, just repair the game via Uplay.
--> Now do the same with the second Exe (''ACValhalla_Plus'')

21:9 Resolutions:
2560x1080 = 26 B4 17 40
3440x1440 = 8E E3 18 40
3840x1600 = 9A 99 19 40
5120x2160 = 26 B4 17 40
6880x2880 = 8E E3 18 40

Some Cutscenes are Pre-Rendered and won't be affected by this Fix, however there are only a few Pre-Rendered Cutscenes! Pop-Ins are luckily also quite rare on 21:9.

I have no way to test this Game in 32:9, if someone can test these hex values it would be great!

32:9 Resolutions:
3840x1080 = 39 8E 63 40
3840x1440 = AB AA 2A 40
5120x1440 = 39 8E 63 40

Games brill, 10+hrs in got a few nice skills and the combat feels much better

robfosters · 11 Nov 2020 at 13:46

So are people not liking the actual game or is it just that it’s horribly optimised and buggy?