Assassin's Creed III Remastered

This page is for the remaster. For the original release, see Assassin's Creed III.

Assassin's Creed III Remastered

Developers
Original	Ubisoft Montreal
Remastered	Ubisoft Barcelona
Publishers
	Ubisoft
Engines
	AnvilNext
Release dates
Windows	March 29, 2019
Reception
Metacritic	75
OpenCritic	69
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Microtransactions	None
Modes	Singleplayer
Pacing	Real-time
Perspectives	Third-person
Controls	Direct control
Genres	Action, Open world, Stealth
Vehicles	Naval/watercraft
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Historical, North America
Series	Assassin's Creed

Key points

Remastered version of Assassin's Creed III featuring new character models, a new Physically Based Render (PBR) light system, higher resolution textures, all DLC, and HDR support.

Includes Assassin's Creed III: Liberation Remastered, a remastered version of Assassin's Creed: Liberation.

Free for all owners of the season pass for Assassin's Creed Odyssey.

Game does not launch on a hard drive designated as a Storage Space by Windows. See Issues fixed.

Lacking several localizations from the original game.

General information

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Epic Games Store
GamersGate
Green Man Gaming
Steam
Ubisoft Store		Included with Ubisoft+.
Humble Store (unavailable)

All versions require Ubisoft Connect DRM.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete or rename video files
Go to <path-to-game>\videos\. Delete or rename ubi_logo.bik. Go to <path-to-game>\videos\en\ or whichever language you use. Delete or rename epilepsy_warning.bik, ps3_autosave_hdd.bik, ps3_healthwarning.bik, warning_disclaimer.bik, and xbox_autosave.bik.

Game data

General settings

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Assassin's Creed III Remaster\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/911400/pfx/

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	<Ubisoft-Connect-folder>\savegames\<user-id>\5183\ <Ubisoft-Connect-folder>\savegames\<user-id>\5184\
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/911400/pfx/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video

Video settings

HDR settings

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor		See WSGF topic for fixed EXE.
Ultra-widescreen		Stuck at 16:9, fixes may only work on uPlay copy. Multimonitor fix above fixes ultrawide issues as well.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Controlled by Texture Quality setting.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		TAA toggle.
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS
120+ FPS		Capped at 63 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Better shadow quality

Editing config file
Go to %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Assassin's Creed III Remaster\. Open Assassin3Remaster.ini. Set ShadowQuality to the desired value and save the file. 0 = Normal, 1 = High, 2 = Very High.

Supersampling

Editing config file
Set ResolutionModifier to a percentage of resolution, e.g. 200 to double horizontal and vertical resolution.

Input

Input settings

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration		Combined positive and negative mouse acceleration - can't be disabled.
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion		X-axis can also be inverted.
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity		In aiming mode there is radial deadzone (30%), while in looking around mode there is a huge (50%) cross deadzone. Camera has minimum speed, making higher sensitivities hard to use.
Controller Y-axis inversion		X-axis can also be inverted.

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers		Disable controller settings in Steam's controller configuration menus to see DualShock 4 prompts.
DualShock button prompts
Light bar support
Connection modes	unknown

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Simultaneous controller+KB/M		Controller has higher priority.

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  Keyboard bindings

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  Ship keyboard bindings

Audio

Language selection

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Effects, Voice, Music
Surround sound		7.1
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Turkish				Fan translation.

Issues unresolved

Motion blur setting won't save

Motion blur setting is reset the On every time the game is launched.

Audio will loop when a viewpoint is cleared

Workarounds are: quit game to menu and load back in; climb down from the viewpoint instead of jumping for a Leap of Faith; or during a Leap of Faith the from the viewpoint, open the map screen midfall. There is no proper fix to this bug.^{[citation needed]}

Issues fixed

No sound on intro cutscene

Music Volume needs to be on

Game fails to launch: opens a white window before closing itself

Move the game to the system's C Drive

First launch asks for missing CD Key

If you received the game on Steam alongside the Odyssey Season Pass, the game may ask for a CD Key upon first launch which is not provided to you.

Launch Odyssey first so that the game (and the season pass containing the Remaster) binds to your Uplay account

Game crashes at startup

Disconnect input devices
The game can crash with some unusual input devices such as Airmouse. Either disconnect such devices or use devreorder utility to hide them from the game.

Cloud saves failed to sync every time

You will lose your progress.

Toggle offline
If Uplay always complains about not being able to sync your cloud saves and deleting them does not help, switch Uplay to offline then back to online. Next time you launch the game Uplay will ask which save to use - choose local.

In-game stuttering, freezing issues

The game will not use CPU cores and threads properly on certain modern systems.

Each time you launch the game, change the core affinity for ACIII.exe. First select 1 core and confirm and directly after it select all cores and confirm again.

When using VSync, excessive single core use is evident (typically 99%) with any Quad Core CPU and above. Removing the first core of your CPU availability manually using the Task Manager affinity or alternatively using utility Process Lasso to automatically remove CPU 0 access from the AC3 executable resolves this.

This affinity fix also fixes the same issue with AC2, ACB and ACR when using VSync.

Making affinity changes permanent (setting affinity in task manager only lasts until you exit the game):

1. Edit your preferred shortcut for launching the game (desktop and/or start menu)
2. In the target field, set the following (just put the default contents in double quotes and prepend cmd.exe /C ...):

• For a 4/4 (core/thread) CPU cmd.exe /C start "" /affinity e "<path-to-game>\ACIII.exe"
• For a 4/8 and 8/8 (core/thread) CPU cmd.exe /C start "" /affinity fe "<path-to-game>\ACIII.exe"
• For a 6/6 (core/thread) CPU cmd.exe /C start "" /affinity 3e "<path-to-game>\ACIII.exe"
• For a 6/12 (core/thread) CPU cmd.exe /C start "" /affinity 7fe "<path-to-game>\ACIII.exe"
• For a 8/16 (core/thread) CPU and higher cmd.exe /C start "" /affinity fffe "<path-to-game>\ACIII.exe"

Verify correct affinity by launching the game and checking affinity in task manager (see beginning).

To be used in Steam launch options, to launch the game directly from Steam, it must be a little different:

• Ex. for a 8/16 (core/thread) CPU and higher C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start "" /affinity FFFE "<path-to-game>\ACIII.exe" %command%

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11
Shader Model support	5.0

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7 SP1, 8.1, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5-2400 3.1 GHz AMD FX-6350 3.9 GHz	Intel Core i5 3470 3.2 GHz AMD FX-8350 4.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	45 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 AMD Radeon R9 270X 2 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible Shader model 5.0 support	Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 AMD Radeon R9 280X 3 GB (AMD), 4 GB (Nvidia) of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Full minimum and recommended specs based on target resolution and frame rate can be found here.