Assassin's Creed Shadows: Fidelity mode at 60 FPS on your PC

Assassin's Creed Shadows gives PS5 players three modes: Fidelity at 30 FPS, Balanced at 40 FPS for 120 Hz displays and Performance at 60 FPS. The catch is lighting: only the two slower modes use ray tracing across the whole world. With PlayRoam you play Fidelity and see feudal Japan at 60 FPS on your PC.

How Assassin's Creed Shadows runs on PS5

All three modes output an upscaled 4K image.

• Fidelity targets 30 FPS with a higher rendering resolution and boosted rendering systems, plus ray-traced global illumination everywhere.
• Balanced uses the same settings as Fidelity but lets the upscaler target 40 FPS. It needs a 120 Hz display connected to the console.
• Performance targets 60 FPS by lowering the rendering resolution and settings. Ray-traced lighting is limited to the Hideout; the open world uses the non-ray-traced lighting.

What PlayRoam changes

• Ray-traced Japan at 60 FPS motion. Stream Fidelity mode at 30 fps and frame generation doubles it. Shadows' changing seasons and dense forests look best with ray-traced lighting, and now they move smoothly too.
• Skip Balanced. The 40 FPS mode depends on a 120 Hz signal from the console. A Remote Play stream runs at 30 or 60 fps and can't carry 40 frames evenly, so you'd see uneven motion.

Recommended PlayRoam settings

• Exploration and stealth: Fidelity mode, stream 1080p at 30 fps, frame generation 2×.
• Heavy combat: Performance mode, stream 1080p at 60 fps, with generation on for a 120 Hz monitor or off for the lowest latency.
• Connection: Local network, PS5 on Ethernet.

Naoe's stealth and Yasuke's heavy combat play very differently; switch modes to match how you're playing. Another open world that benefits from the same approach: Ghost of Yōtei.