Ubisoft has revealed the Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced system requirements, and they’re brutal if you want to run the game at its Extreme preset. You’ll not only need an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 GPU to run the game at 4K with a 60fps frame rate using the Extreme preset, but you’ll also need to enable upscaling at the Quality setting. Thankfully, the game can run on much lower-spec hardware if you’re prepared to drop your graphics settings.
The revamped game is getting ray-traced lighting with global illumination (RTGI) and reflections, plus graphics assets built from the ground up to support Micropolygon and Physically Based Rendering (PBR) pipelines. Water simulation has also been reworked to better convey the sailing experience. As you may have guessed, all of this makes the game very hardware-heavy when pushed to the max, but thankfully the engine scalability allows it to run even on seven-year-old mid-range hardware.
For instance, the game supports software ray tracing options that allow advanced lighting simulation on non-RT-compatible GPUs, such as the ageing Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660. There are also dedicated graphics presets for handheld devices such as the Steam Deck. You can see all the system requirements in the table below.
Starting with the requirements that don’t change regardless of the preferred graphics preset, we have 16GB of memory in dual-channel mode, Windows 10 or 11, and 65GB of SSD storage. To play Resynced at 30fps with a 1920×1080 resolution, using the low visual preset, plus balanced upscaling and dynamic resolution, you will need at least a GTX 1660 6GB, an RX 5500 XT 8GB, or an Arc A580 8GB (with resizable BAR enabled), plus a Ryzen 5 3600 or Core i7-8700K.
Needless to say, the experience here won’t be stellar. The only silver lining, is that this should increase the game’s accessibility. On the plus side, Resynced supports all the latest upscaling technologies, including Nvidia DLSS 4.5, AMD FSR 4, and Intel XeSS 3.
To play at 1080p 60fps with medium graphics, again using balanced upscaling and dynamic resolution, you will need either an RTX 3060 12GB, an RX 6600 XT 8GB, or an Arc B580 12GB (with resizable BAR enabled), plus either a Ryzen 5 3600 or Core i5-10600K. Considering that this preset uses hardware-accelerated ray tracing, while offering a smoother experience, the requirements are completely reasonable.
Switching to 1440p at 60fps with high graphics, this time using quality upscaling and dynamic resolution, demands an RTX 3080 10GB or RX 6800 XT 16GB plus a Ryzen 5 5600X or Core i5-11600K. This will likely be the target for many players, as it should offer the best balance of image quality and performance without asking for new hardware.
If you like to crank those settings to the max, let’s say Ultra at 4K 60fps with quality upscaling, you will need an RTX 4090 24GB or an RX 7900 XTX 24GB plus a Ryzen 5700X3D or a Core i7-12700K. In return, you’ll get access to better ray-traced lighting. If you need more smoothness but refuse to dial down the graphics, you can always enable frame generation.
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced is a remastered version of the 2013 game. Developed by Ubisoft Singapore with involvement from the original game’s team, Resynced brings the beloved pirate ship fighting and Edward’s Caribbean adventure to modern platforms with the latest evolution of Ubisoft’s proprietary Anvil engine, as used in Assassin’s Creed Shadows.
Set to launch on July 9, 2026, 13 years after the original, Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced keeps all that made Black Flag great, but updates visuals and lighting while adding new missions and a reworked combat system. Ubisoft says the game will feature reworked action-adventure combat with new parrying mechanics, enhanced stealth gameplay such as crouching, dynamic weather with Anvil’s Atmos system, and destructible objects that react to weather or combat
Assassin’s Creed Black Flag Resynced will be available on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series, as well as on PC via Ubisoft Store, Epic Games Store, and Steam at €59.99/$59.99, not to forget streaming platforms such as GeForce Now and Blacknut. While a PC should offer the best high-refresh high-resolution experience, only some can afford an RTX 4090. That said, don’t let its shiny graphics blind you – the original game still plays great if you don’t have the latest hardware.
