Best Settings for RTX 3060 and 3060 Ti in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Is your mid-range RTX 3060 / 3060 Ti struggling to keep up in Assassin’s Creed Shadows? Don’t worry, we gotcha.

The RTX 3060 was the technical successor to the GTX 1080 Ti. Meaning both cards were almost equal in performance and shared identical VRAM. The 1080ti has a much faster memory bandwidth, but Ampere supports mesh shading, wider DX12 features, and hardware-accelerated Ray Tracing.

The 3060 Ti, on the other hand, is a much faster card than the two. But it lacks VRAM—it’s like putting a V8 engine in a Mario Kart. Nevertheless, Nvidia got away with using 8GB in 2020, which seems to be a pattern even today. But that’s a different discussion. With current game optimization trends, the 3060 is an entry-level 1080p gaming card. The 3060 TI is a faster experience but visually unpleasing due to the lack of VRAM.

Anyway, the 3060 and the 3060 Ti should be enough to get away with 1080p gaming and provide a decent experience. After all, people can spend so much on the high end, provided they find any GPU available. Alright, let’s get into it, shall we?

Note: FSR 3.1 Decoupled with DLSS is used, thanks to AMD. Budget gamers rejoice—even the 1060 and 1050ti got a second wind with FSR. Why the Balanced preset? Well, Nvidia improved DLSS to the extent that it delivers near-identical visual fidelity. Credit where it is due. Kudos, Nvidia.

Optimal Graphics Settings for Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Display Settings for Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Setting	Value
Field of View	100 (Personal Preference)
Display Mode	Borderless Window
Aspect Ratio	16:9
Resolution	1920 x 1080

Upscaling & Framerate

Setting	Value
Frame Rate Limiter	Off
Frame Rate Target	320
Use Dynamic Resolution	Off
Upscaler Type	DLSS
Upscaler Quality	Balanced
Frame Generation	FSR
Sharpen Strength	0.65

Post-Processing Effects

Setting	Value
Motion Blur	Off / *personal preference
Chromatic Aberration	On

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Scalability Settings

Setting	Value
Raytraced Global Illumination (RTGI)	Diffuse Hideout Only
Overall Preset	Very High (Will change to Custom upon using our settings)

Ray Tracing

Setting	Value
Raytracing Quality	High
BVH Quality	High

Lighting

Setting	Value
Screen Space Effects	High
Light Source Quality	High
Shadow Quality	High

Textures & Effects

Setting	Value
Texture Streaming Pool	High* For the RTX 3060 / Medium for the 3060 Ti Due to 8 GB VRAM
Post Effects	Medium* Turn this down on the 3060; the TI should be Fine with High settings
Water Quality	Medium* On the 3060; High on the 3060 Ti
Particle Quality	High

Geometry & Terrain

Setting	Value
Loading Distance	High
Drawing Distance	High * Medium is suggested for the 3060, but if pop-ins distract you, keep it high.
Micropolygon	Medium
Terrain Quality	High
Deformation	High
Scatter Density	High
Virtual Texture	High

Characters & Volumetric Effects

Setting	Value
Character Quality	High
Hair Strands	All Characters Medium
Cloud Quality	Medium
Fog Quality	Low* for the 3060, Medium for the 3060 Ti

Why These Tweaks?

We chose the Very High preset and optimized it for the RTX 3060 and the RTX 3060 Ti. Our approach allows for a much higher base framerate, so when the FG kicks in, you will see the difference in fluidity. On the standard Very High preset, you can expect a lot of input lag, shimmering, artifacts, etc.

For the 3060 TI, if you have a larger 1080p screen, say 27”, our sharpness settings and DLSS balanced profile might not suit your liking. We ensured both the 3060 and the TI users get to experiment with the new Transformer model (DLSS 4.0 preset K) with the Nvidia app and not get that much of a framerate discrepancy over the CNN model (DLSS 3.7+). You may even opt for the performance upscaling profile from the transformer model over the balanced profile in the CNN to get a clearer and more stable image, along with a higher FPS.

Volumetric fog and Volumetric cloud are intentionally kept low due to the game’s dynamic weather approach; for example, your framerate will change depending on the game’s climate and weather. To tackle that, we kept a lower setting, so whenever an intensive weather effect kicks in, your framerate tanks, but you won’t be able to feel it. On higher settings, there are chances that your GPU will either lack the computing power or simply run out of VRAM (in the case of the 3060 Ti.) Thank you for reading this article, and we hope you had a wonderful experience.

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