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This article will cover whether you can play Assassin’s Creed Shadows with 8GB of RAM in 2025 and discuss the changes you need to make.
In today’s world, considering hardware upgrade costs, gamers often buy refurbished systems. Like many of us, we wait for Steam or Epic Games sales to grab our favorite titles—even if it’s a year later. Let’s say we are going with the official specs as per Ubisoft, which state that at least 16GB of RAM and Windows 10 are required to run the game. Let’s assume everything in the system is stock configuration, and you do not have any OS-level tweaks involved.
Can you still run the game while Chrome, Discord, Steam, and Windows run in the background with just 8GB of RAM? Yes, you can run the game. But technically, you would not be able to play it smoothly. While it’s technically possible to attempt running Assassin’s Creed Shadows with 8 GB of RAM, performance will likely be subpar. Though results will vary from system to system, we’ll explore why and offer some potential tweaks to help.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows System Requirements Overview
As per Ubisoft, the bare minimum required to play the game is as follows:
- CPU: Intel (8th Generation) Core i7 8700K or AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (Zen 3)
- GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 or AMD Radeon RX 580 with 8GB VRAM
- RAM: At least 16 GB
Let’s assume you have everything else, which is the bare minimum and a 1080p display, except for the memory, and you managed to run the game by forcefully closing all the background processes. Here are the possible issues that you will run into.
- Memory Bottleneck— With only 8GB of system RAM, you can face a lot of micro stuttering as the game scenery changes and weather changes, even on low settings. Most textures will continuously swap between your system’s page files, making the game unplayable.
- Multitasking Limitations—You won’t be able to run background applications such as Discord to share your screen with your friend or even use Chrome to locate guides to help you with the grinding RPG aspects of the game. On the lowest settings (1080p), the game uses around 7GB of system RAM, leaving almost nothing for multitasking
Running Assassin’s Creed Shadows With 8 GB Ram
Let’s provide a solution to all the issues you’ll be running into.
OS-Level Tweaks: You need to debloat your Windows, there is no getting around it. Debloating removes unwanted programs that run in the background and continuously drains your system RAM. Many guides from reputable sources will help you with this process. Just so you know, installing Windows Fresh and then de-bloating is recommended to make sure everything is in place correctly.
Use our optimal settings – We already have an article covering Optimal Settings for Assassin’s Creed Shadows to fix the stuttering issue, but this case is unique, so here we go again.
Note: Please ensure you are on the latest GPU drivers, considering you pulled off OS-level tweaks and have the bare minimum of programs running in your OS background. You can start implementing the changes below.
Spoiler alert: If you do the de-bloating process correctly, you will be surprised to learn how much potential your system still has.
Display Settings
| Setting | Value |
| Field of View | 100 |
| Display Mode | Borderless Window |
| Aspect Ratio | 16:9 |
| Resolution | 1600 x 900 |
Upscaling & Frame Rate
| Setting | Value |
| Frame Rate Limiter | Off |
| Frame Rate Target | 320 / uncapped |
| Use Dynamic Resolution | On—for gamers with a 1080p screen // Set the Minimum Render Scale to 83% and the Maximum to 100% to render the game at 900p // Off for native 900p users. |
| Upscaler Type | FSR |
| Upscaler Quality | Balanced |
| Frame Generation | FSR |
| Sharpen Strength | 0.75 |
Post-Processing Effects
| Setting | Value |
| Motion Blur | Off / *personal preference |
| Chromatic Aberration | Off / *personal preference |
Scalability Settings
| Setting | Value |
| Raytraced Global Illumination (RTGI) | Diffuse Hideout Only |
| Overall Preset | Low |
Ray Tracing
| Setting | Value |
| Raytracing Quality | Low |
| BVH Quality | Low |
Lighting
| Setting | Value |
| Screen Space Effects | Low |
| Light Source Quality | Low |
| Shadow Quality | Low |
Textures & Effects
| Setting | Value |
| Texture Streaming Pool | Low |
| Post Effects | Low |
| Water Quality | Low |
| Particle Quality | Low |
Geometry & Terrain
| Setting | Value |
| Loading Distance | Low |
| Drawing Distance | Low |
| Micropolygon | Low |
| Terrain Quality | Low |
| Deformation | Low |
| Scatter Density | Low |
| Virtual Texture | Low |
Characters & Volumetric Effects
| Setting | Value |
| Character Quality | Low |
| Hair Strands | Off |
| Cloud Quality | Low |
| Fog Quality | Low |
With these settings, the game will run, and you can play with occasional hiccups when fast-traveling, climbing outposts, or taking leaps of faith, i.e., when the map is revealed. It should be a moderate experience. Even if you get another 8GB module, and with the tweaks already present, you should experiment with medium settings and see how it fares, of course staying within the target resolution as we suggested. Thank you so much for reading our guide; we hope all of you AC fans have their prayers answered.
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