Assassin’s Creed Shadows is entirely playable on the Steam Deck, and by extension the ASUS ROG Ally. The ROG Ally is a significantly more powerful handheld gaming PC, when compared to the Steam Deck – thanks to the much more capable Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor housed within.
Regardless, getting Shadows up and running on the ROG Ally does require an extensive bit of tweaking though, and optimized settings for the same can be found detailed below.
Optimized Assassin’s Creed Shadows settings for the ROG Ally
In-game settings
Geometry
- Loading Distance: Medium
- Drawing Distance: Medium
- Micropolygon: Medium
- Field of View: 100%
Screen
- Display Mode: Fullscreen
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- VSync: Off
- Resolution: 1920×1080
Upscaler
- Frame rate Limiter: Off
- Frame Rate Target: 60
- Use Dynamic Resolution: On
- Upscaler Type: AMD FSR
- Upscaler Quality: Performance
- Frame Generation: FSR
Ray Tracing
- Raytraced Global Illumination: Diffuse Hideout Only
- Overall Preset: Low
- Raytracing Quality: Low
- BVH Quality: Low
Lighting
- Screen Space Effects: Medium
- Light Source Quality: Medium
- Shadow Quality: Low
Effects
- Post Effects: Low
- Water Quality: Low
- Particle Quality: Low
ROG Ally specific settings
- Operating Mode: Turbo (25 W)
- Control Mode: Gamepad
- AMD RSR: Off
- CPU Boost: Disabled
- Resolution: Keep this unchanged from 1080p
- AMD RIS: On
- FPS Limiter: Disable to take advantage of VRR
- AFMF: Disabled; best to leave disabled since it causes additional latency
- Recommended VRAM: 6 to 8 GB – 8 GB is recommended for the ROG Ally X while those with the original Ally should stick to 6 GB. Auto is recommended for those using Bazzite or similar SteamOS-like distributions.
Assassin’s Creed Shadows averages around 30 frames per second on the ROG Ally with these settings and a TDP of 25 W. Note that while frame generation does noticeably boost the frame rate, it does so at the cost of increased latency.
Expect around 45 minutes to an hour of gameplay on the original 2023 ROG Ally. Those with the newer, upgraded Ally X can expect around 2 hours of gameplay instead.
