When I'm in the game menu according to Geforce Experience overlay I have a GPU usage around 80%, however in game I have only around 58 - 60% while the CPU is around 14%
Even with a 3080 ti with 4K at high settings, disabled RTX and with or or even without (enabled) HD Textures I get around 50 fps only.

I compared quickly with Far Cry New Dawn. With a DSR Resolution of 5431 x 3055 and GPU Usage was 99% and CPU usage 21% while I had around 55 fps.
So something definately feels wrong here..

On a side note..I heard people saying that the game uses only one CPU core and that may also be a reason for other performance issues. I didn't test that yet tough.

Does anyone else having similar issues and @Ubi staff can someone help here?

I agree, it's indeed very blurry with AA enabled and even with additional sharpening like reshade the result is not really great.
To avoid this problems I have to increase the resolution through DSR to 5120 x 2880. This demands many fps which makes it not a proper solution.

Please Ubisoft provide us a turn off completly option like it was there in all the previous Assassins Creed's already.
I'd rather have some flickering instead of a forced blurry image.

This whole gets more and more ridcolous.
Just look at the article here:

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/future-assassins-creed-valhalla-title-updates-will-be-less-frequent-but-more-refined/

And read this statement:

"Our community is at the heart of everything we do, and we always strive to provide you with great experiences,” Ubisoft wrote. “That said, we recognize that some of our recent title updates may not have met your expectations or been up to our standards.

“We have made several changes to production pipelines and tools so that we can deliver more robust updates”, it claimed.

See the community is the heart of everything..probably that's why they are ignoring it in such a consequent manner

This biggest topic ignored is probably this here..but there are others too like these ones, to just give few examples:

https://discussions.ubisoft.com/topic/86962/please-let-us-disable-the-temporal-anti-aliasing?lang=en-US&sort=newest_to_oldest

https://discussions.ubisoft.com/topic/77400/anti-aliasing?_=1619643533779

https://discussions.ubisoft.com/topic/79491/blurry-visuals-specifically-water-odin-sight-highlighted-enemies/6

For me it looks like they are just plainly ignoring all kind of technical issues. Still not sure if they are just not competent enough to fix or just plainly ignorant.

They look into fixing quest bugs and of course their cosmetics to grab some additional cash but simply don't give a poop about any PC related problems or requests.
As long as people somehow can play it..no matter how bad the experience is it's not important enough to look into it.

Reminds me also of an old statement from Ubi at the time of AC Unity when they claimed 30 fps feel more cinematic

https://www.technobuffalo.com/assassins-creed-unity-framerate-30fps-more-cinematic

Another patch, still nothing changed, still no communication.

Honestly, this is a really big disappointment.
Even more that there is no reaction to this topic and Ubisoft just keeps silent about it.

Again, it's like we are asking for a very big thing or something new here.
It's about something which was always possible in all the previous games and suddenly not anymore. Normally you could hope for upgrades or improvements in new games.

Instead we recently got alot of downgrades quality wise. And now even settings wise?

For Example: The Division 2 which in my opinion looks worse than the first part in quite some aspects, especially the NPC's.
Some of them don't even move their mouth while speaking when optaining a quest..

Also Ghost Recon Breakpoint doesn't look that great but is needing such high end specs if you want to play in high quality. Even the characters / NPC's here don't look that great for today standards.

And even Watchdogs legion in which not only the NPC's look less detailed but also the animations look pretty bad compared to the previous games.
To not just bash here..the Raytracing stuff looks really, really pretty there. Also I like their DLSS implementation which doesn't makes the image to blurry / ugly if you use the quality setting.

However, that doesn't justify the bad animations (which actually was one thing Ubisoft was always great in the past) / lack of detail for the character models.

Back to Anti-Aliasing in Valhalla - it's not like there is any good reason to not provide any option as it can't be worse than AC Unity which was flickering terribly without Anti-Aliasing.
But even if, I would still prefer an option to decide on my own which one I prefer.

So again, please Ubisoft give us an option to turn off the Anti Aliasing completly and / or get rid of this blur.
I understand and accept that many people like or don't care about a blurry image, but I and other people do.

I'm an Assassins Creed fan from day one and played all the games so far.
But this blur really gives me a hard time to enjoy the game and I didn't play it yet mainly for that reason.

Please don't ignore and let us down..

@glaston76
I guess it's just a matter of taste..simple as that. I just prefer it without, especially when not in use.
If you enjoy or don't care about it, great for you. I don't ask it to be removed for everybody aswell, however it doesn't hurt anyone to have an option to hide it

@zarael1721
Unfortunately also even the request to add an option to disable Anti-Aliasing was neither implemented nor acknowledged.
It's just a shame that they removed the option in this game at the first place. Instead of giving more options they even reduce it and force blur which even if just a minority of people dislike alot.

While I know this problem may be minor and not important for most people for me it's really bothering. As I stated already in other threads (which got obviously ignored) I didn't play the game yet for this reason.
But reading all this comments here and the little reaction from Ubisoft side I fear despite that it's most probably a very quick thing to do they may just continue ignoring it..

I was a big fan of Ubisoft games, especially the Assassins Creed games since day one. But the direction they are going and the way they treat customers make me really doubting to buy further Ubisoft games anymore at release. I often even preordered them but if they continue this way I may just grab them in a sale in the future.

From a technical point of view most recent Ubisoft games were quite a disappointment in my opinion. Even tough they post nice videos explaining all the great settings and options the games have I don't feel like the games look much better than the previous games..in some parts they look even worse.

Like Division 2 in which some NPC's don't even move their mouths while speaking while providing new quests.
GRBP which costs so much performance but doesn't look that great either. Or Watchdogs Legion which has a horrible LOD, flickers even with DLSS and a DSR Resolution above 4k..and from the ugly looking hair I don't even have to start. Even some of the animations look quite cheap compared to previous games (but maybe I just remember it wrongly). Also they linked some effects to Anti Aliasing. If you disable Anti Aliasing you won't be able to put Reflections Quality to Ultra or even enable Ambient Occlusion. In my opinion such things are also a downgrade. But hey atleast they made a great video before release and show how great the graphic menu and all the options are..

Back to Valhalla they didn't add but just removed options to disable Anti Aliasing..

This is just very disappointing as there was a time when Ubisoft Games despite some downgrades and sometimes alot of bugs in the beginning still were technically very advanced (Animations, effects, overall quality).
Unfortunately I can't see much of that left these days..sure they add some fancy (and indeed good looking) Ray Tracing effects but downgrade or just don't put much effort in many other parts of the games at the same time.

Back to this issue here..it's even more sad that even major problems like this here just takes them ages to not just fix but even acknowledge.

The communication is almost non existent and very poor. And the customer support here feels like they are just here to calm people down and gather some time at best.
The way custommers are treated here is just sad.

Just wondering if Ubisoft even recogniced or read these posts yet. Would be great to know if it's on their radar.
Unfortunately I didn't hear or read anything about this from Ubisoft side yet.

As these kind of option in most cases is probably a little thing to add it would be great if it could be done in one of the next patches.
But even an information that someone is looking into it would be appreciated.

Even tough I don't have this issue mentioned here I still follow this thread to see if someone at Ubi ever decides to look seriously into this topic and fix it.

But simliar to the requests regarding bluryness and asking for option to disable Anti-Aliasing they don't seem to care at all. Tough here they atleast pretended to look into it. The other mentioned topics they just plainly ignored without even feel the need to even reply.

It's so ridicolous that if it wouldn't be so sad it would almost be funny.

The way they threat their customers..they are on a good way to become one of the companies with the worst customer support in the industry. They have a forum and support to pretend they listen and care but simply don't give a **** about the issues and wishes of their customers. Good job.

Dear Ubisoft Support,

Since the game release several people here complained about the blurry graphics compared to Odyssey.
Most of people including me assume it's related to the lack of an option to turn off the Anti-Aliasing, which was present in the previous games and for some reason isn't anymore.

Since there was never a real reply or even acknowledging of this request I start this thread and link all kind of other threads related to the same topic i could find quickly here.
I again ask the support / devs to please have a look into this and either provide us an option to disable the Anti-Aliasing (and or whatever else causes this blur) or let us know why this is not possible.

Please stop ignoring this, it's just plain furstrating.
I understand it may not have been the top priority to look into but I think after all this months we really deserve a reply regarding this topic.

Even if this topic doesn't seem to be a that big issue for many, for some including me it really is and makes the game so much less enjoyable than it could and should be.

Please see here the list of threads already existing regarding this:

Please give us an option to disable the TAA. | Ubisoft Forums

Please, let us disable the temporal anti aliasing. | Ubisoft Forums

Anti-Aliasing | Ubisoft Forums

AA No option to disable Anti Aliasing | Ubisoft Forums

Blurry Game - Temp Fix (Nvidia Only) | Ubisoft Forums

Assassin's Creed Valhalla Blurry Graphics | Ubisoft Forums

What is anti-aliasing in AC Valhalla? | Ubisoft Forums

Anti-Aliasing in 1080P sucks... | Ubisoft Forums

Why is Anti-Aliasing not able to be completely disabled? | Ubisoft Forums

Please give us the option to completely disable Anti Aliasing! | Ubisoft Forums

Blurry graphics, less detailed textures than in odyssey | Ubisoft Forums

Feedback: Antialiasing | Ubisoft Forums

Missing option to turn off AA | Ubisoft Forums

Blurry visuals (specifically water, odin sight, highlighted enemies) | Ubisoft Forums

Please give option "ANTI ALIASING OFF " | Ubisoft Forums

Another topic not exactly the same but also graphic related..not sure if still existent but here also the link:

[PC] Clutter Ultra setting missing | Ubisoft Forums

@Ubi-Borealis @Ubi-Mark
So, finally any news on that topic after almost a year?
Or just keep going release update after update while ignoring the community?

@yarra_min_bashi
Yes, pretty please and also an option to turn of the black borders..

@ubi-theberry
Thanks for getting back to me.
That's very unfortunate to hear. I really hope they consider it as it's most probably something simple to do for them but would have a pretty huge impact for my experience with the game.

In any case I appreciate your Feedback and still hope to get some positive news in the future.

Just wanted to follow up is there any news on that topic?
Any chance you may ask the devs (again)? Maybe it's just a simple thing to do for them.

I would even be fine if there is an option to disable it through a config file or anything.
But just would appreciate it so much if we get an option to uncap and remove the borders aswell..as it really destroys the immersion for me..

Hey @ubi-thrupney
Thank you for looking into this and try to help.

I'm not sure if it will help much but I added the requested files in the ticket.

@ubi-thrupney

Thanks for getting back..regarding your question, yes I did have the issue since the previous patch already.
However after that patch the game didn't even start, meaning the little Window when starting the game was appearing and loading and then it just stopped at some point (the game didn't even start).

Now, I get past this little Window and i get the black screen with the loading icon only to crash after a few seconds.

Btw. I also sent some crash reports by uplay after this happened..not sure if they go anywhere but if yes you may collect these too.

@fgxraven
Unfortunately they did similar stupidities in Far cry 6.
Luckily Anti Aliasing is not an issue there, but to make up for that we got:

• Forced 30 fps cap for cutscenes
• Black bars in cutscenes
• Forced Chromatic aberration (on edges of the screen) + DOF
• Issues with Textrue streaming (which now according to patch notes should be fixed but couldn't test as the game crashes at start since they released the first dlc)

They also claimed today that they fixed the crash I and many other encounter but me and others can't approve to that.

So it's disheartening to see what's going on with this once so great company.
I loved and enjoyed their games so much but it seems they try really hard to make us not enjoy them anymore...just really, really sad and disappointing.

Oh my..this is just sad..
I also tested it and..for a few seconds I actually thougt it's fixed as I got past the initial loading Window and the game started loading but then again..crash. So i'm afraid thanks for nothing.

Not that they made so many other bad decisions and this game is technically just so bad (compared to the great previous games) and so far didn't listen or seem to be willing to improve like for example the following simple things:

• 30 fps cap in cutscenes
• Forced black bars in cutscenes
• Forced chromatic aberration and Depth of Field
• Blurry texture issues (potentially better after todays patch but I couldn't test yet as the game crashes)
• Story seems to be not that great either (can't judge yet as I didn't play it much due to all the technical issues but heard from others)

I mean that they don't seem to care for these things is already more than sad..but if they don't even manage to make their game playable after 3 weeks..I don't know what to say anymore..

Just when you think it can't get worse..Ubisoft delivers.
Incredible that they just don't give a **** about people not even being able to play their game (they bought).

This is not just a little bug which should be solved someday if a developer feels like or has nothing better to do..I mean we're talking about a bug which prevents people from being able to start the game.
It's so sad to see that they were not even capable of delivering a workaround by themselves but again it's only the community which found some solutions.

And if they wouldn't, all the people affected would just not be able to play the game since almost (tomorrow) three weeks. That's insane.

What's also concerning is that they seem to be able to get away with anything.
Some people complain but I never seen a ****storm no matter how much they failed recently.

It seems majority of people just accept whatever they get, no matter how bugged and terrible it is..and this of course supports their mentality of not caring at all.

I'm not into raging or hating against a company if they do a mistake or something and try to improve or work on it, I think it's important to be fair.
But this is really something else and I don't even find the words to describe how saddening and disappointing it is.

Wow..Ubisoft just managed to reach a new low.
If I would treat my customers the way they do it....

How much incompetence must there be to release an update / DLC which makes the game unplayable for so many players and just do nothing about it for almost a week already?
I mean if they are not capable or skilled enough to fix the issue anytime soon they could atleast revert or remove the DLC.

But no..the community has to look for solutions for themselves to try and find workarounds.

Ubisoft is not an indie company, they have tons and tons and tons of ressources and money but are not even capable fixing such a game breaking issue in any decent time.
Meanwhile many indie devs manage to release patch after patch after release and improve their games in a very fast manner.

If it wouldn't be that sad it would almost be funny.

Unbelievable..

@glaston76
I guess it's just a matter of taste..simple as that. I just prefer it without, especially when not in use.
If you enjoy or don't care about it, great for you. I don't ask it to be removed for everybody aswell, however it doesn't hurt anyone to have an option to hide it