assassins creed syndicate care package

- description

Baggy trousers every time I see one of those street

urchins shuffling by I think baggy trousers it's madness.

Assassins creed syndicate ubisoft 'wiedergutmachung' after

the dismal assassins creed unity.

It's a much better game technically but structurally

still has, lets say it's, issues.

The visual tweaks are listed below how ever a word of caution

if you have not played this game it might be wise to disable

the hud tweaks, at least initially, please see 'further tweaking'.

update 12/02/2025 v1. 4

- added reduce filmgrain

- added reduce vignette effect dark interiors and evening

- tweaked reduce over bright skin and hair illumination

hair could have noticeable rim light effect specifically

in cutscenes

- tweaked tonemap in upscale.hlsl removed saturation

black and white addition

- tweaked game tonemaps a little less bright in exteriors

update 18/08/2023 v1. 3

- a custom shader upscale.hlsl (3dmigoto) replaces reshade

- switched to internal AA

- added, less bright more orange lanterns

illumination interior and exterior

- reworked down sampled cloud layer

added more definition no longer removed

- modified fog tweaks effects mie / raleigh

less dramatic (used to go dark)

- reworked day / night sky dome

- slight tweaks to tonemap shader

update 07/02/2022 v1. 2

- a custom shader upscale.hlsl (3dmigoto) replaces reshade

- no longer use smaa by reshade switched to fxaa internal of game

- tested on windows 10 (v1903)

- reworked distance fog, mie / raleigh effect horizon is preserved more accurately

- tweaked frame based fx global lut, contrast and brightness

update 18/05/2020 corrections v1. 1

Made a boo boo smaa was actually not active... ouch

- Corrected by activating smma.

- Switched to luma sharpening instead of adaptive sharpening

- tweaked the tonemap just a little reduces slight yellow tinge

3dmigoto shader tweaks:

- remove interior illumination, shadows plus tonemap daytime

- reduce overbright skin and hair illumination

- decrease fog exterior

- remove downsampeld cloud layer

- decrease specular exterior daytime

gameplay related shader tweaks:

- remove hud outline avatar when in stealth with crowd

- reduce hud outline friends and foes

- remove mono chromatic layer of eaglesense

- reduce hud pulse ground when in stealth with crowd

- updating

if the old package (1. 1 or older) was installed remove the following

folder(s) and file(s) in the folder which contains acs.exe:

shadercache

shaderfixes

d3dcompiler_46.dll

ReShade.ini

Then copy the contents of the zip file to the install folder of

assassins creed syndicate, the folder which contains acs.exe.

- install

The package works best with following settings:

Settings can be found in:

c:\Users\<username>\Documents\Assassin's Creed Syndicate\AC.ini

Copy the contents of the zip file to the install folder of

assassins creed syndicate, the folder which contains

The folder 'optional' contains a 'AC.ini' you can use this to

compare it with the 'AC.ini' on your system to make the necessary changes.

See: c:\Users\<username>\Documents\Assassin's Creed Syndicate\AC.ini

- optional install

The following instructions are only needed

If you do not like using unverified dll's you can:

download 3dmigoto from

https://github.com/bo3b/3Dmigoto/releases

download version 1. 3. 16 and place the following dlls in the install dir of

assassins creed syndicate:

d3d11.dll (64bits)

d3dcompiler_46.dll

then copy ShaderCache and ShaderFixes from the zip file to the same dir aka folder.

make sure to set (line 248):

the default setting is:

which sets 3dmigoto to a debug mode.

Also change line 19 from:

;include = ShaderFixes\upscale.ini

include = ShaderFixes\upscale.ini

After running the game the folder ShaderFixes should

gradually (scene and level dependent) contain the .bin versions:

01f033fa1b4a17bf-ps.bin

06dc7d5364434b4e-ps_replace.bin

2be50efe7ff737b8-ps.bin

3a1026176bc3b7a0