Assassin’s Creed Valhalla update dramatically improves Xbox Series X performance, analysis finds

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The latest major update to Assassin’s Creed Valhalla dramatically improves gaming performance on Xbox Series X, according to analysis.

Ubisoft released Assassin’s Creed Valhalla update 1.0.4 last week, promising an “improved experience” on Xbox Series X, including reduced screen tearing, among other features.

Prior to the update’s release, Digital Foundry’s analysis suggested that the PS5 version of the game had a more consistent framerate and suffered less from screen tearing, which was relatively problematic on Xbox Series X.

In a new post-update analysis, Alex Battaglia of Digital Foundry said that from what he saw, “the patch hasn’t actually changed the performance of PlayStation 5”.

While the game works “essentially exactly the same” on PS5 after the update, it is much improved on the Microsoft console.

“The Xbox Series X is where things get very different because it was ripping and losing a lot more frames than the PlayStation 5 was on the last patch,” Battaglia said.

“Now, most of those cutscenes … it works pretty much flawlessly with a handful of tears throughout the cutscene on Xbox Series X in this patch 1.04.”

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He added: “[In that] famous torch cutscene I mentioned in the last video … where we saw the biggest differences between Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 – you know, way over 20-25% sometimes during that – now it’s a flat 60fps on Xbox Series X as of this patch. “

The performance gap between the PS5 and Xbox Series X versions of the game was perhaps somewhat surprising given that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was one of the most marketed games for Microsoft’s console.

Ubisoft recently claimed that Assassin’s Creed Valhalla sold more copies in its first week than any other entry in the series.

“Valhalla’s detailed, understated research is a bit undermined by a slightly moving execution,” according to VGC’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla review. “But it’s a hearty, debauched Viking feast of a game that turns a great story and offers plenty to do.”