A vocal minority of people have been upset that the upcoming "Assassin's Creed" game will only run at thirty frames per second on the "Xbox Series X". Having gotten the game's predecessor-- "Odyssey"-- all tweaked to my satisfaction, I can understand why the "Series X" won't be able to do better.

From a technical perspective, "Odyssey" is a very impressive game, with insane draw-in distances, excellent HDR, screen space reflections all over the place, and amazing texture resolution. But that all comes at a cost: after tinkering with the in-game benchmark on my Ryzen 1600x, RTX 2080 duo, it boiled down to a choice between 2160p and 30fps, or 1440p and 60fps.

I went with the latter, on the basis that with modern anti-aliasing, 1440p looks almost as good as 2160p-- and that little bit of added fluidity which 60fps gets you is a nice thing. But even at 1440p, I had to make some concessions, ultimately settling on the "High" preset. Unfortunately, the framerate limiter setting doesn't seem to work at all, so I enabled the game's adaptive v-sync option instead.

Why no 1800p, you ask? After all, regular readers know that's usually my go-to resolution: in my eyes, the RTX 2080 is ultimately an 1800p card. Well, it's because "Odyssey" doesn't have that resolution available in the menu, bizarrely! I might see if there is a .ini file I can edit in the game's directory. It would also be a potential game changer if the game supported DLSS-- but as a release from 2018, I get why it doesn't. Maybe in the next title?

In other news, an ethical cop? Incredible! I wonder if I could get him to agree on the definition of "tyrannical"? Which is, of course, any act of force which violates someone's natural rights. Because if you don't define the boundary between what is acceptable and what is not, then you're just pseudo-randomly using your emotions from moment-to-moment: consequentalism-- just like the tyrants themselves.