Assassin’s Creed III — Settings, Requirements & Optimization
2012 · Action · Ubisoft Montreal · ESRB Mature · Metacritic 80
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Generated at GameFigs on 2026-08-21. Game demand tier: 3/9.
Official system requirements
Publisher-published Minimum / Recommended values via RAWG. Real-world performance varies with drivers, resolution and your full build.
| Spec | Minimum | Recommended |
|---|---|---|
| OS | Minimum: | Recommended: |
| Processor | OS: Windows Vista® (SP2) / Windows® 7 (SP1) / Windows® 8 | OS: Windows Vista® (SP2) / Windows® 7 (SP1) / Windows® 8 |
| Memory | Processor: 2.60 GHz Intel® Core™2 Duo E8200 or 2.60 GHz AMD Athlon™ II X4 620 | Processor: 2.66 GHz Intel® Core™2 Quad Q9400 or 3.00 GHz AMD Phenom™ II X4 940 |
| Graphics | Memory: 2 GB | Memory: 4 GB |
| Storage | Graphics: 512 MB DirectX® 10—compliant with Shader Model 4.0 or higher (see supported list)* | Graphics: 1024 MB DirectX® 10—compliant with Shader Model 5.0 or higher (see supported list)* |
| DirectX | DirectX®: 10 | DirectX®: 10 |
| Item 7 | Hard Drive: 17 GB | Hard Drive: 17 GB |
| Item 8 | Sound: DirectX 10—compliant (5.1 surround sound recommended) | Sound: DirectX 10–compliant (5.1 surround sound recommended) |
About Assassin’s Creed III
Assassin's Creed III is the fifth game of the series, preceded by the first chapter taking place in the time of the Third Crusade and by the Ezio trilogy, positioning itself in the times of the Italian Renaissance (1476-1499). It is the 3rd person action adventure with an accent on exploring and hunting During the new installment, the player is set to make way through the American Revolution, while being on both side of a conflict — our hero has English father and Mohawk mother, which tears him apart. Such conflicts serve as the leitmotif through the entirety of a game — not only we are choosing sides to fight on in the Civil War, but also we are facing the decisions of choosing Assassins' or Templar's side. As it is common in the Assasin's Creed games, the gameplay concentrates profoundly around fighting the multiple enemies all at once, parkouring off walls and micro-management: selling resources, exchanging ships and so on. The Assassin's Creed III, however, highlights the hunting and simultaneous use of two weapons as the new in-game features.
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Sources & attribution
- Game data (release year, genres, platforms, system requirements, description, cover art) via RAWG.io, retrieved 2026-08-21.
- FPS bands, presets and upscaler advice on this page are GameFigs planning estimates from the game's demand tier — not benchmark results.
How the Assassin’s Creed III optimization card is computed
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