Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag 4K Screenshots Revealed

Nvidia has posted a couple of quite impressive looking screenshots of Ubisoft's upcoming Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag game, which is also part ROG's recent hardware bundle. The screenshots are rendered in Ultra HD 4K (3840 x 2160) resolution at maximum quality settings, in order to show some of the advantages of AC4 with Nvidia's graphics hardware.  Although it did not reveal the exact hardware, Nvidia did note the settings included:

• Nvidia HBAO+, which adds realistic Ambient Occlusion shadowing and shading around objects and surfaces that occlude light, with a considerably-higher degree of precision than previous AO techniques, 
• Nvidia Percentage-Closer Soft Shadows that add contact hardening soft shadows throughout the game, increasing image quality by a significant degree, 
• Nvidia TXAA (temporal anti-aliasing) eliminates the distracting movement of anti-aliased lines and edges, and also eliminates other artifacts associated with anti-aliasing which is comparable with 8xMSAA, but at the performance cost of 4xMSAA, 
• Higher-resolution textures, effects and assets that make full use of the available VRAM and system memory of modern (ROG!) PCs, adding extra detail even at 4K (3840 × 2160). 
• High-precision light rays, which increase the quality and fidelity of environmental lighting.

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