Anonymous edits have been disabled on the wiki. If you want to contribute please login or create an account.

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

From PCGamingWiki, the wiki about fixing PC games
Revision as of 20:34, 19 March 2018 by 69.24.182.99 (talk)
Template:Infobox game/row/osxporter
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood cover
Developers
Ubisoft Montreal
Publishers
Ubisoft
Engines
Anvil
Release dates
Windows November 16, 2010
macOS (OS X) March 22, 2011
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood guide on StrategyWiki
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood on Wikipedia
Assassin's Creed 2008
Assassin's Creed II 2010
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood 2011
Assassin's Creed: Revelations 2011
Assassin's Creed III 2012
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag 2013
Assassin's Creed: Liberation HD 2014
Assassin's Creed: Freedom Cry 2014
Assassin's Creed: Pirates 2014
Assassin's Creed Unity 2014
Assassin's Creed Rogue 2015
Assassin's Creed Chronicles (series)
Assassin's Creed Syndicate 2015
Assassin's Creed Origins 2017
Discovery Tour (series)
Assassin's Creed Odyssey 2018
Assassin's Creed III Remastered 2019
Assassin's Creed III: Liberation Remastered 2019
Assassin's Creed Valhalla 2020
Assassin's Creed Mirage 2023

Key points

More high-end effects and options on PC than earlier games in the series.

General information

Official game series website
Official forums
Assassin's Creed Wiki
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Icon overlay.png
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Amazon.com
Icon overlay.png
Deluxe Edition, Mac OS X
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Amazon.co.uk
Icon overlay.png
Deluxe Edition, Mac OS X, Mac OS X Deluxe Edition
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GamersGate
Icon overlay.png
Deluxe Edition, Mac OS X, Mac OS X Deluxe Edition
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Gamesplanet logo.svg
Icon overlay.png
Deluxe Edition
Windows
Incorrect store name. See here for available options.
Icon overlay.png
Incorrect store name. See here for available options.
Windows
Humble Store
Icon overlay.png
Deluxe Edition
Windows
Origin
Origin
Icon overlay.png
Deluxe Edition only.
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
Icon overlay.png
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Ubisoft Store
Icon overlay.png
Deluxe Edition
Windows
All versions require Ubisoft Connect DRM. Initial online authentication is required, after which it will be playable offline. Offline mode can also be forced by launching the game with the -playoffline command line argument.

Version differences

The Deluxe Edition contains 2 exclusive single-player maps, 2 multiplayer characters, 1 exclusive skin for Ezio, the game soundtrack, The Making-Of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, The Original Codex Written by Altaïr in PDF format, the Assassin's Creed Lineage full movie and a digital map of Rome.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Copernicus Conspiracy Free. Added in May 23, 2017 patch.
Windows
The Da Vinci Disappearance Free.
Windows

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Delete/rename video files[citation needed]
  1. Go to Videos in the installation folder.
  2. Delete or rename UBI_LOGO.bik
  3. Go to the folder for your language (e.g. en for English).
  4. Delete or rename warning_disclaimer.bik.

Patches

Patch v1.03

This patch is available in the following languages: Czech, Russian, and Worldwide.
Downloads can be found for the following releases:

Game data

In-game options menu.
In-game options menu.
In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.
In-game HUD settings.
In-game HUD settings.

Configuration file(s) location

Template:Game data/rowTemplate:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/48190/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

Template:Game data/rowTemplate:Game data/row
System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/48190/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Origin
Steam Cloud
Ubisoft Connect

Video settings

In-game video settings.
In-game video settings.

Template:Video settings

Input settings

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game key map settings.
In-game button map settings.
In-game button map settings.

Template:Input settings

Audio settings

Template:Audio settings

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Czech
Retail only.
Danish
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Norwegian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swedish
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
peer-to-peer only connections.[1]
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

VR support

Issues fixed

Game won't launch, no error message

Ensure all folders exist in the save game data location[citation needed]
  1. Go to %USERPROFILE%\Saved Games\Assassin's Creed Brotherhood\SAVES
  2. Make sure there are folders and files in this location otherwise repair your game install.

Controls unresponsive while flying or cutscenes not ending properly

Enable V-Sync in your graphical options and set refresh rate to 60Hz.[2]

In-game stuttering, freezing issues

Keep VRAM usage under 1 GB[citation needed]
The game will not use more than 1GB of VRAM regardless of GPU, graphics settings, or resolution.
Install the game onto an SSD rather than an HDD[citation needed]

White gradient overlay

Remove white gradient overlay[citation needed]
  1. Download this file into the installation folder.
  2. Disable Steam and UPlay overlays to prevent crashing.
Explanation for this fix can be found here.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
OpenGL 2.0 OS X only.
Shader Model support 3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok
Audio Wwise
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer PunkBuster

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 1.8 GHz
AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1.5 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 GB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.5.8
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 3.06 GHz
System memory (RAM) 3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 9 GB
Video card (GPU) 256 MB of VRAM
Shader model 3.0 support

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/48190/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (48190) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References