Can I Run Assassin's Creed Brotherhood?
Released in 2011, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is an action adventure game built by Ubisoft Montreal. Publishing duties went to Ubisoft. It offers a single player campaign and competitive multiplayer. Its Metacritic score stands at 88. Being over ten years old, its ceiling was set by the hardware of a different era. An age check at 17 sits in front of the store page. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller. Windows is the only supported platform, which is what the figures below describe. With more than 24 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. 14 languages are covered by the store listing.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Intel Core® 2 Duo 1.8 GHZ or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4GHZ |
|---|---|
| GPU | 256 MB DirectX® 9.0-compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (see supported list*) |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB |
| OS | Windows® XP (32-64 bits) /Windows Vista®(32-64 bits) |
| DirectX | 9 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Intel Core® 2 Duo E6700 2.6 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | GeForce 8800 GT or ATI Radeon HD 4700 or better |
| RAM | 2 GB |
| Storage | 8 GB |
| OS | Windows® XP (32-64 bits) /Windows Vista®(32-64 bits) |
| DirectX | 9 |
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Setting and environment
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood places its action in a historical setting, and the player works through one continuous open world. That openness is what costs performance. Assassin's Creed Brotherhood has no loading walls to hide behind, so terrain and detail keep flowing in as the player moves. The publisher supplies 13 storefront screenshots of these environments. It is played from a third person view.
Why Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is demanding
System memory expectations are modest at 2 GB. It targets DirectX 9, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy. Disk footprint is light, near 8 GB. A 64 bit version of Windows is required.
This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.
Can you run Assassin's Creed Brotherhood?
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood targets a mainstream modern PC: 256 MB DirectX® 9.0-compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (see supported list*) and 2 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to GeForce 8800 GT or ATI Radeon HD 4700 or better for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.
Bottleneck: CPU
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Frequently asked questions
Can my PC run Assassin's Creed Brotherhood?
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What are the minimum system requirements for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood?
The minimum requirements are CPU: Intel Core® 2 Duo 1.8 GHZ or AMD Athlon X2 64 2.4GHZ; GPU: 256 MB DirectX® 9.0-compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or higher (see supported list*); 2 GB RAM; OS: Windows® XP (32-64 bits) /Windows Vista®(32-64 bits).
How much storage does Assassin's Creed Brotherhood need?
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood needs about 8 GB of available storage.
What is the bottleneck for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood?
On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is the CPU.