'The upgraded PSSR significantly enhances Assassins Creed Shadows' Sony confirms a release date for its next-gen upscaling tech on PS5 Pro

Date:
Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:52:50 +0000

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Sony has announced that its upgraded PSSR AI upscaling technology will
finally be added to Assassin's Creed Shadows this month.

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Sony has announced that its upgraded PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) AI upscaling technology will finally be added to Assassin's Creed Shadows this month.

The update will arrive on April 7 alongside the game's version 1.1.9 patch
and will introduce improved image quality, smoother performance, and enhanced ray tracing on the PlayStation 5 Pro . The upgraded PSSR significantly enhances Assassins Creed Shadows by delivering sharper pixel quality and exceptional image stability, effectively eliminating distracting visual artifacts caused by motion and vibration, and creating a smoother, more immersive experience that allows players to stay fully engaged in the world without interruption," said technical art director Robert Foriel in a new PlayStation Blog post. Article continues below You may like Sony's updated PSSR upscaling tech is finally available for even more PS5 Pro games, including Crimson Desert, Silent Hill f, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, and more Sony confirms Resident Evil Requiem is the first game to use the PS5 Pro's updated PSSR upscaler tech 'The upgraded PSSR has allowed us to elevate our expressiveness by successfully processing these details and textural particularities', says Capcom PS5 Pro architect Mark Cerny says Sony's
updated PSSR tech is 'something like 100 microseconds faster than the original'

The enhancements will mean cleaner and more stable environments in Shadows ' sprawling open-world, complex rendering of dense vegetation, ray traced lighting, and dynamic effects. It also delivers higher visual fidelity, "reducing the trade-offs between performance and image quality".

Wind whipping through long grass will appear more fluid through Shadow 's Atmos system, "resulting in highly complex and natural motion across large environments" and a more realistic atmosphere.

"This kind of dense, thin geometry is especially challenging, with constant motion and frequent visibility changes across frames," said technical architect Nicolas Lopez.

"The upgraded PSSR preserves fine details at close range, allowing individual blades of grass to remain clearly defined even in motion, while also
improving crispness at longer distances, with cleaner edges on trees and
other distant foliage." Get daily insight, inspiration and deals in your
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Similarly, PSSR's upgraded real-time ray tracing also handles effects like reflections, ambient occlusion, and dynamic lighting more accurately across complex scenes, reducing the need for manual adjustments and resulting in stable and visually consistent image quality.

All these features will be available across all PS5 Pro graphics modes, Performance, Balanced, and Quality, which all render at different internal resolutions with Dynamic Resolution Scaling.

"Integrating the upgraded PSSR into Assassins Creed Shadows was straightforward the code changes were minimal, almost identical to the original PSSR integration, added Lopez. "Yet the upgrade brings a noticeable improvement in image quality across the board. Its rare to get such a significant visual boost with so little tuning required." What to read next Crimson Desert will seemingly hit 4K resolutions at higher frame rates, with raytracing on PS5 Pro, thanks to the latest PSSR update PS5 Pro games list: all of the PS5 Pro enhanced titles released so far CD Projekt once again declares Cyberpunk 2077 will not be getting any more playable content as it announces new PlayStation patch featuring Sony's updated PSSR tech 'For transparency: this update will not be introducing any new in-game content'

Resident Evil Requiem was the first game to receive the latest PSSR update , and it has since rolled out for a collection of games including Silent Hill f , Control , Alan Wake 2 , Senuas Saga: Hellblade 2 , Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
, and more.

The new tech is also expected to be brought to Crimson Desert and Cyberpunk 2077 soon. The best gaming consoles All the best consoles of this generation

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