The Proper Remaster

Assassin's Creed is the game started it all, and it still is even today beautiful and one of the best, with arguably the best protagonist and setting in the series. If Ubisoft is not willing to give us a remaster, how about we do it ourselves?

There are many guides out there including the mod Overhaul, which I am going to include in this guide, but none of them explains it fully how to make it work for everybody. How to make it work through Steam (instead of having to launch the game through an executable), without that crash that everybody gets, and so on. It took me days to figure it out. On top of it, I am adding other stuff, and ReShade. In the end you will get your best Assassin's Creed experience possible. :)

Let's Remaster AC

First, I can only think of one downside to this "overhaul". You can only use the DX9 version of the game. The game comes with DX10 version as well. As much as I'm concerned, there is no real difference between the two graphicswise, but there is only one downside: there is no option for more than 60hz. That means you will get 60fps locked. But, I am not sure how right, even in DX10, 60+ works. It might not work properly there either. But I am not sure.
Is that worth sacrificing tho for the "remasterisation"? It is for you to choose. But if you ask me: a BIG yes, sir!

Here is the list of stuff you must download. Please download them:

• Overhaul is the mod that updates a whole bunch of textures, using unique ones and many from Assassin's Creed: Revelations.
  
• ReShade [drive.google.com] brings a new light to the game. One that is much needed.
  
• ME3Explorer [github.com] is an editing tool for the mod. For the mod and Reshade both to work together, we will have to do some editing. I would just edit it myself, but since I can't get an answer from the author, I am not allowed to share an edited version of someone elses work, without his approval.
  
• Original Textures [drive.google.com]are the original textures you will need to use with ME3Explorer.
  
• LAA [www.techpowerup.com] is a tiny software that will make the executable of the game large address aware, otherwise the mod crashes.
  
• XBox 360 fix [community.pcgamingwiki.com] for the controller.

Let's first start with editing the mod to fully work with the ReShade without problems.

• Open "Assassins_Creed_I_Overhaul_2016_Full_Version.rar", then open the folder and extract "Assassin's Creed Overhaul 2016 Full Version.tpf".
  
• Extract the 2 files inside "textures.zip".
  
• Fully extract "ME3Explorer_dev_718.zip", then open "ME3Explorer.exe" from inside the "ME3Explorer" folder.
  
• Way up in the tab you have User Tools, click it, then Textures -> TPF/DDS Tools.
  
• Ignore the DebugWindow by minimizing or closing it, instead focus the newly opened window: "TPF/DDS Tools 3.0: ME3".
  
• There click on "Load" and select your "Assassin's Creed Overhaul 2016 Full Version.tpf". Wait until loading process has finished.
  
• Scroll down until you have finished this texture: "ASSASSINSCREED_DX9.EXE_0x11D2D4DD.bmp", then select it and click on "Replace" (look down, above the 4 big buttons) and choose the texture file corresponding to the name, that you have extracted a while ago.
  
• Repeat with "ASSASSINSCREED_DX9.EXE_0x2247F0FF.bmp".
  
• Click on "Rebuild TPF" found way up, then select Yes and wait. A TexMode Beta window will open by itself and start building the file. Don't move your mouse, just wait for it to be finished.
  
• When it is finished, it will ask where to save the file. Save it in the main folder of the game (ex. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Assassins Creed) and call it "Overhaul Fixed".
  
• You can now close the tool we just used and even delete the 2 texture files, the original .tpf mod file and the "ME3Explorer" folder.

The hard part is now finished. As I said, if I could somehow contact the Author, I would have just uploaded the fixed mod file and not have you to go through all of this. But anyway, let's go forward.

• In the main folder of the game you can now also extract "laa_2_0_4.zip", acii_wireless_360_fix_by_khemitude.zip and the contents of the folder "AC1 ReShade" (NOT the folder) inside AC1 ReShade.zip".
  
• You will now need to open "Assassins_Creed_I_Overhaul_2016_Full_Version.rar" again. Inside the main folder, you will find "Texmod and opentexmod", and then "Texmod OLD not recommended". Extract "Texmod.exe".
  
• We now have to change the name of the extracted file to "AssassinsCreed_Game.exe" and then copy+paste it in the main folder of the game. You will be prompted the question if you want to replace the file, please do replace it. (what this does is allow you to open this file when you start the game, instead of the game itself. this way you don't need to start the game from outside Steam, but through Steam instead)
  
• Inside main game folder we extracted a file called "Large Address Aware.exe", please open it.
  
• Select "AssassinsCreed_Dx9.exe", check the tiny box, then save.
  
• Repeat with "AssassinsCreed_Dx10.exe" and "AssassinsCreed_Game.exe".
  
• You can then close the tool.

I will now humbly ask you to launch the game through Steam.
You will now notice that the TexMode tool has opened:

• Click on the bigger folder icon and choose "AssassinsCreed_Dx9.exe"
  
• In Package Mode, click on the tiny folder icon, "Browse" and choose "Overhaul Fixed.tpf"
  
• Make sure the file is selected, and click "Run".
  ** You have to repeat these steps every time you start the game, but the next time you start the tool, it will already have in the list of files to open the .tpf file as the first one shown. You can directly choose it from there instead of browsing for it.
  
• After the game has launched, go into options, set all the Graphics Settings to maximum (for some people there is better performance with 60hz resolution + vsync ON, feel free to try it), choose in Controls Options your controller, if you wish to play with one. (there used to also be a bug a long time ago, don't know if still is the case, but just in case, I suggest you make sure you have "hold to lock" turned off) Save the settings and turn the game off. After the game has turned off, you can also close the TexMod tool that was open.

• Please now go to: "C:\Users\ (USER) \AppData\Roaming\Ubisoft\Assassin's Creed" and open "Assassin.ini".
  
• There search for "Multisampling" and change the value to 2, and save the file. (there is a bug inside the game's settings, that is why we do this. the game won't allow you through the normal settings to change multisampling if you have a higher resolution)
  
• You can also make the file read-only, so it won't change if you change settings in-game.

You are now done. You can enjoy the game fully fan-made remastered. ^^
I hope you like it! Have fun!

And remember: nothing is true, EVERYTHING is permitted!

Authors

• hecumarine (Overhaul)
  
• crosire (ReShade)
  
• schnitzeltest (Preset for ReShade; Mod Fix for ReShade)
  
• ME3Tweaks (ME3Explorer)
  
• FordGT90Concept (LAA)
  
• Khemitude (Xbox 360 fix)
  
• RS (TexMod)
  
• PCGamingWiki (fixes)

[Monkerer]

I run ME3explorer, press rebuild tpf, Texmod opens up clicks itself and crashes. Is there any other way to make the file? Can I use .metpf file?

[RacialGamer]

For @Crestnatine and anyone else that has this problem, go to C:/Windows/System32/drivers/etc/hosts open notepad as a adminstrator and add this text as a new line.

203.132.26.155 127.0.0.1

Basically, Ubisoft stopped supporting ac1 and shut the official data server down. So the game keeps trying to send stats, game saves and all that kind of stuff to that server. It however does not exist, so the game freezes.

[Crestantine]

@WakelessCafe what was the solution? I'm also having a random freeze for 1-3 seconds throughout the game.

[marcoalcuricamposjr]

great graphics!

[WakelessCafe]

nvm, i figured out the problem and the game is working really well now

[Ciocolici]

@WakelessCafe no, it is not

[WakelessCafe]

I started playing the game with this mod and my game randomly pauses from time to time, is this normal?

[Silen]

having this on ps3 and pc. i wish ubisoft would of added trophy support for ps3 version ><; it seems so outta place to not have them.

[Ciocolici]

@Droopy_Snake the mod only works with Dx9. You might have swapped the files.

[Droopy_Snake]

Found simple solution, I just ran game on directx 10 ( through TexMod of course) it worked fine. Don't know what's wrong with directx9 (I reinstalled game and mod by the way) but I'm glad game now works fine. Wish you all best things bro , thank you again for all your efforts