Assassin's Creed Mirage - iPhone 15 Pro & iPad Pro/Air Performance Review

[@MrMacRight]

See raw performance here: kzbin.info/aero/PLoho91JNnNU07oNM5Lvtbyk8HiEpxmaz1

[@ingamgoduka57]

Uncharted 2 can play perfectly just require a controller for a basic play

[@Hybrid225]

⁠@@ingamgoduka57not as good as Half Life 3 with touch controls

[@aleksjenner677]

Absolutely incredible how this game isn't on MacOS

[@ThePianist51]

Just like Genthin and other games… That’s just BS… .-.

[@reddiegaming195]

I think its coming soon if am not wrong

[@flapweee]

Well Mac users are getting AC: Shadows so…

[@ThePianist51]

@@flapweee Tactics: Phone and tablet users are peasants, macusers got too much money. 💰

[@EMELOT_]

Она есть на маках в аппсторе .

[@realrisingsun]

I want to buy it, But I think it's unacceptable that it isn't a Universal Purchase including a Mac version just like Resident Evil 4 and Death Stranding.

[@KicksonAcapulco13-no5rd]

I think it’s more a decision of publisher, rather than Apple. Just like cross-buy on consoles.

[@Hybrid225]

Fair but any progress you have on a different platform can be played on it

[@TuroChavero]

Ubisoft being Ubisoft 😂

[@PartyofNone]

there is no mac version bro. what are you even talking about?

[@Chaampagnepapi]

Get urself a legion go

[@henrikasteberg1218]

Even if the FPS isn't great, I'm still impressed and really excited for the future of games coming to mobile.

[@Jwatchdizzledrip3003]

Written June 7, 2024 30FPS isn’t that bad on iOS when playing quality AAA games like Assassin’s Creed Mirage or any of the Resident Evil games. Honestly, I don’t think people like 30FPS because they expect a game of this caliber to be 60FPS on iPad 30FPS is perfectly playable and it does try to maintain 30FPS most of the time so you’re right

[@LvcIvsLIcInIvsLvcvllvs]

the graphics and the performance is awful, I wish they would port older AAA games

[@xlmxlmxl]

​@@LvcIvsLIcInIvsLvcvllvsyeah, unity or origins would be better for a port

[@LvcIvsLIcInIvsLvcvllvs]

@@xlmxlmxl better games overall

[@hernandez5612]

The sale was bad, so i think they will give up for porting AAA games to ios

[@jattdachannel6652]

with the power of modern mobile phones, they should port 2010s and 2000s best story games

[@josephgarfield3363]

Mass Effect trilogy would be mental

[@Player-re9mo]

I would love to play pc indie games on my phone. They shouldn't be as difficult to render as AAA games

[@jattdachannel6652]

@@Player-re9mo yes

[@jattdachannel6652]

i played morrowind, it was amazing experience and it was being emulated

[@nicksabastien8464]

Batman Arkham Asylum would be nuts

[@richard-davies]

Yes 30fps is low but the fact this is even running at all with these graphics natively on a thin, passively cooled phone is bloody impressive while only using a miniscule amount of power. It's not as if the iPhone has a big chunky heatsink and a fan to cool it with a 500w+ PSU to power it.

[@Fredrik7le]

I agree. People complaining are nuts.

[@loneeldritchknight7362]

I'm more impressed that we got a AAA game that isn't even a year old on the iPhone and iPad.

[@damonbaird1173]

Right, but the game is still on a 10 year old engine.

[@zptaco]

For what it’s worth the moment the game came out I kept coming back to your channel to check out this review!

[@lonelygoner2012]

the pact that tablets and phones are able to run this is insane. a couple of more years and they will be on par with consoles or better

[@burd7455]

...ps3 and x360 consoles that is.

[@mehshutup3041]

Acting like consoles are not evolving too lol. This game is running at maximum of 1080p on 30fps with medium graphics. A normal console is able to run it at 4k60fps with the equivalent of high graphics. When they able to run it at 60fps the console is probably already be able to play games at 8k

[@orion260]

@@mehshutup3041dont forget the fact that the mobile settings preset are much lower than consoles or pc. Mobile high setting in this game looks nowhere close to pc high. Its more like mobile high setting = pc low setting

[@stylepro]

@@mehshutup3041 man, what are you talking about? It's 30 fps and dynamic 4k on ps5 and series x with (kinda) high graphics preset. iPhones and iPads are currently at ps4/xbox one level, and it's great. Smaller screens do not need 4k resolution, so I'm sure we will get close to ps5/series x levels in 3-4 years.

[@stylepro]

@@orion260 true, it's definitely not the same settings as on PC.

[@kevinmckenna5682]

Thanks for the review! You're not the Digital Foundry, but you are our Digital Foundry.

[@bemacbe]

I just got my new 13" iPad Air with M2 last night and this was the first game I played on it. Awesome experience! 😁Assassin's Creed plays smooth like butter and looks wonderful.

[@romen5169]

Dude it’s 20fps while fighting dot lie to yourself

[@thend.O]

Stop lies i have m4 and 30 fps is so bad experience

[@FightClass3]

@@thend.O Lower your graphics.

[@thend.O]

@@FightClass3even so

[@bemacbe]

@@thend.Om4 is bad for playing this game. Watch the video!

[@helixzenith]

Now I wish we knew what the performance would be on a 13” with the 1 tb version and proper cooling. The performance is supposed to be roughly equivalent to an i7-13700 with an rx 5500 xt and 16 gb ddr5 ram and it would have higher res than an 11”. The lower m4 8gb speeds could be tied to the lower overall and performance core count of the CPU.

[@PartyofNone]

unlikely

[@PrinceZiim]

The fact we are finally getting games likes these on phones is nothing short of amazing fr

[@emreuyank9998]

it's not that bad imo those mobiles are getting powerfull this is litteraly a console level game it was impossible to play it on a phone a couple of years ago.

[@R3endevous]

I'm impressed, especially when you know how other handhelds (e.g. Steam Deck and ROG Ally) run this game. Ubisoft has put in the effort for a good experience.

[@eedoamitay3341]

always appreciate these testing videos, they are the best ! p.s. the ubisoft account on an ios game is also one of the most annoying things to ever encounter

[@ruschein]

I deleted the game from my iPad when I couldn't start it without creating a Ubisoft account.

[@eedoamitay3341]

@@ruschein ya i did that as well, i tried connecting and just got problems

[@DavideDavini]

I loved the rant at the end. We appreciate it Stewie. 😂 Cheers mate.

[@GBLegendPokemonGO]

The video is really well researched and the point that you made about frame drops in M4 iPad is valid, I have bought the newest iPad base model and there are frame drops. Although I was very hyped for this game release, playing it didn’t feel so good and so I haven’t upgraded it to the full version and just played the free trial. Great video man, keep it up.❤

[@Forde34]

I believe this is just the beginning, won’t be surprised if AC Shadows becomes available on iOS later.

[@pally_miner739]

Those high graphics are very impressive

[@dougmcguire2187]

I have the 16GB M4 iPad and I don’t have your equipment to determine the specifics, but I didn’t notice nearly as much clipping as you did. I did on my phone, we had similar experiences there. But the 16GB iPad did seems smoother to me

[@jesperhammarlund300]

maybe there are a few bugs to sort out. but i also think the fewer cpu cores may be a problem. it my be CPU limitation

[@spaydamen]

I wouldn’t blame the hardware for the frames, etc. I’m currently playing this game on the PS5, and I had frame breaks and huge FPS drops in some missions. The game was near to a crash, so I would say that the optimization overall is not that great.

[@MTLeoLil]

I love your commentary and how you kind of sound like professor snape 😅. Great video 👍

[@MrMacRight]

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[@Geolimber]

I tried it on iphone 15 pro, and after few hours asked for refund. It was impossible to play even with low graphics settings and reduced field of wiew to 90. Game was closing constantly every 5-10 minutes.

[@Pappa958]

The game wasn’t crashing on my 15 pro max but the way it plays is unacceptable

[@arturogoga]

Great video!! It’s crazy that the M4 iPad Pro has worse performance than the M2 / M1 iPad Pros

[@TheVince1023]

I don’t think they quite optimized it yet

[@AKA-hl1pv]

It will take few months to optimize. Probably by the time M5 is released lol

[@DRALLY555]

On my iPhone 15 pro, I mirrored it to my TV screen and found the phone got hot but the game looked awesome on big screen

[@KicksonAcapulco13-no5rd]

Mirroring is quite demanding, true.

[@DRALLY555]

@KicksonAcapulco13-no5rd I was using the Apple TV 128gb model with the iPhone 15 Pro 512gb, for reference, and mirroring the phone onto TV and I wad surprised it was like playing on a PS4/5, I didn't have a controller connected, so using the awful touch controls. Not as fluid as I'd hoped but game looks incredible running that set up. I'm thinking trying it with the USB C to HDMI cable see if that helps improve picture quality

[@icerink239]

Use a thermoelectric/peltier cooler

[@TranceFan05]

The m4 chip is the newest design and has differences over the other m chips. The m4 chip is also the least common m4 chip as well so imagine there was low priority to optimize for it. Imagine the m2 runs so well has its more powerful than m1 and the m2 also exists in mac. I imagine they will do a m series macbook version. I would think of of the advantages of creating games for m chips is to tap into more devices ( m series ipads and m series laptops ). I would imagine m4 ipad users will have to rely on ubisoft ( i threw up a little imagining this ;) )to do the right thing and optimize for the m4 chip later.

[@coenlangille]

i agree

[@aleksdeveloper698]

Those black bars on the game really ruin the experience on my iPad Pro M2 and I didn't have any issues, apart from heating, so I put low graphics, it does look somewhat worse at first, but when you start playing I personally do not notice any problem.

[@shahinmiah331]

I played with the zoom setting. Not fully zoom but reduced the black bars a bit. Try it

[@Jonas-ej7id]

A latest triple A game being on a phone is crazy to me

[@TheKomenter]

*Great video as always!* *Is that your real voice?*

[@РусланЕремеев-д3ъ]

Thank you, Sturt! I appreciate that you just like to talk about apple, because I like listening to you =) Keep up the good work👍

[@zheyuanlin6397]

The glory days of games like INFINITY BLADE are gone.

[@JohnDeLeon28]

If it runs better on iPad Air M2 than on iPad Pro M4, an update from the game developer should fix that problem

[@Aziz4art]

I think you can play at 60fps by changing the settings in the config file of the game I’ve tried it in RE 4 remake now I can play it at 60fps (I have the M2 iPad Pro 16gb)

[@MrMacRight]

No you can't with this one

[@tens3482]

People shouldn’t be okay with the forced black bars on the iPad versions.

[@GC2TEJJ]

M4 Crashs on all Setting??

[@dymos7750]

Perhaps this micro stutters occur on the m4 iPad because ist the 8 gb ram version. The main point there is that it’s only got 9 and not the regular 10 core cpu of the „normal“ m4. The critical point ist that Apple reduced 1 performance core of the 4 regular cores to only 3. That could lead to the micro stutters.

[@Faycalboukert]

Battery thing is so annoying

[@563-UNNI]

I can’t move from the black void that comes just after opening along the intro of the game I have already purchased it What should I do

[@ThePioneer89]

Plays pretty well on my m2 ipad pro no lags smooth gameplay

[@infernonine]

I’m having constant crashes like every 15 to 20 minutes on my 512gb m4 iPad Pro. Having trouble getting through the game because I have to go back to saves and checkpoints. Tried rebooting the iPad and reinstalled the game several times. I hoping we get a fix for this crashing. At least I got it for the initial $25 and not $50.

[@marcovvu]

Same here, putting it down until I hear about a patch that fix this, it has to be se optimisation issue for sure as the m4 just came out and was I guess rush by Apple to launch the iPad with AI features, so developers did not get to play with it

[@whattehrhell]

Idk why but my iPad air is getting constant 30fps(it seems so) and I am fine with it

[@3monsterbeast]

This game needs heavy optimizations. This is obvious by how similar the performance ranks across devices

[@DisasterMaster3K]

These iOS versions of these triple A games are more expensive than the pc /console versions

[@VehbiCanarslan]

Its 25 bucks now and console verision is 50

[@DisasterMaster3K]

@@VehbiCanarslan not resident evil village. It’s 60 on ios and 29 on console and 49 on pc

[@reda497]

In my opinion m4 needs to be optimized

[@greggately5782]

Ubisoft better put an update out to fix the micro stuttering..I also have incurred this and there’s no reason this should be happening on the more powerful of ipad pros. I bought the M4 so I could experience this higher quality games better. And it’s not like they aren’t charging full price either. Sure, a discount for the first 20 days or something, but it’s a $50 game with additional dlc. Ubisoft just needs to make it a smoother experience e on the M4. No excuses.

[@greggately5782]

@GarrusVakarian-to2uh I mean, I hear ya…but I just paid $2k for the M4 and skipped the M2 because this should be able to handle anything they throw at it. There’s still no logical reason assassins creed should have frame skipping like it does. Both the resident evil games I’ve played (resident evil 8 on max graphical settings) perform and look fantastic on the M4. I just don’t think they optimized correctly for the M4. An update is needed and I agree with Mr Mac.

[@pvdgucht]

Crashes often on my M4 iPad Pro, kinda sucks. And why can’t we have full screen like death stranding and why not full graphics control like in resident evil village. Do better developers. Still happy they are porting all these games though 😁

[@pvdgucht]

Thinking its maybe the 8Gb limit on my iPad that is causing it to crash. Idk seems to happen often in challenging scenes right after a few frame drops. When I restart the game 2 times than it works again and I can keep playing. Idk why this is happening.

[@pvdgucht]

Looks like you have the same crashes. I hope they fix these issues for the M4, i’ll put it aside for a few weeks and revisit it later hoping it will be fixed then..

[@YoutubeUniverse]

It’s so fun that we have games like this on an iPhone, common rockstar optimize GTA V already yall will make so much money 😩

[@TLSYoutube]

To be honest it’s impressive you can play a AAA game on an iPad that’s fanless and not dedicated to playing games

[@alexythimia23]

Cant wait to play on my m2 ipad pro, i really am a tablet gamer have been for years since the ipad 2 i never looked back lol

[@Amirhoseinmax]

I have a question, What was the temperature of your iPhone while playing?

[@DesmondNevergaming]

Around 20 degrees

[@TechNowOrLater]

Yeah, I’m getting the crashing on iPad. 11 M4 as well. I think I’ll just not play it for a while until they update it.

[@GC2TEJJ]

Me too😢

[@yabito]

Is playable with controller connected? Like xbox or ps?

[@v1tek725]

I wonder does it run slightly better on 15 pro max than of 15 pro, because of bigger cooling surface

[@sportaffe]

On my iPhone 15 Pro the game looks like.... Reminds me on the old PSP days early 2010. What is this? And the frame drops are crazy. The performance is really bad. I was really hyped. But this is ....

[@KicksonAcapulco13-no5rd]

True but still awesome 🙂Mobile market is targeted at small, simple, freemium games - sad, but true. There was some tires to bring AAA games to smartphones, but without great saling success. Apple is trying to bring high-budget games to mobile devices once again, and it’s a great idea…but probably after this few tries, the idea will die again. Smartphone market is too much focused on small freemium games.

[@SpacePlushy]

I have a fully specked iPad Pro 13 inch and I get the stuttering more than you do in this video

[@AmonRoxx]

Thank you for your work

[@leelanzini]

Great tests!! I have two things to say. 1, Can the M4 iPad Pro run at 720p? If not then maybe that will help. 2, This needs some patch updates but it’s still very impressive that it is playable! 😁

[@TedLau-qs2vk]

They should put for all 15 series.

[@taylor91192]

once you purchase the full version on iOS, can you play this offline/without wifi? Everything I am seeing online says you need wifi for the free trial, but no mention about the full version. Thanks again, this is a great review!

[@lllllll5990]

Should be able too as u can on the pc / console version only online part really is the cloud saving

[@taylor91192]

@@lllllll5990 Appreciate it!

[@mohitramani]

My 15 pro just crashed heats up terribly

[@BrasilEmFatos]

imagine being able to emulate Nintendo Switch on iPad Pro and turning it into a Portable console

[@YeboMate]

Maybe the game didn’t just lock FPS but also locked CPU/GPU usage (if that’s possible)? That might explain the random stuttering even with higher end M chips.

[@catluvr8875]

i thought there was going to be a mac version?

[@PartyofNone]

did you test power draw on iphone or ipad? also my iphone was crashing like your m4 ipad

[@gabrield4892]

Can you run it on Apple Vision Pro? Nope, for some reason you can’t run the iPad version on it either.

[@bullittproof]

Great video! Has anyone told you that you sound a lot like Hamish from Viva La Dirt League!

[@Zoolookuk]

I have the same stutter on my M4 iPad Pro. So I was pretty shocked to learn that this device only has 8GB of RAM (I have the 512GB Storage option. I understand if you get 1TB you get more RAM... I guess that makes sense to someone at Apple?)

[@Samala250]

I really do enjoy your videos, thank you!

[@GameplayTubeYT]

As android user I'm jealous iphone can do what Handheld Windows PC can do!

[@lucaschaijunxian2252]

Should I need to buy again when I brought it in pc before

[@sheesh9050]

no

[@lllllll5990]

If u enjoy it and have a device that supports it n wanna play it on the go id say go for ir

[@FanShowSix]

RAM is the main problem in m4 iPad pro

[@ALYTV13]

I wonder if its possible to cramp the 11" iPad pro into something like backbone one or razer kishi v2?

[@MarcoAppleMania]

Honestly I buy it immediately, 25 fps is good for a single player game, considering that a lot of games came out with this frame rate even on pc and console

[@Pitsy]

Does it need a live web connection to play….

[@Josh-is8it]

Is absolutely nobody having the “not enough storage” problem or is it literally just me? 😂

[@thebigcj517]

Imagine paying $60 for a game with bad graphics, bad resolution, and bad framerates up to 15 FPS. What is Apple?

[@BlammoGer]

You sound butthurt 😂

[@h4rt360]

They should have given us option to run 60 fps!!! I could literally attach a cooler for 15 20 dollars just to play this game

[@arafat375]

Wait till mX chip for local mobile gaming

[@ddl25]

looks like there is some optimization issues with M4. Hopefully an update can fix it.

[@sam95bjk3]

Battery drains quickly in this game

[@i-lik-maney]

@@sam95bjk3 did you get the full game? I‘ve completed the demo in about 4 hours and had to charge up once, so about 2 hours from 80 to 10% on a base m4 13“

[@froysting1700]

Guys 60fps will come in soon, just patience. In Warcraft also was 30 later they added 60 I see the will add

[@mazen-11]

no they won't , the phone can't even maintain 30 fps how they gonna make it 60? + warcraft graphics are a joke compared to this game , 60 fps won't happen

[@jimmyzbike]

@mrmacright will the Riven remake release later this month be available for macOS?

[@phantomfreak0813]

Very good video as always!

[@bibekbasa]

it's crashing on my 15 Pro after playing for 15 minutes. Any advice?

[@KicksonAcapulco13-no5rd]

At this point - cooling your phone. Maybe future patches will balance it.

[@雪鷹魚英語培訓的領航]

Crazy that they pour so much money into making this stuff, and don't make it run well before shipping.

[@Orca774]

Have to wait till ipad m10 to be able to play it at native resolution 60 fps

[@scottgray9674]

No universal purchase on Mac sucks. Not even hitting 30 fps when games like Alien Isolation or Genshin can run butter smooth at 60 also sucks. Just doesn't seem like care was put into this port at al. Thanks for the video!

[@tyrcipher8811]

Alien Isolation is an PS3/360 era game, and Genshin Impact is a game designed internally for mobile devices far older than the current modern one…

[@qpdb840]

It works on a modified iPhone 12 that thinks it’s an iPhone 15 don’t know why they locked it

[@arunaudi9768]

Finally, iPad pros actually have a use for normal people

[@MrMacRight]

Most people don't play AAA games on iPad though

[@LS-ku9xk]

Yay, apple developers and silicon valley are finally realizing that most new gen handheld devices now are still stronger than a console years ago. Just stupid that the 2020-2021 iPad Pros had plenty of power but I could only play phone games.Good to see a lot of tech giants learned it is stupid to limit a device's capabilities just because its a phone or tablet

[@RohanPL]

I mean it has big potential, but not yet.

[@behcetaycicek5784]

i play it on my iPad Air m1 2022 and it looks awful in medium and low graphics i think its 600p. in high graphics 1080p but awful fps. Couple more years and games look nice and playable fps rates.

[@davidhorinek]

I just tried it on iPad M1 with 8 GB of RAM and I feel like it has around 25 to 30 fps. Not unplayable but really not pleasant :(

[@VehbiCanarslan]

I think its okay in medium settings but still waiting for the improvments

[@C0LPAN1C]

I’m playing via Steam Link thru Ubi connect on my iOS device. 60fps 21:9, 2580x1080. Need solid network tho.

[@cristianJoker2512]

imagine after 5 min starting to feel the burn from the iPhone 🤣

[@denisruskin348]

The iPhones are so not ready for these games. All the results I've seen were unplayable for my taste. But anything using a M2 seems to be enough for a good 30fps experience. Hopefully the iPhones 16 Pro improve in GPU perfomance so these games can be enjoyed.

[@Tinky13_12]

Why no 60fps

[@MrMacRight]

Did you watch the video?

[@rituseth3109]

Doesn’t look like 600p native tbh on iPhone

[@hahahihi486]

I am happy with low setting on my M1 😂

[@mrmack3176]

Image buying the new iPad that cost more then 2 ps5s and can't even run this game