Sony is giving Assassin’s Creed Shadows a visual boost on PS5 Pro, rolling out its upgraded PSSR upscaler to the game on April 7 as part of Title Update 1.1.9.

If you’re playing on PS5 Pro, this is basically a free image-quality upgrade for every graphics mode. The new PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) pass uses AI to analyze each frame pixel by pixel as it upscales, which helps clean up shimmering, flicker, and other artifacts that are often most noticeable in foliage, fine geometry, and ray-traced lighting. Ubisoft says environments now look sharper and more stable overall, with better reconstruction of small details and less of that “crawl” you sometimes see on distant trees or roof tiles.

The update doesn’t force you into a single “Pro” preset either. Assassin’s Creed Shadows keeps its three familiar modes on PS5 Pro — Performance, Balanced, and Quality — all using dynamic resolution, but the upgraded PSSR tightens up the final image in each of them. In practice, that means fewer trade-offs: Performance mode should still feel snappy while looking cleaner than before, while Balanced and Quality can push higher effective resolution without turning foliage or fine patterns into a noisy mess.

Where you’ll really notice the change is in busy scenes. Shadows leans hard on dense vegetation, particle-heavy combat, and ray-traced effects, all of which are historically tough on reconstruction techniques. Ubisoft highlights windy grass fields driven by its Atmos system, where individual blades now stay more readable in motion, plus more stable particles (smoke, sparks, dust) and less noisy reflections and ambient occlusion with ray tracing enabled. The studio also notes that dropping the new PSSR into the game was relatively painless on the development side, with minimal code changes but a “noticeable” upgrade in clarity across the board.

Zooming out, this patch is part of a wider push from Sony to make upgraded PSSR a standard feature for PS5 Pro owners. The same tech has already rolled out to games like Silent Hill f, Monster Hunter Wilds, and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, with titles such as Cyberpunk 2077, Alan Wake 2, and Control also on the roadmap. Sony says more PS5 Pro releases will ship with the enhanced PSSR baked in, so Assassin’s Creed Shadows is effectively joining a growing “PSSR-ready” club rather than getting a one-off visual treatment.

For players, the takeaway is simple: if you’ve been holding off on finishing Shadows’ campaign on PS5 Pro, April 7 might be a good excuse to dive back in and see Japan with a cleaner, sharper presentation — no settings overhaul required beyond grabbing the latest update.