Assassin's Creed Patch to Remove DX10.1 Support

EDITORS NOTE: I was looking for information on benchmarking Assassin's Creed so that I might include it in our test group for video card reviews when I discovered this from the creators web site. Based on this new information, it appears the reliable benchmarks will have to wait until the game is "finished".

Ubisoft plans to release a patch for the PC version of Assassin's Creed that addresses the majority of issues reported by fans. In addition to addressing reported glitches, the patch will remove support for DX10.1, since we need to rework its implementation. The performance gains seen by players who are currently playing Assassin's Creed with a DX10.1 graphics card are in large part due to the fact that our implementation removes a render pass during post-effect which is costly.