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If you were one of the many people with an Nvidia card who purchased a copy of Assassin's Creed for the PC only to discover numerous graphical glitches and crashes, you can breathe a sigh of relief as the upcoming patch will be addressing many of your concerns. 

Ubisoft "believed" that the cause of all the graphical problems was Direct X 10.1 which gave a nice boost in performance to anyone with an ATI Radeon HD 3000 series card.  Ubisoft then announced that their upcoming patch will remove support for Direct X 10.1  Ubisoft issued a statement justifying their removal of Direct X 10.1,

We’re planning 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.

The Folks at TG Daily were skeptical of Ubisoft's claims and did some investigating of their own.  They concluded that,

... There is a great game, but it is burdened with technical issues and ends up getting caught in marketing wars. We have no doubt that the development team made a mistake in QA process and integrated a feature that caused instabilities with Nvidia cards. Given Nvidia’s market share, Ubisoft had to patch it. What we do not understand is the reason for an explanation that left more questions than answers.

You can read the entire article here: Ubisoft caught in a little Assassin’s Creed scandal