As reported by VGC, Microsoft updated its support website to reveal it has placed a temporary block on Windows 11 for users with those games installed.
“After installing Windows 11, version 24H2, you might encounter issues with some Ubisoft games,” Microsoft said. "These games might become unresponsive while starting, loading or during active gameplay.
"In some cases, users might receive a black screen. The affected games are Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Assassin’s Creed Origins, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Star Wars Outlaws, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
If it’s related to anticheat, I wonder how they do it on consoles.
Probably, it’s not needed because consoles are more locked down I guess…
This why kernel level anticheat is the stupidiest idea. It’s already hard enough to have the developers coordinate on a mission critical component of the OS. Now imagine dozens of profit hungry, lowest effort publishing companies all meddling and putting their greasy hands into that code at the same time. No, thank you.
are these games even multiplayer? is it anti cheat or anti piracy?
I believe Ubisoft considers these games as “life service,” despite them effectively being single-player.
Kernel-level anticheats are specifically anti cheat. Although, if you take cheats to kernel level, they become anti-cheat in name only. For all the normal players out there, it is practically malware. No software ever should have permissions to track everything you do, see everything you have, and brick your OS just because.
Finally a good Windows update.
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Curious as to why this happens. My bet is on Ubisoft tampering in windows kernel space. Probably some copy protection or anti-cheat BS
Aren’t all of these SP games? The fuck they need anti-cheat for?
It’s probably kernel level anti-piracy shit, but same results.
Ubisoft sells cosmetic stuff in their singleplayer games.
Most of it gets cracked anyways though, but I guess lol shit reason for them but only explanation.
They only need to make sure it’s difficult enough the average user can’t be bothered to figure out the workaround. I’m sure without looking they made a considerate sum from the neglected children market.
I was curious too, and… Avatar appears to have a co-op mode. Not really high stakes for cheating.
Yeah, probably. I’m ready to bash Microsoft, but when the opponent is Ubisoft I’m holding my horses. Ubisoft is cancer.
It was interesting learning about the insane shit firewalls and drivers did prior to vista.
They confirmed this last week. Just because IGN wants their daily clicks, doesn’t mean we should keep re-posting the same news.
First I’m hearing of it.
Congratulations?
Terminally online ^ this guy
Donuts has a total of 300 comments, to your 1.50k. Compared to you he’s online for an hour a week.
Comment ratio is not an indication of whether someone is online, just whether they feel the need to comment a lot. I tend to spend the same amount of time reading whether I’m commenting or not.
Lurkers can be terminally online.
If someone is going to try to make fun of another person for being “terminally online” it does matter.
Seeing the same news posted two days later is considered terminally online?
How can we have a discussion about news if we pretend whatever we discussed yesterday doesn’t exist anymore?
If there was a new development I wouldn’t speak up. But this is just a different outlet posting the same news story, only two days later compared to the rest.
Its like sometimes people don’t see every single post.
I agree, but why does that mean we need to regurgitate the same news stories every few days?
Is it the same user posting both?
If not, they most likely missed the first one. I doubt most people check whether something that looks new to them has already been posted.
Do you want people to post the same news story every week in case you happened to miss it?
I don’t care if different people do or don’t post it multiple times across multiple days. I already get to see some cross community duplication, so someone posting because they are late to the game gets lost in the noise.
It isn’t like a discussion can only happen one time and if people miss it then they are out of luck. If someone posts late and nobody wants to engage the repost will fade off into obscurity.
