Assassin's Creed 2007 Freezing on High End PC

[Livinginfictions]

I did an entire playthrough of this game with zero freezing, 33 hours of it. And then I started a new game and played 3 hours of it two days ago with zero issues. But now no matter what I do, i'm getting a 2-3 second freeze of the game every minute or so. In cutscenes, while running around, while standing totally still, in menus. No matter what.

This is a game from 2007, there is no reason I shouldn't be able (and i have before) play it on the highest graphics settings possible. I can't even look up what's wrong properly because since it's just called "assassin's creed" i get nothing but complaints about odyssey or Origins from my search results. I've even tried the suggestion from steam about editing the host file, and it didin't help. Please, does anyone know what's wrong?
Fixes tried:

Updating Graphics driver
Updated PC in general
Restarted Game
Restarted PC
Changed host file to include
216.98.48.18 127.0.0.1216.98.48.53
127.0.0.1216.98.48.57
127.0.0.1216.98.48.133
127.0.0.1216.98.48.134 127.0.0.1
Tried launching the game with Direct X9 instead of 10
Tried loading a different save that I know i didn't used to have this problem on to see if it was a corrupted save.
Tried uninstalling and reinstalling the entire game.
Lowered Graphics settings and Hz rate.

[Livinginfictions]

Okay so literally right after posting this, after I've spent two hours trying to find people talking about this freezing problem and only found stuff for Assassin's Creed origins and odyssey and valhall, NOW i see the post about how literally everyone is having this problem and it's because Ubisoft is updating something.
Putting steam in offline mode before starting the game SEEMS to have fixed the problem. NEw Question: WHY does this game need to contact Ubisoft servers?! It has no online play! It has no nothing! It shouldn't be trying to talk to ANYBODY.

[Kane]

This is not the weirdest issue. The weird one is the game keep constantly freezing for 10 seconds each several minutes and the only solution so far is disconnecting the internet while playing.

What made me stop buying any Ubisoft games is because the lack of quality control over their old games and maintenance. this issue has been going for long years now and Ubisoft never updated or solved the problems of their old games.

However I will try your method of going offline mode while playing and see if it also prevents constant freezing as it will allow me to use the internet on my PC while playing.

[Kane]

So I tried all the following things and it failed:

1- going offline mode in Ubisoft: Game still freezes

2- Blocking all connection for the game inbound and outbound: Game still freezes

3- I said to myself, you know I bought the game so using the cracked application to run this game wont be bad since the game is already bought. I tried and it... The game still freezes.

So the only solution is to turn off your internet. What amazing software engineering Ubisoft that requires such barbaric solution for your consumers to use your products.

[NCain]

I was getting ready to rerecord and finish out a playthrough — been having issues with MSI Afterburner and RTSS that have finally been fixed — when this issue randomly popped up for me too after breezing through a short free running test. I initially didn't think to check here because when it first started there was nothing for me too. Redid Afterburner, RTSS, and my graphic drivers earlier only to come back and find out that i'm not the only one having issues. Great for feeling better about it, horrible for timing lol

This is pretty serious and it is not a valid solution to tell paying customers to disconnect or go offline for one old game. I hope whatever developer(s) remain sort out something that messes with the very playability of the game regardless of OS seemingly.

[Livinginfictions]

Originally posted by Kane:

So I tried all the following things and it failed:

1- going offline mode in Ubisoft: Game still freezes

2- Blocking all connection for the game inbound and outbound: Game still freezes

3- I said to myself, you know I bought the game so using the cracked application to run this game wont be bad since the game is already bought. I tried and it... The game still freezes.

So the only solution is to turn off your internet. What amazing software engineering Ubisoft that requires such barbaric solution for your consumers to use your products.

Yes, unfortunately you're right. i thought the offline mode had fixed my problem, but as soon as I started playing the game properly it went right back to freezing. I believe you and I are talking about the same exact freezing problem. According to the other post i saw regarding this in these discussion posts, Ubisoft recently updated servers, so it's supposed to take a few days to uh..spread? to everyone? somehow? But yeah, in the meantime, the only way to get it to work is turning off your internet completely.

Which of course doesn't work for me, because the whole damn reason i was playing the game is to STREAM IT. So until it's fixed I either have to stream with this frankly unplayable freezing issue, or just not stream this game.

[Kane]

Originally posted by Livinginfictions:

Originally posted by Kane:

So I tried all the following things and it failed:

1- going offline mode in Ubisoft: Game still freezes

2- Blocking all connection for the game inbound and outbound: Game still freezes

3- I said to myself, you know I bought the game so using the cracked application to run this game wont be bad since the game is already bought. I tried and it... The game still freezes.

So the only solution is to turn off your internet. What amazing software engineering Ubisoft that requires such barbaric solution for your consumers to use your products.

Yes, unfortunately you're right. i thought the offline mode had fixed my problem, but as soon as I started playing the game properly it went right back to freezing. I believe you and I are talking about the same exact freezing problem. According to the other post i saw regarding this in these discussion posts, Ubisoft recently updated servers, so it's supposed to take a few days to uh..spread? to everyone? somehow? But yeah, in the meantime, the only way to get it to work is turning off your internet completely.

Which of course doesn't work for me, because the whole damn reason i was playing the game is to STREAM IT. So until it's fixed I either have to stream with this frankly unplayable freezing issue, or just not stream this game.

Ubisoft has been always using the "We updated the servers" excuse for like eons now for every single time something bad happens. However I say goodluck and I had to finish the game while disconnected. God I hope it does not have the same issues with the rest of the AC series because I am doing full run from AC till the end.

[gcontijoch]

I found the solution is updating the host file with the IP

203.132.26.155 127.0.0.1

After adding that line the freezing issue was gone.

[Livinginfictions]

Originally posted by gcontijoch:

I found the solution is updating the host file with the IP

203.132.26.155 127.0.0.1

After adding that line the freezing issue was gone.

I'm about to try this, but thank you in advance. I'm wildly curious how you even went about knowing which IP was mucking up and needed redirected? I've already got like 6 IPs i added to my host file from a previous fix suggestion from a decade ago or so. /o\ Slightly frustrated that I was doing the right thing, I just had the wrong IP.

[naomha]

Originally posted by Livinginfictions:

Okay so literally right after posting this, after I've spent two hours trying to find people talking about this freezing problem and only found stuff for Assassin's Creed origins and odyssey and valhall, NOW i see the post about how literally everyone is having this problem and it's because Ubisoft is updating something.
Putting steam in offline mode before starting the game SEEMS to have fixed the problem. NEw Question: WHY does this game need to contact Ubisoft servers?! It has no online play! It has no nothing! It shouldn't be trying to talk to ANYBODY.

Well, you solved my issue so thanks. Never try to understand what Ubi is doing. You'll drive yourself crazy. Not for nothing but the new Beta for Ubi Play is a little wonky and there's talk that the original AC doesn't play well with their distribution platform at all. I mean, it was originally released on Steam and Play wasn't even around then.

[gcontijoch]

Originally posted by Livinginfictions:

Originally posted by gcontijoch:

I found the solution is updating the host file with the IP

203.132.26.155 127.0.0.1

After adding that line the freezing issue was gone.

I'm about to try this, but thank you in advance. I'm wildly curious how you even went about knowing which IP was mucking up and needed redirected? I've already got like 6 IPs i added to my host file from a previous fix suggestion from a decade ago or so. /o\ Slightly frustrated that I was doing the right thing, I just had the wrong IP.

I found the IP using a tool called Wireshark. This tool is used to monitor all networking traffic from and to your computer (it's literally spying on yourself).

Then I played the game with this tool running and when it froze, I captured all the traffic in a file, then continued playing and when it froze again, I captured all the trafic in another file. I did this a couple of times and then started analyzing the files looking for TCP packets with errors or something weird. Well, I found that every time the game froze my computer was sending a TCP retransmission packet (may be an indication of a connection issue), to 203.132.26.155. I simply googled that IP and the first result mentioned Ubisoft, so I knew that was their server.

[Livinginfictions]

Originally posted by gcontijoch:

Originally posted by Livinginfictions:

I'm about to try this, but thank you in advance. I'm wildly curious how you even went about knowing which IP was mucking up and needed redirected? I've already got like 6 IPs i added to my host file from a previous fix suggestion from a decade ago or so. /o\ Slightly frustrated that I was doing the right thing, I just had the wrong IP.

I found the IP using a tool called Wireshark. This tool is used to monitor all networking traffic from and to your computer (it's literally spying on yourself).

Then I played the game with this tool running and when it froze, I captured all the traffic in a file, then continued playing and when it froze again, I captured all the trafic in another file. I did this a couple of times and then started analyzing the files looking for TCP packets with errors or something weird. Well, I found that every time the game froze my computer was sending a TCP retransmission packet (may be an indication of a connection issue), to 203.132.26.155. I simply googled that IP and the first result mentioned Ubisoft, so I knew that was their server.

Woah, that's some serious dedication! I've tried the fix, and after removing the #'s that I'd put at the front, it's started working, as best I can tell. I'm really thankful you found this. ♥

[Magpie]

Originally posted by gcontijoch:

I found the solution is updating the host file with the IP

203.132.26.155 127.0.0.1

After adding that line the freezing issue was gone.

Where do i have to go to change this ip ? sorry im a bit of a noob when it comes to changing game files . thank you

[Ashival]

Originally posted by gcontijoch:

I found the solution is updating the host file with the IP

203.132.26.155 127.0.0.1

After adding that line the freezing issue was gone.

That did the trick for me, thanks a lot

Originally posted by Magpie:

Where do i have to go to change this ip ? sorry im a bit of a noob when it comes to changing game files . thank you

Open Notepad as Administrator, and then open c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts
Just add that IP as a new line

[NCain]

Originally posted by gcontijoch:

Originally posted by Livinginfictions:

I'm about to try this, but thank you in advance. I'm wildly curious how you even went about knowing which IP was mucking up and needed redirected? I've already got like 6 IPs i added to my host file from a previous fix suggestion from a decade ago or so. /o\ Slightly frustrated that I was doing the right thing, I just had the wrong IP.

I found the IP using a tool called Wireshark. This tool is used to monitor all networking traffic from and to your computer (it's literally spying on yourself).

Then I played the game with this tool running and when it froze, I captured all the traffic in a file, then continued playing and when it froze again, I captured all the trafic in another file. I did this a couple of times and then started analyzing the files looking for TCP packets with errors or something weird. Well, I found that every time the game froze my computer was sending a TCP retransmission packet (may be an indication of a connection issue), to 203.132.26.155. I simply googled that IP and the first result mentioned Ubisoft, so I knew that was their server.

Bumping this again so that maybe some other users might actually decide to read it and the other discussions..

[Dank Farrik]

Originally posted by gcontijoch:

I found the solution is updating the host file with the IP

203.132.26.155 127.0.0.1

After adding that line the freezing issue was gone.

This totally worked !!! Thank god for smart folks such as yourself and thank god there are still folks out there still playing this game. I thought I was all alone.