Crashes surely can't be that bad?

[Jack]

My friends and I would like to play this but we've seen all the reviews warning about crashing.
Is there really no fix? Has ubisoft acknowledged that they're working on a fix?

[bytesback]

Yes they are that bad and Ubisoft just ignore the situation.

[Zero McDol]

If the game doesn't crash then it will freeze. I have a RTX 3060, just to give some context, and the game still suffers from these issues. No matter your rig, the game will freeze or crash at some point.

I went from a crash or freeze every once in awhile to crashing or freezing once or twice per hopping on. As far as fixes, we'll see I guess. They're offering compensation, so clearly they are aware of the issues.

edit:
Of course, from what my friends have told me. This has been going on on consoles for a very long time.

[Wile E Coyote, Super Genius]

Nope.

[Jack]

Well that sucks. Thanks fellas.

[ConnorTheCone]

The game freezes sometimes, sometimes you have two in a row and sometimes doesn't in days.

In my case I had like 6-7 crashes in all my playtime.

I think that it depends in multiple things like what hardware do you have and the activity that you are doing.

Anyway, if you buy the game with the expansion be sure to complete the dark zone recon before playing the expansión, if not you will have them bug and you will be unable to go in all the DZs.

[ArmedGhost-]

Originally posted by Jack:

My friends and I would like to play this but we've seen all the reviews warning about crashing.
Is there really no fix? Has ubisoft acknowledged that they're working on a fix?

I have 2k+ hours. It's really not that bad. I crash maybe once a week if that. The only time it will 100% crash or freeze is when the game launches in Window Mode, it will freeze when I change to full screen and that's the only time I'll freeze for a while.

Even if it does freeze, it takes less than a minute to re-launch. The Division 2 is a great game and I would not let what others say about them discourage you from getting into it.

Now the issue that came up the other week about crashing, yes THAT was bad. Ubisoft published a statement saying that the game encountered a critial error when they ended Season 10 in which almost the entire player base was crashing and the game was down for about 3 days, but this has been resolved.

If you do get the game, be sure to disable Direct X12 rendering in the settings and play through the base story line and DO NOT skip into the NYC DLC.

[Malidictus]

It depends on what you mean by "that bad". The game crashes occasionally which is already not good. However, crashes have been fairly infrequent for me, and most of the time my progress is saved when I log back in.

My impression is that the game is either failing to load assets or suffering some kind of script crash in the background. It seems like the new development team are not so much "ignoring" the issue as they seem unable to fix it.

[ArmedGhost-]

Originally posted by Malidictus:

It depends on what you mean by "that bad". The game crashes occasionally which is already not good. However, crashes have been fairly infrequent for me, and most of the time my progress is saved when I log back in.

My impression is that the game is either failing to load assets or suffering some kind of script crash in the background. It seems like the new development team are not so much "ignoring" the issue as they seem unable to fix it.

Ubisoft identified the issue a few months ago and mentioned it's an error with Server/Client communication on their end.

When there's a dsync between the server and client, the game will freeze or crash.

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by LethalDiabetic-:

Ubisoft identified the issue a few months ago and mentioned it's an error with Server/Client communication on their end. When there's a dsync between the server and client, the game will freeze or crash.

They also mentioned "10 fixes" for that issue in one of the recent patches, though, so there may be something else going on. Would explain why I seem to crash more often teaming with friends from Australia, though.

[ArmedGhost-]

Originally posted by Malidictus:

Originally posted by LethalDiabetic-:

Ubisoft identified the issue a few months ago and mentioned it's an error with Server/Client communication on their end. When there's a dsync between the server and client, the game will freeze or crash.

They also mentioned "10 fixes" for that issue in one of the recent patches, though, so there may be something else going on. Would explain why I seem to crash more often teaming with friends from Australia, though.

Not too sure. The crashing isn't bad enough to not recommend Division 2 IMO.

[Mr. Ducky]

Really depends on the system I feel. I've had maybe a small handful of crashes in the time I've played (grinded through base game, base game endgame a bit, and recently finished WoNY) so I guess I've been one of the luckier ones. I'd say get it anyway, the game is really fun with friends. If it doesn't work out, etc. you can always refund within 2 hours.

[Jack]

I'd expect a game that's been out for 4 years to not crash.

Originally posted by LethalDiabetic-:

Originally posted by Malidictus:

They also mentioned "10 fixes" for that issue in one of the recent patches, though, so there may be something else going on. Would explain why I seem to crash more often teaming with friends from Australia, though.

Not too sure. The crashing isn't bad enough to not recommend Division 2 IMO.

[ArmedGhost-]

Originally posted by Jack:

I'd expect a game that's been out for 4 years to not crash.

Originally posted by LethalDiabetic-:

Not too sure. The crashing isn't bad enough to not recommend Division 2 IMO.

Photoshop has been out for over 20 years and still crashes on me. Software and game crashes should be expected, just like our cars will break down at some point.

If it bothers you that bad don't play it IDK. Games crash, it's not a life ruining experience, move on.


Not too sure where people today have gained this expectation where games and software aren't going to crash.

[Zero McDol]

Originally posted by LethalDiabetic-:

Originally posted by Jack:

I'd expect a game that's been out for 4 years to not crash.

Photoshop has been out for over 20 years and still crashes on me. Software and game crashes should be expected, just like our cars will break down at some point.

If it bothers you that bad don't play it IDK. Games crash, it's not a life ruining experience, move on.


Not too sure where people today have gained this expectation where games and software aren't going to crash.

This game crashes or freezes way more than a normal game. To date, no game that I have ever owned before buying this game, has ever crashed more so than this one in the two weeks that I've now had it. Heck, even The Crew 2 doesn't crash and that's from the same publisher.

There's normal bugs, glitches, freezes, and crashes and then there's this situation with this game, and this situation should not be normalized.

[Malidictus]

Originally posted by Jack:

I'd expect a game that's been out for 4 years to not crash.

That's the nature of Live Services. New content has the potential to introduce new bugs. Although to be fair - a bug that serious going unsolved for that long IS a very bad look. The last time the game crashed on me, it fully locked-up my system.