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Thanks for sharing it.
Keep in mind the DPI scaling override would be a solution in case someone has Windows scaling set to more than 100%.
Often happens on 4k screens or laptops where Windows by default set 150% or more.
Some games or other software does not run well when scaling is not set to 100%.
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Hello. I didn't know where else to put this. So please if these needs to go so where else please do. I just want to say this issue is getting bloody annoying.
I have tried all of this and many other ideas none have worked so far.
I got a Breakpoint Trial years back and just recently got the game completely on Steam.
Though I have never run breakpoint -besides the trial. Anyway when I try to run the game and it goes to sync with saves and the cloud the game crashes. The splash screen is as far as it ever gets. It doesn't matter if I try to launch from Steam or Ubisoft Connect first or use Vulcan or DX11 -neither makes a difference. Anyway here is the message at the top of the crash window:
!!!CrashReporter.WindowName!!!
I have tried repairing the game. I went to my app folders and deleted EVERY Ubisoft and Ubisoft Connect folders. I then reinstalled and updated UC, Uninstalled UC. Reinstalled UC. Updated Steam then Reinstalled Steam. Same results: As soon as it starts loading the little splash screen the game crashes giving a submit a crash report window.
Aside those things I have tried reinstalling the VS C++ Redistributals. I also Reinstalled Direct X. I Tried not running UC first and then having it run first and then putting Steam first -neither worked. I just tried and it seems the same with Farcry 6 but I CAN get The Crew 2 and Assassins Creed Odyssey to run just fine.
I should say my PC setup as such:
Windows 10 1909
AMD 5900X
Geforce 3070TI -556.12 Driver -even DDU'd it
96 GB of RAM.
I have SIX hard drives -with multiple partitions so my drives in the OS read as: A B C D E F G & H
MY UC and Steam are NOT on the C drive. They are on my B drive.
MY Steam Library is on my A drive.
The other drives are for work, video, audio and the editing there of -not to mention an overflow drive.
It's likely why you're having launch problems.
First thank you for the sound response. When you go hardware level deep into something. You don't stop to think IT could very well be something this simple.
Two questions: When did GRB stop supporting 1909?
Also has M$ changed their update status to allow your settings and EVERYTHING you have tweaked in the OS to remain UNCHANGED in updates or do you have to go and undo the crap they change and programs they reinstall and does any tweaks you have made even stay through it?
I am a Techie and it will sure be a chore if that is what I have to do. It will take me days to tweak everything back to how I like the OS if so. I have done about 100 to 200 reg edits, I have Removed Cortana, XBOX STORE. Windows Update, Windows Defender and many of the 8wekyb3d8bbwe & cw5n1h2txyewy folders from the SystemApps folder and some cosmetic things as well. This is usually about a 12 to 48 hour process depending on what time I have and how many times i have to set permissions on all the drives and letting it all go through the command lines.
Since the OS works pretty well for everything else I have to do and especially for working.... To reinstall the OS for just these two games it may just not be worth it. Thank you for your insight.
And any tweaking, debloating, running privacy scripts is also just bad practice in general, you really run the risk of breaking Windows in unpredictable ways. There is negligible performance gain in doing so too.
So you don't know the date that GRB removed 1909 as viable? Noted. I guess as I said I will just not worry about this game anymore and put it into my hidden games list.
As to tweaking and OS in general....
I have to disagree about tweaking an OS. Now sure it may be bad for the average illiterate in computers' computer user -That I won't deny BUT if you really know and I mean REALLY know what your doing its actually quite a good practice and leads to increased performance that while marginal is still a performance boost nonetheless. For instance I only have 26 Background and 75 Windows Processes running currently which to me is better than having 150+ on each out of the box with a fresh Bloatware M$ OS install. As to privacy scripts? If you mean the permission thing -that is to be able to gain access to files WIndows in its supposedly almighty wisdom doesn't want you to have access to. I will not be restrained from messing with what files I want to mess with -if that breaks it... so be it and then work can be implemented to fix everything -even if that means I go on sabbatical for a few days.
My point is with each thing you break you learn how it works a bit more each time and yes in the past I have broken 1909 several times. This OS has been tweaked multiple times thorough out the years. I have carried it over from different hard drives and different PC's keeping a list of modifications -cloning when I can -doing new installs when only absolutely necessary and performing the necessary modifications. And IF I end up having to do a reinstall I still try to keep them at least a few years apart and for when I have the time for implementing all the tweaks. Something unattainable at this time -as I am sure you are aware life can get busy.
I have built my own machines and different versions of windows many times over for nearly three decades. I have under clocked and undervolted CPU's and GPU's to make them last decades -replacing fans on GPUS with 120's as they fail. I have been messing with Windows OS installs since the early 1990's and sure I have broken OS installs time and again. I even accidentally deleted the system.ini file back in Windows 95 days -a file that literally DOES break that OS. So I rewrote it and all turned out fine... Again if you don't intellectually learn you never intellectually grow. You never grow you never get better at what you can do.
Also about security... Most antiviruses and the ilk matter little these days and while it may be true that "bad" people will attack your system with viruses, worms, root kits, ransomware and the like the more current your OS and thus the need for Antiviruses and such. However if your using an antiquated OS your chance of being attacked goes down the more generations behind the current OS you are on that. For instance how many viruses out there do you still hear about attacking the small number users still on Windows XP? Not many I am sure. So maybe one day soon I will be in that group. I will play the long game if necessary but not be stupid enough to not back up my data for if that should occur though.
Also updating is downright annoying especially if you are in the middle of something and it goes and updates your system because you forgot to change active hours. Also if the area you live is rather remote and you are forced at times to use satellite or old DSL internet -which can be as low as 3Mb/s can make updates that should take no time -take hours upon hours. Also at those speeds if your using the internet for ANYTHING its like using Dial Up since M$ doesn't tell you with a prompt:"Hey PC user just so you know we are stealing your connect right now to send an update your way"... Not to mention the update wiping out the custom settings already in place -so time consuming to undo. So again for efficiency sake updates are a hard pass.
From past experience the older an OS gets the more unstable it runs. However this OS seems to have the opposite issue. This system runs vary smooth now compared to when it was first installed with no tweaks. I would probably use the phrase that it seems to have aged like fine wine. Does it have its quirks? Yes. It doesn't like Facebook which causes BSOD -MB microphone port related I am certain. I was using Windows 3.1 till 96. Windows 95 till 98. Windows 98SE till 2002. Windows XP till 2009. Windows 7 till 2019 and Windows 10 till now. Alas I have never been an early adopter of an OS and even with Windows 10 going EOL it will definitely be better than using Windows 11 even that once good looking games are null in void now.
What you need is a reality check, updates are here because they're needed. If you're going to strip down a multitool to a single philips screwdriver, it becomes pointless.
My only advice for you is to clean install Windows 10 or W11, then move on to SteamOS or something if you don't like it.
While I thank you for your advice its rather impossible to do right now as I stated already. I will still watch this thread just in-case a dev steps in and says it could be something just as mundane as a possibility aside the 1909 or confirms it. Though till such a time as that I will remand this game and Farcry 6 to the Hidden Games of Steam.
I do not need a reality check. I also know the Windows OS and what breaks it though I am not someone who is easily understood. I hope the following makes things more clear. Granted I apparently do not easily communicate my points. Ending up with paragraphs that most will never read or even if they do never really try understand in the first place.
As to the multitool comparison of a OS - I like that comparison though in deviation. A multitool with one attachment would be just as useless as a multitool with 300 functions. A situation I hope you would have to agree should be lessened to a more usable degree. Either of those is a pointless tool to me and the 300 version is what I would consider Windows 10 and 11 out of the box.
Which is what I rectify in my editations: a refined Win 10 version that actually serves the purposes I need it for -without bells and whistles that are actually annoying. Especially the UAC -which does have a good purpose but having it pop up for every install -even if its the rudimentaries of 15 Visual Studio installs is annoying inefficient. Just as is having Cortana, Bing or XBOX store installed if you don't use them.
With XP I am sorry but as far as I have seen from my experience is a fact: XP was attacked more back in the day when it was POPULAR than it is NOW. And if someone IS using it... I doubt the level of attacks are equal to ones that Windows 10 or even 11 suffer from now. Which I doubt or at least have not seen as the case in my experience whether or not they could even be considered equal. Its like the old phrase Windows 10 and 11 are lit up like a Christmas Tree where Windows XP is only a single burned out bulb on the same tree. Who would the villain see first in that scenario?
Now I grant that MS tries so hard to put everything they can in an OS to make it appeal to all but in doing so will tick some off. Especially with updates -which no matter how you cut it are intrusive and take away time you could be using your system for gaming or other. MS used to do standalone OS and those actually make sense to me so if you want to consider it that way then I make Windows 10 as a stand alone. As also stated I see updates as annoying. If you like them then use them. I will on the other hand always gut Windows update.
Sure there are those who will either begrudgingly use Windows latest version or hating the direction move to Linux or Mac or just go and live in Nature. I however don't have a grand for a new Mac that has programs I require or the patientce for distros and command line inputting everything without some automation. Not to mention I have a life outside of Steam and MUST use this PC for other than just Steam and video games -so SteamOS is a no go either. I also will not be defined by what is necessary or acceptable so sure I will use Win 10 1909 but since I have the know how I will set it up as efficient for me to use and in the process make it streamlined as possible. Maybe in a year I will take a look at 21H2 -it should be in my modify window by then but for now it will have to remain 1909. Which reverts me back to the first paragraph I wrote outside of the spoiler section.
Again if this doesn't make any sense don't be alarmed. You don't have to agree. I am me not a MS drone.
I will add a couple of things from myself regarding the 1909 build.
The drivers that you use are probably new, and most likely newer than 1909 end of support.
It means, neither Nvidia, AMD, Intel or your motherboard's manufacturer will verify if their new drivers work on an obsolete Windows build.
This will cause issues, Period.
I do understand your point of view, of course, but it does not change the fact you are using an OS which hardware manufacturers do not test for their software releases.
Also, our Ubisoft Connect is constantly developed and updated. We do not test it's compatibility with an out-of-life Windows build.
It's not that the game dropped support for 1909. Microsoft and everyone else did.
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I know people like to keep current on OS builds. Though I have gone through it enough to know exactly what will happen if I do install a new version. I will get frustrated at the chunkiness and instantly go to tweaking the OS and before you know a few days will have passed: Tunnel vision on getting what I want accomplished: No eating, drinking or sleeping till its done. REALLY doesn't help if you get insomnia when your really working on something you love doing or you start on a weekend and miss work on Monday since your still at it. I know some who are the same with their cars. My OS and PC are my car but me being a Techie what can there be said bad about that.
Though what you say makes sense maybe I am too current on Motherboard, CPU and GPU drivers. I will trying a downgrade maybe that will undo the issues. I will report back later when I have the time but for now back to work.
Sincerely,
Vazul Macgyver.
I do understand your passion for light and clean OS.
I hope you will figure something out.
Do let us know.
All best.
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