Game is crashing? Here is the crash fix!

[[GER] derChat]

This solved the crashings for me:

1) Allow access to internet for these programs (see below) via Windows Firewall.
2) Then start 'gu.exe'

\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Blacklist\src\SYSTEM\
- Blacklist_DX11_game.exe
- Blacklist_game.exe
- gu.exe

\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\
- upc.exe
- WebCore.exe


Hope it helps everybody dealing with crashes since 2013.

[[GER] derChat]

Unfortunately you are right. But I experienced far less crashes this way. Sometimes none at all when I was playing for hours. I don't understand it...

[Sui]

I still have the game crash as well. What's best is that it's not some generic nicely handled code - it's just idiotic read from pointer that is set to null. So good job Ubisoft. I wrote a hack that checked if eax pointer was 0 and skipped rest of the function and while this prevented crashing mid-mission, the game still crashed at the end, as clearly - whenever the pointer gets nulled out, it's never restored or the new object isn't created to replace it.

https://twitter.com/Suicide_pl/status/1311995718362632193

Apparently running Uplay in offline mode can also help, but I haven't checked that yet - after all these are workarounds for an issue that is clearly on Ubisoft's side and wasn't caught in testing.

-- EDIT --
I spent 5 more hours debugging this trash. It seems to me that the game creates something resembling online lobby and then doesn't receive response from a server or something along these lines and just nulls out the pointer, cause even if you write additional check for that null and hack that in, the game will then crash on leaving the map in function nsOnlineMatch::StateLeaveLocalMatch. I've seen some claims as well on Ubisoft's forum that this issue happens in Deluxe Edition of the game, since I also can't join online mode, despite quadruple checking everything connection related to a point of disabling virtual network adapters for my VMs and shutting down firewall entirely together with Window's antivirus, running game and uPlay as administrator etc. just to make sure nothing stands in line of it achieving connection..