MS confirms Win 11 24H2 update blocked on PCs with Ubisoft games

[Sledge Hammer!]

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-24h2-update-blocked-on-pcs-with-ubisoft-ac-star-wars-games/

"After installing Windows 11, version 24H2, you might encounter issues with some Ubisoft games. 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
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

To safeguard your Windows update experience, we have applied a compatibility hold on devices with these games installed. These devices will not be offered to install Windows 11, version 24H2 via the Windows Update release channel."

[Vox Maximus]

Welp.

No problems with other games. Ubisoft fix your cr@p.

[ZGremlin]

Fortunately there is a fix until MS/Ubi can fix this..

https://www.nexusmods.com/starwarsoutlaws/mods/37?tab=files&file_id=116

[Vox Maximus]

Originally posted by ZGremlin:

Fortunately there is a fix until MS/Ubi can fix this..

https://www.nexusmods.com/starwarsoutlaws/mods/37?tab=files&file_id=116

Vk3d? That's gonna be bad for performance

[Infrasound]

Originally posted by Vox Maximus:

Originally posted by ZGremlin:

Fortunately there is a fix until MS/Ubi can fix this..

https://www.nexusmods.com/starwarsoutlaws/mods/37?tab=files&file_id=116

Vk3d? That's gonna be bad for performance

^ this

[cbiocca]

And this is why Win11 is crap.

[Sledge Hammer!]

Originally posted by ZGremlin:

Fortunately there is a fix until MS/Ubi can fix this..

https://www.nexusmods.com/starwarsoutlaws/mods/37?tab=files&file_id=116

Users report that the Vulkan mod doesn't work on RTX 4000 cards, and only works on a few RTX 3000 cards.

The hotfix Ubi released on Day 1 does seem to be working though. They said it was a temporary fix that might affect performance, but I haven't had any crashes since, and I haven't noticed any perceptible drop in performance.

[Scarlet Archon]

*laughing in Win7*

[MugHug]

I read that Windows Update would not apply the 24H2 to your PC if you have any of those games installed.

But even having four of those games installed, Windows Update still wanted to update my PC last night with 24H2.

So did Microsoft fix the issue or not?

[Coalfax [OTG]]

Either way, someone royally screwed the pooch. this kinda crap shouldn't happen.. ever. Launchers for companies are totally separate from an OS, ore at least are SUPPOSED to be. Fun times.

[Vox Maximus]

Originally posted by MugHug:

I read that Windows Update would not apply the 24H2 to your PC if you have any of those games installed.

But even having four of those games installed, Windows Update still wanted to update my PC last night with 24H2.

So did Microsoft fix the issue or not?

The problem is only with ubisoft games. It's up to them to fix it.

[Citizen Cook]

Originally posted by Sledge Hammer!:

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-24h2-update-blocked-on-pcs-with-ubisoft-ac-star-wars-games/

"After installing Windows 11, version 24H2, you might encounter issues with some Ubisoft games. 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
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

To safeguard your Windows update experience, we have applied a compatibility hold on devices with these games installed. These devices will not be offered to install Windows 11, version 24H2 via the Windows Update release channel."

Is this a joke?

[Vox Maximus]

Originally posted by MugHug:

I read that Windows Update would not apply the 24H2 to your PC if you have any of those games installed.

But even having four of those games installed, Windows Update still wanted to update my PC last night with 24H2.

So did Microsoft fix the issue or not?

It's up to ubisoft to fix the issue.

[Vox Maximus]

Originally posted by Citizen Cook:

Originally posted by Sledge Hammer!:

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-windows-11-24h2-update-blocked-on-pcs-with-ubisoft-ac-star-wars-games/

"After installing Windows 11, version 24H2, you might encounter issues with some Ubisoft games. 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
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

To safeguard your Windows update experience, we have applied a compatibility hold on devices with these games installed. These devices will not be offered to install Windows 11, version 24H2 via the Windows Update release channel."

Is this a joke?

It's not. Why asking?

[Flavalicious]

When your game studio is such hot garbage that your titles, and only your titles cause a stability problem with the an entire operating system.

KEKW

[IchigoMait]

Originally posted by ZGremlin:

Fortunately there is a fix until MS/Ubi can fix this..

https://www.nexusmods.com/starwarsoutlaws/mods/37?tab=files&file_id=116

That ain't a fix, that's a workaround, though Vulkan is prolly much better than DX12 with ubisoft games, as I've seen with Breakpoint.
But you can't use DLSS with that.