FPS drops and crashes during cutscenes.

[KimSul]

During and only during cutscenes my game would get an FPS drop and twice during sequence three at the end of a cutscene the game would crash. Gameplay is fine though

Anyone else having this problem? Any fixes?

[Napoleon Zitrone]

I have the exact same problem... Did you find a solution ?

[KimSul]

Nope, it just stopped happening after sequence 4

[Ronin_100]

Same problem after sequence 4 also. Can't even get the game to run past the animated loading screen without a crash to desktop.

[KimSul]

This might help (it helped with the FPS problem), turn down the screen resolution by two options

[LedZepphead]

A couple things to try, if you have not already:

• Make sure Syndicate is installed on your C: drive (or your OS and Steam drive).
  
• Verify game cache.
  
• Disable cloud sync.
  
• Run Uplay and acs.exe as adminstrators.
  
• Disable Steam and Uplay overlay.

If you are still experiencing crashing after trying those, try this (from crashwiki):

1. Disable AV/Anti-Spyware.
   
2. Open Start > Run > type Msconfig > Startup tab and uncheck everything there, restart windows afterwards.
   
3. Close/Disable any OSD/Overclocking/Recording softwares (Fraps, MSI Afterburner, Gigabyte OC, Guru, Shadowplay,...) Disable Raptr (AMD users) before launching the game.
   
4. Go to [ACS Installation Folder]SupportSoftware folder and install DX and VC++.
   
5. Make sure you have .Net Framework 3.5 and 4.0 installed. for 3.5, go to Programs and Features and click on. Turn on/off windows features on the left, select .Net Framework 3.5 checkboxes and then press ok, for 4.0, download it from Microsoft website (Windows 7 only).
   
6. If you have your CPU and/or GPU Overclocked, then disable OC and run them at stock settings, reset bios to default if necessary.
   
7. If you have custom resolution and refresh rate defined in NCP or CCC then default it to native resolution and refresh rate, also if you have Nvidia Surround or AMD EyeFinity then disable and let it work on one monitor to see if thats causing the issue.
   
8. Disable SLI/Crossfire.
   
9. Disable voice chat from Uplay settings.
   
10. If running from an Administrator (from the previous steps) didn't work, try creating a new Administrator account in windows and try running the game from that aaccount.

For low fps, try lowering your settings and/or resolution, even if it says your within the recommended settings.

Good Luck!