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Without u-play you would have to buy dlc's for Ubisoft games, thanks to u-play you can earn your dlc for just playing ubisoft games and earning u-points, then using them to unlock exclusive content and dlc's.
Maybe you should see a techy about your derpies.
Also, the uplay launcher is clearly Ubisofts fault. You shouldn't blame steam or valve for that. Steam might have taken part of your money when you bought a game, but Ubisoft got the most of it.
Unfortunately this is Ubi's prerogative, until there is a reason for them to bypass Uplay. I suggest you contact them and (very politely) request that there should be an option to skip the launcher for use with steam.
For now, you have two options, however! After running the game the first time (Uplay DRM stuff) you can launch the game from the executable directly. I haven't got AC3 downloaded yet, so I haven't tested it with that, if that is where your issue lies.
The second option is the one I have, is using JoyToKey to set up profile to allow me to use my controller as a mouse only when Uplay is the active window. This is so useful for many applications with big picture. It's free to use but I recommend throwing the dev the money he asks for as it is a solid product, if you enjoy it yourself.
There might be others, who else has some ideas?
Yeah, his DLC counterargument is a bit silly, not to mention provably false.
I sympathize with the OP, but my main complaint about Uplay games sold through Steam is redundancy -- not only do we have to deal with the Steam client when we launch those games, but we have to deal with the Uplay client as well. I'd rather Ubisoft just stop selling Uplay-enabled games on Steam altogether. Either that or remove the Uplay client requirements.
By that logic, Big Picture's existence is pointless.
Uplay client negates what Big Picture does. :/
I'd rather have Ubisoft games sold on Steam. I tried to buy games on UPlay, and it was a hassle. Even UPlay on the browser gives me problems when I try to buy from there.
Steam is neat.
Not only that, but when you buy a Uplay-enabled game through a third party (other than Steam), you need a separate downloader in order to install the game because Uplay doesn't allow for serial key entry.
One more note on the Uplay client for games sold on Steam: it's a segregated client, meaning it's only associated with your original Uplay account by name. It doesn't include your primary Uplay library, and it doesn't include any of the reward points you've amassed with your non-Steam Uplay games. You can't share points between clients, which sucks.
Uplay needs a lot of work.
I bought Assassin's Creed 4, Splinter Cell Blacklist and many other games from uPlay and being a loyal steam user, I added the game to my steam library by clicking on
"ADD A GAME" > "Add a Non-Steam Game" > select the .exe file of game > "Add Selected Programs"
The recent uplay update (not sure about the date) changed certain things, and UNLESS your ubisoft game is bought directly on steam, clicking on the .exe file of Uplay game will no longer launch the game but instead open uplay client and the client only. To play the game you will have to either:
- click on the games tab in uplay and select the desired game
- click on either the .exe file or click play in steam for a second time after the uPlay is open.
To fix this you need to open the notepad.exe (it comes with windows, if u didn't know), and then type the following:
@echo off
start "" "X"
TIMEOUT Y
start "" "X"
The X is the location of the .exe file. U can obtain this easily by creating a shortcut of the target .exe file and go to properties of the shortcut. Copy the line that corresponds to Targets. After the X is replaced you can delete the shortcut you created, since its not needed anymore. Remember to replace both X-es. It is also important to realize that each ubisoft game have several .exe files that opens the game, if one of the exe file didn't work, use another. For example in the case of Assassin's Creed 3, the "AssassinsCreed3.exe" didn't work but "AC3SP.exe" did work.
The Y is the waiting time before starting the .exe file a second time in SECONDS. This value varies from computer to computer, as it depends on the speed of your computer hardware. You can determine this value by timing the time it takes to open uplay (from the moment you click on the .exe file until uplay finishes launching). For me it takes 8 seconds, so the value of Y for me would be 8. Unit (seconds) is not needed here. Feel free to add one second to this time if you are worried that uplay might not always start as fast as the time you timed.
After you replaced X and Y, SAVE THE FILE AS .bat
This is very important, because otherwise it would be treated as a regular text document.
To give you an example, I will show you my batch file (I named it "AS3.bat"):
@echo off
start "" "E:\Ubisoft\AC3SP.exe"
TIMEOUT 8
start "" "E:\Ubisoft\AC3SP.exe"
Yours should look the same, except the exe location and time.
Test the batch file by clicking on it. It should work.
Finally add this file to your steam library. Choose a custom grid image for it so it looks good in grid view and big picture mode (this is not necessary). Oh and when you add it to steam make sure you choose ALL FILEs, so it doesn't just show .exe in the Add a non steam game screen.