Ubisoft games installed on a drive other than C:

[tectix]

So I was wondering if anyone has a solution to the following problem:

No ubisoft game (save for Rayman) works if installed on a drive other than the C: drive on my computer. Here's what happens if I do:

Assassin's creed: I can open the game, select a save file, then it gets stuck on the loading animation...forever.

Every other Ubisoft game (other ACs, Far cry 2/3/BD, Splinter Cell, : Game opens for 1 second while the screen adjusts, then "[Blank] has stopped responding"

Does anyone know a fix for this? Is it Uplay? Is it just the games?

[tectix]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bad-Motha:

Has nothing to do with which drive is installed to; the issue is Uplay needs to be on C Drive. Uplay Game Client install location is where your saved games go for those games, but a Uplay game can be installed anywhere of your choosing.

I don't know if you didn't read the above comments or just failed to absorb them, but we have been over this. Uplay is on the C: drive and has been on every other drive in every conceivable way several different times with no change in progress. Literally nothing changes when uplay is on a different drive. Everything that works when it is on the C: drive also works on the E:, F:, and any other drive. I even installed it on my network drive for ♥♥♥♥♥ and giggles and the games worked perfectly fine as long as they were on the C: drive. The problem is that the GAMES seem to HAVE to be installed on the C: drive alone in order for them to work properly or at all. It has nothing to do with Uplay at all, whatsoever. And back to the 'we've been over this' part, I have already done the administrator permission stuff. It was literally the first thing I did. I gave administrator permissions to everything (Uplay included). It did not solve the problem.

Thanks for trying though.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von gpavlidis94:

http://www.partition-tool.com/resource/GPT-disk-partition-manager/convert-gpt-disk-to-mbr-disk.htm
I used the first solution,but there are three I think.Use whatever you find easier.

Thanks for the answer! I'll try it ASAP

[gpavlidis94]

Let us know how it turns out!

[Here comes Johnny]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von gpavlidis94:

After a lot of months searching for an answer I found out that you have to figure out the D(E,F or anything) drive as MBR and not GPT in order for Ubi games to work on a hard drive other than C.I tested it and it works for EVERY Ubi game out now.

No, seriously that solved it? Just no Ubi. I can't comprehend the level of fail that happened to Ubisoft. What piece of **** software did Ubi produce there? It's like 2 or 3 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ layers below their layer of interest.
Partition Table type(GPT) -> Partition Table -> Partition -> File System(NTFS) -> ... -> UPlay.
How did they manage that this chain fails when it doesn't start with MBR but GPT. This is beyond anything I have seen.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The issue with Ubi games is Uplay; this needs to be on C drive.
I have tried it on other drives and while it seems to work at first, run into problems later down the road.

Steam Client and the Ubi games themseleves can be installed on any drive letter though.

Best bet is to uninstall Uplay properly and then install it to C drive.

Shouldn't have an issue doing that in order to fix the games, even while the games are already installed elsewhere; as that shouldn't matter cause each game install location is noted somewhere in the registry. So just make sure Uplay Client is installed to C and that there are not multiples of it on the system.

For example I had installed Far Cry 3 on E drive and at the time it installed Uplay, which I also put on E drive. Later on I installed Assassins Creed 4 and for some reason it went and installed Uplay on C drive and then was always running it from C; then when I'd load up Far Cry 3, my saved games were missing, cause they were in the Uplay folder on E still.

So yea just install Uplay to C and it'll work without major issues.

Do not let a game install Uplay Client; get the latest version from Ubisoft.com or Uplay.com

[SinisterEvil]

I installed Assassins Creed 2 to my F Drive (not C) and it plays fine :) Windows 8

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von SinisterEvil:

I installed Assassins Creed 2 to my F Drive (not C) and it plays fine :) Windows 8

Again, where u installed the game too doesn't matter. It matters where the Uplay Client is installed to, which is why people end up having problems.

[Here comes Johnny]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Bad-Motha:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von SinisterEvil:

I installed Assassins Creed 2 to my F Drive (not C) and it plays fine :) Windows 8

Again, where u installed the game too doesn't matter. It matters where the Uplay Client is installed to, which is why people end up having problems.

Sigh, some people can't read. We have already established that at least for 2-3 people, the problem was the partition type. According to them what they wrote: GPT .. game crashed. MBR .. game worked. The problem is rather, game installed on some other drive than Steam or system disk (don't know from the info given) -> Wrong Partition Table Type (GPT) -> boom.

Ursprünglich geschrieben von SinisterEvil:

I installed Assassins Creed 2 to my F Drive (not C) and it plays fine :) Windows 8

Maybe because, it uses the MBR Partitioning Scheme?

Ursprünglich geschrieben von a.k.a. Dead:

Hmm, very interesting thread. Not to add to your misery but I should mention that I have Windows 8.1 x64 on my (C Drive) 120 GB Samsung and UPlay installed only on my (E Drive) and I haven't had any issues playing my Ubi games.

Ditto.

If I was bored more, I would Boot into Windows and test it myself, althugh, on another thought, I can't probably test it, because I avoid Ubi/UPlay games like the church.

[turohabaneero]

i moved them from :C to :D and everything ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up so i just had to install them again

[Lootporszívó]

Has MBR,still crash

[nealiosis]

I know this thread is really old but I figured since this is still an issue for me I'd add to this. People on reddit and neogaf are all quick to point out how they have Ubi games on non primary drives and they work fine for them.

My D: drive is a software RAID formatted with GPT. It must be GPT since it's 8TB in size. Of course that 8 TB is kind of useless since almost all AAA games don't work if installed there. None of the Ubi games other than Rayman and Child of Light work, None of the Saint's Row games work, Call of Duty: Ghosts doesn't work, pretty much every game that is a small indie game does work but any game that is a big AAA game doesn't work.

I have no solution but I've tested this over and over again across Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 and this isn't an issue if you have a regular drive formatted with MBR but if you are using Microsoft Storage Spaces software raid formatted with GPT then forget about installing or running your games on that volume.

[tectix]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von nealiosis:

I know this thread is really old but I figured since this is still an issue for me I'd add to this. People on reddit and neogaf are all quick to point out how they have Ubi games on non primary drives and they work fine for them.

My D: drive is a software RAID formatted with GPT. It must be GPT since it's 8TB in size. Of course that 8 TB is kind of useless since almost all AAA games don't work if installed there. None of the Ubi games other than Rayman and Child of Light work, None of the Saint's Row games work, Call of Duty: Ghosts doesn't work, pretty much every game that is a small indie game does work but any game that is a big AAA game doesn't work.

I have no solution but I've tested this over and over again across Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 and this isn't an issue if you have a regular drive formatted with MBR but if you are using Microsoft Storage Spaces software raid formatted with GPT then forget about installing or running your games on that volume.

I haven't had this problem for a while now. I think windows 10 fixed it.....

[nealiosis]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Tectix:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von nealiosis:

I know this thread is really old but I figured since this is still an issue for me I'd add to this. People on reddit and neogaf are all quick to point out how they have Ubi games on non primary drives and they work fine for them.

My D: drive is a software RAID formatted with GPT. It must be GPT since it's 8TB in size. Of course that 8 TB is kind of useless since almost all AAA games don't work if installed there. None of the Ubi games other than Rayman and Child of Light work, None of the Saint's Row games work, Call of Duty: Ghosts doesn't work, pretty much every game that is a small indie game does work but any game that is a big AAA game doesn't work.

I have no solution but I've tested this over and over again across Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 and this isn't an issue if you have a regular drive formatted with MBR but if you are using Microsoft Storage Spaces software raid formatted with GPT then forget about installing or running your games on that volume.

I haven't had this problem for a while now. I think windows 10 fixed it.....

I'm on Windows 10 and just last night I tried to play Call of Duty: Ghosts for the first time and it failed. I also installed Assassin's Creed Unity last week and on my D: drive. The game just loads an infinite black screen loop. Oddly, reinstalling it on C makes the game work flawlessly.

[Hootaloo]

I even still had problems with child of light, and it took me hours to fix them.

[nealiosis]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von nealiosis:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Tectix:

I haven't had this problem for a while now. I think windows 10 fixed it.....

I'm on Windows 10 and just last night I tried to play Call of Duty: Ghosts for the first time and it failed. I also installed Assassin's Creed Unity last week and on my D: drive. The game just loads an infinite black screen loop. Oddly, reinstalling it on C makes the game work flawlessly.

Yea, I'm on a clean installation of Windows 10 Pro and nothing has changed for me. I was shocked when Call of Duty: Ghosts booted up correctly from my D:\ volume! But then I tried to play it and the audio is messed up and and the game glitches out during the first mission.

Every game I've tried since installing Windows 10 does this: Hyperdimension Neptunia, Assassin's Creed: Unity, Far Cry 4, all of them.

That hasn't stopped me trying though. My 256 GB SSD is completely full so I always install to D: and try it. Most games though, just crash with a not responding error or just load a black screen.

[agrash]

They still haven't solved this problem yet..??



I have 118gb on my "C:" and only have 200mb left atm since AC:Unity is installed on that hard drive.
Every other game or game client (steam / gog / battle.net) works perfectly on my gaming "E:" drive. Haven't tried ea's origin though