Do you believe in gremlins? In the late 1920s, British aircraft crews began attributing inexplicable malfunctions to these devious small creatures, and maybe it is time for Microsoft andUbisoftto get on with it, too.
Microsoft has been rolling out version 24H2 for Windows 11 throughout November, and what in summer seemed like a weird quirk affecting a few preview users has now been confirmed to bea major problem.
According to a message on the Microsoft support page,users who have installed Windows 11 version 24H2 “might encounter issues with some Ubisoft games”.
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The affected titles areAssassin’s Creed Valhalla,Assassin’s Creed Origins,Assassin’s Creed Odyssey,Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora,and, most notably,Star WarsOutlaws.
User reports show thatthe games hang randomly when loading, during menus, or gameplay sequences.
In more severe cases, this results in a black screen that may require restarting the computer.
The problems were first identified during the update’s preview period earlier this year, and it is unclear what motivated either Microsoft to move forward with its rollout or Ubisoft not todeploy a patchahead of the update’s public release.
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After it became clear that the problem was systemic,Microsoft acknowledged the issue and put update 24H2 on a compatibility hold.
This means that computers that have these games installed will not receive the update until Microsoft or Ubisoft find a lasting solution to the game freezes.
While this is welcome news for existing owners, it does little to protect users who buy or install the game after the update has been deployed.
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The timing could not have been worse, as major digital storefronts gear up for Black Friday sales that are guaranteed to include affected titles.
The biggest victim in the Windows 11 update blunder is likely to beStar Wars Outlaws, which is on an upward trajectorythanks to proactive management by new creative director Drew Rechner.
Ubisoft has rolled outa major title updatethat fixes the game’s problematic early forcedstealthmechanics and makescombat encountersmore dynamic.
Although update 24H2 is troubled,Microsoft is well behind CrowdStrike in this year’s blunder rankings.
The cybersecurity company rolled out a patch for Falcon Sensor that brought down over 8 million computers worldwide, many of them in critical infrastructure objects.
If you struggle to play Ubisoft games, try to roll back the update through the Recovery function.
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