Five of French publisher Ubisoft's biggest titles were experiencing serious problems with Windows 11 24H2. Things are a little better, but not quite there yet.
Every major Windows update is subject to various problems. In the majority of cases, things go rather smoothly, but some unlucky people are confronted with much more serious problems. To avoid any "major" problems, this time it's Microsoft that has taken the lead, and since the release of the 24H2 update for Windows 11, gamers with certain Ubisoft games installed on their machines simply couldn't deploy the operating system update. We're talking about five Ubisoft games to be more precise: Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Assassin's Creed Origins, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Star Wars Outlaws.
Microsoft explains that the update has been blocked on affected machines because, " these games may stop responding on startup, loading or during active play. In some cases, users may receive a black screen ". Let's face it, the problem is a bit embarrassing! Fortunately, the Windows publisher and Ubisoft have obviously worked hard to ensure that the games in question will soon no longer pose a problem, and that the Windows 11 24H2 update can once again be deployed on these PCs. Over the last few days, Ubisoft has been able to publish so-called " temporary " patches for two of the five games concerned, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Star Wars Outlaws.
" Temporary " in the sense that the patches do not represent a full update: they allow installation of the 24H2 update, but Microsoft specifies: " Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora are no longer affected by this problem thanks to temporary patches deployed by Ubisoft. While these fixes mitigate crashes, players may still experience some performance issues ". Given that these games can already be very demanding in terms of system resources, it's not clear that this solution will be to everyone's taste... bearing in mind thatAssassin's Creed players will have to be patient in any case. Well, you'll have to admit that the whole thing looks pretty bad.
