Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs launched around the globe on 27 May for various platforms, and if the early reports and personal experience is anything to go by, it’s been a bit of a botch job on the PC.<\/p>\n
Message boards and Facebook walls<\/a> are filling up with complaints about Uplay server issues, game launch issues, random crashes, erratic frame rate performance, gameplay glitches, texture clipping – an ever expanding litany.<\/p>\n The extent of the problems are probably yet to emerge as more players pick up the game, but it’s already starting to smack of the Assassin’s Creed 2 PC launch and DRM debacle.<\/p>\n My own problems with the game included Uplay login issues and the show-stopping “disrupt_b64.dll” error which left me unable to play at all.<\/p>\n Various quick fix suggestions are popping up (I’ve tried them to no avail) but there’s nothing definitive and it seems like the game desperately needs patching, optimising, and the latest graphics card drivers as soon as they become available.<\/p>\n Ensuring your Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package, Microsoft NET Framework, and Direct X are up to date is also a good idea.<\/p>\n Ubisoft support staff on their forums are acknowledging the problems and asking users to submit information to help them fix it, so we can probably expect a number of patches to appear in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n The list below illustrates the various problems users are encountering.<\/p>\n Have you experienced any problems with Watch Dogs?<\/p>\n Is it understandable or acceptable for a big-name AAA title to launch with some problems?<\/p>\n Let us know in the comments and the forum.<\/p>\n Watch Dogs review roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n New Battlefield game titled \u201cHardline\u201d spotted<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Watch Dogs: new Nvida, AMD graphics drivers released<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nWatch Dogs launch issues<\/h3>\n
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