{"id":65293,"date":"2014-05-29T16:37:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T14:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=65293"},"modified":"2014-05-29T16:41:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-29T14:41:13","slug":"watch-dogs-problems-ubisoft-working-on-fixes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/65293-watch-dogs-problems-ubisoft-working-on-fixes","title":{"rendered":"Watch Dogs problems: Ubisoft working on fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Ubisoft forum manager has posted a list of currently\u00a0<a title=\"Watch Dogs forum\" href=\"http:\/\/forums.ubi.com\/showthread.php\/882353\" target=\"_blank\">known issues for Watch Dogs on all platforms<\/a>, and will be updating the post as they are being worked through.<\/p>\n<p>While a couple of issues have been resolved, there are eight issues identified at the time of writing that are still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a summary of what Watch Dogs users are dealing with as of 28 May 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cVista SP1 or higher required\u201d error message when launching the game, even though the OS is Vista SP1 or higher.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[Status] In order to fix this, go to the game installation folder.<\/li>\n<li>Right click the Watch_Dogs.exe and click Properties.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the Compatibility tab.<\/li>\n<li>Check the \u201cRun this program in compatibility mode for\u201d checkbox, and select Vista SP1, SP2 or Windows 7 in the list.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Graphics driver crash on AMD video cards:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[Status] You should make sure to install the Catalyst 14.4 drivers that fix this crash.<\/li>\n<li>Please check AMD has released 14.4 on Vista, this may be an issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Not being able to download the game or being locked out of the loading screen<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>[Status] This issue is currently being investigated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>[SOLVED]PS4 digital pre-order Licensing \/ Unlock issue:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Users have pre-ordered the Digital version of the game, from the PSN store &#8211; however unable to unlock the game at release.<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/forums.ubi.com\/showthread.php\/881830-ps4-license-watchdogs<\/li>\n<li>UPDATED &#8211; MAY 28: [Status] SOLVED The Sony and Watch_Dogs teams were working continuously on this issue yesterday. As of last night, all of the pending pre-orders had been fulfilled and corrected &#8211; all users who were pending payment should now have the licence to play their purchased game.<\/li>\n<li>Sony exclusive DLC keys in retail boxes are NOW WORKING.<\/li>\n<li>Season Pass codes distributed in retail stores are NOW WORKING.<\/li>\n<li>If you are still experiencing this issue, please contact Sony Support for further assistance. Thank you!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PS4\/Xbox One\/PC &#8211; continue game &#8211; loading stuck at 90%<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When attempting to continue game &#8211; loading stops at approx 90%<\/li>\n<li>[Status] Issue reported &#8211; updates to follow.<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/forums.ubi.com\/showthread.php\/882580-Console-Game-stuck-on-loading-screen<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/forums.ubi.com\/showthread.php\/881641-PC-Game-stuck-on-loading-screen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PC &#8211; crash to desktop<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When starting the game &#8211; the game crashes to desktop with an error code.<\/li>\n<li>[Status] Issue reported &#8211; updates to follow.<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/forums.ubi.com\/showthread.php\/882242-Watch-Dogs-crashes-whenever-I-click-play<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PC &#8211; Unsupported Text Language<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Game crashes at start up with &#8216; unable to find supported text language!&#8217; error<\/li>\n<li>[Status]Issue reported &#8211; updates to follow.<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/forums.ubi.com\/showthread.php\/881773-Error-unable-to-find-supported-text-language<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PC &#8211; Disrupt _b64.dll crash\/error<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Game crashes with a &#8216;disrupt_b64.dll&#8217; error.<\/li>\n<li>[Status] Issued reported &#8211; updates to follow.<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/forums.ubi.com\/showthread.php\/881070-Anyone-else-with-game-crash-issues<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PC &#8211; Frame rate stutter on high end GPU<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Game stutters on ultra textures and other lower settings on certain hardware.<\/li>\n<li>[Status] Issue reported &#8211; updates to follow<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/forums.ubi.com\/showthread.php\/882517-Stuttering-gtx690-unplayable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PC &#8211; Crash to desktop when hacking signs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Game suffers a crash to desktop on certain graphics cards.<\/li>\n<li>[Status] Issue reported &#8211; updates to follow.<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/forums.ubi.com\/showthread.php&#8230;gns-causes-CTD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PC &#8211; Crash when loading on SLI\/Crossfire multi GPU systems<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Game crashes when loading if using SLi\/Crossfire linked multiple GPU&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>[Status] Issue reported &#8211; updates to follow &#8211; possible unofficial workaround by disabling SLi or Crossfire.<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/forums.ubi.com\/showthread.php&#8230;coloured-items<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Have you been experiencing problems with Watch Dogs?<\/h3>\n<p>Let us know in the following forum discussion threads:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Wacth Dogs PC issues\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/38407-Watch-Dogs-PC-launch-bugs-and-glitches?\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Dogs PC problems<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Watch Dogs PS4, Xbox One problems\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/38421-Watch-Dogs-PS4-Xbox-One-launch-a-bit-of-a-mess?\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Dogs PS4, Xbox One problems<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can otherwise let us know what you think of the game in this discussion thread:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Watch Dogs discussion thread\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/38127-Watch-Dogs-official-thread-%28PC-and-Console%29\" target=\"_blank\">Watch Dogs discussion thread<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Watch Dogs news<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Watch Dogs problems? Here\u2019s your SA support number\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65287-watch-dogs-problems-heres-your-sa-support-number.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch Dogs problems? Here\u2019s your SA support number<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/65187-watch-dogs-pc-launch-travesty.html\">Watch Dogs\u2019 PC launch travesty<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65085-watch-dogs-new-nvida-amd-graphics-drivers-released.html\">Watch Dogs: new Nvida, AMD graphics drivers released<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/65069-watch-dogs-review-roundup.html\">Watch Dogs review roundup<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubisoft support has compiled a list of known Watch Dogs problems that are being investigated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":65137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2219,733,5975,4771],"class_list":["post-65293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-megarom","tag-ubisoft","tag-uplay","tag-watch-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65297,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65293\/revisions\/65297"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}