{"id":65543,"date":"2014-06-04T15:12:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T13:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=65543"},"modified":"2014-06-04T15:17:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T13:17:34","slug":"watch-dogs-problems-remain-a-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/65543-watch-dogs-problems-remain-a-problem","title":{"rendered":"Watch Dogs problems remain a problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week on from its 27 May 2014 launch, and Ubisoft has yet to solve a number of bugs in Watch Dogs.<\/p>\n<p>From Ubisoft, gamers have had a few tweets, generic apologies, and promises of solutions in the pipeline, but nothing in the vein of a comprehensive communique acknowledging the problems or giving estimated time frames on fixes and patches. Meanwhile, Ubisoft has been pleased by the launch sales numbers\u00a0(to retailers mind) &#8211; <a title=\"Watch Dogs is Ubisoft\u2019s most successful launch title\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65559-watch-dogs-is-ubisofts-most-successful-launch-title.html\" target=\"_blank\">more than 4 million copies by their reckoning.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since I last checked into the\u00a0<a title=\"Ubisoft Watch Dogs technical support forum\" href=\"http:\/\/forums.ubi.com\/showthread.php\/882353\" target=\"_blank\">Ubisoft technical support forum<\/a> it seems the list of acknowledged issues has grown a little bit. The various problems are affecting users across all launch platforms, but PC gamers seem particularly beset by technical woes. The situation is echoed over on the <a title=\"Watch Dogs on Steam\" href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/app\/243470\/discussions\" target=\"_blank\">Steam support forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ubisoft has <a title=\"Ubisoft defends Watch Dogs PC performance, congratulates itself\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65343-ubisoft-defends-watch-dogs-pc-performance-congratulates-itself.html\" target=\"_blank\">previously promised a patch<\/a> to address poor performance issues on the not particularly well-optimised PC version of the game &#8211; a frustrating outcome for PC gamers who were pleased by the news that PC was the <a title=\"Watch Dogs: PC the lead platform\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/51133-watch-dogs-pc-the-lead-platform.html\" target=\"_blank\">lead development platform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Reading through a <a title=\"Ubisoft Watch Dogs technical support forum\" href=\"http:\/\/forums.ubi.com\/forumdisplay.php\/710-Technical-Support\" target=\"_blank\">plethora of complaints from players<\/a>, one of the\u00a0particularly annoying problems yet to make it onto Ubisoft&#8217;s list of issues being investigated is the complete loss of hours of game progress.<\/p>\n<p>As <a title=\"Eurogamer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2014-06-04-watch-dogs-loading-bug-blocking-users-who-redeem-uplay-rewards\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer reports<\/a>, Ubisoft has also acknowledged a problem with the game not working after players redeem some of Watch Dog&#8217;s Uplay rewards.<\/p>\n<p>A summary of the problems as acknowledged by <a title=\"Ubisoft Watch Dogs technical support forum\" href=\"http:\/\/forums.ubi.com\/showthread.php\/882353\" target=\"_blank\">Ubisoft&#8217;s technical support forum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Vista SP1 or higher required&#8221; error message when launching the game, even though the OS is Vista SP1 or higher.\n<ul>\n<li>[Status] In order to fix this, set the game to run in compatibility mode for Vista SP1, SP2 or Windows 7.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Graphics driver crash on AMD video cards:\n<ul>\n<li>[Status] You should make sure to install the Catalyst 14.4 drivers that fix this crash. Check AMD has released 14.4 on Vista, this may be an issue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Not being able to download the game or being locked out of the loading screen.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple Formats &#8211; continue game &#8211; loading stuck at 90%.<\/li>\n<li>PS4 &#8211; game does not load past 90%.<\/li>\n<li>PC &#8211; crash to desktop.<\/li>\n<li>PC &#8211; Unsupported Text Language.<\/li>\n<li>PC &#8211; Disrupt _b64.dll crash \/ error.<\/li>\n<li>PC &#8211; Uplay verify files loop.<\/li>\n<li>PC &#8211; Frame rate stutter on high end GPU.<\/li>\n<li>PC &#8211; Crash to desktop when hacking signs.<\/li>\n<li>PC &#8211; Crash when loading on SLI\/Crossfire multi GPU systems.<\/li>\n<li>PC &#8211; Dolby Digital 5.1 not working.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple formats &#8211; missing weapons after dying in an online match.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65531-battlefield-4-gets-netcode-improvement-patch.html\">Battlefield 4 gets netcode improvement patch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65509-batman-arkham-knight-delayed-but-gets-awesome-video.html\">Batman: Arkham Knight delayed, but gets awesome video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65453-mortal-kombat-10-announced-trailer-revelaed.html\">Mortal Kombat 10 announced, trailer revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week on from its 27 May 2014 launch, and Ubisoft has yet to solve a number of bugs in Watch Dogs<\/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":[21,2219,733,4771],"class_list":["post-65543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-megarom","tag-ubisoft","tag-watch-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65543","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=65543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65561,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65543\/revisions\/65561"}],"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=65543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}