Comment on Windows 11 24H2 update blocked on PCs with Assassin's Creed, Star Wars Outlaws

mp3@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• sneezycat@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Guess again

  Microsoft is blocking the Windows 11 24H2 update on computers with some Ubisoft games, like Assassin’s Creed, Star Wars Outlaws, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, after changes in the operating system cause the games to crash, freeze, or have audio issues.

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  • jonathan@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My money’s still on Denuvo being the root cause.

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  • Glide@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t see how that statement refutes the problem being something to do with kernal level access. It’s entirely possible that the 24H2 update changed something that is playing poorly with the DRM in these titles.

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  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ???

    The kernel is part of the operating system.

    This is like saying “Think again! The car manufacturer said the car’s engine suffered a failure,” as a retort to someone asking if a faulty spark plug is the cause of the car not working.

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    • Damage@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You could have spared yourself that tangent just by clicking the link.

      The update does something that makes the games crash, the reason is not explained, but the “changes” mentioned in the sentence are the ones introduced by the update, not by the games.

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      • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes, so the update could still be to a part of the kernel that those games’ Denuvo implementations need to not change.

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