As reported by VGC, Microsoft updated its support website to reveal it has placed a temporary block on Windows 11 for users with those games installed.
“After installing Windows 11, version 24H2, you might encounter issues with some Ubisoft games,” Microsoft said. "These games might become unresponsive while starting, loading or during active gameplay.
"In some cases, users might receive a black screen. The affected games are Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Assassin’s Creed Origins, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Star Wars Outlaws, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora.
dustyData@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This why kernel level anticheat is the stupidiest idea. It’s already hard enough to have the developers coordinate on a mission critical component of the OS. Now imagine dozens of profit hungry, lowest effort publishing companies all meddling and putting their greasy hands into that code at the same time. No, thank you.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
are these games even multiplayer? is it anti cheat or anti piracy?
Mistic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I believe Ubisoft considers them as “life service,” despite them effectively being single-player.
It is specifically anti-cheat. Although, if you take cheats to kernel-level, it becomes anti-cheat in name only. For all the normal players out there, it is practically spyware.
Sabata11792@ani.social 1 month ago
Its anti “going around our profit structure”. Got to make sure they can’t bypass paying for skins in a single player game.
surph_ninja@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah, but I’m loving shoving this in the face of everyone who gave us shit when we told them the Windows 11 TPM requirement was for OS level DRM.
Enjoy your shit sandwich, haters.
SquigglyEmpire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Huh? Where did you see anything related to TPMs in this story?