Microsoft pauses Windows 11 updates for PCs with some Ubisoft games installed

Nov 24, 2024 06:10 AM - 2 weeks ago 18467

Microsoft has stopped offering updates to Windows 11 type 24H2 connected PCs that person definite Ubisoft games installed, Bleeping Computer reports. The institution made the move aft complaints that Star Wars Outlaws and games successful the Assassin’s Creed series were crashing aft installing the caller Windows update.

Microsoft confirmed the “compatibility hold” successful a status update yesterday evening, and says it’s moving pinch Ubisoft to find a fix. In the meantime, the institution recommends against installing the Windows 11 24H2 update manually.

Here is Microsoft’s explanation of the rumor and games affected:

After installing Windows 11, type 24H2, you mightiness brushwood issues pinch immoderate Ubisoft games. These games mightiness go unresponsive while starting, loading aliases during progressive gameplay. In immoderate cases, users mightiness person a achromatic screen. The affected games are: 

• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

• Assassin’s Creed Origins

• Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

• Star Wars Outlaws

• Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

Ubisoft wrote successful an update connected Thursday that it had released a impermanent hotfix (version 1.0.4.0), but says players “may acquisition immoderate capacity issues” until it has figured retired a imperishable solution.

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