Ubisoft has finally rolled out fixes for multiple Assassin’s Creed games impacted by last year’s Windows 11 update. Both Assassin’s Creed Origins and Valhalla have been patched to get around the game-breaking Microsoft operating system patch, but a fix for Odyssey is nowhere to be found. The Windows 11 update quickly made an array of Ubisoft’s games unplayable, with the studio steadily deploying fixes to lessen the problem.
Last October, Microsoft began rolling out the Windows 11 version 24H2 update. Soon after, players started reporting that many Ubisoft games – including Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, Star Wars Outlaws, and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora – stopped working. The games were unresponsive, crashing, and some unlucky few were even stuck with a lonely black screen. At the time, Ubisoft deployed hotfixes for some of its games to mitigate the issue, but the AC series was left in the dark. Now, the Windows 11 24H2 issue for some of these stealth games has been fixed, but not all – yet.
New updates to the Steam versions of Assassin’s Creed Origins and Valhalla finally fix the compatibility issues with Windows 11 24H2, but Odyssey is nowhere to be found. So if you’ve been holding off on playing the other two because you’ve got 24H2 on your PC, now’s the perfect time to give them another go. I’ve checked around relevant forums, and it looks like some players are still having crashing and performance issues with the two patched AC games, but it’s unclear if that’s related to the Windows 11 problem.
Microsoft’s known issues page for version 24H2 still has Origins, Valhalla, and Odyssey all listed as the problematic Assassin’s Creed games. If you had any of these three games installed when the 24H2 issues emerged, Microsoft says it has applied a “compatibility hold” on your PC. It also recommended that you do not attempt to manually update to 24H2 until the issue is resolved.
We’ve already written about how Windows risks losing gamers to Linux if problems like this persist, as alternatives like the Steam Deck look better every day. One bad update doesn’t spell the end of the Windows dominance of the PC gaming market, but if it continues, that’s a different story.
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