If you had been mid-campaign in certainly one of a number of Ubisoft titles affected by the Windows 11 24H2 replace, earlier than being rudely interrupted, I’ve some excellent news for you: Microsoft says the crashing issues are resolved—seemingly as a consequence of a plethora of hotfixes deployed by Ubisoft.
Star Wars Outlaws, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, Origins and Valhalla are stated to be fastened, after Microsoft beforehand prevented the replace from being utilized on machines with these explicit video games put in. The Windows 11 24H2 recognized difficulty web page has been up to date to mirror the resolved standing as of 17 January. According to MS:
“Star Wars Outlaws and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora are not affected by this difficulty as a consequence of momentary hotfixes deployed by Ubisoft. While these fixes mitigate the crashes, gamers would possibly nonetheless expertise some efficiency points.
“Assassin’s Creed: Odyssey, Origins, and Valhalla are not affected by this difficulty as a consequence of fixes deployed by Ubisoft. These updates have resolved the compatibility points with Windows 11, model 24H2, making certain that gamers can now get pleasure from these video games with out earlier disruptions.
“The safeguard maintain (ID 54437462) that was beforehand in place has been lifted as of 1/16/2025 to exclude these video games.”
Just as properly actually, because the Windows 11 24H2 rollout seems to have shifted up a gear. Windows Latest noticed affirmation that the troubled replace is now robotically downloaded and put in when Microsoft considers your gadget to be appropriate.
That’s for Home and Pro SKUs, anyway. Enterprise customers aren’t on the record simply but, and the rollout remains to be staged, so it may be some time earlier than it turns up on your own home PC.
Still, it is coming, so we will solely hope that extra of the continuing points are resolved in a comparatively well timed style. Several of us on the PC Gamer {hardware} crew have skilled a number of points for the reason that set up of 24H2, starting from recreation stuttering to odd mouse behaviour and stacked notifications, so it seems to nonetheless have the odd teething difficulty price holding a watch out for.
That’s a serious Windows replace for you, I assume. All of them appear to return with a buying record of assorted points, and giving the complexity of Microsoft’s OS and its rising function set at this level, I suppose it ought to come as little shock.
This explicit replace appears to have brought on extra points than most, although, so this is hoping Microsoft squashes additional bugs wherever it finds them. Or on the very least, exterior builders carry on high of points borking their merchandise, anyway.
