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Ubisoft blames Skype, MSI Afterburner, Discord and more for possibly causing performance issues in its games

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We all know that Ubisoft is a company that is well known for its unoptimized PC games. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla had performance issues, the latest Far Cry games have been mainly relying on one CPU core/thread, most of its games use VMProtect and Denuvo which bring an additional CPU/memory overhead, and the list goes on. And, funnily enough, Ubisoft states that some of the most popular third-party programs may be causing performance or crashing issues.

Yesterday, Ubisoft support shared the following tweet. As the team specifically says, the following third-party programs may introduce performance or crashing issues.

Here is the list of programs that Ubisoft shared.

Ubisoft blames third-party programs

In short, Ubisoft is blaming all of the third-party programs that PC users currently use. Instead of trying to fix these compatibility issues, Ubisoft suggests disabling these programs. And that’s our biggest issue here. Ubisoft, and every company, should make sure that its games are compatible with these programs (or that they at least don’t cause any performance issues).

Ubisoft should also identify and fix the stuttering or performance issues of its games. For instance, Assassin’s Creed Origins had fewer stuttering issues in its Denuvo-free version. Far Cry 6 also has stuttering issues on both PC and consoles when loading new areas. Watch Dogs Legion also initially had CPU-related issues (though a post-launch update improved things). These are not the result of a third-party program running in the background (unless we list their DRMs which Ubisoft has, cleverly, avoided mentioning).

What’s also ironic here is that Ubisoft has listed BitTorrent and uTorrent. So, how on Earth could these programs introduce performance issues (unless we’re talking about online-only games. If you download at maximum speed, you’ll have latency issues. But that can also happen when downloading via Steam)? Because to me, this feels like VMProtect and Denuvo possibly causing issues/crashes the moment they detect a torrent client.

For what it’s worth, Ubisoft has not stated yet whether it will fix the performance/optimization issues of Far Cry 6. The team hasn’t even shared any news or details about the game’s first post-launch update.

Lastly, other companies have also listed these programs for potentially causing performance/crashing issues. And, to Ubisoft’s credit, MSI Afterburner can indeed cause launch crashes. However, it does not introduce any performance issues. Still, and if you have trouble launching a game, we suggest taking a look at the list.

77 thoughts on “Ubisoft blames Skype, MSI Afterburner, Discord and more for possibly causing performance issues in its games”

  1. Hahahaahah…right right UBI-Soy..don even think on blaming it on the DiVerSe “Developers”
    UBI Soft once a giant….now a pile of garbage

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  3. The thing is… Who is still gives a fk about ubis#!t or what ubis#!t do or think of… to hell with your games, specially the new ones

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    1. you just dont get it ubisoft will release the next ac game and it will be set in japan and then everyone will get a massive soy face that they can play a samurai ninja game that is as huge as this one, aka being at the size of witcher 3 and skyrim and they will buy it.

      This is what usually happens.

      This post is semi sarcastic.

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      1. There too late. I doubt if they ever do it that will come close to Ghost of Tsushima that while has it’s own problems make Ubisoft titles look worse than they already are, and that’s saying something.

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    2. “Who is still gives a fk about ubis#!t”

      The millions of sales of their games from The division series, tom clancy ranbow six siege, watch dogs, far cry, etc?????

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      1. Those don’t count, nobody cares! Just like Warzone was supposed to die, and countless other games were going to fail.

        It’s almost as if, Video Games went mainstream a long fu*king time ago, and these troglodytes refused to leave their cave to see what was actually happening outside of their echo chambers to notice this fact.

        This is a fact – the average video game player doesn’t care, know of, or could even tell you what the f*ck optimization is or what it even does.

        This stuff is irrelevant to them, so Ubisoft will always be massively popular.

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        1. your comment is feelings based which I reject. I care about numbers. Its irrelevant if you think nobody cares, YOU may not care, but you have to provide data or evidence for your claim. Ubisoft’s games sell millions of copies and bring in TON of revenue and their market share keeps increasing NOT decreasing. So yes millions of people do care. If they didnt care they wouldnt be selling millions of copies of their games. Valhalla so gangbusters, rainbow six siege sold and still sells gangbusters, extraction I will predict sell gangbusters, watch dogs legion sold almost 2 million, far cry 6 name alone will make it sell millions, so please stop the nonsense.

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          1. For f*ck sake I am f*cking agreeing with you, sarcastically. Jesus Christ. The point was, that Video Games have gone Mainstream, the masses now play them and have received them, and regular people don’t give two f*cks about the deeper more technical side of video games. So even trash games, unless they’re straight up broken like Cyberpunk, are generally always going to sell from this point on.

            These games will continue to dominate and sell and they will probably never go away other than maybe the IP being slightly tired, and then being shelved for a few years only to bring then back.

            If COD can d*mn well push out 20+ games within the same IP, borderline being the same game, than so can Ubisoft.

          2. ok. Cant tell sarcasm these days because most are mentally ill. But even cyperpunk sold well and that I believe is due to a huge amount of promises AND cd projekt red’s legacy.

    3. Unfortunately most gamers STILL DO! Every time i play a Ubisoft game I feel dirty. get the sudden urge to scrub my computer with Sensodyne. SO i just stop playing their rubbish.

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      1. Last game i’ve played from Ubi was Far Cry 3 and i didn’t finished it, found it extremely boring (and this is just my opinion) but i still play from time to time their old masterpieces like POP or AC and the list is pretty big 🙂

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    1. VMProtect which does virtualization on executed code, but yeh the cucks know that’ll clash with VMWare but don’t want to mention it.

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  14. Never buying another game from them. Far Cry 6
    has been out how long now, and still not a single optimization improvement or ability to run the game at highest settings on a powerful machines. Choose HD textures or play in 2k. Idiots!

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  20. I really thought they were turning sh*t around with supporting Vulkan in R6S and GRBP.
    Yet they’re pulling a Tod Howard CreationEngine fast one, by heavily patching up Dunia and AnvilNext, instead of recoding and optimizing.

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  21. Long time since Ubisoft made a good original game.
    They add DRM on a bad optimized software and blame others.

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  23. Reeeee your 3rd party software is messing up our 3rd party DRM making the game run even worse reeee!!!!
    Get rid of them you bigot and stop complaining about performance!!

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  27. Ubisoft is irredemeable just as EA and Activision.
    They either need to be restructed or just fold already.

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    1. yes but when it comes to ea, they dont do much these days except battlefield and trying to revive bioware now that they lost their star wars license. Also sports games and if you buy those you need to be tied in a chair and have your balls whipped like daniel crieg in casion royale. Activision on the other hand has blizzard and cod. Meanwhile ubisoft makes a ton of large open world games every game.

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      1. dont forget about milking remastered and remake … Big publisher modus operand for lazyness to invest in better game

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    2. They have a license to print money with assassins creed and farcry. I was at a party a few weeks ago and saw some zoomers playing the new farcry. They sat stone faced watching the TV, just walking driving around aimlessly, randomly attacking outposts, not even clearing them out. No joy, no tension,no frustration. Just pure indifference. It went on like that for 40 min until they got bored listening to a NPC ramble on in a destiny style quest screen.

      I cant believe people keep buying this ugly, boorish sh1d. This open world stuff needs to die ASAP

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      2. The issue with Open Worlds is that they can be good if done right.
        But they’ve become a template thanks to Ubishaft and GTA.

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  30. MSI AB seems to have compatibility issues with some Radeon GPUs, just last day I had a client who was getting black screens on his 5600xt because of MSIAB. Uninstalled it and i set the fan curve from the driver.

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  31. “you see morons vmware bad but vmprotect good”

    Yeah sure think ubiscum

    This company patched rainbow six vegas 2 crashes by using a crack.

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  32. List Virtualization software as a performance degrader in their games yet slap on VM protect that does just that. What a bunch of clowns!

    They forgot the category DRM – Denuvo in that list and it would not surprise me if their implementation is worse than average

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  33. Oh, OKAY, but in no way could it ever be that Draconian DRM Denuvo that’s already been shown time and time again to be the root cause of performance issues in games. Just like the newer Tomb raider games that had Denuvo recently removed it and have shown a drastic performance boost without Denuvo. But hey UBI, keep on blaming everyone else for your $hit copy protection. At least other companies after a year or so remove their DRM’s unlike you UBI who don’t give a Crap!.

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  34. Never buying another game from them. Far Cry 6
    has been out how long now, and still not a single optimization improvement or ability to run the game at highest settings on a powerful machines. Choose HD textures or play in 2k. Idiots!

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  38. Oh, OKAY, but in no way could it ever be that Draconian DRM Denuvo that’s already been shown time and time again to be the root cause of performance issues in games. Just like the newer Tomb raider games that had Denuvo recently removed it and have shown a drastic performance boost without Denuvo. But hey UBI, keep on blaming everyone else for your sh*t copy protection. At least other companies after a year or so remove their DRM’s unlike you UBI who don’t give a damn.

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  43. Not using any of them but nice try.
    I use discord but only the browser version, and i close that when i play games.

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    1. Ubisoft claims that the DRM doesn’t have an impact on game performance. I hope you’re not questioning their honesty /s

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