Assassin’s Creed Syndicate doesn’t start, crashes when starting the game or hangs on the loading screen? If that is the case, then the following help and solutions may be able to help you. The blockbuster in the form of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate has finally been available on the PC for a few hours now, after the game has been playable on the PS4 or Xbox One for a few weeks. After there were some problems with the start of AC Unity last year and many players had to deal with crashes, stutters or other bugs, a lot is said to have changed this year and that is probably the case.
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate problems – what to do? (Image: Ubisoft)
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate doesn’t start or crashes – what to do?
So far there have been only a few reports of real problems with the launch of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. Occasionally there are messages that the game cannot be started or hangs in the main menu or when starting the game at the Assassin’s Creed logo. We have summarized known solutions to the problems in the following paragraphs.
Update graphics card drivers
In the last few days, new graphics card drivers from NVIDIA and AMD have been released for the published blockbuster games such as Fallout 4, Star Wars Battlefront and Call of Duty Black Ops 3, which not only apply to the games mentioned but also to Assassin’s Creed Syndicate have been optimized. There are isolated reports on Reddit that Assassin’s Creed Syndicate stutters or occasionally hangs and crashes. According to reports, an update to the graphics card drivers is said to have solved the problems. The AMD Catalyst driver with the version number is recommended 15.11.1 Beta to install. For all owners of an NVIDIA graphics card Geforce Gameready Driver 358.91 WHQL recommended.
Install day one patch for Assassins Creed Syndicate
A day-one patch with version number 1.12 has been released for Assassin’s Creed Syndicate. According to the changelog, the patch only fixes a few minor problems and makes some optimizations here and there, but the patch is said to bring numerous improvements, especially in connection with multi-GPU operation via SLI or CrossFire. Previously there were also other day-one patches with other bug fixes, which come to a total size of around 1 GB for the PC version of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate.
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate crashes in the main menu
A few days ago a workaround was published on the Ubisoft website when AC Syndicate crashes in the main menu when you press the continue button. The workaround or temporary solution to the problem can be found below Post on the Ubisoft website read up. The game crashes apparently do not affect the PC version but only the PS4 and Xbox One versions.
Assassin’s Creed Syndicate won’t start: Your experiences and problems
Otherwise, no other problems are known yet and the reports of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate not starting, crashing or hanging are limited. If there are other problems in the coming days for which solutions are already known, we will add them here.
What experiences did you have with the PC version of AC Syndicate? Is the game not working for you? Does it crash in certain places or hang somewhere with a black screen? Feel free to write your technical problems related to the game in the comments. Maybe there are already one or two players with similar problems and solutions are already known.
