Watch Dogs Legion constantly crashing

phillipc433 · January 14, 2021

Hi all, recently I got Watch Dogs Legion though the Ubisoft plus subscription. I installed the game and got through the first mission fine then, the crashing started, I could be running the game for less then two minutes and boom it crashed. The graphics settings I have configured for the game maybe take up just over 3.4gb of VRAM so it has plenty of VRAM to use. I tried a variety of solutions I found online such as:

Upping the priority level in task manager for the game
using the -dx11 command line argument to run the game in direct x 11 instead of direct x 12
verifying game files
Not running CPU at overclocked level

Now I must note that when I ran the game in direct x 11 instead of 12 it did crash less often but after maybe 30mins of playing, the frequent crashing returned.

Does anyone else have any potential solutions I could try?

has anyone else had this issue?

I'm also curious if Ubisoft knows about this and if they're working on a fix...

If it helps my system specs are:

AMD Ryzen 5 2600 CPU (Overclocked to 4 Ghz)
16GB 3200 MHz Ram (only clocked to 2933MHz because that's the maximum the CPU supports)
EVGA GeForce GTX 980 graphics card 4gb
ASUS Prime B450M-K Motherboard

Any solutions anyone could offer are appreciated.