Uplay freezing

[Sharp_3yE]

So, I tried to play Watchdogs cuz I have played some of it and want to actually play through the campaign the whole way. It's a decent game but of course over hyped. Problem is Uplay decides to freeze my PC where I have to turn off my PC with the power button or restart button.

 

Just wondering if anyone else is having this problem in the LTT forum because it seems that others have been as well.

[StingBull]

Step 1:Delete uPlay.

 

Step 2: Find a cracked copy of Watch Dogs.

 

Step 3: Never have problems playing.

[Sharp_3yE]

Step 1:Delete uPlay.

 

Step 2: Find a cracked copy of Watch Dogs.

 

Step 3: Never have problems playing.

except then certain things wouldn't work then. Plus I payed for it. Why not use that? I actually started with a cracked copy just to try it out and see what it was like. There were things that didn't work and bugs.

[kreft010]

Maybe this could help you. I found it on a steam forum where people complained about uplay freezing.

 

• Log-in to the UPLAY launcher
• Click the SETTINGS icon in the top-right corner of the Uplay Launcher (GEAR icon)
• UNCHECK the box for "Enable in-game overlay for supported games"
• Click CLOSE
• Click PLAY
• If it still doesn't work, try clicking the ARROW next to the PLAY button and choose "Play in SAFE-MODE" After successfully launching in safe-mode once, it should work in normal mode too

 

Furthermore what have you already tried? 

[Sharp_3yE]

Maybe this could help you. I found it on a steam forum where people complained about uplay freezing.

 

• Log-in to the UPLAY launcher
• Click the SETTINGS icon in the top-right corner of the Uplay Launcher (GEAR icon)
• UNCHECK the box for "Enable in-game overlay for supported games"
• Click CLOSE
• Click PLAY
• If it still doesn't work, try clicking the ARROW next to the PLAY button and choose "Play in SAFE-MODE" After successfully launching in safe-mode once, it should work in normal mode too

 

Furthermore what have you already tried? 

No, that can't work because I can't sign onto Uplay because a second after I click to open Uplay my whole PC freezes.

[kreft010]

Is your windows user account a administrator account? Try to start it as admin or follow this instruction :

 

 

 

After some online research I've noticed that a lot of people have the same or similar problem and are taken by support through some lenghty troubleshooting steps.

Resistance of Uplay.exe drove me crazy so I've decided to do a little bit of troubleshooting on my own.

I ran Process Monitor to see what is happening on my system when I launched Steam and then try to launch Heroes VI.
Amount of data I got was overwhelming, of course. I went ahead and used some filtering techniques.

After getting more reasonable amount of data to read, I've noticed that UPlay.exe is trying to do something with "C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\Installed_files.txt" file.
It was getting access denied on it along with many other access denied entries in process monitor, but this one seemed to be the culprit of UPlay.exe crashes.

I went ahead and gave it more access (modify on security tab for my user account which is not local administrator). 

Sure enough, after that, Uplay.exe launched just fine from Steam.

 

It's fairly simpe and hopefully it'll work for you as well.