Microsoft pauses Windows 11 updates for PCs with some Ubisoft games installed

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Microsoft has stopped offering updates to Windows 11 mentation 24H2 connected PCs that person definite Ubisoft games installed, Bleeping Computer reports. The institution made the determination aft complaints that Star Wars Outlaws and games successful the Assassin’s Creed series were crashing aft installing the caller Windows update.

Microsoft confirmed the “compatibility hold” successful a status update yesterday evening, and says it’s moving with Ubisoft to find a fix. In the meantime, the institution recommends against installing the Windows 11 24H2 update manually.

Here is Microsoft’s statement of the contented and games affected:

After installing Windows 11, mentation 24H2, you mightiness brushwood issues with immoderate Ubisoft games. These games mightiness go unresponsive portion starting, loading oregon during progressive gameplay. In immoderate cases, users mightiness person a achromatic screen. The affected games are: 

• Assassin’s Creed Valhalla

• Assassin’s Creed Origins

• Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

• Star Wars Outlaws

• Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

Ubisoft wrote successful an update connected Thursday that it had released a impermanent hotfix (version 1.0.4.0), but says players “may acquisition immoderate show issues” until it has figured retired a imperishable solution.

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