Uplay frustration! Cannot play game!

Bought FC3 Blood Dragon on steam yesterday and cannot play the game.

Have to activate the key on uplay first but of course "there is a problem connecting to uplay service".

It seems uplay is always down. How do I play this game? Very frustrating considering I bought the title!!
Anyways any advice in bypassing this or activating another way?

EDIT: Seem to have found the solution after 2 days trying. I simply opened Uplay first before opening steam to get the cd key and it connected.

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Wait for the never ending patches.... And then you won't be able to play

#dont buy Ubisoft games

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I always have problems with uplay as well.. Every time I fall for it and buy a game from steam that requires uplay the first time I try to launch the game it never, never works, always crashes. I end up having to reboot / close everything down and pray to 'random will it work' god for it to play...

 

Problem is far cry is an excellent game. The only great traditional open world fps. Blood dragon is really fun too!! Nothing like luring a laser spitting dinosaur into an enemy encampment!

 

Except games like Far Cry 3 and Blood Dragon and Black Flag are really fun, so not buying those games for moral reasons means that you're personally just missing out on them. Especially when they're on sale for cheap.

 

Yes I'm terribly distraught I may even run the fields like maria in sound of music

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Seriously, stay away from Ubisoft games if you can. Not only are they the king of unoptimized, DRM-laden, shoddy console ports, but the last two Ubisoft games I bought, Far Cry 3 and Blood Dragon, never worked. Every time I downloaded them from Uplay, they gave me a CRC error during installation. EVERY FREAKIN' TIME. Ubisoft Support was a joke and it took weeks for them to respond to my support tickets with generic answers that obviously didn't fix anything. And I can't believe Uplay doesn't have an option to check for missing or corrupted game files like both Steam and Origin do. I don't know how many GB's of Internet bandwidth I wasted downloading and redownloading trying to get them to work. In the end, I gave up and just pirated both games so I could play them. I bought both titles for full price at release and I sure as hell wasn't going to let $75 go down the drain.

If this is the way they treat paying customers, they deserve to have people pirate their games. If Ubisoft were an American company, it would've won the last two Golden Poo awards, not EA.

 

It's pretty annoying. Only reason it's still on my computer is because of Far Cry 3. Thank Almighty Mario that you can set it to start up in offline mode, although it still needs to connect for initial validation.

 

Yeah Ubisoft is horrible with their launcher, not to mention their crap DRM that they are slowly getting rid of. Not to mention that you can't even play Splinter Cell Blacklist with your friends, you can only do a random join. It's dumb.

 

After spending weeks of ceaseless troubleshooting trying to get both Far Cry 3 and Assassin's Creed 4 to run due to bad patching (a forum goer found out that they mixed up the patch's location) and conflicts with Steam and what have you, I vowed to never, ever, EVER buy a Ubis**t game again, no matter how bad I wanted it.

This company is stuck back in the 90's with its draconian DRM scheme that punishes legitimate customers.

 

I agree with most of the above except the optimised part. Far Cry 3 actually runs very well. If can run all settings max on a stock 7970M at 1080p then I can imagine it scales well across lower end GPUs too.

Anyways best to get games via steam and then simply activate them via ubisoft only. Seems the safer bet. Also amirfoox isn't DRM for games something more of the 2000s old games never had this rubbish.

 

OK, OK, mid to late 90's, early 2000's

Early 90's had the instruction manual hidden code DRM, which was just as nasty, sometimes.

And yeah, the games themselves are superb and seem to be well optimized, making this much harder. But my opinion still stands - no more Uplay for me.

 

Running multiple game clients seems to be a PITA for a lot of people. I decided to learn from other peoples mistakes and use Uplay only for Ubisoft games [...and Origin only for EA] without Steam and Steam for everything else.

 

i bought From Dust because it was said that the DRM was removed.... it simply wasn't. Im not interested in buying their games anymore.

 

I get that you don't care, but some people do, so saying "herp derp just don't buy their games" isn't a great solution.

 

Not for me. I have to use DX9 and turn the settings down to High and disable PostFX and AO to maintain 60 FPS. OK, I get that they're demanding games, but even after lowering settings, I still get random drops in GPU usage and FPS for no reason, plus tons of microstuttering despite high FPS, especially in Far Cry 3, on both my laptop and single-GPU desktop. The rampant microstuttering in Far Cry 3 is an extremely well-known and widely-reported issue all over the Internet which the devs have never fixed. And Blood Dragon somehow runs worse than Far Cry 3 despite the much simpler graphics.

Also, it's unacceptable that mouse acceleration can't be completely disabled without an outside tool to modify the game files. If you disable the positive acceleration, there is negative mouse acceleration, which is even worse, especially in a twitch action FPS such as Blood Dragon. What were they thinking? Any proper shooter on the PC should have the option for raw mouse input. Period. In addition to poor graphics and performance, lousy control schemes such as negative mouse acceleration are the telltale signs of a subpar console port.

 

With anything that involves uplay. I first but the game, I wait until it's on sale. Then, I go find a torrent website and just pirate the game.
I get more crashed playing Far Cry 3 with uplay then the pirated version. I have 5 games set up this way. I'm not pirating any games. I already bought it, but uplay is such a smelly turd to deal with. I know some people will get mad at this set up but it works for me and the game makers get my money. Its not my fault their game launching software is pure turd.

 

ROFL that's what I had to do. It's sad when we have to resort to torrents to be able to play the games that we legitimately purchased. Shame on Ubisoft.

 

My name for them is ucrap, or ubcrap.

Why is it that I never have any issues with Steam. I have around 10 games on Steam and never an issue, Why is it?

My last game I bought was a train simulator game with no issues. No issue with that game is the massive amount of system memory it takes up. Takes up around 6-7gb of ram. Far Cry 3 takes up less than 2gb of ram.

 

Well of course you can't compare it to Steam given the latter's history and synonymity with the PC platform as well as Valve's recent initiatives to push PC gaming forward and into the living room.

PC is a second-class citizen in Ubisoft's corporate structure, that's why they churn out those lousy console ports year after year like clockwork and have always had the worst DRM in the industry. First it was StarForce, then it was that always-online DRM even for singleplayer games, and now it's this Uplay BS. And let us not forget how they were gonna make The Division an exclusive for next-gen consoles until PC gamers practically got on hands and knees and begged. I didn't stoop that low, but I know plenty of people who did sign the petition.

That RAM usage by the train sim is pretty epic. You sure there isn't a memory leak somewhere? LOL. Anyway, I bet it's a 64-bit executable, as a 32-bit game would've crashed out long before it could ever use that much RAM.

 

I also had the microstuttering when I first played Far Cry 3 a year back. My fix was to put pre buffered/rendered frames up to max of 5. Stuttering vanished. The game runs flawlessly Perhaps on nvidia hardware it doesn't.

 

No I get the same thing on my desktop which has a single AMD GPU.

 

All games have fans and haters. I understand you don:t like the game.

However this thread is about overcoming uplay issues not whether the game is good/optimised or whatever.

For many it runs well and is a great game. Let:s not get away from the OP here.

 

It's not that I don't like the game. I thought Far Cry 3 was GOTY 2012. My issues are with Ubisoft and Uplay.

 

i have other problems with uplay..in games like ac4,ac liberation i lost my save games.I disabled cloud saving and put offline uplay but still doesnt works..any other solution maybe???far cry 3 works fine

 

Yeah, this game is horribly optimized. Gameplay is choppy even at the lowest settings. And if you activate V-Sync it becomes unplayable.

Currently I'm running the game in 720p with V-Sync turned off and everything maxed out except for POST FX.
Far Cry 3 had no problem running in 1080p with V-Sync and Ultra settings.

 

Yeah I too am playing Far Cry 3 at higher graphics settings than Blood Dragon and still getting better performance. I get random drops in FPS and GPU usage for no reason in Blood Dragon and it's pretty CPU heavy as well. But none of that kills the game for me as much as the mouse acceleration.