I was playing the game before updating to the latest build and it worked, but after updating, the game crashes when trying to launch. I reported the crash reports, but also throwing a thread here for good measure.

Windows 10 preview build 20257.fe_release.201106-1554

Please look into this. Thank you.

@uplay-remij Same here. I was able to play for about 3 hours and the Windows 10 Insider Preview 20257.1 (fe_release) update installed overnight. I was previously on Windows 10 Insider Preview 20251.1 (fe_release).

Haven't been able to get past the splash screen window since then. I've tried all the fixes I could find online. I didn't realize until now but the Windows update aligns exactly with the start of my problem as well.

No other games from any brand have any issues with this update that I could find except Assasin's Creed Odyssey which does the exact same thing as Valhalla.

I own Odyssey but I was playing Valhalla via Uplay+.

Really disappointing because if I had to wait for a fix to resume playing Valhalla, Odyssey would be my backup game in the meantime! Hopefully this is something easy to fix and an update will be rolled out asap because I feel really left out (and Uplay+ is costing me!)

Horizon Zero Dawn now crashes when I try to load games as well. Pretty sure it's also related to this windows update.

@nauzhror1216

Yea, I'm going to send this feedback to MS. There seems to be some issues with the newest build and certain games. It might be a problem MS has to fix.

I noticed Ori and the Will of the Wisps (Steam version) wouldn't play audio either. Nothing I tried (and I tried everything) would fix it. But as soon as I rolled back to the previous Windows build.. the sound worked.. and AC:V worked again.

So just to update, I took the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20262 update today with no change in the crashing at launch behavior. So it doesn't appear to be a one-off bug with that particular build (20257) It's likely to be an issue going forward until the cause is debugged by the game devs.

ACValhalla and ACOdyssey are still the only games/apps affected by this bug on my system. I don't have Horizon Zero Dawn to test so I can't say whether that is the same or a related bug or something else entirely.

Still holding out for an update or more information on the cause or solution of this bug! I really hope I won't have to wait for 20257 to hit stable for it to be taken seriously. I can't afford to downgrade and clean install my system to troubleshoot one or two games.

Please Ubisoft take a look at this bug, I don't think it will cost you much dev time to fix and I know I'm not the only one left out of Valhalla because of it!

@boogie7601

Yep, can confirm.. I just updated to the newest release from yesterday, and again AC:V crashes. Ori 2 now has the audio issues again.


This must be addressed.

@remij-u i got this error too. AC valhalla cannot play

Over a month later this issue is still affecting many people.
From my experience and what I have read these games are currently being affected by this bug:

• AC Origins
• AC Odyssey
• AC Valhalla
• Fenyx rising

same here, build 21277, anyone has any idea?

Build 21277 here, and Assassins Creed-, Valhalla, Odessey and Origens won't run anymore. My other 300+ games, no problem........