well tu15 dropped and ubi decided to make things worse by making a f2p weekend for division 2.
so far today i have had:
game not freezing but getting stuck at 100% loading. alt tab fixed that until
game dumped me to menu with delta 3 error and for no good reason turned on menu speech to text in order to irritate me more.

then i got into base of operations and bought a gun, put it in stash for my collection of AR and tried to leave base. none of the gates would open.
dumped to menu delta 3 error.
final try i tried to leave base, gates wont open, tried to quit game, had to kill it with task manager.

its not my connection to servers ubisoft. its your servers would have been near maxed out with your new update because ppl wanted to try expertise and countdown. now the servers cant cope at all with a free to play weekend on top.

i say this here not to hijack thread, but so other people know its not worth making any reports on the freezing issue until 16 may.

the new forum software makes it hard to impossible to find what you want, unlike the old. the old forums you could easily find a maintenance note. it appears even moderators cannot find their own since i waited for hours longer than needed today to play division 1: reason? the maintenance notice wasnt sticky, so not where i could see it, and when someone pointed out in another thread about an error it was maintenance day, only then could i find the locked thread about it.

and the thread wasnt ever updated to say maintenance over. its not even on the first page now, which will have triggered unnecessary reports of servers being down, and errors.

you should get this fixed so that maintenance for division 1 has a separate thread, and probably make the top sticky a link to division 1 server status - right now we only get to see division 2 server status and i gave up on that game months ago with its locked into ny dlc and awful DZ system (guess they wanted an esport pvp zone so they tried to drop pve and succeeded... but i play division 1 for the dz where pve is viable rather than pvp is unavoidable.)
unless division 2 changes dramatically to work more like division 1 did, i doubt i will ever need to reinstall it, so the division 2 server status is meaningless to me when i try to find division 1 server status.

generally these forums look nice. they dont seem to have any logic, and its hard to find anything and too easy to start to reply only to get a warning its an old thread - in which case why warn about necro? why not do what other forums do and not show these threads on the suggested list underneath because they are old? the list under the current thread you read contains lots of old threads. but it looks like it contains similar and current threads which means you will get a lot of thread necromancy going on. that feels like the law of unforseen consequences biting.

but if you wanted nice looking forums, they're nice looking.
did i mention how nice they look? disorganised but nice.

@xmdead i am unable to connect to division 1 servers. same exact error. i am guessing the game is down, but no way to tell ubisoft. i hope they extend the public event as a result of this outage. i am connecting direct from ubisoft connect and not using steam at all. but there is no server status for division 1 because they want everyone to move to division 2 and play that.

of course i cant find anywhere to check division 1 status not division 2 which i dont like and dont play. nor even find any link now to maintenance posts, so i have no clue whats with that. division 1 only got monthly maintenance; i doubt they are doing maintenance by choice in the middle of a global event. otherwise they need to extend the event by a day.

i dont like division 2. setting was their first mistake; empty city in an empty world, post apocalypse. there wont be any power or organised govt so no ISAC so no agents. gadgets wouldnt work. there wouldnt be the gang factions, because everyone would be growing food in susbsitence farming. travel would be impossible. the black tusk wouldnt exist. then after you do the final mission, the map is filled with action. that in itself is welcome but it is so jarring that this empty world can suddenly feel so full of enemies. you cant have it both ways.
so the whole premise of the sequel doesnt make sense and thats the first problem i had with it.

second is warlords dlc. making a dlc impossible to return from and locking the extra levels behind killing the bad guy at the end locking away the stuff you paid for doesnt make sense. i have ZERO desire to play the dlc i paid for, and certainly wont buy any others after that fiasco of being unable to kill keener. i ended up deleting that trapped agent and then i didnt play so long i uninstalled the game. remove the inability to go back to washington and level up if you cant complete warlords.

3rd with division 2, the uber classes. they listened to the Call of Duty clowns who whined about there being no specialisations for the pvp. because CoD players dotn realise CoD style games are not the only way games can be. these are the same people in both division games who when i tell in dark zone 'not interested in pvp' say 'well dont enter the pvp zone' because they assume thats what it is and dont bother reading up on the games, so dont understand anything like pvevp areas. if it isnt fortnite/CoD then they dont get it.
the beauty of division was the ability to flip 'classes' and complete customisation at any time on skills. the uber classes (if they worked, and they dont) fix that in stone. you can only upgrade one of them fully. you lock your agent into one uber class forever, only allowed 4 agents and there are about 8 ubers. i know they are 'revamping' them but the best plan would be make the div 2 basic system more like div 1 and scrap the specialisations altogether. revamp is code for 'we messed it up'.

oh and the system for linking up with other agents is bad in division 2. matchmaking never worked. by the time i responded to a call for aid, there was no agent there to aid. i gave up trying in div 2 early on. division 1 did it better, but last time i tried matchmaking in division 1, started the mission in div 1 because waiting to find other agents just didnt happen. so i wound up soloing all the missions yet again because of low player numbers in division 1.

but since division 2 is their baby now, division 1 can have servers go down and all we can get is server status for division 2, which is apparently fine. although i notice that i keep losing connection to these forums, which worries me. maybe the whole of ubisoft is currently being attacked, or they have a massive hardware problem.

this new update ended the game sound , when are you going to fix this error ?

for me only barnabas makes any noise all other sound is gone. game is unplayable now

@davidhines1 i also want to add it would be nice if the forum didnt randomly and erroneously autoflag my post as spam for zero reason. just being active poster is NOT spam.

just for information, i cannot play division 2 and i am in uk have a great fast reliable internet connection. yet when i begin the game today i had multiple failures.
first time the game didnt freeze but after the circle reached 100% (this was post character choice) it just... stayed there. much longer than usual. i alt tabbed to go look at server status after maybe a couple of minutes, and then had to tab back because it finally loaded me into the base of operations.

i tried to leave said base and none of the gates would open like they are supposed to. after a few seconds stood behind the gate i was delta 3 dumped to menu to start or logout, with a text to speech voice telling me the options for no good reason. thats really irritating. i have no access issues and that setting is and always was off.

next try i got same thing, couldnt leave BoO and then delta 3.
3rd try i didnt even bother waiting for the delta 3 i just tried to quit game. nothing happened, and i had to close the game manually from desktop.

i put this down to the fact season 9 began, tu15 dropped, and people want to play the expertise system and/or season, and then someone rather naively chose to make it a free to play weekend.

the servers cant handle the load, and they were always going to be under stress with the title update and expertise system to try out, so why did nobody think about that before deciding on a free to play weekend, and make more server capacity, even temporarily, to cope with an influx of first time/trial freeplayers? that it would be needed must surely have been obvious?

well tu15 dropped and ubi decided to make things worse by making a f2p weekend for division 2.
so far today i have had:
game not freezing but getting stuck at 100% loading. alt tab fixed that until
game dumped me to menu with delta 3 error and for no good reason turned on menu speech to text in order to irritate me more.

then i got into base of operations and bought a gun, put it in stash for my collection of AR and tried to leave base. none of the gates would open.
dumped to menu delta 3 error.
final try i tried to leave base, gates wont open, tried to quit game, had to kill it with task manager.

its not my connection to servers ubisoft. its your servers would have been near maxed out with your new update because ppl wanted to try expertise and countdown. now the servers cant cope at all with a free to play weekend on top.

i say this here not to hijack thread, but so other people know its not worth making any reports on the freezing issue until 16 may.

hi, by accident i started my game crashing but i have no idea if my problem is part of this issue.

i decided to mess around with graphics settings and the reasons why isn't important. for whatever reason, i decided i didn't need parallax mapping set on. i changed it and restarted the game.
within an hour the game crashed hard; blackscreen, and alt tab didn't want to work. it took me a few minutes to make it tab out so i could kill the game in task man.

over the next day or two, the game would never run more than an hour, often far less, without the same kind of crash - either a total blackscreen, which reduced to a no window game exe running in background when alt tab, or it would reduce to a small 1280x720 black window, and need killing in task manager either crash.

yet the only change i made was with parallax mapping. i changed it back to on, and all my problems vanished from the restart onward. game hasn't crashed since and i have been playing for hours at a time.

now this thread makes me think there are multiple bugs causing similar looking crashes. maybe this is just one of them. i put my experience here in hopes devs can figure what is happening with at least one bug, and maybe help others avoid some of the crashes, make them less common or something.

im running the game on a TUF FX505GD gaming laptop.

Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8300H CPU @ 2.30GHz
geforce GTX 1050 4gb vram
16gb ram 2667 MHz dual channel.

this new update ended the game sound , when are you going to fix this error ?

for me only barnabas makes any noise all other sound is gone. game is unplayable now

i also have no sound other than voices only the ship captain voice works. all the sounds of the sea, and other sound effects, the music is all silent.

i wonder if it is trying to use the nvidia sound because i have no audio on my monitor, and use the realtek sound via a 3.5mm jack to speakers. i notice my driver updates for the gpu always include nvidia sound thing. unfortunately, that 'sound card' isnt connected to anything.

but thats just a wild guess. the only thing i am sure of, is barnabas is the only one made any sound since the cross wired update

@davidhines1 i also want to add it would be nice if the forum didnt randomly and erroneously autoflag my post as spam for zero reason. just being active poster is NOT spam.

@xmdead or one player with choice of bots. just so i can do that mission marker and get benitez quiet permanently. for all i care about the mode i can just join a match and stand around and go make tea until im dead and its over, however it ends. at least i wont get nagged to go play a mode with no players.

@suspiciouspixel i never do because old and cynical. if i held my breath every time i made a post like that, i would be purplefaced dead by now lol

the new forum software makes it hard to impossible to find what you want, unlike the old. the old forums you could easily find a maintenance note. it appears even moderators cannot find their own since i waited for hours longer than needed today to play division 1: reason? the maintenance notice wasnt sticky, so not where i could see it, and when someone pointed out in another thread about an error it was maintenance day, only then could i find the locked thread about it.

and the thread wasnt ever updated to say maintenance over. its not even on the first page now, which will have triggered unnecessary reports of servers being down, and errors.

you should get this fixed so that maintenance for division 1 has a separate thread, and probably make the top sticky a link to division 1 server status - right now we only get to see division 2 server status and i gave up on that game months ago with its locked into ny dlc and awful DZ system (guess they wanted an esport pvp zone so they tried to drop pve and succeeded... but i play division 1 for the dz where pve is viable rather than pvp is unavoidable.)
unless division 2 changes dramatically to work more like division 1 did, i doubt i will ever need to reinstall it, so the division 2 server status is meaningless to me when i try to find division 1 server status.

generally these forums look nice. they dont seem to have any logic, and its hard to find anything and too easy to start to reply only to get a warning its an old thread - in which case why warn about necro? why not do what other forums do and not show these threads on the suggested list underneath because they are old? the list under the current thread you read contains lots of old threads. but it looks like it contains similar and current threads which means you will get a lot of thread necromancy going on. that feels like the law of unforseen consequences biting.

but if you wanted nice looking forums, they're nice looking.
did i mention how nice they look? disorganised but nice.

@ubi-lucipus its probably unrelated to this crash but i had a very hard to track down bug a few months ago on Fifa 21. for some reason it was freezing, then the game went into a window and began stuttering badly. these were my symptoms.

when i investigated i found out that Desktop Windows Manager had crashed, and the game had gone windowed when it restarted and was running on the cpu integrated intel uhd graphics, not the gtx 1050

further investigation i found that it was because i had just bought a new controller, an xbox one s controller. the crash was caused because the controller comes out of the box with an old version of firmware. i had to download the xbox accessories app from microsoft store and update the controller firmware using it, and that fixed the crashing entirely. i have no idea why a game controller should need access to the desktop windows manager to make it crash but it was incredibly hard to track down the correct cause of the problem, which i could reproduce before the controller update every single time.

i would suggest adding this troubleshooting step to your list 'Ensure xbox controllers do not need update on pc, by checking with xbox accessories app' or something similar. it wont help with this problem probably, but could be useful in future for other issues.