

Completed the quest, got back to the town and got the popup of completing quest. However I have now learned you are supposed to get a ability from this quest which I did not. Watched this video
and I never saw that ability popup.Pretty beefy computer, 3800x and 2080 Ti. No issues in any other recent games.
Game starts out running wonderfully at even ultra high on 1440p. However after a while it starts stuttering badly, at the 1h+ mark it's basically annoying and at 2h we are talking unplayable. A restart fixes it and the same area works again.
I've tried multiple GPU drivers, disabling SMT, different graphics configurations but nothing seems to stop this "memory leak" or whatever it is.
Moving around and cutscenes seem to trigger it worst.
So there's another book with this same ability, I went and tried to pick it up and that gave me level 1... I reverted that action though for now. As it stands I can only get 1/2 of this ability with what I know now.
Need a retroactive fix to give the ability if it's missing and the quest is done or NG+
@Ubi-Woofer Any chance this can be added to some mega thread?
Finished the quest shown in this video
@ziggystardust10 My game is like butter at the start no matter the location. It just works perfectly, generally I try to keep a locked 60.
However after like 30 minutes I start getting hitches in what I suspect is equal intervals mainly when moving/attacking or in cutscenes. Standing still looks smoother for some reason. Haven't checked the frametimes in a graph so.
At the 1h+ mark we are talking serious stutters, I had a pretty long fight dying a few times at a monastery and I had to be down to an effective 5 fps or something as bad as it was freezing.
@pilopo Well I actually got mine fixed now, saw a video linked somewhere that said manually setting the virtual memory in windows made the game run better for him. While my old computer is set to automatic I decided to try it on this new one.
Set the OS drive to 5-32 GB or thereabouts and the same to the game drive, it's running 2x M2 drives. Game is running great maxed out now.... smoothness of my old one and horsepower of the new. I'm not sure if it's manual virtual memory setting on the OS drive or the Game drive that fixed it or maybe even both is required but the difference is night and day. First game I had to do this on though for this computer and it's not exactly a unknown fix for PC games, but I'd be darned if Ubi didn't manage to screw something up that made windows do some aggressive memory handling.
@dedeprado Hah probably meant "definitely NOT going back", at least there is a book to get the level 1 version of the ability but you'll never be able to get 2/2 currently. I'm kind of holding off on the book also because who knows what the fix will be if Ubi decides to fix it....
@tyranusvader I actually added that also but it didn't fix the stutters at all, still running it though because Kaldaien's fixes usually work against weird issues in certain hardware.
@ubi-woofer I warned a friend about the quest before he did it.
First time he did it he also failed to get the ability, so he reloaded and did it again, what he did differently was to keep the wolf close to him as he got back to the settlement. He even killed some deer that wolf started attacking so it would keep following.
In my own case I just forgot about the wolf entirely and escorted the kids back to town, I saw the quest completed pop up, however there was no ability gained. The quest never went into the completed log which I checked way later of course.
I've also seen a few other support the idea that the wolf needs to be close to you when you hand the quest in for the ability to pop up.
I can't sadly remember what quests I did before or after but I've been very greedy with doing monastery raids so I had upgraded my settlement very high before doing the pledge quests, the moment I saw the kid in my long house I instantly started the quest. I might have tested out the bed for the first time because I think I met him on the way out of my room.
Apart from the ability, no issues with the quest except that I forgot to check where the wolf was so he was probably off attacking something. This thing with getting attacked by random hostile npcs also seems to be a rather reoccuring theme throughout the game stopping conversations on horseback with friendly NPCs constantly.
If anyone has a save game at this quest and can make a video, try testing the range to the wolf idea. Do the quest with both the wolf near and far away from you when going back to the settlement. Sadly I gave up on the idea of going back so I have replaced the save game by now.
@ry_mann88 Yeah sadly it's a bit problematic since I upgraded rations to max 30 hours ago and I've been sitting at 7 fabric since then.... =(
Pretty sure I'm also affected by this.... haven't seen a fabric for 2 days.
@ident_hun That's pretty much exactly how my experience went also, I remember the dialogue + Quest completed at the end with me just following the children. Lord knows what the wolf was doing in my game.
@ubi-woofer I warned a friend about the quest before he did it.
First time he did it he also failed to get the ability, so he reloaded and did it again, what he did differently was to keep the wolf close to him as he got back to the settlement. He even killed some deer that wolf started attacking so it would keep following.
In my own case I just forgot about the wolf entirely and escorted the kids back to town, I saw the quest completed pop up, however there was no ability gained. The quest never went into the completed log which I checked way later of course.
I've also seen a few other support the idea that the wolf needs to be close to you when you hand the quest in for the ability to pop up.
I can't sadly remember what quests I did before or after but I've been very greedy with doing monastery raids so I had upgraded my settlement very high before doing the pledge quests, the moment I saw the kid in my long house I instantly started the quest. I might have tested out the bed for the first time because I think I met him on the way out of my room.
Apart from the ability, no issues with the quest except that I forgot to check where the wolf was so he was probably off attacking something. This thing with getting attacked by random hostile npcs also seems to be a rather reoccuring theme throughout the game stopping conversations on horseback with friendly NPCs constantly.
If anyone has a save game at this quest and can make a video, try testing the range to the wolf idea. Do the quest with both the wolf near and far away from you when going back to the settlement. Sadly I gave up on the idea of going back so I have replaced the save game by now.
@Ubi-Woofer Any chance this can be added to some mega thread?
@vindytr Seems to be many things causing this stutter from time. I'm also trying to get the darned bugged wolf ability from a quest added to the list of stuff but nope
@tyranusvader I actually added that also but it didn't fix the stutters at all, still running it though because Kaldaien's fixes usually work against weird issues in certain hardware.
@soberstone999 You probably have a different issue than mine then, I seemingly tried everything and then finally the manual virtual memory for some reason magically fixed it.
And another with this issue, where's my addition to the issues list? https://discussions.ubisoft.com/topic/81518/mans-best-friend-abilty-and-no-wolf-to-ride-quest-glitches-spoilers
@koiki_ I have 2x Odin face emblems also somehow.... apparently it's even worse for you =(