Assasin's Creed Valhalla crashes after Ubisoft June 27, 2022 update

K5s98e · August 1, 2022, 1:53pm

Assassin’s Creed Valhalla worked flawlessly until the Ubisoft update on June 27, 2022. After the update ACValhalla.exe runs for about 10 seconds taking 500% CPU time and the crashes with Error[Crash]: Reason: Exception Caught at 0x00000000020B0632 (Violation when reading address 0x0000000000000048).
Apparently the update found a weak spot in Lutris/Wine/Proton.

run with wine lutris-GE-Proton7-24-x86_64 log: https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/P38vywCjyf

run with wine lutris-ge-6.16-1-x86_64 log
Ubuntu Pastebin

lutris-issue-report.json:
https://paste.ubuntu.com/p/s2jXwkTXxp/

vonkarayan · August 3, 2022, 10:28am

Hello,
I’m in the same situation running it on a Steam Deck.
In the Proton log I’ve found exactly the same error line as you:

Error[Crash]: An Exception has been detected by Bloomberg and a report will be sent.
Error[Crash]: Reason: Exception Caught at 0x0000000002110632 (Violation when reading address 0x0000000000000048)

I’m surprised the issue isn’t much discussed online, this is the first place in days where I’ve found it!

quimkaos · August 3, 2022, 1:12pm

I have the same issue… i also have tried lutris-GE-Proton7-24-x86_64 and lutris-ge-6.16-1-x86_64.
does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
also detected by Bloomberg !?!?!

well… i was going to get a DLC… i guess i’m not now…

vonkarayan · August 3, 2022, 1:31pm

Hello again,
I’ve found today a workaround by franken-building the uConnect application.
After backing up the current installation, I’ve downloaded the previous version (Download Ubisoft Connect 130.1.10667 for Windows | Uptodown.com), opened it as a ZIP archive and taken out just the updated files:

.\npuplaypc.dll
.\npuplaypchub.dll
.\overlay.dll
.\overlay64.dll
.\prod.keys
.\ubiorbitapi_r2.dll
.\ubiorbitapi_r264.dll
.\UbisoftConnect.exe
.\UbisoftGameLauncher.exe
.\UbisoftGameLauncher64.exe
.\uicommon.pak
.\Uninstall.exe
.\upc.exe
.\uplay_aux_r1.dll
.\uplay_aux_r164.dll
.\uplay_r1.dll
.\uplay_r2.dll
.\uplay_r164.dll
.\uplay_r264.dll
.\UplayCrashReporter.exe
.\UplayService.exe
.\UplayWebCore.exe
.\data\loc\*.*

I’ve put these files in the current installation and restarted uConnect. It worked. I’m playing again with AC: Valhalla now.
I hope it may be useful in the meantime.

quimkaos · August 3, 2022, 6:43pm

it’s franken-building but it works…

rezzafr33 · August 8, 2022, 2:44pm

Hi guys, can anyone confirm that only replacing overlay64.dll is enough to make the game works.

This issue also happened to Immortal Fenyx Rising, downgrading overlay64.dll make it works again.

twillis605 · August 15, 2022, 2:10am

I was able to also confirm that replacing the overlay64.dll was enough to get the game working.

I didn’t download anything though to get it to work. Below are the steps that I took.

Locate your Ubisoft folder,
Locate overlay.dll and overlay64.dll
Back backups of both files;

cp overlay.dll overlay.dll.bak and cp overlay64.dll overlay64.dll.bak

Delete overlay64.dll
Rename overlay.dll to overlay64.dll

cp overlay.dll overlay64.dll

After doing this, I had no issues launching AC: Valhalla.
The only other games that I have installed are AC: Odyssey and Far Cry 6 and they both launched without any issues, after making this change.

vonkarayan · September 2, 2022, 8:49am

Thank you very much sir!
This simplified a lot the fixing after the latest Uplay update!

microsux · September 8, 2022, 9:08am

wow thanks for this long discussion leading me to disable the in-game overlay in settings and instantly fix the game not launching… lol

emvo10 · September 10, 2022, 10:45am

What means cp ? Thanks

twillis605 · September 12, 2022, 2:50pm

I backed up and renamed the files from the CLI, cp is the copy function.

rezzafr33 · September 12, 2022, 3:11pm

Disable overlay also works, but without it you can’t access ubisoft store from within the game, downgrading retain overlay & store functionality.

Another way to disable overlay64.dll is by disable it with env variable WINEDLLOVERRIDES="overlay64.dll=".

Or with lutris :

emvo10 · September 14, 2022, 10:11am

After your overlay solution and launch, I got slow-motion running problems. Finally working.
I installed with Lutris and launch throught Steam with Proton.

But first, I have to type in Terminal:

sudo nano /etc/default/grub
Change:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“intel_pstate=disable” ( FOR INTEL )
or
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=“cpufreq.off=1” ( FOR AMD )

Save it and after that

sudo update-grub
Reboot.

Now I am running on 55 FPS and high details without any issues.
You can disable Overlay also in Ubisfot Connect app directly.
Check my gameplay sample:

rezzafr33 · February 2, 2023, 11:38am

Not AC Valhalla but in Immortals Fenyx Rising instead downgrading overlay64.dll I disable dinput8.dll with WINEDLLOVERRIDES="dinput8.dll", it no longer crash and the overlay remain working.

quimkaos · March 4, 2023, 12:16am

this looks to be working!

higheveryone · April 30, 2023, 10:25am

Am i the only one who gets frozen black screen(or sometimes 1-2 seconds of game screen) after loading the game or benchmark?
Haven’t been able to play ACV for a year or so… Tried different distros, no luck. On win10 works well.
Tried enabling vsync and 30fps cap. That got the game actually working but with horrendous performance and frequent crashes.
Any ideas how to get this thing to work?

higheveryone · May 28, 2023, 4:08pm

well…back to windows then. Linux is simply broken