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

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#1

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/

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#2

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!

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#3

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…

#4

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.

#5

it’s franken-building but it works…

#6

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.

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#7

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.

  1. Locate your Ubisoft folder,
  2. Locate overlay.dll and overlay64.dll
  3. Back backups of both files;
  • cp overlay.dll overlay.dll.bak and cp overlay64.dll overlay64.dll.bak
  1. Delete overlay64.dll
  2. 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.

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#8

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

#9

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

#10

What means cp ? Thanks :smiley:

#11

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

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#12

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 :

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#14

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:

#15

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.

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#16

this looks to be working!