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Ubisoft Blames Skype For Poor Performance On Its PC Games

Imogen Donovan

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Ubisoft Blames Skype For Poor Performance On Its PC Games

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Ubisoft has offered some solutions for the unpolished performance of its titles for PC players and one of them is to… shut down Skype. Please may a kind soul remind me — what year is it again? 

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Sadly, it’s no secret that PC players are struggling with Far Cry 6, which should be a shallow yet rambunctious exploration of a country on the precipice of a revolution, if it would work. From crunchy textures to crashes to sluggish frame rates, the community heads to Reddit to troubleshoot these problems together, though it would be helpful to hear from Ubisoft itself on what it’s doing to tackle these technical hiccups.

In Far Cry 6, Giancarlo Esposito plays the cruel dictator Antón Castillo, and we got a chance to chat to him about how games have an opportunity to tell entertaining yet political stories - check it out here!

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Their prayers have been answered! Sort of. In this explainer on the studio’s support site, it offers a guide on how to disable background applications that could be conflicting with Uplay. It’s also got a list of the offending software, like OBS, XSplit, Hamachi, Discord and Skype. 

Who is using Skype in 2021? Who? I’m not upset, I’m bewildered. Unfortunately, this list isn’t going to mean much to a player who doesn’t use any of these programs — yes, they exist. At the moment, Ubisoft hasn’t made any mention of its progress on a PC patch for Far Cry 6, though it is still early days. Fingers crossed that the guide does solve some people’s problems and they can get stuck into the oodles of entertainment that Far Cry 6, Riders Republic, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and more offer their players. 

There are rumours that the next game in the series is going to be “more online-oriented” than its predecessors. How this would impact the development and future of Far Cry 7, it isn’t known, yet a report from earlier this year suggested that the game would be moving in a “radically different direction”. And, these comments tie in with the much-maligned Assassin's Creed Infinity, which the majority of players considered to be yet another step in an unpopular direction for the historical stealth sim

Topics: Far Cry, Ubisoft, PC

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