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Basically a game designed (and harcoded to some extent) for 32 bit windows doesn’t work on 64-bit Windows. This is an old problem that a lot of software faced d
by glitchc 5y ago
Basically a game designed (and harcoded to some extent) for 32 bit windows doesn’t work on 64-bit Windows. This is an old problem that a lot of software faced during the switch in the 00s.
Installing it in a VM on XP would have probably achieved the same result.
- Slortibort 5y agoHi, author here. Unfortunately not. Ubisoft changed the reg key of the base game from it's retail key to "Uplay Install 87" and the expansion had no idea to look for that key at all. If you used the Ubisoft copy of both games, the expansion pack would never have found the base game.
- glitchc 5y agoAh that sounds incredibly silly on their part. What’s the rationale here? Is it to force people to use their UPlay store to install games?
- Slortibort 5y agoI don't actually think it's malice. I think it's just a matter of unforeseen consequences combined with an inability to take corporate responsibility for their own products. The reg key they've changed in the base game does have some Ubisoft specific information so I expect they did that in order to allow the game to work well with their delivery service. They tested it and it worked. They presumably just didn't think to test the expansion installer or perhaps even worse, weren't permitted the funding to explore all the potential knock on effects. Since noone is fixing it, despite there being many service tickets about it, I can only think that the engineers don't know what the issue is.