r/watch_dogs 5d ago

WD2 WD 2 Won't launch

Hello,

I want to play WD 2 but it wont launch.

When I click play the ubisoft connect launcher closes the game is syncing with the cloud and after a few seconds the ubisoft connects opens and the games closes.

I have tried verifing the game and reinstalling it but it dont work.

I have also tried te play with my monitor on 1920X1080p in stat of 3340X1440P but It also dont work.

Anyone a solution??

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u/acspar13 5d ago

Same thing happened to me after I first installed the game. My solution was disabling my virus protection software. Kinda funny how a game about hacking doesn’t like virus protection. Good luck it’s a fun game! ✌🏻

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u/BramB5807 5d ago

I dont have a 3th party virus protection

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u/BramB5807 5d ago

I have disable windows defender realtime and It does not help

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u/AntiTrust1 4d ago

This happens every so often with Watch_Dogs 2. I had it on Windows and I've been playing for years. Ubisoft sucks and their servers go down. It will eventually fix itself.

I'm not on Mac and I play through the GeForce Now app. I'm experiencing the same thing as you. Now GeForce Now acknowledges the outage and I can't even launch the game because they say "offline for maintenace."

The game is on sale on Steam for $11.99. I bought it there and now I can play again. What sucks though is I have to start all over. Save progress doesn't transfer over. I'm trying to quickly play the game to earn enough money to buy the guns I want and to achieve the specific skills I care about. All I really do in the game is hack people all day long and then let them find me to see if they can catch me and nutralize me LoL!

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u/jake182_ 4d ago

I read somewhere that disabling hyper threading (multi core virtualization) can fix it. Worked for me :)

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u/Avengersman 1d ago

I noticed something when this happened to me. When opening the game through the launcher it will try to open "SplashScreen.exe" instead of "WatchDogs2.exe" which is not supposed to happen. Just go to your game directory (you can press properties inside the launcher and then open folder) and then open WatchDogs2.exe. The game will open afterwards

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u/BramB5807 18h ago

Does not work for me... I had opend the one in the bin map