#ubisoft connect

After pretty much a whole ass WEEK of trying to get this game to work, I finally got it going again!! Holy fucking shit!!!

Below is my original post, but my AFOP on Steam absolutely stopped working entirely. It wouldn't launch and the from everything I tried, it seems like the handshake between Steam and Ubisoft Connect was failing and ultimately rendered the game unplayable.

I caved and created a new Ubisoft account that is NOT linked to my Steam account and bought a completely separate version of the game, and immediately upon installation it was doing the same thing: not launching. I went through every fix possible for the last two days and nothing until tonight.

I went through countless fixes, admin access, driver updates and rollbacks, turning off all sorts of stuff... and tbh while I absolutely HATE the fact AI exists, I don't think I would have gotten this game running again if I hadn't used Gemini and kept throwing every error screen and every instance of the game repeatedly staying as a Background Process instead of launching as an exe file... which is a win/lose.

Part of the issue was AMD. Another was Malwarebytes Real-Time Protection blocking parts of the install. Also various compatability issues that never occurred until I tried to boot the original Steam version up on July 3rd.

It literally took from July 3rd to July 11th, posting to Steam Forums for help, contacted and being ghosted outright by Ubisoft Support, seeking further help on the AFOP subreddit, and ultimately being such a stubborn pink-ass that I swallowed my pride and used an AI tool to get the game running again. There were so many hoops to jump through that my brain is legit MUSH, I wouldn't be able to remember everything I did... I just know it took from 4pm when I got home from work to now, 9:40pm Pacific-Standard Time (California). I spent FOUR FUCKING HOURS ON THIS.

But at least the game functions again. I have to start all over, but its worth it. Now I can add my mods back in and actually play as my own Na'vi as planned.

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"Get your free copy of Far Cry 3 on Ubisoft Connect PC now before September 11th! Far Cry 3 is an open world first-person shooter set on an island unlike any other. A place where heavily armed warlords traffic in slaves. Where outsiders are hunted for ransom. And as you embark on a desperate quest to rescue your friends, you realise that the only way to escape this darkness ... is to embrace it. You can claim your free game on Ubisoft Connect PC from September 7th at 15:00 to September 11th at 08:30 (your local time) and you will be able to play it at any time!"

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Ummmmm.. I have not unlocked this.. Ordinarily you have to play the game on insanity mode (I play easy, because i am a baby) and theres no way i could ever do that. But I just loaded up far cry 5, and it said all the rewards are unlocked.. even the deputy outfit, which as we all know, is the most annoying reward theyve ever done because we all want it. So ummmm.. what the fuck ubisoft??

NOTE: I did also post this on Steam's "Player Support" forum for this game and put in a support ticket with Ubisoft directly. I am posting it here as well in case anyone else may have suggestions.

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I have been trying to get my game running since Jul. 3rd, 2026. It was working the night of Jul. 2nd and I went to play the next morning and the game would not open. Steam shows the game as running, but nothing happens and I can continue using my laptop as if the game wasn't even open or running.

For context, I'm running the game on a 1tb external SSD (SanDisk brand).

My laptop itself is an ASUS TUF A15 Gaming Laptop, 15.6” FHD 16:9 144Hz Display, AMD Ryzen™ 5 7535HS Processor, NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3050, 16GB DDR5, 512GB PCIe® Gen 4.0 SSD, Wi-Fi 6, Windows 11 Home, FA506NC-DS53.

To assist with any potential overheating, I have two cooling pads stacked just to be on the safe side since I know this is a heavy performance game.

I have put Steam to run as administrator, I have set Ubisoft Connect to run as admin, I have uninstalled and reinstalled the game twice, I have uninstalled and reinstalled Steam itself, I have uninstalled and reinstalled Ubisoft Connect itself, I have made sure my drivers are all up to date, I have deleted and cleared all cache files so that there is a clean slate, I have done every possible action and the game will not load. 10+ minutes and the game does not open. I have waited 30+ minutes to see if the game is just taking forever to boot and still nothing happens. It shows in Steam that the game is running. I open task manager and it doesn't show as an active app, it shows up in Background Processes and that it's using 0% CPU/GPU. I have to manually close it via task manager because the game window does not open for me at all and I can continue using my laptop as if the game wasn't even open despite Steam showing it as running. I have even interjected the -dx12 (and -dx11) options in both Steam and Ubisoft Connected, along with disabling the interfaces for both clients, but this still did not fix the issue.

I have tried running the game from Steam. Tried running it from Ubisoft. Tried running it from the exe file direction. All three give the same result: shows it as running, game shows as a Background Process, and I have to manually close it via Task Manager. When trying to run it from my Steam Library, directly from the exe, or from the desktop shortcut, I have also noticed that Ubisoft Connect DOES NOT LAUNCH. If I have purposely closed it, either leaving it in my Tray or entirely ending the process via Task Manager and closing the program entirely, it will not re-launch as it used to. Steam immediately shows AFOP as launching, then switches to show the game as running. Nothing else happens after this.

I don't know what to do in order to get this game running properly again. I am not tech savvy and would never run the risk of trying to mess with coding or anything like that if it came to it.

I don't know what I else to do and would like to know if anyone else has been having this issue?