View Full Version : Poll: Who is managing to play tonight?
Just a quick poll to get a feel of the percentages of people that can play tonight and those that cannot.
Punkedit
03-08-10, 05:36 PM
Not me thats for sure
jwilliams
03-08-10, 05:41 PM
LOL, i wondered how long it would be before someone made a poll for this. :haha:
I dont have the game yet, not released in NZ til 12 March. So i didnt vote.
golani79
03-08-10, 05:43 PM
I wasn´t able to play the whole day yesterday and I´m also not able to play today ... -.-
DarkFish
03-08-10, 05:48 PM
Just a quick poll to get a feel of the percentages of people that can play tonight and those that cannot.what need? ubi already said it's only 5% that can't play:yeah:
have only succeeded in playing 30 minutes today, and that with many interruptions because of a lost connection
Discosanta
03-08-10, 05:57 PM
I just played a couple of hours with a stable connection, I hope it stays like that. Before that I was unable to log in for 3 or 4 hours.
Onkel Neal
03-08-10, 06:03 PM
Got the launcher but not logging in. I'll take another stab at it later.
Tech Support Phone # 919-460-9778
If they get alot of phone call, they make fix the problem.
oscar19681
03-08-10, 06:05 PM
Well it seems that if i would have gotten the game in my mail-box today i wouldnt be able to play it afterall? Wow that would have been a recipe for disaster . That would seriously piss me off!! Well i could always get it tomorrow and find out i still cant play because of drm!
Ships-R-Us
03-08-10, 06:12 PM
Just a quick poll to get a feel of the percentages of people that can play tonight and those that cannot.
I don't have the game but I think you should post the meaning of "tonite" with a range of time stated in GMT so the rest of the world can be aware.
Khayman
03-08-10, 06:18 PM
Couldn't play at all earlier, but just spent a trouble free 2 hours on it.
derblaueClaus
03-08-10, 06:32 PM
Question is how many of those who are able to play will come here and also vote ? Considering that the poll is a bit senseless............
mookiemookie
03-08-10, 06:53 PM
Got it up and running and will be keeping it running until bedtime.
I can't play, it's 15:57PM PST. ********n UBI; they better to remove this DRM crap out of this game otherwise I'm returning it to amazon as defective; I have 30 days I belive to return; what good is a moddable game if I can't get on. I don't care about $50, but from the ********n principle I'll send it back to them
BTW, I called UBI tech support right now at 16:15PM PST and spoke with rep, he told me that the servers are right now attacked by "russian hackers" and they should be up again tomorrow morning. He also said that their last game turned out only 8% of paying customers, so that's why this crap....
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4037/4418616426_5a1f8bae51_o.jpg
Just for info, I often see the screen above when loading up a saved game, even though the connection is good. Clicking "OK" dumps me back to the menu, of course, but if I press the "Esc" key, it goes away and the game continues. I think the heavy CPU usage during initialisation of the game causes a brief 'hang' which makes the Ubisoft 'all-seeing-eye' DRM think the network has stopped responding.
Thought it worth posting in case it helps others.
Of course, if that screen pops up during play, it's a different matter entirely.
I got in and played for a couple hours but after exiting got an error about not being able to upload the save. So now I can't move to play on my other computer until that one saves or I will probably end up losing the latest saves or totally borking all my saves.
This has to be the worst decision in PC gaming history, if not PC history.
Rip
karamazovnew
03-08-10, 07:22 PM
Works fine for me. Even updated the Launcher...
textide
03-08-10, 07:25 PM
Been in now for the past hour. Took the launcher a good 10mins to load, but all seems well. The leaderboard is missing/inaccessible in-game from my end though....
Just for info, I often see the screen above when loading up a saved game, even though the connection is good. Clicking "OK" dumps me back to the menu, of course, but if I press the "Esc" key, it goes away and the game continues. I think the heavy CPU usage during initialisation of the game causes a brief 'hang' which makes the Ubisoft 'all-seeing-eye' DRM think the network has stopped responding.
Thought it worth posting in case it helps others.
Of course, if that screen pops up during play, it's a different matter entirely.
yes, during the play.. :(
SabreHawk
03-09-10, 12:00 AM
All is well with mine, and has been since I bought it on saturday the 6th.
Run it tonite(the 8th) for a couple hours, again no problems what so ever.
And it all take only seconds on startup.:yep:
Herr Graf
03-09-10, 12:06 AM
No issues here connecting since release day.
I really do hope that they fix it ASAP for those that are having issues :down:
It is a shame so many people are having connection issues.
Greentimbers
03-09-10, 12:53 AM
Works fine for me. Even updated the Launcher...
Same here :salute:
SabreHawk
03-09-10, 01:02 AM
Uhhh yeah I forgot to mention the launcher update on mine also this evening, it all happened so fast I hardly saw it.
Am having my first storm though, nice thunder & lightning.:yep:
SabreHawk
03-09-10, 10:49 AM
Well just to see something this morning I started the sim up at about 7:30am 3-9-10 and this time got the connection failure for the first time since buying the sim.
So I geuss I been lucky so far. Well, hopefully it's a server issue and not anything with my connection, and this must be the case as Im here posting, and also went to UBI's site and into their forums fine.
Though there is one thing that may have affected things on my end perhaps, I did just this morning try to get the 196.21 video drivers over the 196.75 it was, and had to do a system restore back to the newer ones as the older one's disable my video card. I dont see how that would affect online connectivity though.
I got on. Was slow, and it didn't save.
Bilge_Rat
03-09-10, 11:33 AM
no issues here, was able to log on and play with no issues this weekend, last night and this morning.
even managed to play from the cottage this weekend using my blackberry as a IP modem. I am really at the limit of the wireless network there.
SabreHawk
03-09-10, 12:15 PM
Well you know it seems as though this is happening to some of us some of the time, but not all the time.
So I have to wonder, if there is many different servers and some are down at times and others that are not. And depending on your location, the servers serving your location may or may not be working.
Just like me last night all was well, and for others it was not. And now this morning, mine's not connecting for love or money but is for others.
I think whats need here as long as this DRM is gonna be etched in stone, is a server status page at UBIsoft so folks who cannot connect can check the staus of the servers and then at least you'll know what end is having trouble. Yours or theirs.
SabreHawk
03-09-10, 12:36 PM
Ok so I decide to give support a call and talked to Brian. I explained what I did this morning having to do a system restore to get back to where things were yesterday before I followed what that fella said about the nvidia drivers and then my video card not being used after installing the 196.21 drivers.
He then said that it is the system restore that has caused this, that it wreaks havoc with the registry, and that I'd need to uninstall SH5, and then make sure no trace of it remains in the UBIsoft install folders.
the reinstall and all should be well.
So when I have time alter I will do this and hopefully can again go back to enjoying SH5.
Keep fingers crossed.
Got to admit that he's probably right, cause this "unable to connect" only occured after that system restore this morning.
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