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the morning and attempting
to install, it is now eight hours
later and I have yet to sample
the delights of the hacker.
At first all was going well, Uplay
installed fine, I popped in my
key-code and Watch_Dogs
installed, albeit a bit slowly.
When it was ready I was waiting
for the extra updates to get on
board and then clicked play. As
it started I felt a wave of relief
and excitement at the opening
sequence and allowed myself
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a few cheeky minutes fiddling
around with the settings to
get them just right. Then it
was time to start... or rather
not. CRASH. And proper crash,
screen frozen, immune to alt
+ tab, only ctrl + alt + del and
task manager resolving the
issue with an end programme.
After another five or six
attempts, myself becoming
more and more desperate I got
fed up and started to Google
(duh) my issues and how to fix
them. I tried disabling the Uplay
overlay, repairing the game and
going offline. None of these
worked, so I decided to try a
reinstall of Uplay. Uninstalling it
was fine, but then when I went
to reinstall the site was down!
Before I panicked too much,
I went to my downloads and
restarted the installer from the
last time. Of course upon its
installation I gleefully discovered
Uplay was (and still is) down.
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