We chat with Jean-Francois Boivin about the upcoming Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood game from Ubisoft. We get a rundown on new features in the game, the gameplay and more @ butterscotch.com: bit.ly
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SOLUTION: * Plug out your network cable. or (proposed by ThisWickedGame on ubisoft forums): * Add this line to your c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts: 216.98.48.18 localhost This way your internet is still active, but AC won’t be able to contact the server anymore. The IP above will just be redirected to your local machine which is always available. Edit hosts file with * XP: Go to c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\ and open the hosts file with any text editor. * Vista: Start › Run, enter “notepad” (without “) and run it as administrator. Open the hosts file via File › Open. You may need to enter another IP; if so, just run Wireshark (see below) to see which IP AC tries to connect to. Remember to quit all other programs which use the internet (Browser, Messaging, etc) before so that you only see traffic generated by AC. PROBLEM: Today AC suddenly freezed about 4 to 5 seconds after every stealth/non stealth assassination. Re-installing DirectX didn’t help in any way. Unplugging the LAN cable however did! So I ran Wireshark to see what exactly happens during this 4 seconds when the PC is connected to the internet. (You can get Wireshark at www.wireshark.org and take a look yourself.) Why the 4 seconds freeze though? Their server (whois.domaintools.com seems to be down at the moment. So what happens? After every kill a piece of encrypted data is uploaded to a Ubisoft server. Your language is submitted too, but plaintext, that is not interesting. Very likely thingsl like …
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