Assassin's Creed II autosaving unreliable?

Started playing the game earlier this morning and again for a couple hours this evening. Soon after I started the game again to find the last 2 hours were not saved. Looking online it seems like this is a common problem that has something to do with the DRM. All the topics I've seen are a couple years old and don't seem to have any reliable fix. So in 2012, has Ubisoft addressed this issue? Or does anyone have a fix that will definitely work? I'm running on Windows 7 if that matters.

Haven't tried AC 2 yet, myself, buuuut. Is there a regular save function? I never trust autosaves anyway, if there's an alternative. Always do a manual save before exiting.

There is no manual save. It's supposed to autosave when an action is completed which would be fine except it can stop working.

There is no manual save. It's supposed to autosave when an action is completed which would be fine except it can stop working.

Ross_the_Boss6

Hmm. very strange. Again, I haven't played AC2, so I don't know, buuut.... If I ran into that, the first thing I would do is try running it as Administrator. Maybe windows has a problem with letting it create its save files for some reason.

There is no manual save. It's supposed to autosave when an action is completed which would be fine except it can stop working.

Ross_the_Boss6

I am propably gonna get flamed for this, but it will best to seek another way to play the game, possibly offline...if you know what i mean. Its more reliable.dakan45

Totally agree. I can't stand convoluted and experience-breaking DRM systems, and I think they totally warrant getting cracks to run games without them. Especially if you already bought the game legit, and the publisher's inability to get their sh!t together is making it a pain for the customer. thepiratebay is your friend.

[QUOTE="dakan45"]I am propably gonna get flamed for this, but it will best to seek another way to play the game, possibly offline...if you know what i mean. Its more reliable.the_bi99man

Totally agree. I can't stand convoluted and experience-breaking DRM systems, and I think they totally warrant getting cracks to run games without them. Especially if you already bought the game legit, and the publisher's inability to get their sh!t together is making it a pain for the customer. thepiratebay is your friend.

ubisoft patched crashes in vegas 2 by releasing a patch which was basicly the cracked exe. :roll: Well done ubi, now shove your crappy drm up your ass. Thank you.dakan45

Haha. That's awesome. What a great example. Guess not quite the same, but somewhat similar to how the original version of GTA4 for PC required their totally rediculous Rockstar Games Social Club, which was apparently so terrible, that in later patches they just straight up got rid of it. Although I still use a version that requires it because 1.0.4 is more friendly for mods. Every time I want to play it, it has to go through the "skip login" process twice, before letting me open the game. Sigh... damn publishers these days, thinking piracy is a much bigger problem than it is.

I am propably gonna get flamed for this, but it will best to seek another way to play the game, possibly offline...if you know what i mean. Its more reliable.dakan45

I remember way back, when damn near all games still required the disc in drive to run, I didn't even know that pirate copies of games existed, but I still got no-cd cracks for everything that I could, just because I hate swapping discs. That, and I used to haul my whole tower/monitor setup back and forth from my friend's house, and I already had a duffel bag full of mouse/kb, cables, and speakers, and didn't want to drag another one full of games.

Haha. That's awesome. What a great example. Guess not quite the same, but somewhat similar to how the original version of GTA4 for PC required their totally rediculous Rockstar Games Social Club, which was apparently so terrible, that in later patches they just straight up got rid of it. Although I still use a version that requires it because 1.0.4 is more friendly for mods. Every time I want to play it, it has to go through the "skip login" process twice, before letting me open the game. Sigh... damn publishers these days, thinking piracy is a much bigger problem than it is.the_bi99man

social club kept crashing for me, random crap appeared on my pc due to securom and the game was unoptimized with questionable patching, re bought the game for ps3.dakan45

Yeah, I got the collection for PS3, mostly just so I could try out LatD and BoGT, since those were added free in version 1.0.7 for the PC, but that version screwed with a bunch of optimizations and won't even run on my system. Whenever I just want to drive around, shootin stuff goin crazy though, I play it on my PC. It looks sooooooo much better than the console versions, even vanilla. And I play it with a low-end enb, and a whole mess of car mods, and added guns. And the bigger explosions mod. And the gun realism mod. And a giant map add-on that brings in the whole desert from Red Dead Revolver, with a huge racetrack stuck on the side. Combine all that with Independence FM, and it's much more satisfying if I just want to drive around and shoot people. As soon as I'm tired of it, though, I'm uninstalling, and doing a very deep clean of my registry, to get all that nonsense out of there.