I have found that most of the crashing of Ubisoft's games are due to overclocking either their CPU (mainly), GPU, or both and they are finding out the hard way, when trying to enjoy a game, that even after hours of stability testing, their overclock isn't quite stable as they originally thought.

I have an i9-9900K with a somewhat outdated and inadequate cooler (Corsair H80i GT) so, temporarily, I manually set my CPU clock speed to 4.5GHz and dial the voltage down to a VCore of 1.2v in order to keep the temps lower.

Well, under a regular full load on the CPU (like the default used by CPU-Z) it is rock-steady with that VCore, but it seems that some Ubisoft games switch over to some other instruction set (AVX, AVX2 perhaps?) on occasion, which will cause the VCore to droop even further than it would with a regular load. Now I could be totally wrong about that, I'm far from being an expert, and it could be some other thing causing the Vcore to drop, but I have found Ubisoft games are one of the biggest causes of the Vcore drooping further down than normal. For whatever reason. My CPU VDroop under full load goes down to 1.84v with that "regular load", but I discovered that when I apply an AVX or AVX2 load I have noticed it will droop even further to an unstable 1.64v - so bumping up my Vcore another 0.2v in the BIOS was the cure... for me. I'm not trying to speak for everyone here, but I do strongly believe some gamers out there experiencing these crashes are seeing them because their overclock isn't stable. Even though it is actually stable in other games.

Again, not trying to say this is everyone's problem, but it is worth looking into if you are experiencing crashes or freezes and are also overclocking.

Either way, good luck, hope this information helps someone.

I have found that most of the crashing of Ubisoft's games are due to overclocking either their CPU (mainly), GPU, or both and they are finding out the hard way, when trying to enjoy a game, that even after hours of stability testing, their overclock isn't quite stable as they originally thought.

I have an i9-9900K with a somewhat outdated and inadequate cooler (Corsair H80i GT) so, temporarily, I manually set my CPU clock speed to 4.5GHz and dial the voltage down to a VCore of 1.2v in order to keep the temps lower.

Well, under a regular full load on the CPU (like the default used by CPU-Z) it is rock-steady with that VCore, but it seems that some Ubisoft games switch over to some other instruction set (AVX, AVX2 perhaps?) on occasion, which will cause the VCore to droop even further than it would with a regular load. Now I could be totally wrong about that, I'm far from being an expert, and it could be some other thing causing the Vcore to drop, but I have found Ubisoft games are one of the biggest causes of the Vcore drooping further down than normal. For whatever reason. My CPU VDroop under full load goes down to 1.84v with that "regular load", but I discovered that when I apply an AVX or AVX2 load I have noticed it will droop even further to an unstable 1.64v - so bumping up my Vcore another 0.2v in the BIOS was the cure... for me. I'm not trying to speak for everyone here, but I do strongly believe some gamers out there experiencing these crashes are seeing them because their overclock isn't stable. Even though it is actually stable in other games.

Again, not trying to say this is everyone's problem, but it is worth looking into if you are experiencing crashes or freezes and are also overclocking.

Either way, good luck, hope this information helps someone.

Yes. When I got to the first raid on the Monastery, I was overjoyed and said "WOW MAN, this game really is awesome, what a rush!" but then when I started killing the civilians, the game told me killing them could result in desynchronization? Wait what?! That really dialed it back a few notches for me.

The Viking raiders did not spare anyone during a raid, not even women and children... unless it served their own purposes in some way or they made a conscious decision to be merciful for whatever personal reason. I think injecting our modern world's values (which are mostly based on the Abrahamic religions that the Norse heathens despised) into a game about Vikings is just... f#$king lame... which is putting it lightly.