Assassins Creed PC problem, please help

I realize this is an old game at this point, but with the hype of AC2, I felt like I needed to try it out while it was only 10 bucks on steam.



Anyway, I downloaded this game from steam and it worked fine the first two days. I had gotten through a few hours of the game, and when I booted it up to play the third time it got an odd lag during the loading screens where it would skip. The loading screens to get in game also took much longer than normal. Then once in game, whenever the game has to load something, it would freeze for a bit, then finally catch up with itself. That means every time I go into combat, it freezes each time I kill someone, and when I initially move into the combat phase.



I was downloading a patch for a different game while I was playing this third time, but thats the only thing I found different. I tried restarting my comp and reinstalling the game, but neither fixed the problem.



If anyone has any info on this it would be much appreciated.Assassins Creed PC problem, please help
Do this. Exit your Antivirus software, then shut off your internet. Come back and tell me if it works. Assassins Creed PC problem, please help
Ok yeah, I forgot to mention that I did try turning off my anti-virus after searching for a fix on the web.



That didn't help, but I didn't disconnect the internet, so I guess I'll try that as well next time. I'm at work, so I won't be able to test it for a while.



thanks though!
Sounds like a performance problem. Either your PC doesn't have the right specs or there's a heavy program that you are running(could be a virus as well)
specs:

Intel Q6600

Vista 64-Bit

8GB DDR2 1066 ram

Nvidia 9800 GX2



I'm pretty sure my rig should be able to run this fine, and it did for multiple hours, so I doubt it is that. Like I said I did have a patch downloading the first time I had this problem, but after that finished, it still had the problem, with no other programs running.



thanks for quick responses
my best advise would be trying to reinstall your gfx drivers, I had some sort of similar problems with S.T.A.L.K.E.R CS, and spent a few days trying all things, untill I found out that my gfx drivers had become corrupted, could have spared myself for a whole lot of problems there -.-Also, if you ahve the 9800 series, I would seriously consider going back to the .82 drivers, instead of the .85 drivers, since those drivers seem to werck havoc on a great deal of 8800 and 9800 cards.
If you're going to try a different version of drivers, make sure to download Driver Sweeper as well :)
Same thing happened to me disconnect your internet it runs perfectly fine
I am having the same problems. Makes me wanna put down the game right now. :(
The cure is to disconnect the internet because of some spy problem or something like that from what I've heard.
I actually got the game running fine wth Steam in offline mode :) so I'm happy now.
Called it.. woo!
weird, i am having the same issue, and can't figure it out, but i am not using steam.

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