Lots of solutions to different bugs have been found by users

May 27, 2014 06:06 GMT  ·  By

Watch Dogs on the PC is being affected by a few different problems reported by users but, fortunately, quite a few workarounds are available, mostly involving the editing of the GameProfile.xml file that's generated by the game.

Watch Dogs is set to release officially later today, May 27, worldwide for the PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One platforms, but the game has already been sold by quite a lot of retailers since last week.

As such, users have managed to produce screenshots, videos, and even comparisons between the game's many different versions.

Now, PC users have started offering more and more workarounds for different errors and problems they've encountered while trying to play the game, so we've rounded some of them up, via Reddit.

First up, for those experiencing issues with textures or downright crashes after a few minutes of gameplay, it's recommended that you use the Verify Integrity of Game Cache on the Steam service or the Repair Game option on the uPlay service, depending on where you activated the game.

Also, in order to experience the best results, update your Nvidia and AMD graphics drivers to the latest beta versions, as both manufacturers have rolled out new software in order to ensure the maximum compatibility with Ubisoft's open world title.

A special error regarding the disrupt_b64.dll file has also been reported by some players, and it seems that it can be fixed by disabling the AMD Crossfire or Nvidia SLI setups, at least until Ubisoft patches the game.

One of the best things the studio did with Watch Dogs on the PC was to allow users to easily edit the GameProfile.xml file. It's usually located in the "C:\Users\<Name>\Documents\My Games\Watch_Dogs\<random code>\GameProfile.xml."

Throughout the file, you can find all sorts of settings for the game and force it to do all kinds of things.

You can disable the default mouse acceleration, which isn't even available in the main menu of the game, by looking for the Sensitivity setting and changing it to 1, the UseMouseSmooth setting to 0, and the Smoothness to 0.

You can force texture resolution by going to the TextureResolutionQuality parameter and changing it to different settings like ultra, high, and so on.

Those who see the game always run in windowed mode should change the WindowMode parameter value to 2. Those who do want it to run in windowed mode can change it to 1 or 0.

Last but not least, gamers with less than 6GB of RAM who encounter stuttering can create a shortcut to the game on the desktop, view its properties, and in the target field, add the "-disablepagefilecheck" parameter (without the quotation marks).

Please share your issues and solutions for Watch Dogs on PC by leaving a comment below.

Update: The disrupt_b64.dll error continues to plague uses even with the workarounds above and some new ones that have surfaced online.