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Does Steam have a setting to hide all Uplay titles?
A different approach from the other answer: if you get the augmented Steam addon, then any time you visit a Steam game page in your browser (but not within Steam), it will tell you if it requires any ...
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What's the difference between buying a "PC game" and a "PC code"?
"PC Code" or "Key" refers to a product key that can be used to activate a game on a download platform, such as Steam (the big one), Origin (EA), uPlay (Ubisoft) or GOG. Once ...
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Does Steam have a setting to hide all Uplay titles?
Uplay is a digital distribution service, like Steam. Many games offer additional meta-features - experience, achievements, trading cards, badges, &c. - for both services. Steam does not take into ...
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What's the difference between buying a "PC game" and a "PC code"?
Speaking of Far Cry 3 specifically:
PC Standard is the physical disc. You will still need Uplay to activate it.
PC Download Standard and PC Download Deluxe are codes to be redeemed on Uplay.
PC ...
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Can I play a Uplay game through Steam's Big Picture mode?
MrLemon pointed me in the right direction, but I was able to improve on the procedure presented there.
In Steam, pick "Add a Non-Steam Game to My Library..." from the Games menu.
If Uplay appears in ...
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Does For Honor support cross-play between Steam and Uplay?
For Honor, like many other Ubisoft titles, on PC runs only on the Uplay platform. Steam purchases require launching Uplay and linking the purchase to a Uplay account. You should have no trouble ...
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Find uplay, Origin, Battle.net game ID
Steam (just in case)
You can enable "Display Steam URL address bar when available" on Steam > Settings > Interface:
After that you will be able to see the game ID on the store page (in this case, ...
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Uplay Games not Launching
I have similar problems with Uplay,
there are several posts of user around internet(reddit, Ubisoft forum and so on) complaining about those things.
There are two main and constant problems:
Can't ...
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If i buy a Ubisoft game on Steam will it appear in UPLAY list as well?
Many (if not all) Ubisoft games on Steam actually are activated and launched through Uplay. This should be easy to find by viewing the store page and looking by the publisher info and game genres + ...
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Uplay Shop Tab Missing
Found this answer made by community manager at Uplay's forum
Hello, you will not see the Shop tab if you launch Uplay from a Steam
game or only have games owned through Steam on your Uplay ...
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What does my Uplay level do?
As far as i know, there are not many things that change your profile related to your level, but i managed to figure out something.
So one of the features you achieve is the possibillity to choose ...
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Does removing a Uplay game from your Steam account also remove it from Uplay?
I do not think so. UPlay and Steam are two entirely different platforms and you can launch a gamefrom UPlay, without using Steam.
Additionally I do not see a reason why you would want to remove a ...
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UPlay Plus free month: What happens if I cancel now?
If you cancel the trial now, the trial will continue until the end date and then terminate. Upon the terminations, games downloaded via UPlay+ will cease working and do nothing but take space in your ...
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Mods, Auto Updates, DRM, and Git - Can Git be used to preserve moddable game versions?
It's definitely possible, but don't just put your entire game folder under version control. Some advice:
Git is not optimized for storing non-text files. It cannot calculate diffs for them and has to ...
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Uplay Games not Launching
Had a similar problem with uplay games.
What fixed the issue for me was setting everything(steam, uplay, game) to launch on administrator mode. To do so, you need to find the .exe right click it and ...
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Uplay Games not Launching
To list the things can mess it up
Corrupted installation of uplay, which could also make installing games through uplay corrupted, reinstalling is the only option I can think of.
Some background ...
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How can I stop the uplay client giving me "A Ubisoft service is unavailable at the moment."?
I had the same issue (With the steam version of the game), with a different solution. I managed to get around it by installing the uPlay client from https://uplay.ubi.com/.
Most likely, the client ...
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How can I bind my Steam game to my Ubisoft account?
Sadly, as support said, it's not possible.
Steam and others do not share licenses between games, Valve just allows others to include their launcher and give an additional, separate license from their ...
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Disable Uplay overlay on Steam
had the same problem and found a workaround: just start the game and press shift+F2, then disable all notification types, crash the game and restart... should be fine now :)
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Why is "Ubisoft Connect" required in Just Dance 2022?
You do not need an account to play the base game. You are probably referring to Just Dance Unlimited. The game comes with some songs when you buy it but if you want to get newer songs they have Just ...
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How can you find out the uplay account which is linked to Steam?
I also had the same problem with Far Cry 4 and I accidentally fixed it by first logging out of my current Uplay account(the wrong one) and trying to relaunch the game from Steam. Somehow Steam just ...
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Uplay Shop Tab Missing
A workaround you can do is actually by clicking "Quit" in UPlay's client, then launching it again (not through Steam). You will be able to use all of UPlay's functions.
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Season Pass from Origin for a Ubisoft Game
Origin provided Key which I used to activate in Uplay.
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Find uplay, Origin, Battle.net game ID
Other method for origin
Open to " installerdata.xml " in your game
"G:\Origin Games\Need for Speed(TM) Most Wanted\ __Installer"
for me
and look contentIDs
71628
71530
71744
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New Recruits achievement not awarded in Assassin's Creed Origins
According to a Ubisoft employer in a Steam thread about the issue,
Very sorry about this guys, these achievements are known to be a little glitchy at the moment. I've just mentioned this on another ...
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What exactly will be missed by prematurely starting the expansion of The Division 2?
Short Answer:
No you do not miss any important Content if you skip the base Game. The only thing you miss out on are a few Achievements (i do not know which ones), and of course the Story.
All you ...
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Can I use Steam Family Sharing to play an Origin or Ubisoft game?
No. Steam Family Sharing is only useful for games on Steam, and even then only those where the publishers themselves decide to support it (more likely an opt-out than opt-in).
SFS cannot allow you to ...
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Was my game activated twice on the same Uplay account?
I could solve the problem. I signed in to my new Uplay account and started the game on Steam, then a message showed which asked me If I want to move the game to this account. Now it works!
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If i buy a Ubisoft game on Steam will it appear in UPLAY list as well?
This is my complete experience with Steam and UPlay.
Mini description:
Ubisoft games bought on Steam are unlocked on UPlay as well but the game files and DLC are downloaded/bought on Steam.
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