Assassin's Creed Syndicate Keeps Crashing: How to Fix

Like most games these days, Assassin’s Creed Syndicate has some crashing issues that are making the game unplayable for some users on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

The most common crashes are on startup, during the intro, or on the loading screen.

Why does Assassin’s Creed Syndicate keep crashing?

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate keeps crashing on the PC due to multiple reasons, but mainly due to outdated drivers or because the player’s PC doesn’t respect the minimum specs. We’re going to list them in detail:

• Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Crash on Startup: possibly caused by outdated graphics drivers, incompatible mods or custom assets, conflicts with antivirus programs, insufficient system resources, or corrupted game files
• Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Crashes Loading Screen: may be caused by a lack of system resources, outdated graphics drivers, blocking antivirus, incompatible mods
• Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Crashing After Cutscene: unsupported resolution or graphics settings, background software conflicts, outdated graphics drivers, incompatible hardware components.
• Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Crashing After Mission: background software conflicts, outdated graphics drivers, unsupported graphics or resolution settings

Some players also reported stuttering/freezing – performance issues like Low FPS or FPS Drops, that can be fixed by fixing the lag issues.

In some circumstances, stuttering or freezing can result in crashing. Insufficient system resources can make a game operate slowly, causing it to stutter, freeze, and eventually crash.

Before proceeding to the main fixes, it’s important to check if you respect the minimum system requirements of the game.

How to fix Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Keeps Crashing?

1. Update Graphics Drivers
2. Verify the game files
3. Run the game as an administrator
4. End the background applications
5. Lower your CPU cores

1. Update Graphics Drivers

To prevent Assassin’s Creed Syndicate from crashing on your PC, visit your graphic driver manufacturer’s website (AMD | NVIDIA) to update the GPU drivers, or follow these steps to update them on your Windows PC via Device Manager:

1. Click the Windows + X key to choose Device Manager from Menu.
2. Click and expand the Display adapters to select the graphics cards you want to update.
3. Right-click on the graphics card and select Update driver.
   
   
4. Select Search automatically for updated driver software.
5. Windows will automatically search for available graphics card updates.
6. Restart your PC.

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2. Verify the game files

1. Go to the game’s properties in your Steam library.
2. Click on the Local Files tab.
3. Click on Verify Integrity of Game Files.
   
4. Wait for the action to complete.

3. Run the game as an administrator

By applying this easy procedure, you may enable Windows updates on your PC and launch your game without experiencing any crashes or functioning issues.

1. Open the Windows Start bar and type the Assassin’s Creed Syndicate name.
2. In the game folder, right-click on the game .exe file.
3. Go to the Compatibility tab and check Run this program as an administrator.
4. Just click on Apply and the OK button to save.

4. End the background applications

1. Open Task Manager from the Windows search box.
   
2. On the Processes tab, right-click on a program in the list.
3. Choose the End task option to terminate the software.
   
4. Repeat the process for all the apps that might interfere with the game.

5. Lower your CPU cores

1. Type MSConfig and press Enter in the search box.
   
2. Select the Boot tab and click on Advanced Options.
3. Tick the Number of Processors box.
4. Pick a number between 4-8 to select for your CPU cores.
   
5. Click on Apply and then OK to save the changes.
6. Restart your PC and relaunch the game.

How to run Assassin’s Creed Syndicate smoothly on low-end PC?

 Assassin’s Creed Syndicate FPS Issues, another issue that is present in the game is the FPS issue; players are complaining about Low FPS or FPS Drops.

“During and only during cutscenes my game would get an FPS drop and twice during sequence three at the end of a cutscene the game would crash. Gameplay is fine, though. Anyone else having this problem? Any fixes?”

Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Resolution Issue, because your desktop resolution is not the same as the game resolution you may encounter a black screen, stuttering, or blurriness. To fix that change your desktop resolution or run the game in borderless windowed mode.

 Assassin’s Creed Syndicate Unable to Skip Intro Scenes, these intro videos might be long and annoying, and you are unable to skip them.

Solution: The only mode that you can skip these scenes is to delete or rename them. The files you are looking for are in “gamedirectory\videos”: delete or rename UbisoftLogo.bk2 and pc_twimtbp.bk2 files. Now go to “videos\locale” and delete or rename Epilepsy.bk2, PC_WarningSaving.bk2 and warning_disclaimer.bk2.

That’s it! We hope that our article helped you fix your Assassin’s Creed Syndicate crashing errors and that now you are playing and enjoying the game. If you encounter any issues, or if you have questions, please use the comment section below and we will help you fix your game.