Ubi fixes Splinter Cell: Conviction issue

By Ellie Gibson Published 14 April, 2010

No more freezing, promises publisher.

Ubisoft claims to have fixed a problem which caused Splinter Cell: Conviction to freeze during gameplay.

"The issue has been resolved, you should now be able to play without further problems," a spokesperson told Kotaku. "You can download the update now and be able to play the game without it freezing or needing to be unplugged from Xbox Live."

US purchasers of the Xbox 360 version of the game had complained it was freezing on the second level and at other points. Ubi initially advised players to clear their hard drive cache and reboot their 360 with Xbox Live disconnected to solve the problem. Now, however, none of that should be necessary.

Splinter Cell: Conviction will be released for Xbox 360 this Friday in Europe, with a PC version to follow in two weeks. Look out for a review on Eurogamer very soon.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Hunam #1 2 years ago

    Maybe UPlay was playing up? Sounds the most likely culprit.

  • GamesConnoisseur #2 2 years ago

    Been reading about this freezing problems in other sites, its a pity that this important bug missed QA check especially considering that its taken a long time for this game to go gold!

    Fixed quickly via update, but the resolution as reported is if its DO happens, go to the X360 control setting and clear the hard drive cache via the memory section, and then disconnect the XBL to play through the problem areas.

  • George-Roper #3 2 years ago

    @GC

    You're quick to assume QA didn't find the problem. Don't be.

  • jaywalker3010 Verified Mastering Manager, Square Enix #4 2 years ago

    Yeh dont always assume QA didnt find it ;)

    Also for a fix to be available SO quickly? hmm patches have to go thru a submission process too ya know, so its not possible for a bug to be found on tuesday and fixed for wednesday, unless already known about and a patch was being worked on between original submission passing a while back and street date..

  • Jay-ITFC #5 2 years ago

    What about the poor bastards without Xbox Live!?

  • sneetch #6 2 years ago

    @Jay-ITFC
    What about the poor bastards without Xbox Live!?

    I'm not sure it occurs if you're not on Live as the fix seems to be disconnecting from Live but if it does then I believe they're boned.

  • Murton #7 2 years ago

    "Been reading about this freezing problems in other sites, its a pity that this important bug missed QA check especially considering that its taken a long time for this game to go gold! "

    Said it before and will say it again. Any bug or glitch that you have witnessed or heard about in a retail game was almost certainly picked up by QA. It's up to the devs to actually fix it once reported, this doesn't always happen though, as is evident with many games these days.

  • Aeon #8 2 years ago

    I'm with Murton, the QA team will find most of the bugs but there are some that will only crop up when it's released to the masses which is unfortunate but at least Ubisoft were surprisingly quick to fix it and it's before the EU/UK release so I'm happy :D