Ubisoft looking into Vegas 2 PC error

By Robert Purchese Published 23 April, 2008

Each crash eating a gigabyte of space.

Ubisoft has told Eurogamer it will look into claims that Rainbow Six Vegas 2 has a rather serious hard drive-consuming bug on PC.

Comments on the official Ubisoft forums report a file ranging from 800 MB to over 1 GB being dumped in the game directory every time the program crashes.

This adds up rather quickly; some have posted evidence of directories bulging as large as 16 GB.

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 was released on PC last Friday, which is a few weeks after the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions commanded a 7/10 on Eurogamer.

Pop over to our Rainbow Six Vegas 2 review to find out why.

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Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (16) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • yupyup #1 4 years ago

    Ubilol

  • Xerx3s #2 4 years ago

    r6v2beingawormlol.

  • bdc #3 4 years ago

    blimey

  • smoison #4 4 years ago

    buggy shitty consol port.

    Unreal engine has become a consol engine.

  • Bitkari #5 4 years ago

    Strange, the unreal engine used to be quite stable.

    Bit of a shame if it's become so buggy in this iteration.

  • PearOfAnguish #6 4 years ago

    "If you don't know your way around a computer don't play games on it."

    Brilliant attitude. If you don't know how to fix your car, don't drive it.

  • jaywalker3010 Verified Mastering Manager, Square Enix #7 4 years ago

    i can drive perfectly well and i know how to change a tyre, its called the rac :)

  • PearOfAnguish #8 4 years ago

    Deleting a file may be simple to you but it doesn't mean that everybody will know why their hard disk is running out of space. Someone who just knows how to perform basic housekeeping on their PC is going to be confused when their drive is full for no obvious reason. I may be able to change a tyre, but that doesn't mean I'd know what to do if the engine stops working. And even if I don't know how to change a tyre, so long as I am driving safely I have every right to use a car.

    I'm confused as to why you think a bug like this isn't an issue. It's creating gigabytes of junk data when it crashes, it needs fixing. End of story.
    Edited by 1 at 23/04/08 @ 17:02

  • BiscuitBase #9 4 years ago

    This is why the PC market will die out and be replaced by browser based flash games.

  • Katsumoto #10 4 years ago

    Totally. PC Gaming was fine for over a decade until the occasional bugs started cropping up in late 2007. Now it's doomed.

  • Feanor #11 4 years ago

    Yes. I believe the first bug in a PC game occurred on May 17th, 2007.

  • YourMessageHere #12 4 years ago

    This is an issue and it definitely ought never to have happened in the first place, let alone be fixed post haste. I rather expect this kind of standard of PC release from Ubisoft nowadays, however. But it's far from a game-breaking fault.

    Nonetheless, I agree with Egster in general, people should not use complex machinery of any kind, cars, computers, whatever, if they are unable or unwilling to learn a few simple skills to maintain them. If you don't see something coming and crash your car because you let too much mud and pigeon crap build up on the windscreen, whose fault is that (other than the pigeons)? It's up to the driver to wash the windscreen.

  • yagisencho #13 4 years ago

    YourMessageHere - I agree with your general opinion, but your argument doesn't hold water. The R6V2 bug is entirely Ubisoft's fault. Car makers don't sell cars with pigeon roosts mounted on the roof, and software publishers shouldn't ship games with code that craps useless gigabyte-sized data files on each play.

  • konnsky #14 4 years ago

    Egster +1 spot on mate.. and your comment just made my day

    /big grin ;]

  • anomagnus #15 4 years ago

    @ YourMessageHere

    i assume you're a fully qualified electrician? able to handle all the of wiring in your house

    Oh, i also bet you're a fully qualified plumber, thats why you use your boiler/water tank

    i also imagine that you're a fully qualified engineer, thats why you feel confident going on planes

    Oh, i bet as well you're an excellent construction worker, and have built your own house

    Quite frankly, when problems occurs, its precisely because you didnt see them coming

    Arrogance.......

  • YourMessageHere #16 4 years ago

    anomagus - you win the misreading prize. I said maintainance, not mastery or expertise. Plumbing and electrical systems are designed not to need much by way of maintainance, and planes require none by me; airlines, staffed by experts, do that. Computers do need maintainance; that's why all companies employ IT staff and building caretakers, but do not retain company plumbers and electricians. In common with most people, I can clean a plughole and change a fuse, and in common with sadly few, I both know how to find why my hard drive is full and deal with it, and expect to have to know this.

    Yagisencho - this is per crash, not per play; since contrary to many people's beliefs it is not that common for things to crash if the PC is maintained properly I'd imagine it's not an issue for most players, who can play happily without accruing immense memory dump files. Nonetheless it is something that ought not to have been allowed to reach release.