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Application Details:
| Version: | Latest |
| License: | Free to use |
| URL: | https://uplay.ubi.com/ |
| Votes: | 5 |
| Latest Rating: | Platinum |
| Latest Wine Version Tested: | 5.9-staging |
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What works
Provided that the workarounds mentioned in this page are applied: everything, from installing the launcher to logging in (maybe with another workaround, see below) to installing and launching games through it.
What does not
After launching with the Wine default configuration, the connection to the Uplay servers may stall at "initialization". At least, it does for me. Hence the "Gold" rating instead of "Platinum" (see the workaround below).
Workarounds
After configuring Wine to run "upc.exe" as a Windows Vista exe (and letting everything else run as default Windows 7), I can connect to the Uplay servers flawlessly. Workaround inspired by the comments to the Bug 41652.
What was not tested
Chatting
Buying through the store
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
| Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
| Show | Ubuntu 20.04 "Focal" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Jun 01 2020 | 5.9-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Adrian Avramescu | |
| Show | Ubuntu 18.04 "Bionic" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu) | Feb 15 2020 | 5.1-staging | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Adrian Kalla | |
| Show | Debian GNU/Linux Testing "bullseye" | Nov 24 2019 | 4.20-staging | Yes | Yes | No | Platinum | Jacob Hrbek | |
| Show | Fedora 30 x86_64 | Sep 14 2019 | 4.16 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Silver | Micky | |
| Show | Ubuntu 19.10 "Eoan" (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Aug 25 2019 | 4.0.2 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Gold | Damian Wojsław |
| Bug # | Description | Status | Resolution | Other apps affected |
| 3548 | .lnk file is created on the desktop together with the program icon... | NEW | View | |
| 32342 | Multiple applications and games using 'Webkit' or 'Blink' web browser engine crash on startup ('Arial' and 'Times New Roman' font face name validation) | STAGED | View | |
| 39345 | Ubisoft Uplay crash when Win version is set to Vista and > (libcef problem) | UNCONFIRMED | View | |
| 49006 | Wrong detection the Windows' version by Ubisoft Connect | UNCONFIRMED | View |
install corefonts via winetricks - otherwise login screen would not show
winetricks corefonts
Wine versions before 4.7 failed on Fedora; Please use the latest winehq version
optionally install winbind or similar package that provides ntlm-auth to eliminate some warnings during startup
sudo apt-get install winbind # for ubuntu/debian
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. WineHQ is not responsible for what they say.
by oliver z. on Monday February 11th 2019, 12:41
When creating an entry, please clearly state what _exact_ version is used. The old crappy legacy one (which does not work with new content like anno 1800 beta), or the new one which is simply total incompatible to wine 4.0
The legacy one starts with corefonts installed. The new one just crashes with a wierd message and some bytes displayed.
by Benoît Smith on Thursday November 15th 2018, 18:39
Installing Uplay in a fresh prefix (with the Windows 7 default setup), then running it to show the login screen seems to run fine... Then, as soon as I strike a key to enter my Uplay username, the whole Wine desktop freezes to death. I tried a few times - same result.
Here is the whole output: pastebin.com/95GN7MAQ (the last line is produced as the desktop freezes).
by Vladimir Bespalov on Friday November 16th 2018, 2:24
I`ve tested vanilla 3.20 and 3.19 in ubuntu 18.4; 3.19 works, 3.20 hangs.
by grayson bills on Tuesday October 9th 2018, 22:19
by Vladimir Bespalov on Wednesday October 10th 2018, 1:16
If it breaks on the way - you can try to collect the console output and post it here.
by Benoît Smith on Sunday October 7th 2018, 16:37
"p11-kit: couldn't load module: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/p11-kit-trust.so: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkcs11/p11-kit-trust.so: Ne peut ouvrir le fichier d'objet partagé: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
002c:err:winediag:SECUR32_initNTLMSP ntlm_auth was not found or is outdated. Make sure that ntlm_auth >= 3.0.25 is in your path. Usually, you can find it in the winbind package of your distribution."
Also, I set the rasapi32 library as "native", which fixed some other errors.
However, that didn't fix the non-connection problem.
I read that it was declared fixed as of Wine 3.13 Staging. I wonder what's missing in my configuration to get Uplay work with Wine 3.17 Staging (since Linux Mint 17.3 is supposed to be based on Ubuntu 14.04).
Please feel free to move that comment where it belongs.
by Jussi Tawaststjerna on Thursday August 16th 2018, 19:06
bought far cry 3: blood dragon with steam and ran into uplay updating and then crashing. windows xp, legacy-uplay -> game launches but FPS is surprisingly low + slowdowns etc. wanted to test x64 + win7 + newer uplay. crash crash crash.
uplay installs but on launch it's "unrecoverable error", exits. i started to investigate the crash with strace to see what is happening, and ... ... it didn't crash....
running "strace -o /dev/null -e trace=network -f wine64 Uplay.exe" actually, slowly, gives me a Uplay login screen and login succeeds. everything after login works. slowly.
of course, game performance is total garbage as the strace slows uplay and the game's uplay-DLL's down significantly :) .... but it works.
posting this so that someone wiser than me might find this useful, perhaps.
by Vladimir Bespalov on Saturday August 18th 2018, 2:15
1) install cabextract and winehq-staging (see wiki.winehq.org/Ubuntu )
2) download winetricks ( see wiki.winehq.org/Winetricks ) and install corefonts package
3) install latest uplay from uplay.ubi.com
If that installation crashes for you - please post the crash logs (wine logs + debug.log from "Ubisoft Game Launcher" directory)
Maybe we can make something out of it.
Also can you please try to run FC3 independently from uplay launcher, to separate uplay-specific bugs from FC3-specific ones?
Thank you.
by Siren Watcher on Tuesday October 17th 2017, 7:33
Set winecfg to XP.
Uninstalled current uplay. Downloaded & installed legacy uplay.
Tried setting cryptnet.dll to "native" in winecfg -> libraries.
Wouldn't work.
Got working with:
lutris.net/games/uplay/
by SoulEvan on Saturday October 28th 2017, 16:15
2. Use the Application "PlayOnLinux" to install the newest uplay client (64 Bit / Wine 2.19-staging).
3. Edit the Wine.cfg to Windows 10.
4. Start Uplay.
5. Enjoy
by Giovanni Ongaro on Monday September 4th 2017, 6:20
by Giovanni Ongaro on Monday September 4th 2017, 6:18
launch winecfg and set windows version to XP on uplay.exe uplayservice.exe uplaywebcore.exe
restart uplay it will say that the current version is not compatible and let you download the legacy uplay
launch wine uninstaller and disinstall current uplay
install legacy uplay
uplay WILL no more UPDATE
You should be able to login and play