The reason you cannot edit the file while it's still in the "etc" directory is because editing it requires administrator permissions. If you just open it with Notepad you don't open Notepad as an administrator, so your computer doesn't let you edit it. By copying it out, editing it and then overwriting it you get asked if you can do it. That little shield icon next to continue when you move the file and try overwriting it means you're using administrator permissions. You can technically run the notepad app as an administrator (for example right clicking it from your start menu) and then click "File" in the top left corner, click open and open the "hosts" file that way. Then you can edit it and save it no problem. But the file overwrite method in this video is much simpler anyway. I just thought this would be interesting to know for some.
Using the method from the video worked on my computer but as soon as I tried it on my rog ally it didn’t work so I do recommend this method as opening notepad as administrator
My brothers. Assassin's creed fans. So happy to see all of you in the comments. Our old and golden days of AC 1 and 2 are just pure joy. This really hits the spot. All of you have a great future ahead and be happy. God bless.❤
I played the game 3 years ago and I did not have this problem. Now I wanted to do a replay and I was freezing like this. Thank you for this. Also for me it freezes literally 2 seconds after I start the game - during ubisoft logo sequence. That was also caused by this problem.
Was trying to bring some nostalgia back into my gaming and play the game. Glad someone was able to tell me how to fix the freezing problem. So far so good!Haven’t had it freeze yet. Cheers!
Just picked up on latest Steam sale because sick in bed. Just clicked away from a software pitch to “fix” this so massively appreciative that can now get on with plan to veg and recuperate.
On one hand, it's not really necessary to know why it works if it works. On the other it A, helps diagnose the issue better and B, is just kind of cool to know yeah?
Someone mentioned to me replaying all AC games from the start so I decided to do so myself. Reinstalled AC1 only to run into this constant stutter every 66 seconds. One quick Google search lead to me here, and blocking the IP address you listed immediately fixed the problem. Thanks for the great tip, the game is now running flawlessly 16 years after the initial release. 😁
Happy to help, and glad that this solution has like a... 70-80% success rate? I dunno what's wrong but I'm sure someone who actually knows what they're doing can sus it out
I bought the game during a sale on Epic Games, and initially thought the issue was performance related. Thank you for making a step-by-step tutorial on the fix!
November 2024 here, and TrumpyBoy is back in Power. Thank you for the Brilliant video that gets straight to the point. Thank you and well done. How the hell did you figure that out; I would not have thought of that hosts file, ever, I guess. Any case; worked straightaway using windows 10 and 11 laptops, director’s cut, and I’m really pleased. Great game, lovely scenery, but might not have played if that really annoying freezing couldn’t be fixed. Played this game years ago on the Xbox 360 but that machine fried years ago. Many thanks.
thank you soooo much bro. i bought the game in 2021 on steam but really never played it. today i wanted to give it another try, because i played almost every ac game and really like them. and then i realized those horrible freezes, but you guide fixed those and now i can enjoy the start of an once amazing franchise
I've been wanting to replay the series from the beginning and having this issue just annoyed the crap out of me. I've only been playing it for a short time since your fix and it has been fantastic. Thank you so much. Knowing why it was doing is interesting. Should have expected something like that for a game so old.
Ur a god!!! Also of note is that you can tell immediately that it works if it doesn't do the weird "startup stutter" Basically upon opening the Ubisoft logo animation would get real jittery and the audio would glitch out too
*I played the game years ago with 0 issues... other than erasing my profile by accident, and now I wanted to play it again and started to suffer these Freezings, don't know why since it's same PC but this Fix helped me. Thank You.*
thank you for the fix it worked like a charm never would of thought of it the first game I played on the ps3 was this one now replaying it with the directors cur on my pc.
You are Giga Chad. It worked. But you can add this IP/command in the description of the video for the future, because I accidentally wrote 202 instead of 203... and was a little surprised when it didn't work, but a quick review of the video helped. Many thanks.
A special thanks brother, for the fix and for the explanation. Man I was having a hard time for this now just simply turning off the WiFi did the job:)
oh my god dude i nearly brought an entire new windows activation key trying to fix this issue (dont ask i went down an enitre rabbit hole). thank you so much!!
Good lord, thank you. I never finished this when it came out, I had it on Disc on PC. I bought it on Steam on sale not long ago and decided to give it a go again. I’m like hey I can play it in 4K now! Everything was working fine for awhile then about 6 months ago it was stuttering every 10 seconds or so and was unplayable. Fixed! Thank you! So dumb Ubisoft!
You are a Giga Chad 🔥🔥🔥for fixing this man that, too, with the explanation 🔥🔥 I did this and it fuckin works and i think even the game runs more smoother 🔥 Thank you man. You are a legend 🙌
Google? The hardest part to figure out for me was that I needed to go down a line past all the # lines and put that in. Rest is relatively easy and to some degree it does make sense that they'd have achievement tracking though... wish they'd have patched it out when they abandoned the game
Changing the Host file didn't work for me. I don't think its a graphics issue because I have the same symptoms and my PC is pretty decent. Is it because my hosts file is a txt file? Edit - Looks like I solved my own issue. I copied the hosts file from my laptop and moved it to my pc, and made sure I saved the changes and not saved as, that would make it a txt file and not be compatible
Turning off wifi or internet also works. AC1 tries to connect to a long lost ubisoft server for metrics. But it happens like every 1-2 minutes and takes 30-60 seconds to "fail" connection. This obviously is a more consistent solution
Instructions not clear, what do you mean you can't replace it? The file format shouldn't affect putting it back into the folder whatsoever unless you're only making that change to the Copied file and not to all of that file type And if that's the case someone also suggested opening Notepad outside of this with "run as administrator, going to the top left to Open file and getting to that folder, then doing the edits while its open as Admin. Should override the thing preventing us from editing files in that folder and let you do it.
you probably selected "save as" and not "save" (or most likely you're trying to edit the file inside the "etc" folder. This isn't possible, you have to copy it somewhere else, like desktop, to edit it, as the guide mentioned) - then it automatically adds a .txt at the end, making it a txt file. Just delete the ".txt" at the end of the filename (I hope you don't have you're system set to hide the file extensions? ;) )
You are an angel! No more freezing! If you now have a solution how I can use my xbox-controller with the triggers (the game doesn't "see" them). I would consider that a miracle. The solution from a few years ago doesn't work anymore. I don't know why.
So I just want to let everyone know that I followed every steps on this video and it will only start to work after you have restarted your pc because after I did the restart it stopped freezing
Unsure then. If cutting the internet worked then the host file thing should've be your ticket out of this but since it didn't... I'm out of tricks to give
Can someone please help? I just bought this on Epic games for like £2. I have an ultrawide monitor but when I try and change settings in the menus, the cursor physically won’t go down far enough to accept and Its driving me mad!! Anyone can help me at all? Thanks!
When I open etc, there are no options in the folder... what am I doing wrong? Edit: this PC is about 2 months new and I don't have much of a clue what I'm doing wrong. Sorry to be an idiot
Sounds like you're trying to edit the file directly from that folder, which it doesn't let you normally. Either right click and copy it somewhere you Can edit it in or check out the pinned comment
Thank you man! Is there any known issue related to low performance (poor FPS) for the same game in Windows 11? While I'm getting a good experience with more recent titles, AC 1 (a 2007 game! 🤷🏻♂️) simply doesn't like W11. I've tried forcing it running with compatibility enabled (Win XP SP3 and then tried Win 7) and forcing the game to run with the DirectX 9 exe. Nothing of that worked. Any suggestions, bro?
No clue, I put this up because no one else seemed to have posted about this beforehand. I suppose isolating the issue first would be a good solution. If changing your graphics settings isn't working then yeah it's an external problem. I assume you've updated your drivers and all of that should've been enough. Probably something I just don't know in the spaghetti code that is the original AC on modern devices
The reason you cannot edit the file while it's still in the "etc" directory is because editing it requires administrator permissions. If you just open it with Notepad you don't open Notepad as an administrator, so your computer doesn't let you edit it. By copying it out, editing it and then overwriting it you get asked if you can do it. That little shield icon next to continue when you move the file and try overwriting it means you're using administrator permissions.
You can technically run the notepad app as an administrator (for example right clicking it from your start menu) and then click "File" in the top left corner, click open and open the "hosts" file that way. Then you can edit it and save it no problem. But the file overwrite method in this video is much simpler anyway. I just thought this would be interesting to know for some.
Fair play, completely forgot there was an "open file" under the file tab despite using it frequently in other programs like Shotcut.
Using the method from the video worked on my computer but as soon as I tried it on my rog ally it didn’t work so I do recommend this method as opening notepad as administrator
Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one who's decided to replay a 16 year old game... this was driving me INSANE - fixed it perfectly. Thank you!
Throwback Thursday let’s gooo
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sure. i downloaded yedsterday and now problem is solved!
@@Phantomgaming2-n3yalso downloaded yesterday! Gonna give this a shot…
My brothers. Assassin's creed fans. So happy to see all of you in the comments. Our old and golden days of AC 1 and 2 are just pure joy. This really hits the spot. All of you have a great future ahead and be happy. God bless.❤
I played the game 3 years ago and I did not have this problem. Now I wanted to do a replay and I was freezing like this. Thank you for this.
Also for me it freezes literally 2 seconds after I start the game - during ubisoft logo sequence. That was also caused by this problem.
Was trying to bring some nostalgia back into my gaming and play the game. Glad someone was able to tell me how to fix the freezing problem. So far so good!Haven’t had it freeze yet. Cheers!
I sticked around to learn why it freezes and i was shocked. thx for the wisdom, you deserved the like
Just picked up on latest Steam sale because sick in bed. Just clicked away from a software pitch to “fix” this so massively appreciative that can now get on with plan to veg and recuperate.
This was so helpful and thanks for including an explanation, I hate it when people give fixes but don't explain why it works
On one hand, it's not really necessary to know why it works if it works. On the other it A, helps diagnose the issue better and B, is just kind of cool to know yeah?
@@TheHylainKnight yeah!!
Someone mentioned to me replaying all AC games from the start so I decided to do so myself. Reinstalled AC1 only to run into this constant stutter every 66 seconds. One quick Google search lead to me here, and blocking the IP address you listed immediately fixed the problem. Thanks for the great tip, the game is now running flawlessly 16 years after the initial release. 😁
Happy to help, and glad that this solution has like a... 70-80% success rate? I dunno what's wrong but I'm sure someone who actually knows what they're doing can sus it out
I bought the game during a sale on Epic Games, and initially thought the issue was performance related. Thank you for making a step-by-step tutorial on the fix!
Did this fix it?
@@jumpstartfpv yes
November 2024 here, and TrumpyBoy is back in Power. Thank you for the Brilliant video that gets straight to the point. Thank you and well done. How the hell did you figure that out; I would not have thought of that hosts file, ever, I guess. Any case; worked straightaway using windows 10 and 11 laptops, director’s cut, and I’m really pleased. Great game, lovely scenery, but might not have played if that really annoying freezing couldn’t be fixed. Played this game years ago on the Xbox 360 but that machine fried years ago. Many thanks.
thank you soooo much bro. i bought the game in 2021 on steam but really never played it. today i wanted to give it another try, because i played almost every ac game and really like them. and then i realized those horrible freezes, but you guide fixed those and now i can enjoy the start of an once amazing franchise
I've been wanting to replay the series from the beginning and having this issue just annoyed the crap out of me. I've only been playing it for a short time since your fix and it has been fantastic. Thank you so much.
Knowing why it was doing is interesting. Should have expected something like that for a game so old.
me to thought playing from start and make youtube series.
who would have guessed someone repaired a game from 2007, thanks for making me able to get some nostalgia
honestly your video is the only one that explained and helped me thank you so much you're amazing
Ur a god!!! Also of note is that you can tell immediately that it works if it doesn't do the weird "startup stutter"
Basically upon opening the Ubisoft logo animation would get real jittery and the audio would glitch out too
this was a big help thank you it still works as of November 12 2024 you saved me a major headache
Thank you very much! Just yesterday I think to play again all Assassin's from first one,and these freeze just made me crazy!!!
Thank you, have been trying to fix this for ages and this has finally fixed it. Great video!
This video absolutely rocks. Thanks for making this, and even for explaining just what's going wrong.
*I played the game years ago with 0 issues... other than erasing my profile by accident, and now I wanted to play it again and started to suffer these Freezings, don't know why since it's same PC but this Fix helped me. Thank You.*
Thank you so much I can finally enjoy this game properly after several hours of dealing with the freezing I got really sick of it
thank you for the fix it worked like a charm never would of thought of it the first game I played on the ps3 was this one now replaying it with the directors cur on my pc.
You are Giga Chad. It worked. But you can add this IP/command in the description of the video for the future, because I accidentally wrote 202 instead of 203... and was a little surprised when it didn't work, but a quick review of the video helped. Many thanks.
really good tutorial! well explained too and very interesting and fast straight to the point keep that up!
A special thanks brother, for the fix and for the explanation.
Man I was having a hard time for this now just simply turning off the WiFi did the job:)
your are the best man. I just searched for 5 hours and finallly you saved me, im so happy!!
I know the feeling. Glad I could be the end of your search
OMG!! This worked like charm. Love you for this. Also your desktop is a gamer's wet dream.
oh my god dude i nearly brought an entire new windows activation key trying to fix this issue (dont ask i went down an enitre rabbit hole). thank you so much!!
I skipped the wi-fi check and went directly to edit the host file and it worked! Thanks for this.
Not all heroes wear capes thank you so much :)
I won't fix it. The freezing doesn't have delta time, so it just gives me more time to think during encounters!
You the real MVP for this. Worked for me. Thanks!
Good lord, thank you. I never finished this when it came out, I had it on Disc on PC. I bought it on Steam on sale not long ago and decided to give it a go again. I’m like hey I can play it in 4K now! Everything was working fine for awhile then about 6 months ago it was stuttering every 10 seconds or so and was unplayable. Fixed! Thank you! So dumb Ubisoft!
Thank you so much. I've been on an assassin's creed kick and wanted to play the original and was gonna be so sad if this ruined the experience.
thanks for the help, the gaem runs perfectly now.
Thank you so much for this tutorial! Very straightforward.
You are a Giga Chad 🔥🔥🔥for fixing this man that, too, with the explanation 🔥🔥
I did this and it fuckin works and i think even the game runs more smoother 🔥
Thank you man. You are a legend 🙌
Thanks bro! I was about to punch into my monitor if i didn't fix that with your assistance! It was very frustrating.
Omg this actually works thank you so much. Idk how the FUCK you figured this out but thank you so much this has made the game actually playable.
Google? The hardest part to figure out for me was that I needed to go down a line past all the # lines and put that in. Rest is relatively easy and to some degree it does make sense that they'd have achievement tracking though... wish they'd have patched it out when they abandoned the game
absolute legend
You're a godsend, before I implemented your fix the game was genuinely unplayable!
Playing in 2024😊thank you for the fix 😊
Changing the Host file didn't work for me. I don't think its a graphics issue because I have the same symptoms and my PC is pretty decent. Is it because my hosts file is a txt file?
Edit - Looks like I solved my own issue. I copied the hosts file from my laptop and moved it to my pc, and made sure I saved the changes and not saved as, that would make it a txt file and not be compatible
Ey man, thanks so much for this magic trick you did. I can play the game normally, thanks to you. Big love G❤
thanks man, too bad ubisoft doesnt give credit to their oldergames.
Thank you very much. My friend got into trouble because of this problem. Thanks to you, we solved this and my friend has very fun about the game. ❤
Thanks, you saved me a lot frustration! Also, damn, you have so many great games installed. Rock on!
I was about to give up than stumbled upon your video, Thank you
This is the only tuto that's works with me! Thank you so much!!
Well I dont understand all this tech wizardry, but I followed the steps and it seems to have worked.
I'm gonna be honest, I don't question it sometimes. Understanding is nice but if it works then it works
Helped out exactly as needed! Noticed it made the trailer at the start dissapear but nonetheless my AC1 works!
Weird, it shouldn't have done That I think but... if it works and you don't really mind then all's well that ends well?
You my friend are a bloody legend! Thankyou so much!
Thank you so much, this fixed it and I don't need to shut my internet off to play!
Did it did something bad?
@@pexavichh no, it fixed my issue
Dud thank you so much my brother has been wanting to play this game since he got it on pc for years I can not thank you enough
Windows 11 here - turning off wifi helped. Didn't have to modify the host file
Thank You for doing this m8🥇
Turning off wifi or internet also works. AC1 tries to connect to a long lost ubisoft server for metrics. But it happens like every 1-2 minutes and takes 30-60 seconds to "fail" connection. This obviously is a more consistent solution
thank you👍👍
I believe this is Ubisoft real up because it works
If it doesn’t launch set affinity core around 12 from cmd misconfig command
Thank you very much, I always thought it was my pc that couldn't handle high graphics, thankfully it was the fault of the ghost Ubi server
Fixed! Thank you! Shame on you, Ubisoft!
The notepad app is saving the newly edited "host" file as a .txt file. In that case, I can't replace the original one.
Instructions not clear, what do you mean you can't replace it? The file format shouldn't affect putting it back into the folder whatsoever unless you're only making that change to the Copied file and not to all of that file type
And if that's the case someone also suggested opening Notepad outside of this with "run as administrator, going to the top left to Open file and getting to that folder, then doing the edits while its open as Admin. Should override the thing preventing us from editing files in that folder and let you do it.
you probably selected "save as" and not "save" (or most likely you're trying to edit the file inside the "etc" folder. This isn't possible, you have to copy it somewhere else, like desktop, to edit it, as the guide mentioned) - then it automatically adds a .txt at the end, making it a txt file. Just delete the ".txt" at the end of the filename (I hope you don't have you're system set to hide the file extensions? ;) )
@@InnermostSilence Deleting the ".txt" after I uncheked the "hide the file extensions" box SOLVED the issue!! Thank you very much!!
holy balls, this dude runs all his games off his desktop, why?
anyway great video it has a lot of good info.
Because, and thank you
Thanks man. It worked for me and enjoying the game.
First one works for me like the issue never existed!! Thanks a lot!!
Thank you! The IPs in the host file fixed the freezing issue for me!
You deserve 1 million likes, dude.
You are my hero 🙏❤️
Thank you so much, this solved the problem!
You are an absolute king. I can enjoy this childhood game of mine once more. Thank you.
Im trying to play it too but i can't play with my controller. How did you do ?
Thanks for everything Man , and You're a man of culture
THANK YOU mate for me this did work
ABSOLUTE LIFESAVER!
Thank you very much for help. The problem is gone.😀👍
You are an angel! No more freezing!
If you now have a solution how I can use my xbox-controller with the triggers (the game doesn't "see" them). I would consider that a miracle. The solution from a few years ago doesn't work anymore. I don't know why.
So I just want to let everyone know that I followed every steps on this video and it will only start to work after you have restarted your pc because after I did the restart it stopped freezing
Thank you, because the constant shutdown of the Internet infuriated me
It really works dude, thanks ❤
dude, worked for me, thumbs up
Thank you so much, worked a miracle !
Thanks for the clear explanation :)
disable internet works but not by changing host file, the problem is that I want to stream it on twitch
Unsure then. If cutting the internet worked then the host file thing should've be your ticket out of this but since it didn't... I'm out of tricks to give
and I also tried firewall to block both ubisoft and Assassin's creed but it didn't work 😅@@TheHylainKnight
I have the same problem. I guess I'll have to refund it x.x
Can someone please help? I just bought this on Epic games for like £2. I have an ultrawide monitor but when I try and change settings in the menus, the cursor physically won’t go down far enough to accept and Its driving me mad!! Anyone can help me at all? Thanks!
When I open etc, there are no options in the folder... what am I doing wrong?
Edit: this PC is about 2 months new and I don't have much of a clue what I'm doing wrong. Sorry to be an idiot
Thank You very much. It realy helped.
Thank you so much for this, man. I was so upset because I love this game, and was having constant stuttering. You’re the bomb!
I'm trying to do this but it's telling me I need administrator permission in order to do so.
Sounds like you're trying to edit the file directly from that folder, which it doesn't let you normally. Either right click and copy it somewhere you Can edit it in or check out the pinned comment
thank you for being awesome🎉
The host file doesn't show up in the etc file don't know what to do
Well done ! thanks so much from france. And sorry for this... i suppose we can say a little bit lazy french compagny.
Hey this worked. Thank you so much!!!!!
It worked for me but how can I do this with Ac3 , far cry 2 too?
Excellent.
Thank you Sir.
Ty for this video much love❤
I tried this but it didn't help... :/ ! My hosts-file also didn't have as much text as yours..
My hosts file is empty. Nothing in notepad
You just got yourself a like and a sub, buddy
Thank you man! Is there any known issue related to low performance (poor FPS) for the same game in Windows 11? While I'm getting a good experience with more recent titles, AC 1 (a 2007 game! 🤷🏻♂️) simply doesn't like W11. I've tried forcing it running with compatibility enabled (Win XP SP3 and then tried Win 7) and forcing the game to run with the DirectX 9 exe. Nothing of that worked. Any suggestions, bro?
No clue, I put this up because no one else seemed to have posted about this beforehand.
I suppose isolating the issue first would be a good solution. If changing your graphics settings isn't working then yeah it's an external problem. I assume you've updated your drivers and all of that should've been enough.
Probably something I just don't know in the spaghetti code that is the original AC on modern devices
it worked, thank u so much!!
You are the best! Thank you 🥳