recent builds of Windows 10 broke compatibility with Driver: San Francisco. However latest app compatibility updates to Windows 11 and the Nvidia Game Ready drivers finally make it compatible! It also will work with latest Ubisoft Connect, however online function is broken and it will be put to your face right on startup, as I just wanted it to play in Story mode, I am fine with that!
There is a recent manual how to make it work using an old version when it was still named “UPlay”, however I personally wouldn’t risk to break it completely:
There is also a petition to bring the game back to the stores!
More about its story in this youtube video:
The distinction between getting the story mode to launch and restoring online services is useful here. Could you add the Windows build, GPU driver version and Ubisoft Connect version used for the successful launch? That would make it much easier to compare later compatibility reports with this 2021 result. Keeping the old-UPlay workaround separate from the story-mode fix also seems sensible, given the risk of breaking a working setup.
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Quick summary:
1) As of December 29, 2021, the most recent stable public production build of Windows 11 Pro (Version 21H2) was OS Build 22000.376
2) On December 29, 2021, the most recent stable build of the Ubisoft Connect PC Client was 127.4.0.10629
3) As of December 29th, 2021, the most recent version of the NVIDIA GeForce Game Ready Driver was build 497.29
FYI: It never broke ever since, so currently, Nvidia Game Ready Drivers are 617.42, on Windows 11 26H2, and Ubisoft Connect 174.20.0