https://doismiu.blog/tags/ubisoft/Recent content in Ubisoft on doismiu - dispatches from the infernal archiveHugoen-usThu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://doismiu.blog/posts/getting-assassins-creed-unity-to-run-on-arch-linux/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200https://doismiu.blog/posts/getting-assassins-creed-unity-to-run-on-arch-linux/<p>I have a rule for this series that I did not choose: every game I actually want to play turns out to be a research project first. <em>Crimson Desert</em> cost me two posts. <a href="https://doismiu.blog/posts/getting-heroes-of-might-and-magic-iii-complete-to-run-on-arch-linux/">Heroes of Might and Magic III</a> cost me a DirectDraw wrapper and a lesson about input polling. <em>Assassin&rsquo;s Creed Unity</em> cost me one evening and four separate errors, which is a new record.</p> <p>Unity is the Paris one, from 2014, the one with Arno on the rooftops and the co-op mode that nobody remembers. I have owned it for years and never played it, which is the normal fate of games I buy on sale and file under &ldquo;someday&rdquo;. This week I decided someday was yesterday.</p>