Question Ubisoft Connect BETA?

[iTRiP]

This is not right, this app pops in at the most inappropriate times whilst gaming or not and why the hell does it say beta mode, how the hell do we remedy this dumb thing?

I like Ubisoft connect, but it needs to function right and not be BETA, but stable version, anyway I never opted for that besides, can't force a player to be beta tester, I'd rather play games thank you very much!

 

[Ralston18]

First of all remember that the app is BETA meaning that the code is being tested.

That is a long-standing premise with respect to BETA installs.

The developer may have simply left in bits and pieces of code that may or may not eventually be removed. Or serving as a placeholder for future plans and actions.

Source: What link did you use to install the software?

Reinstall - doublecheck that the download is indeed the current and stable version of the software.

And not a BETA version. All too easy with some websites/sources to go astray with respect to finding and downloading software. May or may not be intentional by the "webmasters".

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That said - other things you can do:

Look in Task Manager > Startup and also look in Task Scheduler.

Most likely some process is either being launched at startup or being triggered later on by some other event or action on your system.

Two other places to look: Reliability History/Monitor and Event Viewer. Either one or both tools may be capturing some error code, warning, or informational event just before or at the time the pop-up appears.

Check all running apps/processes carefully. The culprit may be disguised to look legitimate.

Or may be a legitimate but buggy or corrupted bit of code.

For even more detail use Microsoft's Process Explorer (free).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

Objective being to discover the culprit and determine if it can indeed be removed/uninstalled or disabled.

 

[iTRiP]

First of all remember that the app is BETA meaning that the code is being tested.

That is a long-standing premise with respect to BETA installs.

The developer may have simply left in bits and pieces of code that may or may not eventually be removed. Or serving as a placeholder for future plans and actions.

Source: What link did you use to install the software?

Reinstall - doublecheck that the download is indeed the current and stable version of the software.

And not a BETA version. All too easy with some websites/sources to go astray with respect to finding and downloading software. May or may not be intentional by the "webmasters".

= = = =

That said - other things you can do:

Look in Task Manager > Startup and also look in Task Scheduler.

Most likely some process is either being launched at startup or being triggered later on by some other event or action on your system.

Two other places to look: Reliability History/Monitor and Event Viewer. Either one or both tools may be capturing some error code, warning, or informational event just before or at the time the pop-up appears.

Check all running apps/processes carefully. The culprit may be disguised to look legitimate.

Or may be a legitimate but buggy or corrupted bit of code.

For even more detail use Microsoft's Process Explorer (free).

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/process-explorer

Objective being to discover the culprit and determine if it can indeed be removed/uninstalled or disabled.

I did reinstall it, with two different installers, one from the ubisoft connect website: download Ubisoft connect and the other found in a downloaded game from steam in the installation directory, both end up being installed and state that the app is in BETA.

Yes ever since lately this Ubisoft connect has a task in Task scheduler, witch to my knowledge it is not supposed to have, probably the cause of this issues but can't yet be remedied because any attempt to remove or delete said task folder just returns to the same broken state of the app within a few hours or days, and the app popups continue whilst gaming.

There has got to be a remedy for this without breaking what is required for normal functionality of the gaming pc.

So if this is true, then when have to ask ourselves how we prevent apps from creating tasks in the task scheduler.

 

[Ralston18]

Interesting.

My first thought is that the code is "hardwired" to reconfigure Task Scheduler.

Are you able to take a screenshot of the task you found in Task Scheduler?

If so, do so, and then post the screenshot here via imgur (www.imgur.com > green "New post icon).

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And while poking about (aka "googling") I found this link:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/gaming/ga...rience-more-fun/ar-AA1IVkk8?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Not a gamer (full disclosure) but the idea of "microtransactions" suggests to me that they may be implementing means to collect more real money from game players....

And make it easy for players to pay more with minimal disruption of game play etc. with the entire process being minimally invasive. Just assessing and collecting small amounts that add up over time....

Read any EUA's completely and carefully.

That said I will defer to the gaming community regarding game play (BETA or otherwise) in the Ubisoft environment.