Games on Ubisoft Connect
Ubisoft Connect is one of the most popular platforms on computers, which allows you to play all Ubisoft titles released for Windows with titles known as the sagas of Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry or Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six with highly relevant esports installments such as the rainbow six siege.
This program has a lot of functionalities to group and manage the games that we already have, with store and library sections like the launchers of other platforms but also adding the functionality of Ubisoft+ to play the brand’s titles in subscription format. In addition, the accounts of this platform can be linked to a wide variety of services like GeforceNow, Xbox accounts, or other Cloud gaming options.
Ubisoft has had a program to manage its games for a long time, but before with the name of uplaywhich was replaced at the end of 2020 by Ubisoft Connectimproving the interface and adding new features such as the ability to add shortcuts to our games or to locate installed games. We will explain the latter in detail in this article in order to use the games we already have downloaded from other computers or hard drives without having to download it again.
How to import a game in ubisoft connect step by step
If we want to import a game that we already have downloaded, be it from another computer or a hard drive of the current system, we will only have to follow the next steps so that Ubisoft Connect recognizes it for us.
- Open Ubisoft Connect and sign in. We can only import the games that we have purchased in the account in which we log in.
- Go to the game that we want to import. For this we will have to go to the game library tab of our account and there select the game we want to import from the “My Games” list.
- Go into the game settings that we want and click on the option to locate files. This option appears just below the button to download the game.
- Select the folder in which we have installed the game. The next thing will be to select the folder in which we have the game files from any hard drive on our computer. It is convenient to already have located the route before getting to this step
- Wait for the program to read the files and verify them. This task may take a while depending on the speed of our hard drive and the size of the game. If the program cannot recognize the files, we can try another game location or do the process again. can also help select a folder above the one containing the game filesbut if it still does not recognize them after several attempts, we will surely have to download it again.
- (Optional) Update the game. It may be that after importing the game it is from an old version and it is necessary update it to be able to play itespecially if it is a game that is still in active development like the latest releases or Esports games.
Additionally, Ubisoft Connect may require download additional files to run the gameso when you open it, it may ask you to install a plugin such as VS_Redist, which is needed to run some programs, including games in Windows, or some program anti cheatas these may not be saved in the same location as the game.
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