Damn dude, that's really harsh. And in serious need of further study

On further inspection, I didn't lose them, the new patch just doesn't load them at all ... (although that does kinda add up to the same thing)

Umm yeah nice patch, not sure what it fixed?
But as per my own thread on backgrounds apps possibly crashing AC, ALT TAB would be a REALLY nice feature if it worked, cos it doesn't and IF I'm correct in my assumptions on AC being that fragile that any outside influence can cause an instability..ALT TAB is a must do, so we do not have to endlessly "Soft Boot" our systems.

I vote for ALT Tabbing as a matter of urgency!!
RM45

Other than losing my saved games, I can alt-tab?

Hmm I cannot Alt tab at all, maybe it's a Vista thing even a 64bit thing..i dunno be it i'ant workin

About the lost save games:
After the patch naming of savegame file is different!
Before the patch, the save game file was named same as ur profile, but after the patch its some combination of numbers!
All u have to do is rename old save game files to the new name(the numbers) and backup (just in case) the "after-patch" save game files!
It worked for me!
Good luck

I can Alt+Tab most of the time so it's not that fragile. In fact, there have been a couple of times when doing so has sorted the game out for me. And others when it's made it die an horribly, flaming death. But meh. and wasn't the Patch supposed to fix it? It's listed in the changelog

heh, I just wish I could install the patch..

It's beginning to look like you'd be better off without it truth be told

I have downloaded the patch and restarted my computer, and the game crashed after about 3 minutes. My computer meets the minimum requirements, and most of the recommended ones.

What should I do now?

PLEASE HELP

Post a DxDiag in a new thread and I'm sure someone will be able to help

I need some confirmation but my current line of thinking is that my problem was brought on by my being too hasty waiting for my pre-order and installing a downloaded copy to play in the meantime. Can anyone confirm me right or wrong that has the original game?

I have the DvD release, along with a lot of other people that have reported problems as well

I'll be giving the 175.16 beta drivers a try on my SLI'ed 8800GT SC EVGA video cards and let you know how it goes. Granted, it does run very smoothly so far, and it RARELY crashes, but I'll still be able to tell right away if these drivers are better or worse. Will report back in a few hours.

Wouldn't it make more sense to post something like this in the Official bug thread dude?

I suppose that that would be a viable alternative, but not necessarily a "better" place, as you're seemingly implying. If there are bugs with the 1.02 patch, this is just as good a place to draw attention to them, in my opinion.

True, true. I don't mean to sound standoffish, it was just a suggestion and I apologise if you took it to be so. I didn't realise you were referring to it's specific relevence to the 1.02 (seriously, wtf happend to 1.01) patch and not just to how it runs in general. You are, of course, free to ignore, disapprove or ridicule my suggestions in any way you see fit

Well, since this patch was designed to address some specific issues that are pertinent to my system specs (x64 support being the big one) and the version I'm running (DX10), I figured I would post any further crashes I experience in the patch forum. I know that all those who overclock their systems (as I have done, with the CPU anyway, and with the timings on my RAM) are automatically suspect in how stable they have been able to make their system. I have recently replaced my motherboard, so I am taking my system stability into account, and have been doing numerous tests to ensure stability under stress. Any other factors that I can throw into the mix to give feedback on, relating to this latest version of Assassin's Creed, will hopefully help with any upcoming patches.

Makes sense to me dude. In fact, I think I'll go have a look see if there are any Radeon Betas and do the same. Though admittedly my system is underspec so any results I generate will be suspect to say the least

game works good for me n/p but the only probs i have is it starts in window mode and no support for wireless xbox controller vista 64bit prim amd 5000 black 2.6g 3g ram 800mhz duel 9600 gtoc bfg and bfg 650power