Assassin Creed 2 Installation methods

Ubisoft introduced this new improved DRM protection in their sequel to the award winning Assassin’s Creed game. It gave lot of install problems, freezes, and errors but also ensured the protection of the game till very recently when a workaround just popped up on the internet.

Assassin’s Creed II requires you to be connected to internet, to be able to play the game, if you can’t somehow connect to internet, you just can’t play the game but now, you can.

DORMINE an anonymous fellow developed an emulator for Assassin’s Creed II, which provides a workaround to play the game offline without any internet connection. If you still wondering how ? download the Assassin’s Creed II offline server emulator and follow through the guidelines below to play the game offline.

You will still need the fresh installation of the original steam game before you can apply the fix to be able to play it offline.

How to Play Assassin’s Creed II Offline

Step 1
Open “PYTHON” and install it.

Step 2
Open “XAMPP” and install it.

Step 3
Now extract the whole “crack ac2″ archive and extract all files to game folder, click yes when asked to overwrite files.

Step 4
Open “XAMPP” control panel and click start “Apache” server.

Step 5
Go to  (C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\) and open the host file with wordpad. Now add these lines if they aren’t already there after the last line contained in the file:

127.0.0.1 static3.cdn.ubi.com
127.0.0.1 ubisoft-orbit.s3.amazonaws.com
127.0.0.1 onlineconfigservice.ubi.com
127.0.0.1 orbitservice.ubi.com
127.0.0.1 ubisoft-orbit-savegames.s3.amazonaws.com

Finally run “START SERVER” from Crack folder.

Step 6
Now run Assassin’s Creed II.

Step 7
On the top right corner of Ubisoft Game Launcher, hit gearwheel icon and click yes to disable online saved games to be stored online.

Step 8
Restart the game and enjoy.

Download Assassin’s Creed II Offline Server Emulator/Offline Patch

All credits to DORMINE, the creator of this Assassins Creed II Offline server emulator.

General Errors and Possible Solutions

1. Error 10013

“[Error 10013] An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions”

Possible Solution: In command prompt execute this short code and see if it helps.

net stop http /y

Now re run the server.

2. Port 80 Bind

Couldn’t bind to port 80, do you already have a web server running at that port?

Possible Solution: Make sure no web application is running and then execute this command in command prompt.

netstat -ban

3. Login/Wrong Password

Can’t login / wrong password

Possible Solution: Make sure your host file “C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc” contains these lines.

1.
2. 127.0.0.1 static3.cdn.ubi.com
3. 127.0.0.1 ubisoft-orbit.s3.amazonaws.com
4. 127.0.0.1 onlineconfigservice.ubi.com
5. 127.0.0.1 orbitservice.ubi.com
6. 127.0.0.1 ubisoft-orbit-savegames.s3.amazonaws.com

If not, paste them there, and execute this command in command prompt.

ipconfig /flushdns

4. Saving Progress

progress is not saving

Possible Solution: Go to launcher, press the gearwheel icon and click yes to disable online storage of saved games.