I am trying to play Ghost Recon Future soldier with my husband who's on the same router as I am. I don't think this will work for everyone, but if you have a similar connection, maybe it'll help a few. Just an update, we found a way to trick Uplay into allowing 3 of us to play. If anyone has any possible suggestions, I would so very much appreciate the input or suggestion to try. I'm pretty computer and networking savvy. How can they legitimately sell this game as a co-op when you're friends, on their mandatory Uplay client, CAN'T PLAY TOGETHER?!?! Not just "not together", but not at all, independently, if someone else they know is playing. This is a 2 year old game and Ubisoft has no fix? Their reply, "wait for a patch."
We all have different systems with different hardware, two of us have Windows 7 and one has Windows 8 - no difference between the crashing behavior. It is most definitely linked to when a "friend" attempts the game while you're already playing. We've uninstalled and reinstalled both Uplay and the game. We've tried manually running Future Soldier DX9.exe and Future Soldier DX11.exe with admin rights. If any one of us has the game open, as soon as any other person on our Uplay list attempts to play, it instantly crashes. After 3 hours of searching forums, changing ports, disabling all other potential programs like Xfire and Hamachi, we've narrowed it down to the Uplay friends. You can't invite non-friends to play, so you must have friends through uplay. The problem we are all having is that, when we all log in through Uplay, one person will start the game, and as soon as another "friend" in Uplay starts their game, anyone who is playing will crash. but this game, and it's reliance on Uplay, is absolutely dismal. My husband, a friend and I all bought copies of Ghost Recon Future Soldier on Steam last night and got all giggly excited to kill some people after work.