Unofficial sites often bundle miners or trojans with cracks.
Even with Patch 1.3.0, the game remained notoriously heavy on PC hardware at the time. Modern updates (up to v1.5.0) eventually stabilized the game, and more recently, official patches have even enabled 60 FPS gameplay for newer consoles. Unofficial sites often bundle miners or trojans with cracks
If you are looking to play the game today, the official Steam or Ubisoft Connect versions (currently at v1.5.0+) are much more stable than those early cracked builds. If you are looking to play the game
This update was part of Ubisoft's effort to stabilize the game after widespread performance issues. Their crack was often preferred by some because
ALI213 is a Chinese cracking group that was very active during that era. Their crack was often preferred by some because it provided a way to bypass Uplay entirely and sometimes included "unlockers" for DLC content like the Dead Kings expansion or Uplay rewards.