The game launches, and everything seems to be ok. However, the screen starts rendering in a pink color. The game starts ok the first time, but when I restart it, it goes like this. I reinstalled the game but the problem persists.
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Your drivers must not be able to run some elements of the game, making the rendering crash when that element is loaded the first time and making it unrecoverable. Guess its something weird because it doesn't crash the UI and doesn't crash the game outright. But at that point to debug I would need to know how deeply how the game is programmed, something that I do not know.
Something like the engine absolutely needs some code to be able to run so it can simulate rain, but since you dont have requirements, that code crashes, and crashes the engine. So you are fine until the engine tries to switch the weather to rain, and then everything goes wrong. (Rain is an exemple, it could be anything, like simulating birds flying or whatever.)
Sadly, there's not much we can do to help. If you do not match the system requirements, usually these are the lowest they can get it before the game just can't run.
What I'm trying to say is there is probably no script that would recover the rendering after it crashed because if such a script existed, it would be packaged in the game so it would be able to run on worse computers.
So sorry if this is a no-answer, but you need to at least have the minimum specs required if you want to run the game. You can still try your luck, but seems luck is not on your side for this instance.
If it can be any help, my guess would be something about textures. You often see, when engines can't load textures, it loads the default texture that is, if I remember right, a pinkish color in both Source and Epic. (I dont know Watch dogs is programmed on what engine)
TLDR: Sorry man, seems you will absolutely need to update your rig to make the game work.
(June 1st 2014)
The team are working on the issue, is the best I can say at the moment.
It appears to happen when you unlock in-game items from the Ubisoft store. Unfortunately, there is currently no known workaround. You'll either have to start a new game, or wait for Ubisoft to provide a fix.
And in the meanwhile, don't purchase any in-game items from the Ubisoft store!
No, unfortunately you can neither repair nor modify your vehicle. There is basically no need to repair vehicles, because you can simply "respawn" any vehicle you could have destroyed with the "Car on Demand" app. I have completed about half of the game and have not come across anything to modify a vehicle, but feel free to correct me if something comes up later.
As Lyrical already mentioned in a comment, you unlock new cars for the app by simply entering them. If it is the first time sitting in the type of vehicle, the message "new vehicle unlocked" will appear in the top right corner and then you can buy access to it in the app. Another way to get cars (often rarer ones) is to hack civilians' phones. To make this easier, you can unlock a skill in the "Hacking" branch of the skill tree that marks civilians with especially valuable hacking opportunities (including cars, songs, crimes and rich bank accounts) with a blue square, so you can already see them from afar. The chance of finding vehicles that way is still rare though. Hacking people's phones is one of the few things you can do while waiting for a multiplayer session to start, so that is a good time to go searching for people with cars.
A good way to unlock sports cars, is to play Fixer Contracts that require to race through the city with a given car (which was already a sports car in the first mission I played). You can unlock new fixer contracts by hacking ctOS towers, which reveals new missions and points of interest in the area.
If you want a specific car from these missions, here is a list by segmentnext.com with fixer contracts and the vehicles you will be driving there.
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Your drivers must not be able to run some elements of the game, making the rendering crash when that element is loaded the first time and making it unrecoverable. Guess its something weird because it doesn't crash the UI and doesn't crash the game outright. But at that point to debug I would need to know how deeply how the game is programmed, something that I do not know.
Something like the engine absolutely needs some code to be able to run so it can simulate rain, but since you dont have requirements, that code crashes, and crashes the engine. So you are fine until the engine tries to switch the weather to rain, and then everything goes wrong. (Rain is an exemple, it could be anything, like simulating birds flying or whatever.)
Sadly, there's not much we can do to help. If you do not match the system requirements, usually these are the lowest they can get it before the game just can't run.
What I'm trying to say is there is probably no script that would recover the rendering after it crashed because if such a script existed, it would be packaged in the game so it would be able to run on worse computers.
So sorry if this is a no-answer, but you need to at least have the minimum specs required if you want to run the game. You can still try your luck, but seems luck is not on your side for this instance.
If it can be any help, my guess would be something about textures. You often see, when engines can't load textures, it loads the default texture that is, if I remember right, a pinkish color in both Source and Epic. (I dont know Watch dogs is programmed on what engine)
TLDR: Sorry man, seems you will absolutely need to update your rig to make the game work.