If nothing works, Ubisoft’s profile creation routine has a known race condition with multi-monitor setups and high refresh rates. Temporarily:
This forces the game’s initial render thread to complete faster, unblocking the file I/O thread. Yes, it’s absurd. Yes, it works for some people. watch dogs 2 creating profile data stuck
If you are still stuck on "Creating profile data" after the basic steps, you likely have a permissions or file corruption issue. If nothing works, Ubisoft’s profile creation routine has
This forces the game to rebuild the profile from scratch. This forces the game’s initial render thread to
When WD2 says "Creating Profile Data," it is performing a series of tasks that most games hide in a 2-second loading screen:
The stuck happens when any one of these steps fails to complete, but the game’s error handling is nonexistent. It just waits for a callback that never arrives.