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Do you have Steam or Uplay overlay enabled? The game will crash if that's the case.

New mod with working files for both old and new versions of AC:B: Moddb.com

Cheers to roxasamm for helping me out. :]

Okay, I didn't fix it entirely; it was much better but still present. I actually went ahead and googled what this mod does, and I think I've figured it out enough to actually fix it along with a little explanation inside the text file.

Here's the new download:

Mediafire.com

Note that this is still for the old 1.03 version from 2011. If you have the newest version and want it fixed, PM me and we'll work something out, and upload it for everyone else.

I decided to fire up AC:B again and, for some reason, the fix with the line

mul r0, r30, c0.x

didn't work for me anymore, but looked like this: I.imgur.com

Pretty scary ****. I messed around with the values some more, and it seems changing it to

mul r0, r0, c0.xy

got it working again. So here's the updated files (plop into installation folder and overwrite): Mediafire.com

and here's a before/after album to remind people what it does: Imgur.com

Let me know if that got it working for you again.

Thank you for the immense effort and research you've put into this; your solution works! However, you explained it *very* poorly and you haven't pointed out the solution that most people are looking for.

People who have played the game may have noticed that the annoying overlay completely goes away when Ezio is about to get desynchronized. This happens, for example, when you're too far away from your mission objective target. It can easily be verified in the very first mission in Vatican by letting uncle Mario walk a bit and then going back.

Your solution makes it so that overlay is permanently gone, just like you were about to get desynchronized. I have uploaded the whole mod along with the modified file here:
Mediafire.com

In case the download goes down or if someone wants to quickly fix it on their own...

Open /ShaderOverride/PixelShaders/5D36AB32.txt and change the line:

mul r0, r0, c0.x
to
mul r0, r30, c0.x

That's it. Change the second r0 to r30 and the overlay is *gone*. Cheers to res0nat0r and Tidy_Bloom.