Launch failure!!

[zahnartz62]

I have been enjoying CoD since US intro. Yesterday got download from steam. Flew my Bf110 for a hour or so this AM, very nice. Went to fly again later and after few seconds of orange cross hairs, black screen that turned grey-black..I waited a long time and finally used "ctrl-alt-del". White message said "game launcher failed". went to google and saw others had similar problem some months ago. One suggested DL Ubi game launcher file as a fix. I installed in UBI but no change. Win 7X64. Has been working very well till now..Please advise. John

[SEE]

Have you been running the game with official updates only? It might be an idea to post your system specs, GFX card, RAM etc but a number of people have experienced this problem with the latest update.

I would suggest that you go into the 1Csoftclub folder in 'My Documents' and then into the game folder and delete everything in the cache/shaders folder (or simply put it in the trash can and create two new similarly named empty folders) if you haven't allready done so.

Also, go into your steam account and select the option to 'verify cache'.

If its been running Ok then I doubt its anything to do with in game settings.

See what others say and best of luck.

[Megahurt]

I used the beta "patch 2" and it was running fine, then steam updated my game and it crashes after about 20 minutes (im ussually approaching london getting ready to bomb when it quits.)

Now i only have a 3 gig dual core with 2 gigs of ram, a 1 gig ati 4600 series video card running xp with dx9c, but it plays great ussually.

Is the launcher.exe crashing because of a bug or is it my system? It did play fine before the steam update. (it did crash very occationally but much more frequently now)

Is there anything i can try short of a system upgrade? Times are tough right now.

I

[buzzard]

The second beta patch ran pretty well (ie, stable), the latest official patch gives me CTD's every time i play. grrr. Tried all the usual, re-installed the game, reinstalled sound and video drivers. No effect, same crashes. Edit:CTD is result of force quit, as screen freezes in game...


buzzard

Win 7 Pro 64 Bit
8 GB GSkill RAM
AMD Phenom II 965 BE stock
2 x 5830 Crossfire

[NLS61]

I've got the same problem.

I've tried all of the solutions I could find.
As a last resolve I've deinstalled COD and re installed again.
Latest video drivers are installed all to no avail.
Actually the first version of COD did run with out this problem.
Suggestions i've found pointing to wrong direct x version I've checked and i'm on 11.
Maybe this should be 10?
I've tried full screen and all other possibility’s ( the difference between the two possibility’s of full screen elude me).
So I don’t know I hope some body knows what to do other wise its money down the drain.

Niels

[1.JaVA_Sharp]

I've got the same problem.

I've tried all of the solutions I could find.
As a last resolve I've deinstalled COD and re installed again.
Latest video drivers are installed all to no avail.
Actually the first version of COD did run with out this problem.
Suggestions i've found pointing to wrong direct x version I've checked and i'm on 11.
Maybe this should be 10?
I've tried full screen and all other possibility’s ( the difference between the two possibility’s of full screen elude me).
So I don’t know I hope some body knows what to do other wise its money down the drain.

Niels

you too?

It is beginning to look like that though. I've sent Luthier some crash dumps in the hope for an answer, but right now, I'm leaning more towards turning my G940 into a cyclic and collective as setting the ring button to fire isn't going give me fix..

[cannon-fodder]

Hi

I am now getting launcher failures now proberbly 50% of the time I play COD since the latest patch - making this game totally unplayable for me now.

Interestingly, the last couple of times I have had the launch failure either the steam news page is up on the screen as I clear the "launcher failure" window or when I immediatly try to launch COD I sometimes get the message "steam is not responding".

Is the launch issue being caused by Steam!! as none of my other games have any launcher failures, only COD

Any thoughts?

Cannon-fodder

[1.JaVA_Sharp]

Hi

I am now getting launcher failures now proberbly 50% of the time I play COD since the latest patch - making this game totally unplayable for me now.

Interestingly, the last couple of times I have had the launch failure either the steam news page is up on the screen as I clear the "launcher failure" window or when I immediatly try to launch COD I sometimes get the message "steam is not responding".

Is the launch issue being caused by Steam!! as none of my other games have any launcher failures, only COD

Any thoughts?

Cannon-fodder

yeah, it's not Steam. Your event viewer will tell you that much.

[buzzard]

Sorry to cross-post but I wrote this in another thread, it is no less true here though-

I have been doing several tests, and i seemed to extend my crash-free play by setting compatibility mode to Vista Service Pack 2, even tho i am running Win 7 Pro (64 bit), and I was formerly set to Win 7 Compatibility. This is non-networked standalone, and my own personal experience.

This won't do anything for ppl's online play i am sure...

i dunno, I am grasping at straws.

buzzard

win 7 pro 64 bit
AMD phenom II 965 BE 3.4
8 gb GSkill RAM
2 x 5830 Crossfire

[Megahurt]

Well, I bought another gig of ram, xp only sees three Gs, and i played for an hour today before it crashed.
I have to say i really like this sim. I hope they get this launcher.exe crash fixed. The latest patch has made things worse.
I am thinking of going to windows 7, and adding more ram, but from what im reading here, it seems others are having the same problem with W7 and lots more ram than i have.
Any ideas out there?



3 gig dual core with 3 gigs ram and ati 4600 1 gig vcard.

[cannon-fodder]

Hi

I have win 7 64 bit home premium with 8 gig of ram. I am finding that there seems to be no pattern to the launcher failure. It can be as the game loads up, as a mission loads, connecting to multiplayer or just flying around. Sometimes I can be playing for up to 20 mins before it crashes but usually it crashes within 5-10 minutes

However, it seems to happen most when i key "escape" to end a mission or change menus that it seems to fail the most.

I have now given up on this game until a solution is finally found to stop the launcher failures.

My hardware is a i7 2600K over clocked to 4.8 with a GTX5800 graphics card. None of my other games have this issue so it must be something to do with the software within COD.

Very frustrated

Cannon-fodder

[Alpine]

After reinstalling everything under 'redist' folder,game will now launch up to game options,then it's hit and miss.'launcher not responding'.

4 gigs ram,windows7 32 bit,nvidia 9800gt.http://savepic.net/2009597.png

[NLS61]

My launcher problem was because the Launcher.exe was in compatibility mode ( windowsXPSP3)
I dint put in that mode but decided to do that now as nothing else helped.
To my surprise it was already in compatibility mode, so I did the obvious thing, I took it out.
Started the game and its cruising along nicely since.
Fps is around 32 at four thousand feet over London and 31 at ground level.
Some freezes still occur but they are light furthermore the experience is smooth.
I must say that the graphics, for me as a sailplane pilot myself, are much more realistic, the hazing is in the distance feels believable.
Maybe it would be nice if the tree animation could be turned of as I never noticed it in real life wile flying, with exception to mountain flying where one is so close to the trees that you actually see them move and maybe in landing.
I propose this as the shimmering of the trees ( for me ) is an immersion killer.
Now , at least this is my humble opinion, this game is close to going gold.

With a thumbs up to the developers for persisting, I greet you all,

Niels

[Vonte]

Thanks for you input. Who knows, we may sort out L-e problems before the Dev's.

Salute

Vonte

[Megahurt]

I have to admit to doing some FMB work and testing and switching planes etc. when the crashes occur, but its still madening. Love the sim so im putting up but not shutting up.
Heres a screeny of the error.

[1.JaVA_Sharp]

I've been trying to join friends in the visible servers for the past half hour.

It's maddening watching that little screen come up saying launcher needs to close or something like that....