...reinstalled my windows 7 image today (thanks clonezilla)... as conclusion that faster boot and some goodies are not enough to stay with 8 at this time. Perhaps there will be a fix in future, but for now 8 is gone from my harddisc...

Well before I go down that road I'll check out whats what with the Process Monitor.

Linix looks to be flavour of the month, check out

http://www.engadget.com/2012/11/06/n...-drivers-r310/

The idea of a purpose built gaming os using linix with none of the other resource hogging components sounds appealing. I wonder if they can get enough developer support to make it viable.


Cheers!

Is it just me or is there a change in the *air* :P

Hi folks,
a push for Linux will be very very nice.

@AirHog71: Will be interesting if you can find something with procmon, I did not.

Daniel

Problem is:
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b9...l2CODerror.jpg

This is what the installer is trying to run after the initial game install when you attempt to launch the game and it tries to run the final game set up. You can even download the same redistributable direct from MS and it will give you the identical failure.

I don't think that's actually the cause of COD's failure to launch. I have never gotten that error on Windows 8 when I have tried to install COD. I have gotten messages from Steam when launching other games that state that they will install the VC++ redist every time I launch them, but those games still work fine.

well its unfortunate the devs cant be arsed to visit their own forums and let us know (their customers) whats going on! however much i want to play CoD i won't be uninstalling my version of windows 8 just to play it.

They've already told us, Cliffs of Dover is done and dusted.