Now, I find myself dreaming of the simplicity of consoles. After sending about three dozen crash reports, I decided that this wasn’t fun at all.īefore buying Call of Duty 4, I had to wonder why the XBOX 360 and PlayStation 3 versions of CoD4 were $10 more. Who wants to click through End User License Agreements, DirectX updates and software installations, only to be welcomed by a Microsoft Error Reporting window. Now I know why retail stores have pushed PC games to a forgotten corner of the store. When I visited the Infinity Ward forum, only to see that other players were experiencing the same problems, I began to lose faith in PC gaming. After three installs, reducing my monitor to 800×600 and quitting nonessential applications, the results are the same – CRASH! It will make it through the videos, and then it will crash. I’ll load the game again, but this time in safe mode. When I load the game for the first time, it will crash.

My machine has been pretty good at running the latest games.Īfter sitting through a boring installation process, the game failed almost immediately. Not surprisingly, my computer seemed to qualify. When CoD4 started crashing, I reviewed the minimum system requirements. I never really looked at gaming boxes for specs. Two years later, I added some RAM and I still had an effective gaming machine. I threw in a nice nVidia 6800 Graphics Processor and that was all I needed. It’s been about three years since I pulled the demo unit off the shelves of Best Buy.

I mean sure, my computer is starting to get old. After doing some research online, it seems that I’m not the only one with CoD4 technical difficulties. After messing around for hours, trying to get the game to work, I’ve given up. I’d like to say that Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare was the greatest game that I ever played.

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