Call of Duty 4 will not work on my comp!

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tormaid

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Dose anyone know what I can do to make Call of Duty 4 run on my system? I am running Vista x64 on a Skulltrail system w/ 2 Quad Core Xeon's at 2.5 Ghz, 2 en8800 gt's in sli, 8gb of ram...

I ran the game fine on my XP install, but since I moved to vista I haven't gotten it to work. I have tried: running as an administrator, changing the folder permissions for the install directory, running in safe mode, running in compadibility mode, and that's all I can remember at the moment... needless to say I'm quite furstrated at this point.

The error I get is "iw3mp.exe has stoped working"... Same thing for single-player exept "sp". I am really only interested in multiplayer though...

If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Please provide helpfull comments as however, "Go back to running XP" ,for example, isn't...

Thanks,

-tormaid
 

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Have you updated the game with the latest patches.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    HP Compaq Presario/SR5113WM
    CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ 1.9Ghz
    Motherboard
    Asus M2N68-LA
    Memory
    PNY Optima Memory DDR2 2GB 2x1 kit
    Graphics Card(s)
    PNY Nvidia 8400 GS 256MB
    Sound Card
    On board RealTek
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer X163W LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1366x768
    Hard Drives
    Western Digital 160 GB SATA 3G (3.0Gb/sec)
    7200 rpm
    Western Digital 160 GB IDE
    PSU
    Dynex 400w
    Case
    Nothin Special
    Cooling
    Stock
    Keyboard
    Standard 102 key with volume and sleep buttons
    Mouse
    Wireless Logitech LX7
    Internet Speed
    Comcrap 10mb cable
    Other Info
    Insignia 2.1 speakers, wireless Xbox 360 controller w/plug n play charger, Belkin wireless G + mimo usb network adapter.
Yes, and I have tried running the game incrementally throughout the patching process (it gives me the same error for every patch).
 

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Go into the control panel then in sounds and click on the recording tab and right click in a blank are and make sure show disable devices and then enable recording mix and ok everything and see if it will run.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    HP Compaq Presario/SR5113WM
    CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ 1.9Ghz
    Motherboard
    Asus M2N68-LA
    Memory
    PNY Optima Memory DDR2 2GB 2x1 kit
    Graphics Card(s)
    PNY Nvidia 8400 GS 256MB
    Sound Card
    On board RealTek
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer X163W LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1366x768
    Hard Drives
    Western Digital 160 GB SATA 3G (3.0Gb/sec)
    7200 rpm
    Western Digital 160 GB IDE
    PSU
    Dynex 400w
    Case
    Nothin Special
    Cooling
    Stock
    Keyboard
    Standard 102 key with volume and sleep buttons
    Mouse
    Wireless Logitech LX7
    Internet Speed
    Comcrap 10mb cable
    Other Info
    Insignia 2.1 speakers, wireless Xbox 360 controller w/plug n play charger, Belkin wireless G + mimo usb network adapter.
I had that same exact problem but for the life of me I can't remember what I did to fix it.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Solaris Tech
    CPU
    Intel C2D E8400
    Motherboard
    EVGA 750i SLI FTW
    Memory
    4 Gb OCZ Platinum
    Graphics Card(s)
    2x XFX nVidia 9800 GT
    Sound Card
    On Board
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer AL1916W 19" LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900
    Hard Drives
    Western Digital 320 GB
    Seagate Barracuda 250 GB
    PSU
    Ultra X2 750W
    Case
    Ultra Aluminus Black
    Cooling
    Stock CPU, 2 Antec 120 MM Case Fans
    Keyboard
    Gateway Media Keyboard
    Mouse
    Razor DeathAdder
    Internet Speed
    Comcast Cable 8 MEG, Belkin N Wireless USB Adapter
    Other Info
    My Laptop: Acer Aspire 4730Z - Vista Home Premiun x86 - Intel DC T3200 - 2 GB RAM - Intel Graphics Accelerator 4500M

    2nd Desktop: WinXP Pro - AMD Athlon XP 2800+ - 2.5 GB RAM - ATI Radeon 9250 PRO
tormaid said:
The error I get is "iw3mp.exe has stoped working"-tormaid
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It was one of the work around to get the multiplayer to work.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    HP Compaq Presario/SR5113WM
    CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ 1.9Ghz
    Motherboard
    Asus M2N68-LA
    Memory
    PNY Optima Memory DDR2 2GB 2x1 kit
    Graphics Card(s)
    PNY Nvidia 8400 GS 256MB
    Sound Card
    On board RealTek
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer X163W LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1366x768
    Hard Drives
    Western Digital 160 GB SATA 3G (3.0Gb/sec)
    7200 rpm
    Western Digital 160 GB IDE
    PSU
    Dynex 400w
    Case
    Nothin Special
    Cooling
    Stock
    Keyboard
    Standard 102 key with volume and sleep buttons
    Mouse
    Wireless Logitech LX7
    Internet Speed
    Comcrap 10mb cable
    Other Info
    Insignia 2.1 speakers, wireless Xbox 360 controller w/plug n play charger, Belkin wireless G + mimo usb network adapter.
Have you tried doing a clean install of COD4 and deleting all files and folders that pertain to COD4 on your computer and also deleting the registry keys.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    HP Compaq Presario/SR5113WM
    CPU
    AMD Athlon 64 X2 3600+ 1.9Ghz
    Motherboard
    Asus M2N68-LA
    Memory
    PNY Optima Memory DDR2 2GB 2x1 kit
    Graphics Card(s)
    PNY Nvidia 8400 GS 256MB
    Sound Card
    On board RealTek
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Acer X163W LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1366x768
    Hard Drives
    Western Digital 160 GB SATA 3G (3.0Gb/sec)
    7200 rpm
    Western Digital 160 GB IDE
    PSU
    Dynex 400w
    Case
    Nothin Special
    Cooling
    Stock
    Keyboard
    Standard 102 key with volume and sleep buttons
    Mouse
    Wireless Logitech LX7
    Internet Speed
    Comcrap 10mb cable
    Other Info
    Insignia 2.1 speakers, wireless Xbox 360 controller w/plug n play charger, Belkin wireless G + mimo usb network adapter.
Had a similar problem, this error is caused by a sound device driver.

Got something like this to get it working from another site ... it was a while ago now so can't remeber the exact details. Also noticed once I got past patch 1.4 pings show as above 250fps, some times a bit lower if saved to favourites, this appears to be an issue for a lot of people, so far I haven't found a solution for it.

"under vista go to, control panel------->Sound---------->Recording Tab------------>show disabled devices there should be one called stereo mix enable it should work after."
 

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tormaid said:
What if the stereo option isn't there?
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In the recording tab window right click and select "show disabled devices", by default only enabled devices appear in the list. This should then show 'Stereo Mix' in the list.

Just so your aware - Stereo Mix on my system is disabled and COD4 works, I think I remember playing around with the default audio device for a bit.

Others say enabling 'Stereo Mix' didn't work for them but plugging in headphones or a mic to the Mic socket fixed the problem, something to do with the audio codec in COD4 not properly recognising ASUS motherboards and Realtek sound device. Vista detects if a Mic is plugged in or not, this shows up in the recording tab. It appears COD4 requires drivers for a Mic device are installed whether you are using a Mic or not.

Yet more people say changing the default audio device to headphones seemed to work for them. Some others say the problem went away once they applied the 1.4 patch of COD4.

All agree it's not a straight forward solution as depends on your system hardware configuration, how Vista works and a specific issue with COD4. Good luck, from memory it took me about 45 minutes to find a solution on the Net that worked for me. I tried to get the game working from a fresh install before applying any patches to get it to 1.7, maybe I should have applied all the patches first ?
 

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