Fix Crash on Startup/Not Launching | MW2/Warzone 2 | Complete Guide

Trying to play MW2, but can't because it crashes as soon as you click Play, or a few seconds later? This video tackles some of the simplest but most effective solutions to the game not starting or crashing just after.
--- MW2 (2022) ---
- Link phone number Guide: • Link Phone with MW2 20...
- Fix stuck at phone number: • [OFFICIAL] FIX Stuck a...
- Fix controller not working: • Fix Controller Not Wor...
- OPEN NAT: • Modern Warfare 2 Port ...
- BEST Optimization Guide: • BEST Modern Warfare 2 ...
- Preload FREE Open Beta (Battle.net): • How to Preload FREE Op...
- Fix washed out/no colour: • Fix MW2 Washed Out/Whi...
- Fix stuttering video/audio: • Fix Video & Audio Stut...
- Fix stuck on Checking for Updates: • [OFFICIAL] Fix Stuck "...
- Fix Crashing/Freezing: • Fix MW2 Crashing | Cra...
- Fix GPU driver version error: • Fix: GPU Driver Versio...
- (Steam) change COD/Activision account: • Change Activision/COD ...
- Change Language: • Change Language Guide ...
- Fix Progress Not Saving: • Fix Progress Not Savin...
- Fix FPS Drops, Lag & Stuttering: • Fix FPS Drops, Lag & S...
- Preload Warzone 2: • Preload Warzone 2.0 Gu...
- Fix MW2/Warzone 2 Crash on Startup: • Fix Crash on Startup/N... (This video)
- Move MW2/Warzone 2 to SSD: • Move MW2/Warzone 2/DMZ...
Timestamps:
0:00 - Explanation
0:10 - Update Windows & GPU
0:33 - Verify game files (Steam)
1:03 - Verify game files (Battle.net)
1:22 - Close background & Overlay programs
2:11 - Reinstall (Without downloading anything) - Battle.net
3:50 - Reinstall (Without downloading anything) - Steam
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[@senta993]

You know what? You're great man you are always helping me with my problem and yeah I sub you long time ago... Thanks man I'd really appreciate this

[@FoxAndHound870]

It worked for me. I'm so glad I have finally found this video. Thank you very much :D

[@6XDJ]

I just want to say thank you so much bro. this actually worked for me and everything else I've tried didn't work but this did, so once again thank you, your a real one.

[@freedam_hd2767]

Bro just safed my evening. Tysm man

[@kaoticwatching]

It’s sad it’s still doing it to this day I just started experiencing this idk why we even have to do this, this is ridiculous I hope your solution works for me will keep updated

[@HmiMez16_dz]

You have earned my subscription bro thanks allot

[@70Se7en]

Walked through this video with my buddy who was having issues. The only thing that worked was the "fake" reinstall at 2:10. Thanks!

[@cowboydacat5251]

the reinstall without reinstall worked! I first tried a normal reintallation with no success, but this worked great! Thanks!

[@themilkthaturdadnevercameb2795]

thank you so much..ur the best man.. u earned ur self a subcriber

[@mrlmg2212]

Cheers mate the file transfer fix worked for me thank you

[@greym69]

Thanks last method helped me!

[@xjoobx]

After 12 hours or trying to figure it out, the fix that worked for me was deleting “Randgrid.Sys” and “cod.exe” , delete “bootstrapper.exe” and files labeled bootstrapper. Then run steam & verify integrity of game files. It will redownload the missing files and then start game. My game showed in boostrapper log randgrid.sys failed to start with bootstrapper

[@carmelokommatas2001]

Really thought this would work. Thanks for the help anyway I’m lost at this point on what to do.

[@liljimmah]

@@carmelokommatas2001bro same here the little loading screen pops up then it crashes

[@KuyaBradford]

Disabling overlays is what fixed mine! Thanks so much for posting this! I was getting so pissed that I couldn't open my game.

[@perpzero6721]

How did you find all the apps running overlay

[@KuyaBradford]

@@perpzero6721 I just knew that I had NVIDIA Overlays turned on and I had recently turned on Discord's overlays. Once I got rid of both of those, my game worked. :) Whichever apps are putting things in front of your game screen are probably worth trying to disable. Hope this helps :)

[@damndaniel2880]

this worked for me thanks much appreciated, turned off discord overlay and it works every time

[@RedModzz]

​@@damndaniel2880 where do you turn it off?

[@SinZ13]

thank you so much man, seriously, i thought i spent £60 on a game i couldnt play, but luckily i came across your video and i can play the game smooth like butter. Thanks and keep the work up.

[@hastjabar]

thank you so much ❤

[@anasacmh]

Bro thanks for that amazing trick you saved the daaaayyyy

[@outshine-_-]

Thank you so much man. You're a legend I had to do the re-install thing and started working. Love you 😘😘

[@brandonward2174]

Hi ive done all of the above but COD still not working on my PC any other ideas perhaps?TIA

[@DSalvatoreDamonSalvatore]

Appreciate man needed this :D

[@kampfpanzer-703]

Tried but my game closes itself after the small loading screen

[@WiTzBoLD159]

look my channel maybe this works for you

[@tune_gaming_fr]

same here sometime sthe loading screen didn't even open

[@achintbhasin3566]

have you found a fix

[@tune_gaming_fr]

@@achintbhasin3566 no sorry i didn't find a way -_- so im just intalling it on ps4 and play with keyboard

[@Nikolei8]

Press ALT + Enter immediately after starting

[@endlordhd]

I still have a problem with I can open the game and then it closes a second later if I'm fast enough I can get to the loading screen but then it closes and I don't know what to do.

[@allenjimenez4762]

every time i close the pc and then i get on the next day it says its no compatible for windows 8 even though im all caught up and if i somehow fix it and i turn off the pc and then i get back on it still doesnt work

[@_nefasto_]

Reinstalling without downloading worked for me. You saved my day, thanks a lot man! ❤

[@kickdoor]

It doesn’t give me the option to choose location for installation , can you help me

[@_nefasto_]

@@kickdoor that's weird. I play on Steam and it always asks for the installation path before downloading a game

[@kickdoor]

@@_nefasto_ thanks for the reply I just redownloaded the whole game instead

[@Zintanian]

both did not work for me. battlenet would launch the game but freezes on loading screen. it happened after season 2 reloaded update, it happens to both warzone 1 and 2. I downloaded the game on steam and it worked but my account on battlenet. I dont know what else I can do.

[@dominicfletcher6365]

thanks pal

[@gemsbtw5683]

i dont have local files why and i cant open the game i just downloaded it and it wont open

[@mpoukalakis6857]

Very helpfull video, i just had to update my windows and graphics card. Thank you a lot! Continue the good work!

[@cameronhemphill6073]

what error code did you have?

[@RetiredSSL]

I keep getting run in safe mode error. Choosing yes no or cancel doesn’t matter still crashes

[@danielvoinea8030]

It still doesnt work.... i cant launch it even tho i already played it once.... Any suggestions?

[@sametderg144]

I rested my pc and it’s don’t working what should I do next

[@medboop911]

Sadly had tried everything on the list and still won't launch for me. Problem started when I tried to play the campaign but had to close the application.

[@hendocedano1753]

Thanks works for ke

[@samquinn4934]

My game launches but and connects to online services but when I am at the menu to choose to play mw2 or purchase other cod it crashes anyone have a fix?

[@BigBoiLD]

Hi mate, i’ve literally tried everything and mothing works at all, i dont even have ‘cod.exe’ in my files when i uninstall and reinstall the game, Dont know how cause i havent even messed with anything…

[@mainguy29]

It made me download the whole game again

[@albushh]

Played it without a problem before reinstalling my windows today and now it's stuck on 38 files failed to validate and reinstalling them isn't working at all.

[@BredelSmith]

Same. I dont find a solution. My mind blow up after 10 hours of trying to start the game.

[@agentnukaz1715]

My game crashes when I try to start a match, it looks like it's struggling in the menu. Just installed, haven't played since S2... will report back if this works

[@CalebDaMaker]

Did all of it, still cant open

[@snowmannn2576]

Nothing is working for me, when I launch the game it shows the game like loading up but it doesn’t go full screen into the game and start up it just stays still

[@Freaki91]

new windows and followed all guides and installed all drivers + runtime + framework + c++ + directx3d + everything u can imagine and verify all game files and it still wont open and firewall and adminstrator is enabled wtf

[@Familyguyclips872]

Bro I love you

[@Albefps]

why is not worked with me, im reistalling all game i don't now why, please help me

[@humanman5913]

i have been trying to get this game to work, this did not work for me. i have bought the game on Battlenet. it just shuts down just after i press start on warzone 2, after i accept terms.

[@lazking5004]

hey, I was wondering how I know if the files were fixed. steam said there were some invalid files and they had to require them. just wanted to know how I know when they have been reaquired

[@Kdeem.224]

Just go to the downloads on steam and it would have downloaded the files. But for me i can validate the files over and over and It'll reaquire and download the same 13 files

[@gateris2888]

@@Kdeem.224 Same

[@AyyyyDozer]

@@gateris2888 Did you figure it out? i have the same problem

[@rocco2]

im havinig the same issue

[@nc1028]

same problem, its with both battlenet and steam

[@SupercarsofSyd]

I'm getting disk write error on steam????? what to do??!?!?!?

[@VrBlitz09]

Yeah i have been doing every method possible on here and nothing works. When I click play it says "Running now" and then closes again and I saw that it starts up as a background program and then appearantlyt it just closes

[@Spartiateism]

same

[@stephenmunene3713]

Press windows key plus R then type msconfig then check then turn off Microsoft services on start up it worked for me

[@dingus2924]

i love his voice

[@op6808]

This worked for me, But the really annoying part is that I've fixed my files just for it to stop working, I've fixed it twice and it still goes back to it's broken state. Does anyone know why it keeps doing this?

[@SkoolConnor]

if verifying the game files didnt work, then 9 times out of 10 reinstalling the game wont work. If all files are there and the game still isnt launching then the problem isnt a missing file.

[@Salrawas7]

The game was not launching for me. What i did i went to steam, right click on MW2 then choose Properties then Updates then change Always keep this game update to Only update when I launched it. This worked for me after trying everything from online.

[@Faded6o]

Idk, tried everything on yt my game still wouldn’t workb

[@derekcrawford7957]

great video but my issue still isn't resolved.

[@High5Authentic]

Bro the scan filed worked thru steam 👍

[@quarkedbutt3957]

mine seems to start up with the small MW2 window (usually when i played it it had a blue bar go across and load then launch) now it does a white bar and never fully launches. On steam i run the check files and it either says files failed or it downloads a small update then it still does the same thing. I have uninstalled and reinstalled and ran the file check

[@dizhavoc2378]

Did u find A fix

[@eironasxd3168]

Did you ? Im having the same issue

[@amrkarousa5661]

did you find a fix ?

[@eironasxd3168]

I found the issue for whatever reason having one drive opend fixes it

[@hydra7231]

nothing works, i just installed the game, and i click start and after 2 sec it close the game automaticly

[@MintyyOGx]

so what if none of these work?

[@10ccdd]

Ive dont all of this.. and it still wont load for me!

[@dwrek2054]

Verified files, fixed. I had to watch your video for some reason to end up doing that lol

[@user-db2xk7vk7z]

I’m still can’t launch the game how can i do😢

[@mtb8052]

i can’t danload a dlc call of duty modern warfare 2 multiplayer😢

[@harrybob9720]

Every time I verify my game files the same 38 fail and are redownloaded I’ve done it like 10 times now but my game still can’t make it past the starter screen 😢 anyone know the issue?

[@albushh]

exactly same problem after reinstalling windows today

[@i_didnt_stutter6962]

@@albushh ME TOO WHATS THE ISSUE

[@i_didnt_stutter6962]

@@dark_._ windows complete reinstall and it worked, also, compied the game files from my other computer that has it working on their instead of redownloading them, so, one of those two things worked

[@tradewithbasil]

What the hell is wrong with this game. I have tried every single trick availalbe on youtube and it still won't fu****g work.

[@Mr_Sentoo]

None of it worked. Tried: windows up to date(repair scan no errors), all drivers up to date, reinstalled the game three times(even different nvme drives), verified the files many times. Took the OC off my gpu, cpu and mem. Registry cleaned, temp files deleted, no HW errors. Benchmarks and tests run without a problem, no issue on any other games even wz1 runs fine. Disabled all apps with a clean boot through system config, no overlays on anything. Tried it on battlenet and steam. I have no more ideas 😩 running the best HW you can buy 13900k and 4090 strix. Season 2 just wont load

[@AhriFoxxyy]

I would hit "play" and the launcher would show up and then the game would just not load at all, even this hasnt fixed it. ive been trying for hours to fix this game that I played just a few months ago and it was fine

[@zignimus5334]

Did u get it working?

[@AhriFoxxyy]

@@zignimus5334 yeah, had to reinstall windows to get the game to work

[@zignimus5334]

@@AhriFoxxyy I'm trying that right now actually

[@AhriFoxxyy]

@@zignimus5334 I was having issues with borderlands 2 and the pre-sequel as well as cod, so I just reinstalled windows and that worked

[@zignimus5334]

@@AhriFoxxyy yea the fresh windows install worked I'm in the game now

[@bimerc3138]

W

[@Dan02407]

tried all of these options but still nothing has worked cant even get passed the opening loading screen

[@MrVova79]

Same. Did you find a fix by any chance?

[@ISTHTJAYY]

this is my problem do you know a fix?

[@MrVova79]

@@ISTHTJAYY I already reinstalled the game just to get the same thing. All my other games work smoothly without a hitch. The only thing that worked for me personally was buying the game again on the PS5 lol (not saying you should do that) just saying.

[@komari3339]

dont work

[@mailliw5714]

didn't work but cool video thanks

[@BuLB2BRiGHT]

😂

[@cheddar4203]

For the people thats still struggling if you have a rtx card and have the geforce app i can change the ingame graphics through their and put it as windowed mode and restart ur whole pc and try again because it worked for me.

[@spicymemer7353]

None of these worked for me big sad

[@willtodd9218]

could have reminded people who dont have the space to start the download again

[@Bumblesnitch]

Fake reinstall did it. POS game. 😂

[@skibidiraidensigma99]

Nothing worked sadly.

[@miwfjuggs]

it was discord that needed to be closed on start up after nvidia driver update feb 28…. fuck this game’s optimization fr

[@KaiSmith-mu1xo]

tried literally everything on this video when I press play it doesn't run at all. I am also missing the cod.exe so I don't know if that may be the problem, I don't know what to do any other solutions many thanks.

[@KaiSmith-mu1xo]

backed up the game file and comes up with the cod small loading screen then crashes and asks if i want to run in safe mode accept then nothing big sad

[@deathlinguine4582]

@@KaiSmith-mu1xo did you end up getting it to work? Having the same issue.

[@HerbalistAce]

I installed the latest GPU Driver and it broke mw2. Went back to the previous driver and it worked again. Now it doesn't work anymore. What gives, Activision needs to fix their game. Edit: Just Updated my GPU Driver again, which it's working for now.

[@HerbalistAce]

It's unfortunate the game breaks literally every game update.

[@maybe3979]

ENABLE AVX!!! Nothing worked for me until i enabled AVX. If you cant find it in BIOS then open Windows PowerShell in administrator mode and type bcdedit /set xsavedisable 0

[@liljimmah]

Ok I'll try this

[@VfxArsh]

fix reclaming space problem

[@partyghost2]

nothing worked

[@alKEda]

didnt work but cool video :)

[@WiTzBoLD159]

look my channel maybe this works for you

[@puffias3717]

Nothing helping here nor other videos still i click play and after a while of waiting it goes back to play....

[@pryor3724]

did you find a fix?

[@puffias3717]

@@pryor3724 yep what helped me was that I inštalatér every part of cod so warzone too I also turned off every other thing on background like EA and ect when I turned ea on for apex legends it did not work

[@pryor3724]

@@puffias3717 ah okay, i also play apex often so that might be it, thanks

[@walrusdojo]

A TEMPORARY FIX HAS BEEN FOUND. The problem for many was running the game in fullscreen. If you change the game to run in windowed it should run just fine. When you start the game just press Alt+Enter and it should go to windowed mode. After you close the game you may have to use this command to switch it to fullscreen and then back to windowed again to get it running again.

[@rolln8ths]

didnt work for me. but running steam in admin mode works

[@Aleksimaier]

lol I wish my game even opened 💀💀

[@thiccbic]

@@Aleksimaier same.

[@terminalius]

This shit worked bro ty i was legit gonna fucking rip my hair out

[@brolybeats1707]

nothing is working for me this game is so nice

[@Neptune_171]

bro none of these worked :(

[@gemsbtw5683]

i hate guy so much bro it did not work for me when i tried to copy and paste it and now i have to redownload the whole thing

[@bria.nzheng2970]

Thank u for the help, but your method didn't work

[@TheMightyHair]

Its not working :

[@voron7701]

big ups for all the payed bot youtube accounts that comment "it worked thanks!!"

[@TheMightyHair]

@@voron7701 yea, I tried to fix it for 3-4 hours and it still doesn't work so. I've looked at all the guides and nothing helped

[@jaxbrwn]

@@TheMightyHair did u fix it

[@TheMightyHair]

@@jaxbrwn nope

[@TheMightyHair]

Its 50/50 working or not

[@ukigaminghd1393]

None of these have worked for me but nice video tho

[@gamerjuice._.]

Hey brother please could you give my video a view? i’ve been trying and trying to fix my issue for almost a year now with mw2 and now again with mw3 but on steam this time please any help or ideas would greatly help as i do not know where to start

[@Jambo199]

day seven: do a tutorial on how to stop screen tears on minecraft please

[@AverageIdiot6]

You should just need to use V-sync tho depending on what version you may not have that option

[@new_comment]

this game on pc is complete garbage, I have literally tried every "fix" on the web, plus a lot of my own, I have reinstalled the game 9 times, I have opened 4 trouble tickets, and still haven't been able to run the game, crashes every time I try to launch it, there are millions of pc users who have bought the game and can't even play it, and Activision doesn't give 2 shits, they need their ass sued off for advertising and knowingly selling defective software

[@jvic6056]

Modern games are such trash idht for this haha.

[@user-mp5xe8mm6g]

swear to god, the developers are only good at making micro transaction features, the game doesn't even launch. How do they even release a game like this ffs