Call of Duty Black Ops III won't start

Mark_1970

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Bought this silly game several weeks ago, installed, updated all ( on C: drive) and played campaign , then online. After playing online on several occasions just fine, the game won't start up/launch again. looked into it, eventually i learned the verify game cache files method within steam and after a longish process it finished and game started, yay.
Tried the game next day, same thing, won't start?
Buggered if im going to do this verify cache every time to play it, anybody?
 

c4s2k3

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When you say "won't start", what do you mean? Is there an error? Does it 'hang'? What is the symptom?

Also, (1) Do you have plenty of disk space on your boot drive? (2) How much RAM in your system? (3) Does it start after a reboot?
 

Mark_1970

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Tries to start, enters a black screen, then a box comes up saying BlackOps3.exe has stopped working and windows is checking solution, let it do that, it has none. nothing else is said, Have to shut down in task manager
1: I have a samsung 850 Pro 512gb- half full
2: 16gb ram - 24gb pagefile/virtual memory
3: after reboot it always just does this
Firewall excepts, admin rights are given to the exe, only the verify game cache long process will fix ATM
 

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(1) Are your GPU drivers reasonably up to date? I say 'reasonably' because at least on NVIDIA, the latest may or may not be the best for this particular game.
(2) If you are running any kind of GPU tweaking/monitoring app, like Afterburner, Precision X, etc. try making sure those are not running before you start the game.
(3) I know this sucks because of the download time, but some folks seem to sort out these kinds of issues by removing the game and re-installing it through Steam, even if they have already "verified cache".
 

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1: I update as they come along, was updated to latest till this issue, i tried a driver like 4 versions older, still would not start, fix cache, then does, but next time no start again.
2: Asus GPU Tweak for fan control only- don't oc. and latest Cam software for my watercooler. tried with both programs closed not running
3: Hope not

I am thinking the pc can run this easy, attempts at software issues have got nowhere. It seems like it forgets it's booting config and won't start and the verify cache corrects that, i don't know. i use the SSD's Turbo function /ram cache , been wondering if maybe that is an issue. also i have Directx and visual studio all up to date, .NET, you name it.

I have origin as well with a few games (bf4, Titanfall) they have no issues normally, bf4 has an occasional direct x fail, rarely. i do shutdown origin when playing this steam game too