Call of Duty Ghosts hangs on black startup screen

AndreusOfficial · Mar 23, 2017

I just installed Call of Duty Ghosts on my laptop and when I go to run the game, it loads into fullscren, but hangs with a loading mouse and a black screen. I have tried everything I can find ranging from modifying the config.cfg and config_mp.cfg files (actually they were not there originally, I had to make them) to running it in windowed borderless mode. In Event Veiwer it simply says that the program stopped interacting with Windows but nothing more. I have read all the error logs and stuff and come up with nothing. Any suggestions?

My system:
Lenovo y50
120GB SSD
1920x1080 @ 60Ghz
GeForce GTX 860M (4GB)
Intel i7-4710HQ
16GB of RAM
Windows 8 (not 8.1)

MeesterYellow · Mar 24, 2017

Just an opinion of mine, I wouldn't recommend playing CoD Ghost as it's very buggy and is the worst CoD out there.
How did you acquire the game?
If it's Steam, try verifying it.

AndreusOfficial · Mar 25, 2017

MeesterYellow :

I bought the disk for the game, which gave me access to it on Steam (it's 100% legit, don't worry) and I have tried verifying the files multiple times. Nothing works. I found if I disable my GTX 860m and use just the integrated graphics card, the game will open to the menu, but will be very laggy as the integrated card pretty lame, and it will crash after the intro to the first level has finished loading. If this only happened on CoD Ghosts I would give it up, but this happens on all my games from basically 2012 on (including Overwatch which I fixed my turning fullscreen windowed mode in in the settings file, but now it stopped working again).

MeesterYellow · Mar 27, 2017

Have you checked if you're able to run those game? www.systemrequirementslab.com/
Have you tried reinstalling those games?
Your GPU seems old so you might need an upgrade.
What's your ram?

AndreusOfficial · Mar 27, 2017

MeesterYellow :

I have 16GB of ram. I am 100% sure that my computer can run CoD Ghosts, I have seen people playing it on ultra graphics on the same model. I could also run Overwatch and Skyrim on ultro graphics at 60+ fps easily. I seem to have figured out where the problem is though. Whenever I run anything with my dedicated card, it crashes, and I mean ANYTHING. I'm not sure why because just the other day it worked fine. Thanks for the replies though!

I'm gonna reinstall Windows I think because I came across someone who had the exact same issue as I do and the same computer and that is what fixed it for him. I'll get back to this if it helps

MeesterYellow · Mar 27, 2017

Oh, I meant like the type/brand of ram you're using.

That's great and no problem!

I'll be here to help if you still got any problems or questions.

AndreusOfficial · Mar 27, 2017

I don't know the brand, they are 2 sticks of DDR3 RAM @ 1600MHz in SODIMM configuration. I'm gonna take my laptop apart later today, so I'll get back to you on the manufacturer.

MeesterYellow · Mar 27, 2017

AndreusOfficial :

Oh. I just forgot that you were using a laptop. Your ram shouldn't be the problem as you have more than 8.

AndreusOfficial · Apr 9, 2017

So I got it working! I had to reinstall Windows and it works great now. I saw this solution in another forum (just reinstall windows) and it worked great!

MeesterYellow :

MeesterYellow · Apr 10, 2017

That's great!

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