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If you are facing the Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War crash at startup and not launching, you must disable the feature on the programs you are using. are known to act up and crash games, especially the Steam overlay.

Overlay feature of certain programs like Steam, Discord, GeForce Experience, etc.

Hence, you must whitelist the game in the respective antivirus software. The same applies to third-party antivirus software as well such as Kaspersky, Avast, Malwarebytes, AVG, etc.

The security software of Windows may be blocking some game files.

If that fails, another common cause is the Windows Firewall or Defender.

Under normal circumstance, this solution should work for the majority. Therefore, it’s suggested that you perform a clean boot of the system after suspending unnecessary services and then, launch the game. More often than not a software is forcefully injecting itself between the execution of Black Ops Cold War game files, which is causing the crash.

The first suspect is one or more third-party software installed on your computer such as MSI Afterburner, Razer Synapse, ShadowPlay, AutoHotkey, Discord, etc.

But, there have been reports that the OS will then force vSync/Triple-buffering, which are known to cause significant amounts of input lag. I've heard somewhere that newer operating systems, like Windows 8.1 and 10, have made it possible to run games in both Windowed/Border-less and GPU exclusive modes at the same time (thanks to the newer WDDM). (As the GPU "juice" is distributed evenly across the monitors that are connected to it) (It's a bit tedious, I know)Ģ) Windowed and Border-less might solve the aforementioned issue but since the GPU is not utilized exclusively by the game, your performance will suffer.

Though sometimes they will just keep going black or appear frozen, if you insist enough, they will work eventually. However, if you run a multi-monitor setup like me, there are two catches:ġ) Playing in full screen will sometimes turn black all your other monitors, besides the primary one, where the game is rendered.Īlt-tabbing a few times, between the desktop and the game, will help bringing them back. To adjust that setting you need to go to Control Panel -> Display -> Screen Resolution -> Advanced Settings -> Monitor -> Set the Screen refresh rate to 120 or 144Hz (depending on your monitor).įull-screen allows for GPU utilization in exclusive-mode, allowing manipulation of the refresh rate independently, from the in-game settings. Windowed and Border-less modes will make use of your Desktop's refresh rate.