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COD 4 crashes after changing resolution...

Zulu · 2007-11-20 18:00:11

Hi Folks, as soon as I hit apply the game crashes with "DirectX encountered an unrecoverable error". Any ideas? Running 3.2GHz processer with 2GB ram and a NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS with 256MB Thanks

20-11-2007 6:00pm

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Zulu

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Hi Folks, as soon as I hit apply the game crashes with "DirectX encountered an unrecoverable error".

Any ideas?
Running 3.2GHz processer with 2GB ram and a NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS with 256MB

Thanks

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#2 20-11-2007 6:04pm

Spear

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Zulu wrote: »

Hi Folks, as soon as I hit apply the game crashes with "DirectX encountered an unrecoverable error".

Any ideas?
Running 3.2GHz processer with 2GB ram and a NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS with 256MB

Thanks

There is a known issue with Realtek drivers. Updating them to the latest has solved this for others.

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#3 20-11-2007 6:05pm

Conar

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You could run DXDIAG (Start -> Run -> DXDIAG) and see if it passes the Directdraw/3d tests.
If not then reapply the latest video drivers.

EDIT - Or you could do what Spear says

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#4 20-11-2007 6:38pm

KamiKazi

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you running xfire by any chance? exit it before launching the game, should be fine then

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#5 20-11-2007 11:23pm

Zulu

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Cheers guys got it sorted (xfire issue).
THanks a million

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