Windows 8 and CloD (Merged Threads)

[HeavyHemi]

Originally Posted by AirHog71

Well before I go down that road I'll check out whats what with the Process Monitor.

Problem is:


This is what the installer is trying to run after the initial game install when you attempt to launch the game and it tries to run the final game set up. You can even download the same redistributable direct from MS and it will give you the identical failure.

[PopBot]

Originally Posted by HeavyHemi

Problem is:


This is what the installer is trying to run after the initial game install when you attempt to launch the game and it tries to run the final game set up. You can even download the same redistributable direct from MS and it will give you the identical failure.

I don't think that's actually the cause of COD's failure to launch. I have never gotten that error on Windows 8 when I have tried to install COD. I have gotten messages from Steam when launching other games that state that they will install the VC++ redist every time I launch them, but those games still work fine.

[jojimbo]

well its unfortunate the devs cant be arsed to visit their own forums and let us know (their customers) whats going on! however much i want to play CoD i won't be uninstalling my version of windows 8 just to play it.

[Dano]

Originally Posted by jojimbo

well its unfortunate the devs cant be arsed to visit their own forums and let us know (their customers) whats going on! however much i want to play CoD i won't be uninstalling my version of windows 8 just to play it.

They've already told us, Cliffs of Dover is done and dusted.

[mcdaniels]

Very bad that they dont give a cent of interest to their prior customers. I can not understand this.

A simple : "No it is not supported and will never be" or "we will look into it" will be not that big thing -> I thought....

but unfortunatly, nothing...

Dont know if I will buy the sequel...

Playing CloD does not give me the feeling of really having fun... don't know why... perhaps I am doing something wrong... AI comms not working, campaign not working as expected..., perhaps I should go to TS and join up some dogfights... but this is OT

[AirHog71]

Originally Posted by mcdaniels

Very bad that they dont give a cent of interest to their prior customers. I can not understand this.

A simple : "No it is not supported and will never be" or "we will look into it" will be not that big thing -> I thought....

but unfortunatly, nothing...

Dont know if I will buy the sequel...

Playing CloD does not give me the feeling of really having fun... don't know why... perhaps I am doing something wrong... AI comms not working, campaign not working as expected..., perhaps I should go to TS and join up some dogfights... but this is OT

I feel your pain, I think the devs are putting everything into BoM at the moment.

Now I'm not the most experienced coder, I've only been doing it for 2 years in a closed evironement using only C#, I've been asking the more experienced guys in my team what the possibilities are. There could be 100's of possible reasons for this bug.

My gut feel is this: It's a glitch with the launcher.exe, somewhere in the code there is an incompatibility with .NET assemblies on Win8. Who should fix it? Well as a developer it's always your job to make sure the code runs on the OS you've intended it for, unfortunately, you need to remember that CoD was never meant for Win8 so its the user that takes the risk.

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by jojimbo

LOLOLOL!!! I made a partition on my F:/ drive and installed windows 7 on it, got everything up and running, got to 90% loading mission....
"launcher needs to close"

I totally GIVE UP on the P O F S game, .

I wonder what you're doing wrong or what is different about your system to other people? Alot of other people seam to be able to install and run.

Oh! your specs seem quite low! It doesn't actually meet the minimum requirements

"GeForce MX400, Intel Celeron 1.8Ghz, 1 Gig dds Ram"

"Minimum" specs list 2Ghz CPU and 2Gig ram and 512MB video card - and many people are say that the minimum specs are very optimistic!

Bye!

[HeavyHemi]

Originally Posted by PopBot

I don't think that's actually the cause of COD's failure to launch. I have never gotten that error on Windows 8 when I have tried to install COD. I have gotten messages from Steam when launching other games that state that they will install the VC++ redist every time I launch them, but those games still work fine.

This specific redistributable is called for by the launcher via 63950_install.vdf when you first try to launch the game after the initial install. There are of course different C++ redistributables. This particular one is not currently compatible with Win 8.

[FS~looksharp]

I for one would love to know if cod could eventually be played on win 8...

I still use vista which works well for me, but lately I've been toying with the idea of upgrading... My main issue is that the win 7 upgrade is £83 and I can now get the win 8 upgrade for £25...

So any info on 8 is more than welcome

[AirHog71]

Originally Posted by HeavyHemi

Problem is:


This is what the installer is trying to run after the initial game install when you attempt to launch the game and it tries to run the final game set up. You can even download the same redistributable direct from MS and it will give you the identical failure.

Are you gettng this each time you've reinstalled CoD?

In my case it wanted to install .NET 3.5 not the C++ redists. I actually "restored" CoD after backing it up when I was in Win7, not installing it from DVD / Download.