Launch failure!!

[cannon-fodder]

Hi

I am now getting launcher failures now proberbly 50% of the time I play COD since the latest patch - making this game totally unplayable for me now.

Interestingly, the last couple of times I have had the launch failure either the steam news page is up on the screen as I clear the "launcher failure" window or when I immediatly try to launch COD I sometimes get the message "steam is not responding".

Is the launch issue being caused by Steam!! as none of my other games have any launcher failures, only COD

Any thoughts?

Cannon-fodder