Game will not launch!

[silvirus]

Hi everyone,

Unfortunately I experience the same problems as the thread starter. I recently bought CoD during the Steam sale and I'm not able to start the game. The only thing I get to see is that yellow plane logo (and that only for a part of a second - the launcher then stops working and disappears from the task manager).

I already installed manually all included redist packages (at least .NET and DirectX - the included VC redist was already outdated and a newer one installed).
I also deinstalled/reinstalled CoD at least three times. After every reinstallation I let Steam check the game cache integerity (which seemed to be ok).
I tried to start the launcher.exe in compatibility/admin mode.
I deleted all xxx.ini in the accordant My documents folder as well as I emptied the shader folder.
And so on ... nothing worked so far.

Honestly, I am at my wits' end (I can't remember, even in nearly 25 years of PC gaming, that something like that happened before - not that there never were problems with other games before, but at least after a while I was always able to figure out what the problem caused). So hopefully, one of you or the C1 guys could help me with my problem (actually our problem, since, though apperently not very common, a few more gamers are affected by this problem (if you're googling)).

My system:
Windows 7 (64bit)
Intel i7 920
NV GF 480GTX
18gb RAM

Thanks in advance for your help!

Regards,