Windows 8 and CloD (Merged Threads)

[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

[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.

[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!

[jojimbo]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

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

"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!

hahaha i deleted that post, but you were quick to brown nose, hey i am really glad your game runs, be sure wait stalking in the wings to jump on everyone who has problems to point out you don't and they're all wrong.

Those specs are meant to be a joke, which was obviously lost on you!!!

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by jojimbo

hahaha i deleted that post, but you were quick to brown nose, hey i am really glad your game runs, be sure wait stalking in the wings to jump on everyone who has problems to point out you don't and they're all wrong.

Those specs are meant to be a joke, which was obviously lost on you!!!

You generally tend to reap what you sow big fella! Your post was intentionally rude and designed to provoke a reaction.

I can forgive that but you also posted missleading information - thus my query on your system specs and you lied! You said you we were never going to hear from you again!

Thats just sad and pathetic!

Bye!

[jojimbo]

Originally Posted by Skoshi Tiger

You generally tend to reap what you sow big fella! Your post was intentionally rude and designed to provoke a reaction.

I can forgive that but you also posted missleading information - thus my query on your system specs and you lied! You said you we were never going to hear from you again!

Thats just sad and pathetic!

Bye!

I apologise Skoshi Tiger, really I took your post all out of context and assumed you were trolling, I had returned and deleted the previous "rage" post because on hindsight it was a kneejerk reaction while my blood was boiling and took your post in a negative way.
I do actually love this game, it is one of the best what is frustrating is waiting for a win8 patch for months, then trying for hours to get the launcher to work, swapping out redists etc, then giving up on that and creating another drive, installing my old win7 "only to run this game" and after ALL that have more problems with the launcher (still doesnt work tried everything) tried deleting the cache, deleting the conf.ini, tried forcing D3D9, and it SHOULD work, i am not going to give up, but i was tired and angry, and felt we have been abandoned, so i took your post as a dig at me?
I wont give up though i will get this damn game to work so i can use Les fx mod, and grab those great looking 3rd party career campaign expansion.

I will again be flying over the cliffs of dover and not looking at a Launcher fail error, but where do you go to vent angry frustrations? i paid £29.99 like every other hapless punter, i even knew it was dodgy, but gave it a shot because i beleieved in Luthier and the team, it was for me like a pledge.

still working right now, poring over every forum, every post for a morsel of hope, a tweak of victory, and again, i apologise for jumping down your throat whern really you were only trying to help.

edit: got it to run on my win7 partition, still finnicky, GTX550ti FTW dunno what happened, it just worked!!!

[Skoshi Tiger]

Originally Posted by jojimbo

I apologise Skoshi Tiger, really I took your post all out of context and assumed you were trolling, I had returned and deleted the previous "rage" post because on hindsight it was a kneejerk reaction while my blood was boiling and took your post in a negative way.
I do actually love this game, it is one of the best what is frustrating is waiting for a win8 patch for months, then trying for hours to get the launcher to work, swapping out redists etc, then giving up on that and creating another drive, installing my old win7 "only to run this game" and after ALL that have more problems with the launcher (still doesnt work tried everything) tried deleting the cache, deleting the conf.ini, tried forcing D3D9, and it SHOULD work, i am not going to give up, but i was tired and angry, and felt we have been abandoned, so i took your post as a dig at me?
I wont give up though i will get this damn game to work so i can use Les fx mod, and grab those great looking 3rd party career campaign expansion.

I will again be flying over the cliffs of dover and not looking at a Launcher fail error, but where do you go to vent angry frustrations? i paid £29.99 like every other hapless punter, i even knew it was dodgy, but gave it a shot because i beleieved in Luthier and the team, it was for me like a pledge.

still working right now, poring over every forum, every post for a morsel of hope, a tweak of victory, and again, i apologise for jumping down your throat whern really you were only trying to help.

edit: got it to run on my win7 partition, still finnicky, GTX550ti FTW dunno what happened, it just worked!!!

Not a problem Jojimbo! Sorry for any comments that I made that were out of line. I think alot of us are a bit on edge these days.

Good to hear you had some success with Win 7. See ya online sometime!

It would be good to hear some official word on the Windows 8 issue though!

Cheers!