Crashing & Freezing in Modern Warfare 2

Our MapModNews MW2 Error & Solution list had the following added to it :

36. Random MW2 in-game Freeze & Black screen

It is the display driver that is restarting after it crashed for some reason.

And it only happens at MW2, while other games run perfectly. So the source of problem is buried in the game itself or steam.

No solution for now !  Many waiting for a new display driver or MW2 patch to fix this problem... 

^{(but nr. 38 is new finding !)}

37. [iw4mp2.exe] Black Screen & Hang - Solution

The symptoms (in order of appearance) :

- Splash screen appears
- Black Screen
- Mouse not hidden & working (green circle in 7 / Vista)
- To stop it : CTRL + ALT + DEL and kill the task
- Single player works very well

The cure  :

1 - First make a backup of your COD:MW2 by using the Steam Backup.

2 - Select both of the COD games.

3 - Exit Steam.

4 - Go to your Steam directory and delete the COD:MW2 directory.

5 - Go to your Steam Backup directory that you defined in Step 1 & 2 and launch steambackup.exe.

6 - Relaunch Steam and start COD:MW2 Multiplayer, it should say Completing installation... and start just after.

7 - Reconfigure your whole Graphics settings and Key mapping. It's the only real flaw in the process.  

38. New fix for some of the Crashing & Freezing in Modern Warfare 2

Random driver losses (black screen), wierd rectangles on the screen, hard crashes requiring a power cycle, and CtD's (crash to desktop).

Problem can be your video card clock speed. Often you buy a video card that is a little overclocked.

And MW2 is EXTREMELY sensitive to overclocking or better said... it wants a certain clock setting.

So get the clocking agent that's belongs to you video card ( nvidia ntune, ATITool) and downclock a bit till MW2 works correct.

39. Black Screen when loading MW2 Multiplayer

And you have to ctrl alt dlt to close the .exe of the MW2 game.

Solution : Search for a file called mp_playlist.ff or something and delete it.

XXX: Program Files|Steam|steamapps|common|call of duty modern warfare 2|zone|english <- to find mp_playlist.ff

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