This seems to be a pattern going on here. Since S1 dropped, these issues have been popping up, and I just so happen to fall into this boat as well… lucky us.
MW3 ran smoothly up to this point. A day ago (1/16/24), mw3 stopped booting up for me. Has been working since with no changes or upgrades on my end. I’ve done all the troubleshooting on the internet that I could find related to this, scanned repair (5 times), moved the game from my m.2 to SSD, same results, moved it back to m.2, same results, changed the file name, made it relocate the file, same results, and yet the game will not boot up past.
Checking the event logs, I would find something related to BITS and the power of chatGPT. I thought it was the BITS not running in the background, but even when I started that service, I would get a little bit of a longer process, but then, shortly, the game would crash.
The game seems to “run” (30 seconds) longer when I’ve just opened the game and window+tab on my desktop. I would make it to installing the shaders portion, but then it would force crash on me. No error messages or anything.
Before launching the game, it will always ask if I want to run the same in Safe mode. I’ve tried both and the results are the same.
MW3 is on version: 129.1.16888868
1080Ti version 546.65 (release date 01/17/24)
Windows 10 pro version 22H2
Processor: Intel(R) Core™ i7-8700K CPU @ 3.70GHz 3.70 GHz
installed RAM 16.0 GB
System type: 64-bit
Still looking for a solution. This might have worked back in December, but it doesn’t work for me. If anybody has a concrete solution to this issue, I would greatly appreciate it.