Game won't launch since the merge of COD HQ.

[LVX_AGENT]

Title. I used to play MW & MW2 JUST FINE and without ANY issues until they merged the titles! I re-downloaded MW2 to play with a friend after a bout a year off from the the game and picked it up around the time of the merger.. Now the game(s) refuse to launch! Because of this, they have turned off a 21-year long fanboy who pre-ordered the first ever COD and played it since launch day in 2003 from EVER buying another COD title. Can anyone help me get this running? I would love to play the one's I already own! The fact that I can't just screams theft to me because the games used to work just fine until they merged them! Sounds a bit like planned obsolescence to me!

[AkiraJkr]

This sounds like a recently discovered bug related to their anti-cheat, from people who had previously played MWII before. Take a look at my COD guide and look up first issue, Solution 2, might be the fix for your issue.

Also, MW19 is not in COD HQ, and MWII was always planned to be COD HQ from the beginning.

EDIT: Sorry, I was on my phone, but here's a link to the guide I mentioned.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3217810419

[LVX_AGENT]

Originally posted by AkiraJkr:

This sounds like a recently discovered bug related to their anti-cheat, from people who had previously played MWII before. Take a look at my COD guide and look up first issue, Solution 2, might be the fix for your issue.

Also, MW19 is not in COD HQ, and MWII was always planned to be COD HQ from the beginning.

EDIT: Sorry, I was on my phone, but here's a link to the guide I mentioned.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3217810419

!. none of these 'fixes' do anything for me.' & 2. Yes, MW2019 is part of COD HQ, it's just been renamed to Warzone.

"Welcome to Call of Duty® HQ, the home of Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II and Warzone™"

Appreciate the response, though.

At this rate, I definitely will not be supporting Activision or Treyarch anymore.

[Sean2111]

MW2019 should start in its own launcher if you just pick that game.
It did for me a few days ago.
I know it is linked in COD HQ ,but the steam game page should start by itself without the COD HQ bit as well.
Try that?


MWII does need to be started through COD HQ .

Maybe you could at least get MW2019 working -that is a good game.

I like all of the 3 games ,MW2019, MWII and MWIII . They each play a bit different and have their own strengths.

[LVX_AGENT]

Originally posted by Sean2111:

MW2019 should start in its own launcher if you just pick that game.
It did for me a few days ago.
I know it is linked in COD HQ ,but the steam game page should start by itself without the COD HQ bit as well.
Try that?


MWII does need to be started through COD HQ .

Maybe you could at least get MW2019 working -that is a good game.

I like all of the 3 games ,MW2019, MWII and MWIII . They each play a bit different and have their own strengths.

Nope. The game starts and crashes before it can even show the logo. This happens with MW, MW2, AND MW3, it doesn't matter if I launch from HQ or the respective titles.

[Sean2111]

The only game that launches from its respective title separately is MW2019 -

worth a try anyway.

[AkiraJkr]

Originally posted by Agent_427 aka Leo Denardo:

Nope. The game starts and crashes before it can even show the logo. This happens with MW, MW2, AND MW3, it doesn't matter if I launch from HQ or the respective titles.

You don't need to open COD HQ to launch MW19, BO Cold War nor Vanguard.

Those are standalone titles.

Originally posted by Agent_427 aka Leo Denardo:

2. Yes, MW2019 is part of COD HQ, it's just been renamed to Warzone.

"Welcome to Call of Duty® HQ, the home of Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II and Warzone™"

Yes. Call of Duty HQ is home to MWIII, MWII, and Warzone. MW19 no longer is tied to Warzone & the Warzone part of MW19 is no longer functional, so nowadays it's just called Modern Warfare. Not Warzone.

Again, MW19 is NOT in COD HQ. COD HQ only has shortcuts that launches their respective apps if you click them.

[LVX_AGENT]

Originally posted by AkiraJkr:

Originally posted by Agent_427 aka Leo Denardo:

Nope. The game starts and crashes before it can even show the logo. This happens with MW, MW2, AND MW3, it doesn't matter if I launch from HQ or the respective titles.

You don't need to open COD HQ to launch MW19, BO Cold War nor Vanguard.

Those are standalone titles.

Originally posted by Agent_427 aka Leo Denardo:

2. Yes, MW2019 is part of COD HQ, it's just been renamed to Warzone.

"Welcome to Call of Duty® HQ, the home of Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III, Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® II and Warzone™"

Yes. Call of Duty HQ is home to MWIII, MWII, and Warzone. MW19 no longer is tied to Warzone & the Warzone part of MW19 is no longer functional, so nowadays it's just called Modern Warfare. Not Warzone.

Again, MW19 is NOT in COD HQ. COD HQ only has shortcuts that launches their respective apps if you click them.

Regardless, the game BROKE when they made the change to include these titles in COD HQ. Nothing about this changes the fact that they broke their own game, and not MW, MW2, nor MW3 WORK, PERIOD. You are focusing on the wrong issues here, pal. The PROBLEM AT HAND is the fact that none of these 3 titles have functioned since the creation of COD HQ. You are merely arguing to argue, you are not contributing to the conversation, at all.

[AkiraJkr]

Originally posted by MY FRIENDS HIDE IN PRIVATE CALLS:

Regardless, the game BROKE when they made the change to include these titles in COD HQ. Nothing about this changes the fact that they broke their own game, and not MW, MW2, nor MW3 WORK, PERIOD. You are focusing on the wrong issues here, pal. The PROBLEM AT HAND is the fact that none of these 3 titles have functioned since the creation of COD HQ. You are merely arguing to argue, you are not contributing to the conversation, at all.

Besides updates to add advertisements to the newer Call of Duty games(in fact, Black Ops Cold War got one as soon as the Live Action trailer for BO6 dropped), those games haven't been updated ever since MWII launched.

The only thing that could be going wrong is that something on your computer is not enjoyed by Ricochet Anti-Cheat, and the games will refuse to launch, or you're not just...starting the games...normally. Through not-COD HQ.
I am not arguing to argue, I'm just stating facts.

[LVX_AGENT]

Originally posted by AkiraJkr:

Originally posted by MY FRIENDS HIDE IN PRIVATE CALLS:

Regardless, the game BROKE when they made the change to include these titles in COD HQ. Nothing about this changes the fact that they broke their own game, and not MW, MW2, nor MW3 WORK, PERIOD. You are focusing on the wrong issues here, pal. The PROBLEM AT HAND is the fact that none of these 3 titles have functioned since the creation of COD HQ. You are merely arguing to argue, you are not contributing to the conversation, at all.

Besides updates to add advertisements to the newer Call of Duty games(in fact, Black Ops Cold War got one as soon as the Live Action trailer for BO6 dropped), those games haven't been updated ever since MWII launched.

The only thing that could be going wrong is that something on your computer is not enjoyed by Ricochet Anti-Cheat, and the games will refuse to launch, or you're not just...starting the games...normally. Through not-COD HQ.
I am not arguing to argue, I'm just stating facts.

You are wrong. The games worked completely fine since launch, and worked until the day COD HQ became a thing. I have not added any new hardware, software, etc. I am also "starting the games normally," through Steam directly. This makes no difference.

[NuM_Brrr_WoN]

COD HQ is trash, worst UI and design I've ever seen.

[AkiraJkr]

Originally posted by MY FRIENDS HIDE IN PRIVATE CALLS:

You are wrong. The games worked completely fine since launch, and worked until the day COD HQ became a thing. I have not added any new hardware, software, etc. I am also "starting the games normally," through Steam directly. This makes no difference.

Well, that's a shame...did you try the first solution for the launching issues then? I can't really make out what could be the problem, it's difficult when I don't know what's going on with the game, the user's PC, etc...

There is one little thing that I'm still looking for confirmation on, related to the Solution 1: Does the game still not launch, even if there is "BRAND" software/services involved?(Like for example, MSI...MSI afterburner should be fine, Corsair, LG, etc)

[LVX_AGENT]

I'm not using any of the programs listed in solution one, and have never even installed any of them besides One Drive because it comes with the system, and yes, I have disabled it entirely. I've tried removing similar programs such as Razer Synapse & Logitech G Hub for my hardware, (which has remained the same) and this still does not fix the issue. I've tried uninstalling all other related branding software, like my NVIDIA applications, and I've even tried on a fresh install of the system with nothing external outside of manual driver updates and Steam itself, all to no avail. The game just refuses to launch, period. If it is Ricochet, it is reading a false positive somewhere and I have no clue how or why, because there is nothing on my system that would cause this to happen, and there never has been. I have also had them installed on other drives before, so I've also ran through solution 2. (With no success.) The game is running off the GPU. I am playing from an administrator account and not a user account. I am not running COD or Steam as an administrator. I have correctly set the RendererWorkerCount as well. Nothing in the guide works for me. I've been over your guide before you ever even responded do my post, so this is nothing I have not done before, either.

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10700K 10th Gen CPU @ 3.80GHz 64 bit 8-Core 16-Thread Processor
16GB DDR4 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 Super 8 GB GDDR6 Intel Z490 Chipset 600W 80+G

[AkiraJkr]

Ah, don't worry, NVIDIA(and even Intel) shouldn't be a problem because it's...not really something anyone should be blacklisting. Also the Renderer thing is just for performance issues, so you didn't need to do that, or anything else in the guide, which is why I isolated the launch issue ot that section.
But yeah this...I'm clueless at this point. You know about Services in Windows, right? A quick google should get you a answer but...Win+R to open the Run command, and type in "services.msc" to open the services manager thingy. Other than NVIDIA/Intel stuff, there is no other brand software or anything like that running? You're completely clean? I know that when I used to use Cloudflare's WARP, just the simple fact the service was there and running was enough to stop Cold War(and MWII too) from launching.

Not trying to waste your time, just genuinely trying to go over all possibilities. Just...I don't know why the game is sensitive like this but, do it after a system restart, and before you first start the game, just to make sure. Sometimes Ricochet just decides that...disabling what it doesn't like is not enough.

[LVX_AGENT]

Originally posted by AkiraJkr:

Ah, don't worry, NVIDIA(and even Intel) shouldn't be a problem because it's...not really something anyone should be blacklisting. Also the Renderer thing is just for performance issues, so you didn't need to do that, or anything else in the guide, which is why I isolated the launch issue ot that section.
But yeah this...I'm clueless at this point. You know about Services in Windows, right? A quick google should get you a answer but...Win+R to open the Run command, and type in "services.msc" to open the services manager thingy. Other than NVIDIA/Intel stuff, there is no other brand software or anything like that running? You're completely clean? I know that when I used to use Cloudflare's WARP, just the simple fact the service was there and running was enough to stop Cold War(and MWII too) from launching.

Not trying to waste your time, just genuinely trying to go over all possibilities. Just...I don't know why the game is sensitive like this but, do it after a system restart, and before you first start the game, just to make sure. Sometimes Ricochet just decides that...disabling what it doesn't like is not enough.

100% clean as a whistle. I haven't even had a VPN on this computer. I am at a loss as well. I apologize for getting aggressive, but the issue has been persistent for some time now and I cannot even enjoy a game that I love due to some arbitrary bs that makes no sense. I've never has as many problems with a system as I have had with this GPU, though, so I wouldn't be surprised if it is in part due to the hardware itself. My system is very particular with what it likes and doesn't like.

[Jimmis Atha]

DMZ & Warzone = 60GB, so
CoD HQ Launcher = another 65GB (no games included) !????

Is there a way to bypass the 65GB launcher and just download DMZ & Warzone?
(or at least a command parameter to direct launch)