Call of Duty BO6 wont launch???

[Filipowski]

(edit) Forgot to update this, and already figured out the problem. My game is now working. Thank you to all for the help.

[Montechgamer]

Remove wemod if you have it i did that and it worked

[Pure & Rustic]

You have spread you installation on several harddrives....and wrong folder

Steam should always be installed in C: - drive under:
C:\Program Files (x86)\steam\

If you have the space for cod, install the game there and NOT in another folder.
it will then look like - C:\ProgramFiles (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\codHQ\

You can install on another SSD disk, but NOT on a HDD, the old type

[Filipowski]

Originally posted by Pure & Rustic:

You have spread you installation on several harddrives....and wrong folder

Steam should always be installed in C: - drive under:
C:\Program Files (x86)\steam\

If you have the space for cod, install the game there and NOT in another folder.
it will then look like - C:\ProgramFiles (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\codHQ\

You can install on another SSD disk, but NOT on a HDD, the old type

I only have one storage device on my PC and i have both CoD and Steam installed onto C:\ProgramFiles (x86). I understand that it looks like I dont sense it says "Users\Downloads", but i really don't understand where its getting that from. And again, i only have one storage device. An NVME. no hard drives, no ssds.

[Filipowski]

Originally posted by Montechgamer:

Remove wemod if you have it i did that and it worked

I already don't have WeMod

[Pure & Rustic]

Originally posted by Filipowski:

[

I only have one storage device on my PC and i have both CoD and Steam installed onto C:\ProgramFiles (x86). I understand that it looks like I dont sense it says "Users\Downloads", but i really don't understand where its getting that from. And again, i only have one storage device. An NVME. no hard drives, no ssds.

If it says that, your installation is f.ked in win register. The best is to uninstall game and steam. Then delete all leftovers in that folder.
Also delete call of duty in your doc folder\call of duty
and in C:\users\your name\appdata\local\activision - delete all folders there.

Then do a cleanup in windows and use a program to clean up in win register for cod.

[Filipowski]

Originally posted by Pure & Rustic:

Originally posted by Filipowski:

[

I only have one storage device on my PC and i have both CoD and Steam installed onto C:\ProgramFiles (x86). I understand that it looks like I dont sense it says "Users\Downloads", but i really don't understand where its getting that from. And again, i only have one storage device. An NVME. no hard drives, no ssds.

If it says that, your installation is f.ked in win register. The best is to uninstall game and steam. Then delete all leftovers in that folder.
Also delete call of duty in your doc folder\call of duty
and in C:\users\your name\appdata\local\activision - delete all folders there.

Then do a cleanup in windows and use a program to clean up in win register for cod.

There doesnt seem to be anything in my doc folders regarding Cod. If anything, I checked "C:\users\your name\appdata\local\activision" and the only files that seems to be there is "bootstrapper" which then leads to "crash reports" showing me all the times i tried to get into cod and failed. And can you also please dumb down what you mean by "Then do a cleanup in windows and use a program to clean up in win register for cod" cause I'm not really familiar with all of this stuff regarding files. And thank you for trying to help me out.

[Pure & Rustic]

Close all programs and apps.

Cleanup in windows: start button/settings/system/storage - then chose temp.files - let it finish. Then check all boxes, but not Downloaded Files. Then chose "Remove files"
Let it finish. Restart pc.

Register: Download and install CCleaner. DON'T INSTALL extra programs, only the free version and say no to install the trail for 30 days - pro version.

Then open it and go to Options (on left side) chose Settings - chose your language, Ccleaner home screen; "custom clean". And check "Secure Deleting" - Secure file deleting(slower); advanced overwriting (3 passes)
Then go to down to updates: check only "notyfy me" and no auto update.
Then Advanced: Cleaning results; advanced report. and then check
"show prompt to backup register". the rest unchecked.

Now you chose "Custom clean"/windows tab: Check everything, but not THIS:
passwords, saved form info, recent documents, win error reporting, log files, win wigdets, win delivery optimization files, driver installation log files,
in Advanced; check only the last 3, ...path, ...history and ...files and folders
in windows download: all check but not Apps/programs

Applications tab; Check all, but not passwords and saved for information.

Now press "Analyze", let it finish. Then chose "Run Cleaner" and let it finish.

Next is register clean up: go to Tools on left menu: chose register and Select all.
Let it finish. If you are taking register backup, save it in your doc folder, by making a new folder and name it Ccleaner backup.

Last; chose tools/startup - on top is 4 menus: disable all with CCleaner in its path.
This will prevent CCleaner to bother you when you don't need it.

Close the ccleaner an open taskmanager. Then shut down the last ccleaner prosess.

Restart computer and install steam and game. Good luck

[Pure & Rustic]

Make sure you have a min of 35-50 GB free space on systemdisk C:

[r0llinlacs]

Copy randgrid.sys to that directory it's telling you it can't find it.

Copy it from your install directory main folder, so steamapps/common/call of duty HQ/ and then copy it to C:\Users\Downloads\steamapps\common\Call of Duty HQ\

[Filipowski]

Originally posted by Pure & Rustic:

Close all programs and apps.

Cleanup in windows: start button/settings/system/storage - then chose temp.files - let it finish. Then check all boxes, but not Downloaded Files. Then chose "Remove files"
Let it finish. Restart pc.

Register: Download and install CCleaner. DON'T INSTALL extra programs, only the free version and say no to install the trail for 30 days - pro version.

Then open it and go to Options (on left side) chose Settings - chose your language, Ccleaner home screen; "custom clean". And check "Secure Deleting" - Secure file deleting(slower); advanced overwriting (3 passes)
Then go to down to updates: check only "notyfy me" and no auto update.
Then Advanced: Cleaning results; advanced report. and then check
"show prompt to backup register". the rest unchecked.

Now you chose "Custom clean"/windows tab: Check everything, but not THIS:
passwords, saved form info, recent documents, win error reporting, log files, win wigdets, win delivery optimization files, driver installation log files,
in Advanced; check only the last 3, ...path, ...history and ...files and folders
in windows download: all check but not Apps/programs

Applications tab; Check all, but not passwords and saved for information.

Now press "Analyze", let it finish. Then chose "Run Cleaner" and let it finish.

Next is register clean up: go to Tools on left menu: chose register and Select all.
Let it finish. If you are taking register backup, save it in your doc folder, by making a new folder and name it Ccleaner backup.

Last; chose tools/startup - on top is 4 menus: disable all with CCleaner in its path.
This will prevent CCleaner to bother you when you don't need it.

Close the ccleaner an open taskmanager. Then shut down the last ccleaner prosess.

Restart computer and install steam and game. Good luck

Hey, so...Its still giving me that message.
"Failed to open \??\C:\Users\Downloads\steamapps\common\Call of Duty HQ\randgrid.sys (3)."
What do I do at this point. I've done what seems to be every single troubleshooting option and its still not budging.

[Pure & Rustic]

Same message as in first post???

Did your relly do all the uninstall and cleanup i wrote earlier???

It seems that you still have the bug, that points the game in wrong direction.

[Filipowski]

Originally posted by Pure & Rustic:

Same message as in first post???

Did your relly do all the uninstall and cleanup i wrote earlier???

It seems that you still have the bug, that points the game in wrong direction.

I mean yeah. Not sure if there is a chance I did it wrong, but i for sure used Ccleaner to clean up the registry and what not. I even went out of my way to uninstall steam fully with Revo uninstaller before hand to make sure I'm not leaving some junk behind. Unless I try to re-do the whole Ccleaner process that you gave me. Do you think it would help for me to leave a steam support ticket, explaining the whole situation and maybe they'll have a fix?

[Pure & Rustic]

I don't think steam will give any help. Your installation has failed and windows is giving you wrong directions. That's what the error is about.
I have no other option that you could try a new cleanup in ccleaner.
If that fail, you need to do a new fresh windows install and then steam and game in correct folders.