Single Player won't start

[Babyfark McGeezaks]

Multiplayer plays fine (except for the lag issues sometimes) but single player does not want to start watsoever.

When I click play in steam, my user pic border goes green for a about 2 seconds, then goes back to blue. I can see AW in my task manager for about the same amount of time before disapearing.

Things i've tried:

- Verifying game files
- Booting the game directly in windows explorer. (this gives me a steam_api64.dll is missing error)

Any idea on how to go about fixing this?

[Babyfark McGeezaks]

I also tried rebooting my computer and running "s1_sp64_ship.exe" as admin.

[The Democrat]

I`ve the same problem. The single player version won`t start when I click play in steam or I click on the dektop icon of CoD AW. I`ve download the newest NVidia Driver, but it is the same result: for 1 second I can see a steam window with the text "Call of Duty Advanced Warfare is starting...". but in won`t start

what is "s1_sp64_ship.exe" for?

[lornova]

Try to disable Desktop Composition, it worked for me.

[Babyfark McGeezaks]

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what is "s1_sp64_ship.exe" for? [/quote]

That's the .exe file for the SP.

[Babyfark McGeezaks]

Originally posted by lornova:

Try to disable Desktop Composition, it worked for me.

How would I go about doing that.

[Wooky3x]

None of them open for me. Not multiplayer, not singleplayer

[Fire_Spy]

I am having the same problem.. it doesn't start just crashes immediately. I thought that support might be helpful but they haven't done anything.. I've sent them my DXdiag and error reports and all they have done is.. "verfiy the files " and clear the Cache! which is what I have already told them I have done. I had a look at disabling desktop composition but it is greyed out and I can't select it..

Soo I have this game which doesn't work for me. no idea why.. it's the only new game that doesn't work and I have bought a few new games in the past month..

If it never gets fixed then I won't be buying any more from activision. But I'd prefer that it did get fixed..

[MysteriousScaRe]

Originally posted by DrainBamage:

Originally posted by lornova:

Try to disable Desktop Composition, it worked for me.

How would I go about doing that.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/127411-desktop-composition-enable-disable.html

[Babyfark McGeezaks]

Originally posted by Atomic' MysteriousScaRe™:

Originally posted by DrainBamage:

How would I go about doing that.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/127411-desktop-composition-enable-disable.html

Sorry, I should have mentioned that I am running Windows 8.1. Looks like it is always on and cannot be disabled. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh848042(v=vs.85).aspx

[Babyfark McGeezaks]

Fixed:

SP and MP were installed on seperate partitions... I reinstalled one of them by deleting local files under game properties and then redownloading it. It automatically installed it in the right place and finally booted.

[RatBag]

LOL glad I got my money back. Still not fixed then :?(

[RatBag]

Originally posted by DrainBamage:

Fixed:

SP and MP were installed on seperate partitions... I reinstalled one of them by deleting local files under game properties and then redownloading it. It automatically installed it in the right place and finally booted.

Should not have to do that