Call of Duty United Offensive refuses to start (Windows 7)

[✯Radek]

Note, I play the retail version of UO.

So, ever since I changed my graphics card from an AMD Radeon HD 6870 (it died on me) to an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti, the game doesn't start anymore. Everytime I launch one of the executables, it simply says "Please run as administrator and try again." And if I do that, the process just opens for a second and then closes (I have checked in the task manager).

I tried:

• Renaming the executable to MOHAA.exe (was the solution to make it work with my previous GPU)
  
• Run in compatability mode (Windows XP SP2, 256 colors, always run as administrator)
  
• Do all of the above at once
  
• Re-install the game
  
• Download that atiologxx.dll file and put it into the CoD directory

and nothing fixed the problem. Below are my PC specs:

Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1
Intel Core i5 4460
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
MSI Z97 G43
16,0 GB Dual-Channel DDR3
931 GB Western Digital WDC

So uh yeah, anything else I could try? Really wanna get my hands onto this game again.
(btw, I got the same problem with Call of Duty 1, CoD2 works fine however)

[LosT]

Me having the same problem.. it just keeps saying "last session not closed properly" or some ♥♥♥♥ like that. I havent even started playing it.

[✯Radek]

Aaaaand I found a solution!
Open up your command prompt with administrator rights, and run the command
sc config secdrv start= demand
then
sc start secdrv
and now try to run CoD.

It is recommended to disable secdrv again (sc stop secdrv) once you're done playing, set sc config secdrv start to either auto or disabled.

[WidowMaker]

KB3086255 remove this update for cd/dvd version of the game to work

[Phase_verocity]

Originally posted by ✯Radek:

Aaaaand I found a solution!
Open up your command prompt with administrator rights, and run the command
sc config secdrv start= demand
then
sc start secdrv
and now try to run CoD.

It is recommended to disable secdrv again (sc stop secdrv) once you're done playing, set sc config secdrv start to either auto or disabled.

This comes up with failed as the specified service does not exist.

[✯Radek]

Originally posted by Phase_verocity:

Originally posted by ✯Radek:

Aaaaand I found a solution!
Open up your command prompt with administrator rights, and run the command
sc config secdrv start= demand
then
sc start secdrv
and now try to run CoD.

It is recommended to disable secdrv again (sc stop secdrv) once you're done playing, set sc config secdrv start to either auto or disabled.

This comes up with failed as the specified service does not exist.

Yes, because you are doing this on Windows 10, where the secdrv.sys driver does not exist anymore, as it has been completely deprecated. In order for the game to work again, you have to obtain the secdrv.sys file somewhere, and include it in your drivers directory.
Then you have to re-start your computer with disabled driver signature enforcement in order for the driver to work.
The console command procedure does not work at all anymore and does not seem to be necessary either.

[Phase_verocity]

Originally posted by ✯Radek:

Originally posted by Phase_verocity:

This comes up with failed as the specified service does not exist.

Yes, because you are doing this on Windows 10, where the secdrv.sys driver does not exist anymore, as it has been completely deprecated. In order for the game to work again, you have to obtain the secdrv.sys file somewhere, and include it in your drivers directory.
Then you have to re-start your computer with disabled driver signature enforcement in order for the driver to work.
The console command procedure does not work at all anymore and does not seem to be necessary either.

Game works for me if i start it in safe mode but it refuses with normal mode. Not sure if its because i'm on intel graphics. I can run almost everything else including call of duty infinite warfare and fallout 4.

[✯Radek]

Originally posted by Phase_verocity:

Originally posted by ✯Radek:

Yes, because you are doing this on Windows 10, where the secdrv.sys driver does not exist anymore, as it has been completely deprecated. In order for the game to work again, you have to obtain the secdrv.sys file somewhere, and include it in your drivers directory.
Then you have to re-start your computer with disabled driver signature enforcement in order for the driver to work.
The console command procedure does not work at all anymore and does not seem to be necessary either.

Game works for me if i start it in safe mode but it refuses with normal mode. Not sure if its because i'm on intel graphics. I can run almost everything else including call of duty infinite warfare and fallout 4.

Then the problem has nothing to do with DRM drivers. I was already doubting if that is possible when you own the game on steam. The SafeDisc issue appears when you own a physical copy of United Offensive, which uses locally installed DRM drivers.

[Phase_verocity]

Originally posted by ✯Radek:

Originally posted by Phase_verocity:

Game works for me if i start it in safe mode but it refuses with normal mode. Not sure if its because i'm on intel graphics. I can run almost everything else including call of duty infinite warfare and fallout 4.

Then the problem has nothing to do with DRM drivers. I was already doubting if that is possible when you own the game on steam. The SafeDisc issue appears when you own a physical copy of United Offensive, which uses locally installed DRM drivers.

Yes that sounds about right. It still would be nice to know how to get it to work in normal mode though as safe mode resets the graphics and I can't get it to go into widescreen.