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Call of duty not starting on 21286
- The issue that could prevent Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War from launching has been fixed and is in the process of rolling out. Please update your game(s) to apply the fix.
I just installed the latest windows insider build update - Windows 10 Insider Preview 21286.1000 (rs_prerelease). I cannot play Modern Warfare now. I do see that the game launches and I see the process in the Task Manager but then it is suspended (sometimes, not all the time) or it just disappears from the list. Then the Blizzard launcher button changes from Launching... to Play Now.
I don't think I can roll back changes. I want a quick solution too.
jjack1 wrote:In the release notes it is mentioned that some application such as Call of Duty Warzone and Call of Duty Blackops to not work with on Build 21286 https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2021/01/06/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-21286/ "
- We’re investigating an issue where Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War may not launch starting with this build. If you play these games, you may wish to pause updates until the issue is resolved."
Unfortunately I only saw that after I completed the update. Cod does not start in any way and a rollback to a previous Windows always fails.
Has anybody found a workaround? I guess the only solutions is to reinstall
Any improvements on this issue? I can't rollback to the previous version and I wanna play COD
I could also not Rollback to a previous version. As a workaround I installed Windows 20H2 on a seperate disk and can now dual boot 21292 or 20H2. In the 20H2 OS you can install Battle.net and point to the existing Call of Duty installation, in my case that is the same disk as 21292 is installed on. This way you do not have to re-download the 200GB game data.
caroluchoa wrote:Any improvements on this issue? I can't rollback to the previous version and I wanna play COD
according to the latest blog post, they are still working on it
it was added to the "known issues" when that build was released, and they suggested to pause the update if you're playing these games.
now that you're installed it, i think the best way is to dual boot with a stable release of Windows 10.
- Well yeah, I've dual booted many OSes, and there are many guides for that with pictures and everything.
https://www.howtogeek.com/214477/how-to-dual-boot-two-or-more-versions-of-windows/
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-dual-boot-windows-10-alongside-insider-preview-build
my favorite way of dual booting Windows is to use VHD (more advanced)
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/53256-hyper-v-native-boot-vhd.html
