Friday, March 27, 2020

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

I bought Call of Duty: Modern Warfare last year, but haven't played it much.  A friend reached out to me via Battle.net to ask if we can play a few games and I told him I had CoD:MW.  

I started playing  the campaign to get familiar with it, but noticed that the game kept crashing after a few minutes of play.  

Initially, I tried dialing back the graphics, in case my system couldn't cope with it, but I play a lot of other resource-intensive PC games on this system, so I knew that this wasn't a hardware issue.  I had the game redo the shaders, as well.  Neither helped.  I reinstalled the game (as someone suggested) but that didn't help either.

Today, I fixed the issue.  It wasn't related to software or hardware.  This was a networking issue.  I went into my router's configuration and added some port fowarding entries using this resource.  It worked.  The game hasn't crashed and I've played maybe 1.5 hours.

My gaming system's specs:
Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10 Pro
Motherboard:  MSI MS-7850
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz
Monitor: Dell SE2719H (27" LED)
Video Card: ZOTAC GTX 1060 6GB
Memory: 8GB DDR3 SDRAM
Mouse: Logitech G700S
Keyboard: Logitech G213 Prodigy
OS: Windows Version 7 Professional
Web Cam: Logitech C922 Pro Stream Webcam
Headset: Logitech G935