Call of duty 4 crashes in Windows 8.

Anonymous
2012-12-02T12:47:39+00:00

my call of duty 4 doesent work in win 8. it gives me this mesage at a random time:

iw3mp.exe has stopped working

i have tryed googeling and found some ansers that dident work on my pc.

http://en.kioskea.net/faq/4482-cod-4-crashes-iw3mp-exe-has-stopped-working#solution

i have made no upgrades on my pc and instaled a clean win 8. jet call of duty 4 isent working on win 8 while it whas working on win 7.

i hope someone can help me fix this problem.

yours sinserly,

mark bruinsma

Windows for home | Previous Windows versions | Gaming

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Anonymous
2015-02-18T18:03:15+00:00

Hello to all

I found the solution, u will get ur cod4 crashed if u r using xfire for launching the game or if u already used it once and xfire is running in backround, it will still crashes, first att all try to exit xfire and try then, if the problem is still there u have to let pb services to run on desktop, set full control, after that is done u have to instal pbsvc again, and download pb files for Cod4 cuz Punkbuster is not supporting cod4 anymore, when u copy files to pb file of cod4 problem should be solved, those guys from Microsoft are not even tryin to help...

hope I helped, it workked for me

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-01-27T19:50:51+00:00

    I just wanted to let you guys know that this may be the fix we are looking for. I have played multiplayer on non punkbuster server for an hr. with no crash. I read somewhere about setting the priority on it. So what I have done was when the game is launched, go to your desktop via windows key, start task manager (CTRL+ALT+DEL), go to Details tab, right click PnkBstrA.exe, Set Priority and choose High. Repeat the process for PnkBstrB.exe. The ONLY reason to do this while the game is running is because PnkBstrB.exe will show up Only when the game is running. I have only tested it for a 1/2 hr. without any crash. Hope this helps out for I have been spending countless hrs. trying to find a fix...........

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-01-27T08:11:32+00:00

    my call of duty 4 doesent work in win 8. it gives me this mesage at a random time:

    iw3mp.exe has stopped working

    i have tryed googeling and found some ansers that dident work on my pc.

    http://en.kioskea.net/faq/4482-cod-4-crashes-iw3mp-exe-has-stopped-working#solution

    i have made no upgrades on my pc and instaled a clean win 8. jet call of duty 4 isent working on win 8 while it whas working on win 7.

    i hope someone can help me fix this problem.

    yours sinserly,

    mark bruinsma

    I have recieved the following message from Even Balance - Punkbuster people....

    01/25/2013
    Note #2: We are aware of the issues some Win8/CoD4 users are experiencing. We are looking into this and working to resolve it as quickly as possible. I'm sorry for any inconvenience.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-01-26T18:39:11+00:00

    What sound card do you have? realtek drivers?

    I ask you because i had same problem with Vista and my sound card was the problem.

    I can not remember solution for it, but if you google "cod4 and realtek drivers crash" will find the problem and proper solution

    It is a realteck driver of my motherboard. But Im not using it whille playing cod i use a G35 (Logitech).

    if you disable the front ports for the sound card, it should stop getting the error

    I have disabled the front ports myself and to no avail. it did not fix the problem.

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-01-24T22:02:43+00:00

    What sound card do you have? realtek drivers?

    I ask you because i had same problem with Vista and my sound card was the problem.

    I can not remember solution for it, but if you google "cod4 and realtek drivers crash" will find the problem and proper solution

    It is a realteck driver of my motherboard. But Im not using it whille playing cod i use a G35 (Logitech).

    if you disable the front ports for the sound card, it should stop getting the error

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