Activision Blizzard has released the update that brings Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 to season three, a patch that introduces important news but is also causing some major problems, so much so that, in the case of some users of AMD Radeon graphics cards , it’s breaking the game.
I’m not exaggerating, the number of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 players with AMD Radeon graphics cards reporting serious issues is on the rise, and they say plain and simple can’t start the game. When they try to run it, the error message that you can see in the attached image appears, and it repeats itself in a loop.
It seems that it is a problem of type “Timeout Detection and Recovery”, that is, a “Timeout Detection and Recovery Event” in DirectX, which identifies when the graphics card drivers fail and tries to reset it so it can recover. If the recovery does not complete, the error message is produced but there is no crash or instability that could compromise the integrity of the system, so we do not encounter a blue screen or crashes or reboots.
It is an important and very useful defense mechanism because, as we have just explained, it prevents serious stability problems from occurring. The thing is, in general, the error code that affected users are getting indicates a failure at the driver level, And although it is true that this type of problem can occur for different reasons, it is still curious that it is affecting all owners of a Radeon Vega graphics card, both dedicated and integrated.
The scope of this issue is important, because none of the Radeon Vega users seem to be able to launch Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, and none of the possible solutions that have been given, such as cleaning caches and reinstalling drivers, have managed to solve it. The third season of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 works without problems on other graphics cards, so I’m afraid it’s a driver issue and that AMD will have to release an update as soon as possible.
If you were playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 with a Radeon Vega graphics card and you have been affected by this patient problem, you have no choice but to wait for the Sunnyvale company to release new drivers that correct this bug. As for that generation of graphics, it is still perfectly competent to move current games and they are configured with 8 GB or 16 GB of graphics memory (Radeon VII), so we are not facing models that are too old and they maintain a good level of performance.
