Steam Crash [COD AW] - Help Needed

adeel2788 · 15 Nov 2014 at 20:57

Hi Guys,

I have been experiencing this very annoying problem where, when I start playing a round of COD AW MP, after a couple of minutes, the game freezes and I ALT-TAB out to see that steam is unresponsive but after a minute or so, the game is responsive again but I have been booted out of the lobby saying, connection to host lost. See the screenshot:

I have tired many things, but none of them seem to work.

I game on Gigabyte P35W 870M 6GB, GFX drivers are up to date. I am currently using windows 8.1

Please help me in a solution for this crash

adeel2788 · 17 Nov 2014 at 09:20

Hi Guys, Any help would be appreciated or maybe I posted in the wrong section :/

Kamwah · 17 Nov 2014 at 09:27

It's your computer begging for mercy.

VincentHanna · 17 Nov 2014 at 09:27

What does it say about your NAT status on the menu screen? Might be an issue with that.

adeel2788 · 18 Nov 2014 at 07:26

VincentHanna said:
What does it say about your NAT status on the menu screen? Might be an issue with that.

NAT is open. It says on the bottom on game menu.

FYI BF4 runs perfectly fine on high settings so does any other game that doesnt use steam. My guess is that there is something wrong with Steam but than again I also play TF2 and that runs fine all the time.

DaleTheWhale · 18 Nov 2014 at 07:36

Try a reinstall of the game?

~>Dg<~ · 18 Nov 2014 at 08:46

check steam forums and look at modern warfare 2 issues as most of the game issues are the same.

adeel2788 · 20 Nov 2014 at 07:40

HI Guys,

Thanks for the response. I deleted the game and re-downloaded the whole game again. Still having the same problem.

Not sure what to do

Heisenberg · 20 Nov 2014 at 08:23

How much system RAM do u have?

snips86x · 20 Nov 2014 at 08:28

Heisenberg said:
How much system RAM do u have?

Not sure its going to help to be honest, but you never know.

Heisenberg · 20 Nov 2014 at 08:46

snips86x said:
Not sure its going to help to be honest, but you never know.

I only ask as I remember reading people having crashes with <6gb ram in ghosts.

olivier renault · 20 Nov 2014 at 08:47

You've timed out with the host due to your laptop brain freezing.

Try with low settings, and v-sync limited. Should cool it down a bit. Check stability.

Check your temps on your GPU and CPU.

Also run in windowed mode. You can get crash and recovery display drivers, and these tend to mess up games quite badly, especially in full screen.

Could also just be the game being unstable, and nothing to do with your setup. Could be an issue with the game and your specific GPU (driver related).

adeel2788 · 20 Nov 2014 at 11:14

I have 8GB RAM.

I am going to try what Olivier is saying. I dont think it is a temp issue because I run BF4 and Far Cry 4 and they easily reach 86C and run smoothly.

Will report back after I get off from work.

adeel2788 · 21 Nov 2014 at 23:28

seems like turning down the settings a bit has helped with the problem. No wierd freezing any more so far.

CyberCrow · 22 Nov 2014 at 12:04

adeel2788 said:
I have 8GB RAM.

I am going to try what Olivier is saying. I dont think it is a temp issue because I run BF4 and Far Cry 4 and they easily reach 86C and run smoothly.

Will report back after I get off from work.

But BF4 wasn't a bad port of a console game, an with AW being a new title of the so called next gen requirements it will take a hit in different places.

Like bf4 if i remember right used to hammer the Cpu where as from what ive read AW hammers the Gpu more.