COD4 SP demo won't start

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JackTheKnife

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I just get green startup screen and nothing else. Game is shooting down and when I click again to run it in safe mode, but I have this same problem :mad:

CPU: AMD Athlon 3200+
Mem: 2GB
GFX: ATI Radeon X850 AGP
 
It's always the game's fault that your hardware configuration is faulty :)
 
The Null said:
maybe its because the X850XT only supports SM2 and COD4 required SM3
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Really? Well I guess Infinity Ward are a pack of stupid morons because they list 9800Pro as the minimum.

Your card is fine, what's the operating system?
 
The only game I know of that requires SM3 is Vegas. I was pissed about that. I couldn't play it with my x800xt and had to use a 6600gt which is half the speed. I don't know why a game developer would not include SM2 for older video cards. They can run these games at low enough settings. I am sure my x800xt would have handled Vegas at medium settings. It handles Crysis at a mix of medium and low settings.

BioShock, Crysis, HL2 Ep2 all ran fine with my x800x. Time to try CoD4 demo.
 
ClearM4 said:
The only game I know of that requires SM3 is Vegas. I was pissed about that. I couldn't play it with my x800xt and had to use a 6600gt which is half the speed. I don't know why a game developer would not include SM2 for older video cards. They can run these games at low enough settings. I am sure my x800xt would have handled Vegas at medium settings. It handles Crysis at a mix of medium and low settings.

BioShock, Crysis, HL2 Ep2 all ran fine with my x800x. Time to try CoD4 demo.
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That's odd, because BioShock runs on the same engine as Vegas and requires SM3 and it was also fuel for 74% of the bitching about BioShock from the whiners.
 
ClearM4 said:
The only game I know of that requires SM3 is Vegas. I was pissed about that. I couldn't play it with my x800xt and had to use a 6600gt which is half the speed. I don't know why a game developer would not include SM2 for older video cards. They can run these games at low enough settings. I am sure my x800xt would have handled Vegas at medium settings. It handles Crysis at a mix of medium and low settings.

BioShock, Crysis, HL2 Ep2 all ran fine with my x800x. Time to try CoD4 demo.
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Because Vegas was a crappy console port. They didn't even have widescreen on the PC versions when the console versions did. The PC version was crippled and broken and missing functionality out of the box since it was an afterthought.
 
The Null said:
maybe its because the X850XT only supports SM2 and COD4 required SM3
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I can run the Demo on my X700 so your X850 should be just fine. I would say try reinstalling the game and maybe re downloading.
 
Met-AL said:
That's odd, because BioShock runs on the same engine as Vegas and requires SM3 and it was also fuel for 74% of the bitching about BioShock from the whiners.
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Yes, I had to use hacked drivers to get BioShock to run. Pretty retarded for the developers not to include Shader Model 2.0 support considering it can produce the same effects. Also, we're not talking about hundreds of hours of programing if some random programs can produce hacked drivers for it in their spare time. This should have been no problem for the game developers.
 
Here is the answer for my question

Users with Athlon XP instead of 64-bit are running into issues with the latest Miles file which are incompatible. Despite XP not being in the Min specs for this reason, you will still be able to play the demo by copying the following file into your Miles directory and replacing the newer mssmp3.asi with the following older mssmp3.asi used in older games such as Call of Duty 2.

To do this, simply go to your install directory, where the game files are, now copy/paste this mssmp3.asi into the folder. It will prompt you letting you know this file already exists and asking if you want to replace it. Choose to replace it.
This should resolve the issue with Athlon 2600+ XP instead of 64-bit as the XP do not support the latest Miles version we're using.

Big thansk to Woo² from COD Boards!
 
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