iw3mp.exe errors

[xkrewshe8]

Hey all, it has been pointed out that there have been a lot of people getting hammered with iw3mp.exe crasing errors etc when trying to play cod4.

As such, I thought I might set up a thread with the fixes that I have found that seem to be working for people.

1. In your cod4 directory, locate the folder called 'miles', in here, there should be a file called 'mssmp3.asi', change this file to 'mssmp3.bak' and try launch the game, this has worked for some people.

2. Issue can also occur with people running realtek audio drivers. To attempt to workaround this potential clash, go to your control panel then select: hardware and sound > sound > Recording and in here see if you have an option to enable stereo mix.

3. If your using a USB headset, simply remove the USB connection from your computer, reboot the computer, then plug the USB jack back in, as this may resolve any usb driver conflict that may be occuring.

4. If you have had a mic plugged into your computer at anystage previously plug the mic into your computer (Whether it be USB or 3.5mm connection is irrelevent) and try launch cod4 and see if a crash occurs.

5. Attempt to reinstall the audio drivers, easiest way these days is to insert the disc from your mother board, often this disk will have an option to install realtek drivers (if your running a realtek device).

These are things that have worked in the past for myself and others that I have seen with the issue.
If anyone else has a confirmed fix, please just add it in

Also, if your continuing to have crashes after this, please check event viewer, as hopefully that will show some critical logs for the crashes. If your running windows 7, then simply type event viewer into the search function, or if running another version, then go to control panel and it should be under administrator tools.

Filter the list to criticals and errors, and see if there is anything showing for iw3mp.exe. As this will help us to determine what is actually causing your crashes

[-T00b-Lube]

Had no issues myself, but ya never know...

Cheers xkrewshe8

[theDONK]

yeah m8 checked event viewer comes up with faulting module name pbcl.dll one guy said to uninstall audio card not the driver , then reboot and let windows reinstall the audio card , that is onboard audio . apparently there is a conflict between punkbuster and some onboard sound devices . this may work for others goodluck it didnt work for me ,but no harm in trying

[xkrewshe8]

Ah! pbcl.dll is punkbusterclient.dll, something here is preventing punkbuster from running, hence the crash.

Can you try run http://www.evenbalance.com/downloads/pbsvc/pbsvc.exe and see if you get any errors?

If you don't get errors, try and delete the pb folder it's self (Please create a copy and save somewhere ) and then try a pb reinstall, this may or may not help.

[theDONK]

hey xshrewshe8 ,i ran pb test with no errors so my next step would be to uninstall pb .ow my question is how do you uninstall pb and reinstall it ? that pb tool does it for you ,is there another way cause i tried that to and it crashed, ace was saying to uninstall the pb folder in cod4 and then reinstall but im not comfortable doing that cause im not sure how to . i know where the folder is if you could please tell me how to do it i will give it a try .i crashed like 10 times yesterday and now i understand why i get lag with a 20 ping if all my crashing is pb related . thanks for your help with this hope we come up with a solution soon or it will be the pound for cod 4 .

[xkrewshe8]

There should be a folder called PB in the area where you have cod4 installed.

I can't check my own folder as I am at work, but if you can look to where you have cod4 installed on your computer, and copy the folder called pb, and place it somewhere else on your hard drive.

Once this is done, you can actually delete the pb folder in the cod4 area completely, as this is the real brute force method of uninstalling pb.

After doing this, then run the install tool for PB and this should completely install and update PB.

If this fails, then we can still place the copy we made back into the cod4 directory.

[theDONK]

ok thanx again i will try that when i get the courage .lol i will have a game first just incase its my last. .

[xkrewshe8]

Haha, it wont be your last, worst case scenario, just paste the folder that was copied back into the cod4 directory where it originally was and over-write the new one, this way we are back to where we started and there is no real loss.

[theDONK]

lol .just finished uninstalled reinstalled,and updated pb ,going to jump on and see what happens wish me luck

[theDONK]

well i played from my last post and it just crashed well we tried dont know what the hell is going on, dont think i ever will i got so mad that i wanted to my computer .

[[AIM] ACE]

might be hardware i suggest try playing cod in single player see what happens on full detail.

[xkrewshe8]

Ok, have you attempted to reinstall the audio drivers from your original install disc?

Otherwise (not sur eif tried or not) but may need to try a format?

[Drakand]

apt timing to check GON, randomly loaded up COD4 last night, jumped on COD server and got my **** handed to me (as usual, haha) and then had that error occur so played something else. May try some of these suggestions for my next COD excursion

[Roberta_Flak]

Apparently it's common on mobo's with the nvidia northbridge (790i for example). Extra cooling of the northbridge solved my issues.