Black Ops Issues - Help plz?

[Ash_Williams]

My game is crashing on startup. I double click the icon as usual and the game just goes to a blank screen and crashes.

I'm running Windows 7 Professional SP1 (SP1 off Technet) and it was working earlier but now it would seem to have stopped. I can get anything someone might need but I've done the following to attempt to fix it.

- Defrag Files
- Verify Files
- Deleting Local Content of both SP and MP
- Reinstalling via Steam
- Uninstalling via Disc
- Reinstalling via Disc (all content on PC deleted)

And still no luck.

Suggestions?

[tranquil]

tried a video driver clean reinstall?

[Ash_Williams]

Yep. Sure have.

[BarneyGumball]

Is it just Black Ops crashing or is Steam crashing as well? Is it just Black Ops?

I had an issue where Steam would crash when I tried to run any game and I fixed it by reinstalling Steam.

[Ash_Williams]

Its just Black Ops crashing. I've just tried reinstalling Steam and forgot the fact it deletes every game. So I'm having a fun 15 hours recovering 500GB of games >_<

If it doesn't work after this I'm going to throw a brick through Treyarch's front window.

[PURITy Kin]

Did I recommend updating DX and you said you already did? Somebody deleted my post (Whoever deleted my post didn't move it to deleted posts\threads or send a courtesy pm).

I get a crash in blackops after around 2 or 3 rounds or 20 minutes of single player. Generally dxgkrln.dll or a dll with ati in the file name will crash. I found a hotfix for vista\win7 directly relating to dxgkrnl.dll however when I tried to install it it claimed the hotfix did not need applying to my system. I'm not too worried about it, I usually get bored and quit before the game crashes.

I assume you've tried lowering all your ingame settings, changing resolution, changing graphics quality settings in windows tools (ati\nv tools)..etc.. changed AA and AS settings and all those kinds of things?

[Ash_Williams]

Yep.

I got sick of trying to work out the problem so I reinstalled Windows, which I've been meaning to do forever anyways.

[Rega]

What have Steam said about the issue? Have you contacted them yet?

[T H O R]

Are you able to start it in safe mode?

[Ash_Williams]

Steam didn't give me any help. And no wouldn't work in safemode. I think it was caused by 7 SP1 so I think I'll wait for its proper public release before I install it again.

Doesn't much bother me anyways, my desktop needed a good format.