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call of duty 1 wont open

Anonymous
2020-08-03T18:01:28+00:00

ok so recently I bought the CD for call of duty 1 now I have a real key for it the key works and everything but when i try open the game is gives me a black screen  this comes up on multiplayer and on single player it says admin permission required but there is only 1 account on my pc and its my account that has admin privileges, my pc has windows 10 and everything else on my pc can run the game fine but the games just wont open, i tried opening the game via a CD i got a menu but when i select a game like multiplayer it gives me the same thing and sometimes it would just make my screen black until i press alt+F4, the CD has no scratches i have the 2 CD's

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-08-04T05:50:27+00:00

    The  'run as admin' error is bogus. MS couldn't be bothered building a correct error into Win10 for a situation they created.

    They don't seem to care about people running around in circles trying to make 'run as admin' work.

    COD usesSafeDisk copy protection, and MS built a blocker into Win10 that prevents disc based games that use SafeDisk from

    launching. This is because a perceived security threat from the driver - secdrv.sys- that is used by SafeDisk.

    The only way to get the hundreds of old disc based games that use SafeDisk to run is to use a noCD fix\hack.

    A noCD fix is also required with some of the games that used SecuROM copy protection.

    You can get noCD fixes from - Here -. Use the one that matches the version your game is patched to

    ('re-release' disc versions are generally fully patched).

    Note that the most recent patch that a noCD fix is available for is v1.4.

    https://www.moddb.com/downloads/call-of-duty-v14-patch

    If you have the Game of the Year ed, there is also a patch for the United Offensive expansion. That will also require a noCD for single player.

    I don't know if the v1.5 patch would work, but it may (it may also include a fixed CODSP.exe) ?

    http://www.callofdutyview.net/downloads/cod-15/

    • I'm a bit surprised your game is also crashing when selecting Multi-player. The game will normally run LAN or on line

    with an original multi-player .exe . My copy doesn't load at all using the original single player .exe on Win10.

    • You could also get a digital download version from  --Humblebundle--  or Steam. Wait for a Sale and you should be able

    to pick it up at 60-70% 'off' (or what it would be normally selling for if they didn't artificially inflate the RRP).

    These versions have the DRM removed and are patched and ready to go.

    .

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