I only have this problem in WaW, i've had it since I bought the game and it just won't go away no matter how many times I reinstall.

Basically I can make maps, but as soon as entity behaviour (like vehicles, basic AI) is involved the game locks up during the Activision logo, or the video continues playing and then the screen goes black.

The problem has something to do with _load.gsc because that's where all the entity behaviour is located but I can't figure out whats the problem, replacing the file has no effect.

Scripting in singleplayer for CoD2 and CoD4 work fine, only WaW has this problem for me and it has basically made me ignore CoD:WaW singleplayer.

Always load an SP map with /r_fullscreen 0 + /vid_restart and /devmap yourmapname

it's shouldn't crash then when you have an error. Crashing is usually the result of missing assets.

Has no effect it locks up on any settings, missing assets don't "lock up" a game in CoD4, infact if you have them you should be able to play and get an error then find your missing assets in /main/missingasset.csv

In CODWW missing assets with cause the game to freeze during the loading of the level (the activision spinny bit). Luckily this does not happen much any more (might have been fixed in a patch) to me.

But originally when it happened if I did as in the above post I could at least see what the error was.

edit:

Alternatively you could dump your fast file in the zone/english to get the same result.

I swear I saw "fixed missing assests.csv" in one of the patch updates but I've never needed to use it or even seen it work.

edited on Jul. 11, 2009 09:06 pm by techno2sl

Yeah well there's no missing assets for simple AI as far as I know, there's no 'missingasset.csv' in /main neither.

Also it doesn't give errors it simply locks up and I have to reboot my PC because the Windows sidebar is flickering and I can't close WaW.

Well missingasset is not being generated, game is updated and so are tools (checked main and mods folders) and /developer 1.

Screw this, i'll stick with my trusty CoD4.

edited on Jul. 12, 2009 08:25 am by jeannotvb

Hi all
I am having the same problem in my sp maps. My mp maps all work fine the sp maps just lock up at load and give a black screen. Also it doesn't give errors. I always load an SP map with /r_fullscreen 0 + /vid_restart and /devmap yourmapname.
But it just loacks up.
I got to say when i try to use the sp barebones map it works. So i tryed to rename barebones and use it as a start to my map. It all went wrong and i got lots of errors.
Now i am back to were i was the sp barebones map works again but mine dont.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks Jackal

edited on Jul. 23, 2009 06:58 am by Jackal18

edited on Jul. 23, 2009 07:03 am by Jackal18

I'm convinced it's the missing assets, but considering the missingasset.csv does not generate the files you need (I patched) and you can't open the console to find the assets yourself because the game is too busy locking up your whole PC I suggest you switch to CoD4 or wait for MW2.

Your missing assets will show at the bottom of the compiling log (when compiling the fast file)