Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011) Steam MW3 Freeze/Glitch/Hang/Crash

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2 years 2 weeks ago - 2 years 2 weeks ago #1 by Viewfie Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (2011) Steam MW3 Freeze/Glitch/Hang/Crash was created by Viewfie
With this 5.9.2 and the previous version or two, I've isolated a new bug with this game to be caused by reshade.

Only effects used are Lumasharpen and Vibrance.

It happens most frequently when using Alt+Esc to minimize as soon as the game loads along with reshade and then opening the game again soon thereafter as well as opening and closing Steam's overlay. Steam's overlay seems to exarcerbate the issue but even having had it disabled, the issue persists. The issue is exacerbated by minimizing the game, less so after the game has loaded, and less still when not minimizing throughout the entire time since the load of the game however it still happens and when it does it's when a match starts, ends, or somewhere in between. During the match, instead of freezing, there may appear a full screen wide random texture from the game overlayed and streched fullscreen but the game continues to run. Minimizing and returning to the game removes the glitched overlayed fullscreen random texture, but the freeze/hang becomes imminent when interacting with the menu or just when the next match begins to load upon the following loading screen. If not then, at the end of the match.

Oh! (edit) I forgot to mention that Alt+Esc no longer works and the game can no longer be minimized. Ctrl+Shift+Esc opens UAC to allow the Task Manager to open but the game turns into a frozen black screen. Alt+Tab does not work. WinKey+Tab, however does show the window selection menu but choosing the task manager or anything else fails while the frozen game persists to return to its frozen fullscreen state. I was able to move the frozen game onto a new desktop using the WinKey+Tab method and that allowed me to access the programs from the original desktop thus the Task Manager to kill the game avoiding having to hard reset my system.

I've played extensively with it uninstalled and this bug has never reproduced.

This tool is fantastic. The gloomy, soft graphics of this game is a bummer of an eye sore and being able to use ReShade to give it new life but adding a bit of sharpness and pop to the color greatly improves the experience.

Any advice on how to troubleshoot this issue would be wholly appreciated. It's my favorite game!

Thank you!

Windows 11
Last edit: 2 years 2 weeks ago by Viewfie.

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