The PC version of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is a fantastic experience, but it’s not without its share of problems—as games released on the PC tend to be for the first few days (or weeks, depending on how diligent the developers are at addressing these issues).
There are a variety of bugs, errors, and crashes experienced by players who reported their issues on the game’s community forums on Steam.
This guide exists to help players affected by these issues to fix their problems.
Game Won’t Download / Download Gets Stuck
When attempting to download the game, there is a possibility that the game will refuse to download. Firstly, ensure that you are not downloading the game to a portable hard drive, and that you have enough space on your hard drive to actually install the game. Also ensure that you have chosen the right region to download the game from. If everything is correct, exit Steam, reset your router, and wait for 15 minutes before restarting Steam and resuming the download.
If all else fails, change the download region to someplace else and restart Steam as the servers may be overloaded.
Enabling SLI Support
The game does not come with built-in/native SLI support. Instead of waiting for an upcoming Nvidia update to release, you can create your own profile using NVidia Inspector. Just create a new profile named codaw or whatever you like, set the number of GPUs to ‘2’, then set rendering mode to ‘AFR2’. Add the game executable to the profile.
Fixing Muddy Textures
If the game’s textures look muddy and awful, chances are it’s because you have the “Cache Sun Shadow Maps” and “Cache Spot Shadow Maps” options enabled—which causes the game to look ugly for some players, depending on their hardware. If the game looks ugly, toggle these settings under “Advanced Video” to off.
Unrecoverable DirectX Error
If you experience this error, head on over to the game’s _installer folder and reinstall the DirectX redistributable. Alternatively, you can download the DirectX setup from here.
Stay tuned for more fixes as they become available.
