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Slaw 1 May, 2015 @ 3:20pm
MW2 black screen
When I open MW2, I'm greeted with a black screen, I can't see my cursor, I can still hear the background music, then a few seconds later I'm returned to my desktop. When I try to open the window on my taskbar, it continues to show the black screen, then returns me to my desktop. I deleted mp_playlists, but that still isn't helping me. Any clue what's going on? When I originally got the game, I started it up and I changed the graphics settings, which caused the game to close. I haven't been able to get back in the game since.
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Slaw 1 May, 2015 @ 3:23pm 
Every time I delete the mp_playlists file, I start up the game and the file comes back after deleting it.
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Laptop 1 May, 2015 @ 3:24pm 
That playlists file is supposed to be there.

Verify the game cache.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=2037-QEUH-3335
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Slaw 1 May, 2015 @ 3:32pm 
It's still not working, after doing all of those things.
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Slaw 1 May, 2015 @ 3:38pm 
Any clue what's going on?
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Laptop 1 May, 2015 @ 3:47pm 
PC specs?
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Slaw 1 May, 2015 @ 4:04pm 
Inspiron 660S
Intel Pentium CPU G2030 @ 3.00GHz 3.00 GHz
RAM: 4.00 GB
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Slaw 1 May, 2015 @ 4:37pm 
Does that help?
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Laptop 1 May, 2015 @ 4:40pm 
Graphics card?
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Slaw 1 May, 2015 @ 4:43pm 
Intel HD Graphics
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Laptop 1 May, 2015 @ 4:44pm 
Not sure intergrated graphics are even supported for this game.

Update your graphic drivers.
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Slaw 2 May, 2015 @ 5:26pm 
Updated, it's still not working.
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Slaw 2 May, 2015 @ 5:27pm 
Is there anything else I can try?
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Laptop 2 May, 2015 @ 5:30pm 
Not really, that GPU is not supported, so you're pretty much stuck unless you want to try a system format.
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💥FPSRUSSE™ 6 May, 2015 @ 6:05am 
http://gtm.you1.cn/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=438199671
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Lemmiwinks 28 Dec, 2024 @ 11:20am 
Tried to browse for solutions in 2024 - finally fixed mine by changing the config file (steam>steamapps>common>call of duty modern warfare 2>players>config_mp). I had to change 2 lines in the text file using notepad to do so:
seta r_mode "1920x1080"
seta r_displayRefresh "120"
Those were the default settings in the config file, so I had to match them to my monitor I was using. I think that the issue was the display refresh rate was not supported by my monitor. Once I set it to 2560 x 1440 on mode and 144 on refresh then my game started without blacking out my screen (and putting it to energy saving mode).
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