Afew other call of duty are affected by this, the worst is probably MW3 as its completely unplayable online without an older account Reply reply StaplePT I had exactly the same problem when running Black Ops 2 on a old piano-style 20GB PS3. Thinking that the PS3 was just too old, I got a Slim from Ebay. But it kept crashing in multiplayer - in the same way as the old PS3. I tried cooling it with a massive fan, hoovering out all the fluff, etc. with no effect.

This happens only in the menu and I don't understand why, every other game I have work just fine. I tried: Uninstall and reinstall bo3, unplug every usb device I have, restore windows, change power supply and RAM sticks, changing the "Fraction of video memory usage to target" in config.ini.

This is an issue with the anti-cheat. Some background stuff is triggering the anti-cheat. fix as u/coins22222 said : Win+R -> type 'msconfig' -> go to 'Services' tab -> click 'Hide all microsoft services' -> either "disable all" and work your way till you find it OR disable known services that conflict with the anti-cheat. known services that If you attempt to use a Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 code to get a digital item you may run into issues. Two common problems are messages telling you the code is already in use or the code is invalid . 16 8 496 106 420 240 420 201

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