Post by [X4A]US_Wannabe on Dec 11, 2010 15:26:55 GMT -5
In response to a few e-mail's received on this subject, I thought I'd post this to help those who are having trouble.
Accepting the fact that you may play on other servers (shame on you LOL), you quite possibly have far too many maps collected in your /usermaps folder.
Simply removing older maps from your computer can often help.
Below are the locations (by OS) where you can find your maps:
XP users, Documents and Settings\your_pc_name\Local Settings\Application Data\Activision\CoDWaW\usermaps\
Vista users, place the map folder in: \Users\your_pc_name\AppData\Local\Activision\CoDWaW\usermaps\
Windows 7 users, place the map folder in: \Users\your_pc_name\AppData\Local\Activision\CoDWaW\usermaps\
Although this is an old fix for the same problem, many 'newer' players have not made this change.
Start>Control Panel>Sound Right Click on the default playback device (e.g. Speakers) and click properties. From there select the Advanced tab.
To eliminate this error the default playback format must be set at 24 bit 48000Hz (Studio Quality).
Post by [X4A]US_Deerhunter01 on Dec 12, 2010 12:19:31 GMT -5
I tried that sound thing and mine don't have 24 bit, its all 16 bit, and on the maps this is the only place I have ever got map downloads from. I don't have any other maps loaded except ours. but it seems to be happening more often then it use too with me, I have cleaned out this computer so much there is nothing more to clean on it. I am willing to try anthing..to stop the error messages from happening, most of the time here lately it happens right in the middle of game play, it use to just happen at the end of map rotation. but now its different.
Some of us have been plagued with the "Unhandled Exception" error that keeps knocking us out of WaW. I did some extensive searching on the problem yesterday and I believe I found a solution. My results are based on the fact that I played last evening for about an hour and a half and had no errors so I can't vouch for this fix in the long term but that's about the longest I've played without getting dumped so we'll see how it goes. It certainly has had no ill effects on my system so you may want to try it.
The problem appears to center around the way DirectX handles sound on sound systems that are using emulated drivers as opposed to proprietary drivers. This is common for systems with sound built into the motherboard ...like mine. I'd also like to point out that I'm using XP. I can't vouch that this fix will work with Vista or Win 7 but my experience as a tech tells me that it shouldn't be any different as I believe the registries are similiar and the setting changes affect the way DirectX is handled which should be somewhat indepedent of the Win OS. NTman may know more about this than I as, even though I'm a CompTIA Certified tech, my OS knowledge is a bit of date. If you do use Vista or Win 7, follow these instructions at your own risk.
Click Start -> Run and type in dxdiag
This brings up the DirectX control panel. Click the "Music" tab. You should have a list of Music Ports. If some of the listings are showing [Emulated], then you're probably have Unhandled Exceptions.
This next part involves making a few setting changes in the Registry. If you are not familiar with the registry, a BIG word of warning. Any change made to the system registry is immediate so be very careful. In fact, the first thing that should be done is to make a back up of the registry. I would also advice restarting your system so your registry is clean of any extraneous settings before backing it up.
Click Start -> Run and type in regedit
In the top left window pane, right-click My Computer and select Export. Save the file as any file name you like and I would suggest saving it to the desktop so you can retrieve it quickly if you need it.
Now click Edit -> Find and search for the term Device Presence
When it appears, it should show 3 settings: Emulated, VXD, WDM
These settings should be set to:
Emulated = 0 VXD = 1 WDM = 1
If any are different, right-click the setting and select Modify to change the value.
Once it's done, hit F3 to continue the search. There are several instance of "Device Presence" throughout the registry so keep repeating this process until all have been found. Once the search is complete, you'll get a message that says, "No more entries found". Close the registry and reboot your system.
If this works, you should no longer get any Unhandled Exception errors.
If, for some reason, this process has appeared to cause system problems, you can double-click the registry backup file you made and have it rebuild your registry back to the way it was before any changes were made.
I run the Windows 7 64 bit ..... I have 8.42 GB in the Usermaps Folder..... What is to much....?? I also open up the ReG editor and did a find .. for the Device presence .. I took a screen shot for any that want to view it.. I can email as a jpg file..