If you’re an action game lover then you have most probably heard about Call of Duty. It’s one of the most popular first-person shooting video games that have a nice storyline, stunning graphics, advanced weapons, and more. Recently, Activision has launched a new part of 2019’s Modern Warfare of COD called Call of Duty: Warzone which is an online battle royale game. However, the newly launched COD game crashing or freezing with High CPU Usage. Check out how to fix Call of Duty Warzone crashes.

In this game mode, there are 150 players available to jump and survive into the playground. The game is free to play for everyone and available for Windows PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 4 platforms. Call of Duty Warzone also features another game mode called Plunder except for the Battle Royale. Now, talking about the Plunder game mode, players need to collect higher in-match cash prizes by looting over the map, killing enemies to steal their cash, and more.

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Now, the newly released Call of Duty Warzone game players is facing some the issues like crashing, gameplay freezing, or a black cloud-like graphical glitch. Meanwhile, the Warzone players are also complaining that Warzone is using CPU up to 100% which leads the game to crash quite often. Though there is no official statement available yet from Activision or Infinity Ward about this issue or bug. It’s quite expected that developers will soon fix this issue and release a new update.

Here are the few reported users in the Reddit community regarding the crashes and freezes.

Another user reported that he is facing two problems in the game

Another user named u/GGGomer reported that the game is crashing every 5 minutes in any match since the solo patch update.

A Player report that his PC shutdowns in the middle while on the game.

hello, I have two problems with the warzone that’s making the game unplayable for me. first one is: the game keeps crashing when I press the windows key or tap out and before that it crashed when I try to open the game but I fixed that, second: I can’t hear any audio in game except the menu music audio, can’t hear gunshots running or anything at all, also the game crashes if I change anything in the graphics settings, crash error: (directX encountered an unrecoverable error) – u/ADMIRAL_boray

How to Fix Call of Duty Warzone Crashes or Freezes with High CPU Usage?

Warzone crashes after about 5 minutes in any match since the solo’s patch.

Specs far exceed recommended requirements.

Updated hardware drivers to newest versions.

Since the update I’ve now had 4 crashes in 4 different matches, all within the first 5 minutes of play. 3 of which were in Solo’s, and to rule the gamemode out one of them was also in Groups. It freezes for about a second and then CTD’s without any error notification afterwards.

I sent in a couple of bug reports as I’ve been testing it but it’s 100% consistent as of right now. Sadly this now makes the game completely unplayable. (If you don’t count messing with loadouts actual gameplay =P )

Hereby a warning for everyone, and don’t forget to leave a bug report if you run into it!

https://support.activision.com/call-of-duty-warzone/articles/call-of-duty-warzone-feedback-and-bug-reporting

Activision has announced a general guide to fix the crashes or freezes for PS4, Xbox, and PC that you can follow.

Whenever the game freezes, you will need to quit the game and close the application completely. Then restart the game and it should work perfectly. However, in some instances, you might also need to restart your console or PC to take effect the changes. Make sure to restart the game from the dashboard, if not works then you can try rebooting the PC or console.

If the above method doesn’t work, you can follow some possible workarounds below.

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1. Update Graphics Drivers

One of the most common issues of the graphics intensive games is outdated or corrupted graphics drivers on the PC. Make sure to simply head over to the official site or the assistant software and check for available updates. If you’re using Nvidia graphics, then go to the official site and download the latest version.

While the AMD graphics users can update their drivers from the AMD Radeon Software or via the official site.

2. Set a Lower Priority

Sometimes, the higher process priority can also cause system crashes or game crashes. As the priority always set to higher by default, you can set a lower one.

  • Go to the Task Manager > Click on the Details tab.
  • Search and right-click on the game’s process > Click on Set Priority > Select Normal.
  • Once done, click on Change Priority to confirm it.
  • Finally, close the game and relaunch it. [You can also reboot the computer]

3. Disable Nvidia In-game Overlay to Fix Call of Duty Warzone Crashes

In most cases, it also found that Nvidia In-game overlay can also cause game crashes or freezes which is quite awkward.

  • Go to the Geforce Experience on the PC.
  • Click on Settings inside the interface > Click on the General tab.
  • Turn off the In-Game Overlay toggle.
  • Close both the window and the game.
  • Restart the game and check whether it works or not.

4. Increase Virtual Memory

As the name suggests, Virtual Memory is a specific space of your hard disk that can be used as a virtual RAM to load and process the heavy tasks or games smoothly.

  • Head over to the My Computer and right-click on it > Click on Properties.
  • In the left pane, click on Advanced system settings.
  • Then click on System Properties > Click on the Advanced tab.
  • Now, click on the Settings button under the Performance.
  • Click on Virtual Memory > Select Change.
  • Uncheck ‘Automatically manage paging files size for all drives’ option.
  • Select the drive where the game is installed and choose the Custom size.
  • Put a value more than 2GB (2048MB) for both the Initial and Maximum size.
  • Once done, click on Set and then click on OK.
  • Finally, click on the OK button again > Reboot your computer.

5. Disable Other Services

Make sure that you’ve disabled all the unnecessary and higher CPU/Memory consuming background running overlay apps like Xbox Game Bar, Discord, Steam Overlay, and more. Whereas some of the desktop browsers can also consume a lot of processing power like Google Chrome. So, try to disable them all.

  • Just head over to the Task Manager > Go to Processes.
  • Right-click on the overlay apps one by one and select End Task.
  • Once all overlay processes are removed from the list, close the Task Manager.
  • Head over to the respective overlay apps and try to manually disable them.
  • Additionally, you can also select and close Cortana.exe and Runtime Broker processes from the list.
  • Finally, restart your computer and launch the Warzone game again.

6. Disable Startup Programs

Startup programs are those who start running automatically in the background whenever the system boots up. So, even if you don’t use those apps or services, they always run in the background and can a lot of CPU/Memory usage.

  • Just head over to the Task Manager > Go to Startup.
  • Right-click on the High Startup Impact programs and Disable them individually.
  • Restart your PC and run the game again.

7. Adjust in-game Settings

  • Launch the Battle.net client > Head over to the Call of Duty Warzone (Modern Warfare) graphics settings followed by Options.
  • Now, set the Display mode to Full-screen.
  • Set the Custom frame rate limit to 180.
  • Set Display Gamma to 2.2 sRGB.
  • Choose Texture resolution to Low.
  • Select Shadow Map Resolution to Normal.
  • Choose Particle Lighting to Normal.
  • Ambient Occlusion to Disabled.
  • Finally, don’t forget to apply your changes and hit Save/OK.
  • Restart your game client and try running your game.

That’s it, guys. We hope you’ve found this troubleshooting guide useful. Feel free to ask in the comment below.

Tip:

Check out some of the possible troubleshooting steps below by Activision Support:

  • Perform a clean install of graphics drivers

  • Ensure your drivers are updated

  • Ensure you have the latest version of Windows installed

  • Run a Scan and Repair through BattleNet client

  • Check for the system requirements of Warzone

  • Additionally, you can set a High Priority to the ModernWarfare.exe process from the Task Manager to allocate more resources for your game

  • Check for Windows updates, if available

  • Try updating your BIOS (if any)

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