Activision Blizzard has released an update that brings Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 to its third season, a patch that brings important news but also causes major problems, so much so that for some users of AMD Radeon graphics cards, it breaks the game.

I’m not exaggerating, the number of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 players with AMD Radeon graphics cards reporting serious issues is on the rise, saying that plain and simple can’t start the game. When it tries to run it, it gets the error message you can see in the attached image and repeats in a loop.

This seems to be a type issue “Timeout Detection and Recovery”, i.e. the “Timeout Detection and Recovery Event” in DirectX that identifies the failure of the graphics card drivers and tries to reset it so that it can recover. If the restore doesn’t complete, we’ll get an error message, but there won’t be any crash or instability that could compromise the system’s integrity, so we won’t encounter a blue screen, crash, or reboot.

This is an important and very useful defense mechanism because, as we just explained, it prevents serious stability problems from occurring. Generally, this is the error code that affected users receive indicates a fault at the driver level, And while it is true that this type of problem can occur for various reasons, it is still strange that it affects all Radeon Vega graphics card owners, both dedicated and integrated.

The extent of this problem is important because none of the Radeon Vega users seem to be able to run Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and none of the possible solutions that were given such as clearing the cache and reinstalling the drivers could fix it. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 season 3 runs fine on other graphics cards as well, so I’m afraid it’s a driver issue and AMD will have to release an update as soon as possible.

If you’ve been playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 with a Radeon Vega graphics card and have been hit by this long-suffering issue, you’ll just have to wait for Sunnyvale to release new drivers to fix this bug. As for that generation of graphics, it is still perfectly competent to push current games and they are configured with 8 GB or 16 GB of graphics memory (Radeon VII), so we will not meet very old models that maintain a good level. performance.