Call of Duty crashes after a few seconds?

[PXL Creations]

Hello all, I recently purchased Call of Duty Deluxe for my MacBook. It has 2gb of ram, and enough memory free to run Call of Duty 2, so I don't see why Call of Duty 1 crashes after a few seconds.

Here's what happens. I load the game up, start walking around, then try and look around. It then crashes completely and I can't do anything about it. I've re-installed it, tried looking for help online, but nothing.

When it crashed if asked if I wanted to report, so I decided to copy the errors its giving me here..

Process: Call of Duty SP [1939]
Path: /Applications/Call of Duty/Call of Duty SP.app/Contents/MacOS/Call of Duty SP
Identifier: com.aspyr.callofduty
Version: 1.5d (90788)
Code Type: X86 (Native)
Parent Process: launchd [125]

Interval Since Last Report: 23740 sec
Crashes Since Last Report: 7
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 519 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report: 5

Date/Time: 2010-07-05 09:59:19.913 -0400
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30)
Report Version: 6
Anonymous UUID: ***

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
Crashed Thread: 0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 ??? 0000000000 0 + 0
1 libGL.dylib 0x92288fe6 glBeginQueryARB + 38
2 com.aspyr.callofduty 0x00018da7 RB_BeginTestFlare_Aspyr + 325
3 com.aspyr.callofduty 0x00019222 RB_RenderFlares + 749
4 com.aspyr.callofduty 0x00016325 RB_RenderDrawSurfList + 1473
5 com.aspyr.callofduty 0x00017908 RB_DrawSurfs + 116
6 com.aspyr.callofduty 0x000180dc RB_ExecuteRenderCommands + 294
7 com.aspyr.callofduty 0x000c4079 RE_EndFrame + 65
8 com.aspyr.callofduty 0x00014471 SCR_UpdateScreen + 196
9 com.aspyr.callofduty 0x00013495 CL_Frame + 414
10 com.aspyr.callofduty 0x000f6938 Com_Frame + 549
11 com.aspyr.callofduty 0x000b5062 main + 284
12 com.aspyr.callofduty 0x00001e32 _start + 216
13 com.aspyr.callofduty 0x00001d59 start + 41

Anybody know what to do? It's such a bummer because CoD 2 works fine.

 

[masterofbuckets]

Looks like a driver bug. Does your MacBook have an ATI card ? I suspect its the X1600.

To find out, click on the Apple icon on the top left corner of your screen. Select 'About this Mac'. It will show you some basic info in a small pane, including what OS you are running. Click on 'More Info'.

This will open a large window showing all the hardware / software in your Mac. On the left side of the window, there will be an option named 'Graphics / Displays'. Click on it, this will show you what video card you have ( on the right side ).

If you are running Leopard ( i.e 10.5.x ), make sure you are updated to 10.5.8

If running Snow Leopard ( i.e 10.6.x ), make sure you are updated to latest version, 10.6.4

You can try lowering all the settings and then trying but not sure if it will help. Worth a try though.

Hope this helps.

 

[PXL Creations]

My graphics card is a Intel GMA 950, it doesn't say X1600 anywhere... I'll try lowering the settings like you said.

EDIT: Lowering the settings doesn't do anything...

 

[masterofbuckets]

Well, that explains it. The GMA 950 is not a capable graphics card. Its ancient, and I am surprised Call Of Duty 1 even starts

Note the minimum system requirements here :

http://www.aspyr.com/product/game_specs/26

If your Mac doesn't have a ATI or NVIDIA graphics card, your gaming choices are severely limited even if you want to play old games. Plus the drivers are not updated for quite some time.

Your best bet is to play on a capable Mac ( if you have one) or buy the latest Mac you can afford.

 

[95thSharpe]

Hey there,
I had this problem when I was running it on my old macbook which also ran CoD 2.
I tried reinstalling but this didn't work, so I made a second account and installed it on to that one and it worked fine. Hope this helps

 

[PXL Creations]

All problems are solved, got a MBP