On April 12, 2023, Call of Duty received a huge update with the launch of Season 3, the largest since the release of Warzone 2 and Modern Warfare 2. However, those with a graphics card featuring the ‘AMD Vega GP’ can no longer enjoy Call of Duty. Affected players feel powerless but want to make their voices heard.
What is the problem? On April 12, a major patch for Season 3 was released. However, players with an ‘AMD VEGA GPU’ have been experiencing crashes when starting Modern Warfare 2 and Warzone 2, with the message: DirectX X has encountered an error.
As PC Gamer reports, this serious issue affects hardware such as the Radeon VII and nearly all Ryzen processors with an integrated GPU: This likely affects thousands of PC gamers worldwide.
Developers Acknowledge Problems – But They Persist
Are the developers aware of this? Yes, after 1,000 complaints (via steam), Beenox, the Canadian studio behind the PC version, admitted on Twitter on April 17: They are looking into the problem affecting AMD Vega users in Warzone 2 and Modern Warfare 2.
What are players doing out of anger? Two weeks have passed since the Twitter post, but the players’ situation has not improved.
272 signatures have now been collected on a petition at ‘change.org‘ – players are angry because they do not understand how a game that worked perfectly before Season 3 is now not functioning and is also being ignored by Activision. Activision must “urgently” solve the problem.
Another player sent a pizza to the developers in Quebec with the message ‘Help Vega Please’.
However, on reddit, people agree: The pizza probably never reached the developers. It was likely disposed of in the lobby for safety reasons.
For the players, it seems the only option is to wait until the problem is resolved.
The idea of sending a pizza to the developers of the favorite game to motivate them has been suggested by players before. Whether looking at a cold pizza in the workplace truly alleviates frustration is another question:
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