How to fix Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Errors: Crash, Black Screen, Poor FPS, Freezing, Stuttering and more

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Another year, another Call of Duty. In this article we will see how to fix Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 errors. The third entry in the Black Ops franchise has released and Treyarch has done it again. However some critics and players find the game’s story not so compelling compared to the previous entries. But that’s another thing. We are here to fix the issues you have been facing to run the PC version of the game. It suffers from various issues ranging from fps drops, crashes, stuttering and more.

In this guide, we teach you how to fix the most frequent bugs and errors encountered in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 PC version. But before going any further, please make sure your rig meets the official system requirements to run the game. We also discourage players to play the game on Laptop as the mobile GPUs are not officially supported. Find the minimum system requirements of the game below.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Official System Requirements

MINIMUM:

    • OS: Windows 7 64-Bit / Windows 8 64-Bit / Windows 8.1 64-Bit
    • Processor: Intel® Core™ i3-530 @ 2.93 GHz / AMD Phenom™ II X4 810 @ 2.60 GHz
    • Memory: 6 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 470 @ 1GB / ATI® Radeon™ HD 6970 @ 1GB
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Network: Broadband Internet connection
    • Hard Drive: 60 GB available space
    • Sound Card: DirectX Compatible

How to fix Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Errors: Crash, Server Issues, Poor FPS, Stuttering ABCD Error and more:

1. Crash during startup/random crashes/black screen/failed to launch fix

  • Players who are facing issues like the game crashing to desktop while launching or during gameplay should try updating their video card drivers. We suggest users to doing a clean install of the video card drivers by downloading them from the official website.
  • If you have the game on Steam, we suggest you to verify the game cache to avoid such errors.
  • Another simple but useful method is to play the game in Compatibility mode. For this, right click on the game’s .exe and click Properties. Under the Compatibility tab, set the Compatibility mode to either Windows XP SP3 or Vista.

2. Low FPS/Lag in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Fix

To solve this issue, go to the install directory of Call of Duty: Black Ops 3

C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Call Of Duty Black Ops III/players/

Open Config.ini from the “Players” folder. Then set the “WorkerThreads” from “4” to “2” and save.

This issue can also arise due to outdated video card drivers. So, update them before trying any other workaround. The second most basic thing to do in this case is to lower the graphics settings. This mainly includes GPU intensive features like Anti-aliasing and Post Processing.

You can also set the priority of the game in Task Manager to high.

3. Fix Stuttering/Micro-stuttering in Call of Duty Black Ops 3

Go to

C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Call Of Duty Black Ops III/players/

Open Config.ini with notepad, find “VideoMemory” and set it to .75 and save. This will hopefully solve your issue.

4. Mouse acceleration Fix in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3

First of all, go to settings and turn off Mouse Acceleration. Also set Mouse Smoothing to 0.

If this doesn’t solve the issue, then doing one of these can do the trick:

  • Lower Mouse Polling Rate to 250
  • Turn off VSync
  • Set refresh rate below 60Hz
  • Bring down the Resolution Scale below 100

5. Skip intro videos in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3

Sick of watching the intro video each time you launch the game? Here’s the way to bypass them.

Go to

C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Call Of Duty Black Ops III/Video/

Rename the “BO3_Global_Logo_LogoSequence.mkv” to “BO3_Global_Logo_LogoSequencebak.mkv” or anything else. Remember not to change the extension of the file (.mkv).

6. Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 Out of Memory Error Fix

To solve this issue

  1. Right click “This PC” icon from desktop and click Properties.
  2. Click “Advanced system settings” from left
  3. Under Advanced tab and Performance option, click “Settings”
  4. Under “Virtual Memory” click “Change”
  5. Deselect “Automatically manage paging file size for all drives” if checked
  6. Click “Custom size” and type “4096” into Initial size (MB) and “6144” into Maximum size (MB)
  7. Click “Set” and restart your PC

7. Call of Duty Black Ops 3 ABCD Error/Server Issue Fix

First of all disable your anti-virus and firewall and restart. Then try running the game as administrator.

If it didn’t solve the issue then:

  1. Run CMD as admin
  2. Type “netsh winsock reset” and hit enter
  3. Restart
  4. Launch the game

That’s all the common COD Black Ops 3 problems and now you know how to fix Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 errors. If you are still facing issues, feel free to ask in the comments. We will try our best to solve the problems you are facing to run the game. And we keep updating this page as new issues are encountered by the users. Check out more about Call of Duty Black Ops 3.