Launching Company of heroes 2 is causing my PC to freeze

[vinolik]

Hi guys.

I have started to get serious issues with my game lately. I can't even play it anymore.
When I launch the game, it pops up the title screen as usual, then goes black with the cursor remaining as well as my fraps fps counter, then it just stops like that and I can't do anything. You have any idea what's causing it? (It will completely freeze, I have to restart the PC)

I have also noticed I get lots of error messages in the event log saying stuff like "metadata could not be stored" (translated from swedish)

Video Card driver 355.60

My PC Specs:
* OS: Windows 8.1 64 bit
* CPU: Intel i7 4790k @4GHz
* RAM: Adata 16gb 1600Mhz
* GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming 4G
* MOBO: Asus Z97-A
* SSD: Samsung 850-Series PRO 128GB
* HDD: Western Digital Blue 1TB
* PSU: EVGA Supernova G2 750W

 

[WyomingKnott]

Couple questions.
1) Did it used to work?
7) Dumb question, but did anything significant change since it worked, such as putting in new memory?
23) Does it work if you disable fraps?

 

[vinolik]

Couple questions.
1) Did it used to work?
7) Dumb question, but did anything significant change since it worked, such as putting in new memory?
23) Does it work if you disable fraps?

1) Yes I have more than 500 hrs in Coh2, maybe 50 of them on this PC. It worked perfectly 2 weeks ago, then the issue started, it was only sometimes in the beginning but now its everytime I start it

7) Nothing that I can think of

23) I'll have to test that, thanks for the suggestion

 

[vinolik]

Ok so this is really REALLY weird. I tested it once again today, turned off steam overlay and fraps, not better. Then I tested alt+tab just before it would go black, then go back to the game when I hear the sega splash screen, then it worked!