Campaign Freezes at intro to "Back in the Fight"

[knilink]

Hello,

I've been playing through the IW campaign and everything's been going great up until this point. I just started the mission "Back in the Fight", get to the end of the Kit Harrington video propaganda and my game freezes. The hum of the ship is on a skipping loop and the game is completely frozen (no moving volumetric fog, etc). I've tried the following solutions by CTRL+ALT+DELing out of the game and reloading without any luck.

Start game in Safe Mode

Skip Cutscene

Start Mission from Mission Select & Overwrite current campaign

Lower graphics to bare minimum

Update NVIDIA Drivers

Restart Computer

Verify Game Integrity thorugh Steam Properties

Delete Local Content & Reinstall game

*Slam face against keyboard during cutscene*

Anyone else experiencing this problem? If this is a serious issue with the campaign maybe it needs to be patched? Any help would be much appreciated!

PC Specs: Game runs at 60fps stable on Ultra in 4k

• Processor: Intel Core i7 6700k 4.2 GHz OC
• Graphics Card: Gigabyte G1 GTX 1080
• Motherboard: ASUS Z-170-A
• Memory: 32GB Corsair Vengeance 3000 DDR4 Red LED
• OS Storage: 500GB Samsung 850 EVO
• Game Storage: 4TB Toshiba 7200RPM HDD (Steam Only) & 4TB HGST UltraStar 7200RPM HDD
• Power Supply: Corsair HX750i Platinum PSU
• Wireless: ASUS PCE-AC68 AC1900
• Case: Corsair Graphite 780T Full Tower
• Cooling: Corsair H80i Liquid Cooling
• Mouse: Logitech G500s Gaming Mouse
• Keyboard: Logitech G910 Orion Spark RGB Mechanical Gaming Keyboard
• Main Display: Samsung UE590 UHD 23.6" 4k Monitor
• Alt Displays: 2x ASUS 247H 23.6" Monitors

[Edit: other potential yet unsuccessful solutions. PC Specs]

[knilink · Accepted solution]

RESOLVED!

I guess the save file must have been corrupt. I browsed the install folder, renamed the save file and disabled Steam cloud storage. Booted the game up and it remade an uncorrupted save file while still keeping my mission progress on the mission select screen. Instructions are below.

Close the game

In Steam right click on CoD:IW > Properties > Updates > Uncheck Enable Steam Cloud Storage

Once unchecked, go to Local Files Tab > Browse Local Files 

Go to 'players2' folder

Rename savegame.svg to savegame.svg.old

Restart the game and select the mission and difficulty

Tab out of the game and recheck Enable Steam Cloud Storage