Many players excited to playCall of Duty: Modern Warfarehave recently been surprised and frustrated with a recent error appearing known as Memory Error 13-71. This error has appeared for some players after starting up their games, preventing them from playing online at all, thus not allowing them to experience any of the new content from recent updates.

Unlikeanother game-breakingCall of Dutybug, there is a workaround for players that experience this error. While players wait for a proper fix, there are some steps that can be taken to prevent and troubleshoot the issue themselves.

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Fixing the Issue

If a player encounters this error, players should first closeCall of Duty: Modern Warfareitself. Then, go into network settings and go offline. Then, players should start the game back up again.

After reaching the title screen, players should see a connection failed notification coming up. On this window, players should select the “Go Offline” option andenter the offline lobby. From here, players should connect their console to the internet once more and they can access the rest of the game after backing out of the offline lobby.

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If players are using a PC, the only known workaround so far is the completely reinstall the game through Battlenet and runCall of Duty: Modern Warfareon safe mode only.

Preventing the Issue

The cause of this issue seems to be linked to Regiments in-game. To help prevent this issue, players should leave any Regiment they are a part of and decline all Regiment invitations untilthe error has been properly fixedby Infinity Ward. Infinity Ward has confirmed that it is working on fixing this issue for both console and PC players.

Many players have discussed the large file sizes of the recent updates forCall of Duty: Modern Warfareand with the most recentpatch being from April 28, players are hopeful that Infinity Ward will create a proper fix for this surprising error soon. Until then, players need to rely on the workarounds provided by other members of theCall of Dutycommunity to deal with this error.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfareis available now for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.

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