MW3 Crashes When Changing Settings

[Alixandra]

I've been having issues changing my graphics settings in mw3. When I apply the settings to the game it begins to restart. But then freeze up only to completely crash and brick my system. Of which I have to restart my pc. I noticed it happens when I change any settings in the 'Advanced' settings.

[Resxt]

Change your video settings without crashing the game (borderless windowed)
Make sure your game is closed before doing that.
Go to where your Modern Warfare 3 is installed and go in the players2 folder.
Then open plutonium.cfg with the notepad to edit it.
Find r_displayMode and change it to be like this (you can use ctrl+f to search for it):
seta r_displayMode "windowed (no border)"

[Alixandra]

Resxt It now crashes with the bootstrapper not responding before ultimately giving up. But it hasn't stopped my system so there's that

[Resxt]

@ABlooBean you did it with the game closed right?
Also what is your antivirus?

[Alixandra]

Resxt I managed to get it working. I just fully restarted my pc and reset the settings and do it again. Not sure why it happened the way it did