Sorry to bump - just saw this post. Been trying to get WAW and BO1 running thru Plutonium for weeks and was tearing my hair out. I use Sophos and, like the OP, added folders and exe to Exclusions.
So there really is NO other way other than removing the AntiVirus that I paid for, just to play COD.
Can I simply turn Sophos off, and then back on once finished playing - or should I completely uninstall and maybe go with another Anti-Virus provider? (no idea which ones are decent tbh)

It created a console log file but when I open this in Notepad its completely blank - nothing there logged.

So I just got into the COD modding community and wanted to play on PC safely.
Noticed both WaW and BO1 simply will not load via Plutonium launcher - even after making an account.

I click Play button, the little cmd style window labelled Plutonium shows up - no text shows and its blank - then everything just closes. Nothing happens.
I'd share a screenshot but there is nothing to show. I can't even get to the games Main Menu.
Being new to all this stuff, I'm really in the dark here. Tried searching online for help and even Discord but have hit a wall.
I even added the program to my anti-virus exclusion list just to be sure it wasn't that messing things up.. still nothing.
I'm on Windows 11, using latest Plutonium version r5346 - Launcher ver. 2.2.1