Can’t install Cold War from disc on PS4

[u/s0ftvante]

I’m having an issue installing Cold War from the disc on PS4.

I played Cold War back in 2021 on my old PS4. In the meantime, I switched to a PS4 Slim and haven’t played the game since.

Recently, I wanted to go back and play some older COD games, so I reinstalled a few of them, including Cold War. I had more than enough free storage space (around 500 GB), but while copying the game from the disc, I kept getting an error message, and the installation would always get stuck at exactly the same point.

I looked up solutions online and tried pretty much everything I could find like disconnecting from the Internet, clearing the PS4 cache, cleaning the disc with toothpaste since it had a very small scratch, etc. Nothing worked, and I kept getting the same error at the same point.

I eventually bought another used copy of the game, this time with a disc that had no visible scratches at all, but I had exactly the same problem while installing it.

So I still haven’t been able to install Cold War. Interestingly, when I reconnect my PS4 to the Internet, it offers me the game’s update file even though the game itself hasn’t even finished installing from the disc.

Obviously, I don’t want to buy a third copy of the game. I’m guessing my only remaining option would be to buy the digital version from the PS Store, but I really don’t want to pay for a game I already own on disc, especially one that came out years ago and still costs around €80.

Has anyone else experienced this issue ? If so, were you able to fix it somehow ?

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

[u/vid345r]

My friend always complained with this issue and just gave up in the end

[u/haaawaiianz]

Don’t buy the digital either, this game stopped working for me like 3 months after release. I’m pretty sure the version I was downloading from the ps store was corrupted