CALL OF DUTY MODERN WARFARE 2: BUGS AND FIXES.

[Neverwhere]

just a thread for any bugs and known fixes. after 4 days of activision being as useful as a chocolate fireguard, I set about trying to fix my own issue myself.

Problem: Multi player freezes / hangs / locks up when launched

Solution:-

The non start multiplayer issue with modern warfare 2 seems to be with users who have steam pre installed for other titles before they installed the game. To fix this I had to uninstall MW2 and remove all other steam associated titles (believe me I tried every which way till Sunday before I did this, I have allot of steam titles), then uninstall steam itself.

a manual search of the users/"profile name"/appdata/local revealed no traces of the steam system. I then rebooted the system and reinstalled steam from the MW2 DVD as part of the game install. During this steam will download a bunch of updated content that is not otherwise available when using the pre installed steam client or a downloaded steam MSI package. It must be a fair amount as im on a ten mb cable line and my netspeed software was showing 800kb a second for almost 15 minutes.

Once Steam has done its thing, I continued the Install of the game and all is well.

To me though this is just another reason why steam was a bad bad choice for this game.

 

[Neverwhere]

I get this bug but sod that !

I've had the same steam install since I first installed it about 6 years ago and that's not changing ..

A few alt-tabs normally fixes it.

your lucky then, i could do nothing. Activision were totally useless, 3 different guys over three days telling me to do the same things as the last guy, which were all the things I had done myself anyway. yesterday I got fed up because i would have to wait till monday for the phones to open again so I got up early and started tinkering.

 

[Neverwhere]

That's what I did when I tried Neverwhere's method
But thanks anyway

I tried that yes and it didn't do anything

Along with Defragging the game files via steam
Doesn't do anything I found.

Or at least it didn't fix my problem anyway!

But here's something that someone may be able to help me with...

After I validate the files for MW2 - multiplayer, it tells me, after it's done, that one file wasn't validated and will be (or needs to be) reaquired or something along them lines.

Did it before I reinstalled it too, so I'm wondering if that has anything to do with why it won't work?

the 1 file not validated tells me you may not have follow my instruction to the letter as thats exactly what I was getting. Not to say that my instructions will work in every case mind, but I would say steam and MW2 are abit like oil and water. rather difficult to mix.


Uninstall ALL your steam titles, via steam, uninstall MW2 multiplayer before single player.

Uninstall steam from add remove programs.

Check your folders to make sure its all completly gone... (i.e. check your programfiles (programfiles(X86) if on win7/vista) and check your user folders, XP its in your docs and settings under your username, applications, local, in win7/vista C:\Users\**your PC`s username**\AppData\Local

when your sure you have no steam (or VALVE) folders left, and your game are all gone (annoyingly) Then reboot your computer and pop in your MW2 DVD and start the install, make sure your net connections live before you start the install.

It should install steam first, you should get a message during the install saying "downloading content" then once steam is installed, continue with the game install .