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+ | {{--}} Various security vulnerabilities have been found with all Call of Duty games between Modern Warfare (2007) and Black Ops III, allowing hackers to remotely access, execute code on, and control user's PCs if they connect to the game's online modes.<ref>{{Refurl|url=https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2018-20817/|title=CVE-2018-20817 exploit|date=2023-11-10}}</ref> | ||
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+ | {{++}} An easy-to-install replacement launcher using dedicated servers for the game's online modes. Fixes the security vulnerabilities while also adding several enhancements: | ||
+ | *A custom-built anticheat system | ||
+ | *Aim Assist for controllers | ||
+ | *Discord Rich Presence | ||
+ | *Ultrawide monitor support | ||
+ | *Custom card text | ||
==Game data== | ==Game data== |
Revision as of 17:29, 13 November 2023
This page is for the original 2011 game. For the sequel to the 2022 game, see Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III.
Developers | |
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Infinity Ward | |
Sledgehammer Games | |
macOS (OS X) | Aspyr Media |
Publishers | |
Activision | |
OS X | Aspyr Media |
Russia | Noviy Disk[1] |
Engines | |
IW 5.0 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | November 8, 2011 |
macOS (OS X) | May 20, 2014 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 78 |
IGDB | 89 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, DLC |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Action, FPS, Shooter |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Europe, Contemporary |
Series | Call of Duty: Modern Warfare |
Warnings
- The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
General information
- Official Call of Duty series site
- CallofDutyMaps - A detailed Website for all included multiplayer maps.
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Retail | 2 DVDs | |||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Steam | ||||
Amazon.com (unavailable) | ||||
Mac App Store (unavailable) |
- All Windows versions require Steam DRM.
- Various security vulnerabilities have been found with all Call of Duty games between Modern Warfare (2007) and Black Ops III, allowing hackers to remotely access, execute code on, and control user's PCs if they connect to the game's online modes.[2]
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Content Collection 1 | Contains Content Pack 1, 2 and 3. | |
Content Collection 2 | Contains Content Pack 4 and 5. | |
Content Collection 3 | Contains Content Pack 6, 7 (Spec Ops portion) and 8. | |
Content Collection 4 | Contains Content Pack 7 (Multiplayer portion) and 9. |
- DLC for the game consists of 9 Content Packs (each combining 24 Content Drops). See the Wikipedia article for details
Essential improvements
Utilities
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Multiple Profiles - allows user to hack in the feature of multiple profiles (managed in a utility external to the game).
Skip intro videos
Edit config file[3] |
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Preload shaders on level load
Edit config file[citation needed] |
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Plutonium
- An easy-to-install replacement launcher using dedicated servers for the game's online modes. Fixes the security vulnerabilities while also adding several enhancements:
- A custom-built anticheat system
- Aim Assist for controllers
- Discord Rich Presence
- Ultrawide monitor support
- Custom card text
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\players2\*.cfg[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/115300/pfx/[Note 2] |
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config.cfg
is for single player,config_mp.cfg
is for multi-player
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\players2\save[Note 1] |
macOS (OS X) | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/115300/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Steam Cloud | Multiplayer and co-op only. |
Video
Graphics feature | State | WSGF | Notes |
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Widescreen resolution | Set Image Quality to Native (all other options including Extra are 720p upscaled) & use Flawless Widescreen/Widescreen Fixer. | ||
Multi-monitor | Set Image Quality to Native (all other options including Extra are 720p upscaled) & use Flawless Widescreen/Widescreen Fixer. | ||
Ultra-widescreen | Image is stretched. Set Image Quality to Native (all other options including Extra are 720p upscaled) & use Flawless Widescreen/Widescreen Fixer. | ||
4K Ultra HD | Does not work with in-game fullscreen enabled | ||
Field of view (FOV) | 65°; see Field of view (FOV). | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Change r_texFilterAnisoMin and r_texFilterAnisoMax in the config files |
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Anti-aliasing (AA) | Up to 4x MSAA. Nvidia users can force SGSSAA in Nvidia Profile Inspector with the 0x000010C1 antialiasing compatibility flag. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS | |||
120+ FPS | Multiplayer has a 91 FPS cap (use BetterCOD to fix). | ||
Ray tracing (RT) | |||
Color blind mode | Set in Options; changes colors for player names. |
Field of view (FOV)
List of FOV changers[citation needed] |
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | cl_mouseAccel in the config. Off by default. |
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Mouse sensitivity | sensitivity in the config. |
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Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Controller types |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | ||
Surround sound | Manually set up to 5.1. | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Traditional Chinese | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Hungarian | Fan translation, link #1, patch for link #1, link #2. | |||
Italian | ||||
Japanese | Only available in Japanese retail release.
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Polish | Only available in Polish retail release.
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Brazilian Portuguese | Fan translation. | |||
Russian | Only available in Russian retail release. Patch for digital release here.
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Spanish | ||||
Slovak | Fan translation. | |||
Turkish | Fan translation. Details missing—please edit this page and add it. |
Network
- Self-hosted servers are available through the Steam client's server browser or the in-game server browser found under the Servers menu.
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | ||||
Online play | 18 |
{{Network/Connections
|matchmaking = true
|matchmaking notes =
|p2p = true
|p2p notes =
|dedicated = true
|dedicated notes =
|self-hosting = true
|self-hosting notes = Use iw5mp_server.exe
(configure with server.cfg
).
|direct ip = hackable
|direct ip notes = Go to the Multiplayer launch options and add +connect
followed by the IP.
Ports
Protocol | Port(s) and/or port range(s) |
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TCP | 3074 |
UDP | 3074 |
- This game does not support Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for automatic port configuration.
VR support
3D modes | State | GG3D | Notes | |
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Nvidia 3D Vision | See Helix Mod: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. | |||
TriDef 3D | ||||
iZ3D | ||||
vorpX | G3D Officially supported game, see official vorpx game list. |
Devices | |||
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3RD Space Gaming Vest | |||
Novint Falcon |
Issues fixed
- A small tweak guide is available at PC Gamer
Black screen on start-up
Black Screen on Start-up[citation needed] |
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With some users, a black screen will display on start-up, though game music can be heard in the background. This is caused by a collision with the Mumble voice client. Within Mumble, be sure to disable the in-game overlay. |
PC crashing/freezing in-game
Reinstall DirectX[citation needed] |
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Disable Steam Community[citation needed] |
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Game freezes during the intro video
Game Freezes during the Intro Video[citation needed] |
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Game crashes/freezes on startup
Game crashes/freezes on startup[citation needed] |
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Crash to Desktop
Crash to Desktop[citation needed] |
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Turn down sound acceleration (Windows XP)[citation needed] |
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DirectX error while loading
DirectX error while loading[citation needed] |
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Cannot install
Cannot Install[citation needed] |
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This is a Microsoft C++ bug so the quick fix is to uninstall your C++ files. If you see 2 instances of Microsoft C++, uninstall both of them. There are also a couple workarounds online if you don't want to uninstall them. |
Failed to run install script
Failed to run install script[citation needed] |
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Audio issues
Disable communications activity sound reduction[citation needed] |
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Multi-monitor issues
Multi-monitor[citation needed] |
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Nvidia Optimus
Nvidia Optimus fix[citation needed] |
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Fuzzy textures
Fuzzy Textures[citation needed] |
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Set Image Quality to "Native", as "Extra" up-scales the textures resulting in poor image quality. |
DirectX 9 compatibility with older video cards
DirectX 9 Compatibility With Older Video Cards[citation needed] |
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Appended the game laucher with
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Mouse Jumping/Skipping
Mouse Jumping/Skipping |
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RELIABLE COMMAND BUFFER OVERFLOW
RELIABLE COMMAND BUFFER OVERFLOW[citation needed] |
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Steam Error – 55: This game is currently unavailable. Please try again at another time[citation needed] |
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"DLC content is required. Required map ... is missing or damaged." error
DLC content is required. Required map (map name) is missing or damaged[citation needed] |
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Other information
API
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows | |||
macOS (OS X) | 32-bit only.[7] |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Audio | Miles Sound System | 7.0w |
Cutscenes | Bink Video | 1.8x |
Multiplayer | DemonWare |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | XP | Vista, 7 |
Processor (CPU) | AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4000+ Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8 GHz |
Intel Pentium Dual Core E6600 3.06 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 2 GB | 4 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 16 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS ATI Radeon X1900 256 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible Shader model 3.0 support |
Nvidia GeForce 210 ATI Radeon HD 3650 1 GB of VRAM |
macOS (OS X) | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 10.9.2 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i3 2.2 GHz | |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 13 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce 640M ATI Radeon HD 4850 Intel Iris 512 MB of VRAM |
- The following chipsets are unsupported by the OS X version: ATI Radeon HD 2000 series, ATI Radeon HD 6490M, 6630M, 3870, Nvidia GeForce 9000 series, Nvidia GeForce 320M, 330M, Intel HD 3000, 4000, 5000
- Hard drive volumes formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive) are not supported
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below
%PROGRAMFILES%
,%PROGRAMDATA%
, or%WINDIR%
might be redirected to%LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore
on Windows Vista and later (more details). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/115300/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (115300) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - last accessed on 2023-06-19
- ↑ CVE-2018-20817 exploit - last accessed on 2023-11-10
- ↑ Verified by User:Tecc on 2023-09-09
- ↑ SteamDB: Every depot associated with Japanese Retail Product Key - last accessed on 17 May 2023
- ↑ SteamDB: Every depot associated with Polish Retail Product Key - last accessed on 17 May 2023
- ↑ SteamDB: Every depot associated with Russian Retail Product Key - last accessed on 17 May 2023
- ↑ MacOS Catalina, 64-bit, 32-bit, and related Questions – Aspyr Support - last accessed on 9 June 2023