Solved CALL OF DUTY 2 Windows7 issue!

Sonixmon · Oct 24, 2009

Ok, I am having this issue with COD 2, it started with the Windows 7 RC and I thought it was because how I installed it the first time. (installed game and then copied my directory from my xp hard drive).

Basically I was getting bad ping spikes and I researched it and found that the cpu affinity for the COD2MP was set to 1 core! I can open task manager and select affinity and select all and the problem goes away! Of course the next time I run only 1 cpu core is selected!

So when I installed W7 from scratch I made sure to install the game and I tested it all 4 cpus used! Yeah! Then I installed the 1.3 patch! Wham, next time I ran it only 1 cpu core!! IS this part of the patch or is it just not installing right? I am tired of alt esc out of the game to set affinity!! ERRRRR!

Please help!

Zidane24 · Oct 25, 2009

Seems like the patch borke something instead of fixing it...

Contact the makers of COD2 and see if they can release a fix for what the patch broke

Sonixmon · Oct 25, 2009

Zidane24 said:
Seems like the patch borke something instead of fixing it...

Contact the makers of COD2 and see if they can release a fix for what the patch broke

Thanks, I plan on doing that but it is an old game so I dont know if they will support it.

Sonixmon · Oct 25, 2009

Does anyone else have COD2 installed on their Windows 7? If so can you check the affinity of the CODMP_s.exe from task manager please let me know if you get the same results.

I played it without changing the affinity and it wasnt as noticeble a problem since my fresh install (as far as the gameplay and ping) but it still makes a difference when enabling all 4 cores. Plus that one core works so hard when his friends dont pitch in!

Sonixmon · Nov 12, 2009

Solution

Its wierd that I am the only one having this issue, even others in my clan dont seem to have this problem. I have reinstalled COD2 from scratch, deleted the directory entirely once and it did not make a difference.

I pretty much have given up fixing this problem and instead of Alt Esc back to desktop to adjust the affinity I read about a program called set affinity II. They have a Beta 64 bit version and I installed it a few days ago. It boots with windows and can be used to adjust the affinity of any process, manually or automatically. I set cod2mp to run all four cores and anytime the game runs it makes the adjustment automatically. It works perfectly and can also be used to spread out single core apps or force them to multicore.

If anyone else has this issue, there is a solution for you. If someone else figures out another way to "fix" the problem, please share too!

Calsu · Jan 2, 2010

Better FPS with dx7 and dx9 i presume

Installing Directx 9.0c via this link (dxwebsetup.exe) improved my FPS with 7900gt to usual constant 125 from 80Fps.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...38-DB71-4C1B-BC6A-9B6652CD92A3&displaylang=en

Oh, and i had the affinity problem too, fixed it with PRIO taskmanager

Warfare · Jan 2, 2010

How did you get COD2 to work on Win7?

When I try to join a server my screen goes green and CTD.

Sorry for being off topic.

Calsu · Jan 3, 2010

You have tried that dx9. (to get DX7 mode properly atleast) There is no dx9 default in windows 7 i think. Anything else i just run normally. 1.3 version.

You can list servers to join ingame? you can start the game? Have you tried to run as administrator so that the game will use it´s installationfolder for new files etc? not the "virtualstore"

Also have you allowed it in firewall?

Frostmourne · Jan 3, 2010

Calsu said:
You have tried that dx9. (to get DX7 mode properly atleast) There is no dx9 default in windows 7 i think. Anything else i just run normally. 1.3 version.

You can list servers to join ingame? you can start the game? Have you tried to run as administrator so that the game will use it´s installationfolder for new files etc? not the "virtualstore"

Also have you allowed it in firewall?

There is no DirectX default - 11 is backwards compatible with it as is 10.1. Either way most games now should be DirectX 10 minimum.

davidclark · Jan 3, 2010

Here COD 2 works like a charm, no affinity problems or CTD´s (dual core, maybe it´s a quad related bug)

Warfare · Jan 3, 2010

nope dual here..

I've tried the following

New Graphics drivers
New Sound drivers
Update DirectX
Run as Admin
Run with WinXP Compatibility mode

and the sound trick which is the following

-Start, control panel
-Hardware and Sound
-Sound
-Recording Tab
-Right Click in window, chose "Show Disabled Devices"
-"Setero MIX"appeared, Right Click and choose enable
-OK

rajput441 · Jan 3, 2010

hello there, i have just downloaded the call of duty modern warfare and its showing some problem in installation. It comes up with error { this installer package could not be opened. Verify this package exist and that you can access it or contact the application vendor to verify that this is a valid windows installer package. \cod4MW.}

It would be great if some 1 can short out this problem, I am really dying to play this game. :cry:

Calsu · Jan 4, 2010

@frostmourne

Yes, these are ofcourse obvious but this just happens to be the thing with Cod2, DX9 seems to be in the list for Vista and 7 there and it really helps to get more of the game atleast with older cards and hardware. Maybe the backward compatibility doesn´t work as well. This just happens to be the case, don´t know why. and i´m not surprised, main thing is that it works which is nice and get´s some beliefs for Microsoft back again from my part.

@warfare

I don´t mean to update the dx11 or dx10 or whatever the default is in Win7, and it continues to be even if you add dx9 to it.

Also someone says to try to plug Microphone in..as silly as it sounds.

Also now the Firewall settings or "software" that you are using? Is your installation totally new or from another partition (from old installation)

@ rajput441 Have you tried installing on another OS or something? to exclude another possibilities away (Broken DVD) or something...

Warfare · Jan 4, 2010

Calsu said:
@warfare

I don´t mean to update the dx11 or dx10 or whatever the default is in Win7, and it continues to be even if you add dx9 to it.

Also someone says to try to plug Microphone in..as silly as it sounds.

Also now the Firewall settings or "software" that you are using? Is your installation totally new or from another partition (from old installation)

I have NOD32 installed, i made an exception.
I have a microphone plugged in.

Calsu · Jan 5, 2010

And you have tried singleplayer and it works? It´s only when you press join the game.

Also i´m still lacking the information if you can see the servers listed ingame? Try to join server where is no punkbuster. etc.. There´s also problems with that.

Try to be as informative as possible, thanks.

Warfare · Jan 6, 2010

Calsu said:
And you have tried singleplayer and it works? It´s only when you press join the game.

Also i´m still lacking the information if you can see the servers listed ingame? Try to join server where is no punkbuster. etc.. There´s also problems with that.

Try to be as informative as possible, thanks.

Single player works perfectly, no problems.
I can see all the servers, I can not join any server. No matter if it has punkbuster or not.

I can click join server then once it gets to the screen where you pick your team the game locks up, turns green, then Crashes to desktop.

I can't be more descriptive then that, because that is all that happens. I've tried reinstalling, re-patching, and all of the above.

Sgt Hoss · Jan 11, 2010

I have the same problem with 1 core running COD2. I set the affinity to all and it works great. Next time I go in game I have to reset. So, don't feel alone. Hope someone figures out a fix.

Calsu · Jan 12, 2010

Sgt Hoss said:
I have the same problem with 1 core running COD2. I set the affinity to all and it works great. Next time I go in game I have to reset. So, don't feel alone. Hope someone figures out a fix.

Get Prio tasksaver to save all settings. It now saves things you have done in taskmanager.

Code:

http://www.prnwatch.com/download.html

Calsu · Jan 19, 2010

Also to the problem with multiplayer crash, have you tried disabling Defender

How to disable Windows Defender in Windows 7 – Simple Help

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