Call of duty 4 (COD4) on windows seven

[rightspin]

I run RTM x64 and CoD 4 1.0 works just fine in either single- and multipayer. Did you try to run the iw3so.exe directly from your CoD folder?

 

[Ixolite]

Did anyone have problem with "DirectX encountered critical error"? From what I have googled its not exactly Windows 7 problem but it works perfectly fine under WinXP and doesn't under Win7, so I thought it might be somehow related.

Just my luck...

EDIT: Solved it by reverting to older graphics drivers, as described here: http://www.sevenforums.com/gaming/22173-left-4-dead-directx-crash.html

 

[pandelis]

i can play cod4 now. actually i finished the game but i had a problem. when i played with game preferred resolutions it frozen. and i had to set to 800x600. even with 800x600 it froze at the crowded scenes but it did well generally. my question is the freezing thing related with windows 7?

my system is:

Quadcore q6600
3gb ram
radeon hd 3400 512mb

any idea?

 

[Uber Philf]

I doubt it, sounds more like something to do with your Hardware setup, otherwise other people would be asking about it.

 

[rightspin]

I'd guess its the display drivers. First i used the Ati Catalyst 8.7 drivers since they were the onle ones that worked for me, then switched to the ones from windows, since they are fixed catalyst 9.3 display drivers. Sometimes i suddenly get a black screen, and after a few seconds it shows the desktop and a message pops up saying "display drivers stopped responding". This happened in a game once and the game froze. I hardly doubt it has anything to do with the game itself.

 

[XfmXLethal]

Help

Ok i am running windows 7 7100 and when i open the MP it goes black and then back to desktop i have been to HUNDREDS of sites and sent HUNDREDS of messeges i am hoping someone here can help me fix this problem

 

[XfmXLethal]

i can play cod4 now. actually i finished the game but i had a problem. when i played with game preferred resolutions it frozen. and i had to set to 800x600. even with 800x600 it froze at the crowded scenes but it did well generally. my question is the freezing thing related with windows 7?

my system is:

Quadcore q6600
3gb ram
radeon hd 3400 512mb

any idea?

3 gig Ram will NOT support that processor trust me i blew up a quad core that way you need atleast 4

 

[Satce3]

Ok i am running windows 7 7100 and when i open the MP it goes black and then back to desktop i have been to HUNDREDS of sites and sent HUNDREDS of messeges i am hoping someone here can help me fix this problem

This happened to me on XP i ended up creating a new account (On COD4) and starting again and that seemed to work
but if you dont wanna throw away your hard earned levels
you can download XFIRE and access the servers that way

EDIT:
you just have to plug in a mic and it works
its a stupid problem that also happened in vista
Good luck!

 

[XfmXLethal]

hey man thanks now all i need to do is go back and reset all the other crap i did lol btw if you ever need MAC help, let me know cause i have alot of experience with OSX

 

[Uber Philf]

HAHA, windows forum much?

 

[shmamu79]

here is what i did to make it work!!!

I read and read for about 2 hours tips and ideas on forums!And belive me nothing worked! Im not so skilled with windows like some of u guys in modyfing registry blablabla.....but here is what i did and worked for me!
I have installed Cod4 without PB then the 2 patches 1.6 and 1.7
After that downloaded the latest PB from evenbalance and installed it and even after that wasnt been able to locate the 2 files PnkBstrA.exe
and the PnkBstrB.exe.Coz u need the 2 files allowed in windows firewall!
The only thing u need to do is browse on the COD 4 dvd and search for the file named pbsvc and run the PB test!That will do the rest of the job for u!
Hope that will help u! And if it does have fun and dont bother to thank me!

 

[ironleg]

I have tried everything. an uninstall of cod4 cleaned out the regestry and removed anything with cod4. I re-installed cod4 again and it had the direc x error so I updated my motherboard bios, all motherboard drivers EXCEPT Realtech because I heard there were issues with the driver. After the game installed I installed all patches, then drivers for my 4870 x2 asus ati HD graphics card. updated monitor drivers even. and i was able to connect to 3-4 games then I would get server disconected error or the executable for mp would stop working. I switched over the compatability mode to vista w/sp2 and admin rights and did the same with pb. now it is back to server disconnects and mp errors. I have the MSDN copy of windows 7 ultimate x 64 with xp vm. I thought of trying to install the game on the vm but it is set to low standards mostly for apps anyway. At this point I am almost ready to go back to xp because I want my games to work but other than cod4 everything works except the nextflix plug in but that will come in time. my cod5 works fine it is just cod4. any advice will be greatly appriciated.

rig setup
P35 intel chip
Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R Ver 1.1 Bios F12 lga775 intel Q6600 G0 stepping
thermalright ultima -90 heatsink/vantec fan
coursair 4 gigs DDR3 ram
Killer nic
Agea physix card
3 hard drives
Antec 900 case
Antec quattro true power 1000 watt PSU
5 120mm fans 1 92mm fan 1 200mm fan
av Eset smart security and malwarebytes anti malware
Teamspeak
gametracker lite
steam
opendns.com
office ultimate 2007
DSL 3megs down 1 meg up
monitor Alienware AW2210 21.5 LCD
Razer lachisis
Belkin n52te
Razer mako speakers
Plantronics gameconpro headset w/mic
all the software has been updated and the av has been running scheduled scans and real time monitoring. I do not know what else I can include but i wanted to be thourgh and give precise information. the cat 6 cables were swapped out to my modem as well.And the latest punkbuster updates too.
Any help is welcome

 

[TheSk8rJesus]

Okay i have found a fix that works perfectly for a 64bit RTM, sorry if already been posted

* Enable Vista compabitility for PnkBstrA/B.exe in c:\windows\syswow64 and c:\users\your_username\appdata\local\punkbuster.
* Running above files with administrator rights.
* Enable Vista compabitility for C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 4 – Modern Warfare\iw3mp.exe
* Run iw3mp.exe (cod4 mp) without administrator rights

 

[Uber Philf]

Odd, that some people had to go to lots of trouble getting it to work, i just installed, updated PB and put in my game save, and voila!

 

[TheSk8rJesus]

I noticed last night after i upgraded my machine to 7 RTM, that punkbuster have a download on there website so you can put the services into services. Once they are in check that they have been started if not start them, and it works!

 

[XfmXLethal]

all you have to do is plug in a microphone given you have an onboard soundcard if not enable your sound card and make sure all your sound software and chipset data is up to date and also update java it may help you if you are using 64 bit (i reccomend you use 32, uses less RAM than 64 bit)

 

[j3rk0]

cod4 works fine in win7 till pb update

while i was playing cod4 on win xp I constantly had 80fps.after that I played on win7 and it was around 60-70fps's,but now the fps's are falling down in intervals and I don't know what's happening to it.I think it all started from the last pb update.Is there anyone with some good-looking suggestion? thx

 

[Uber Philf]

turn down ya graphics X)

 

[j3rk0]

already done. if it's all on or off, it still don't won't to play like few days before
after pb update i start to make problems

 

[drsarg]

Can somebody post simple instructions please?

Hello.

I have Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (7600 build) and I can't acess Call of Duty 4. Does anyone have simple instructions on how to (there are so many posts it's a bit confusing)?

Also do I have to re-install Windows 7? Is there any other way of not having to do a complete re-install?

Thank You