River_Rat Posted December 22, 2019 Member ID: 28071 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 66 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 63 Achievement Points: 521 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/30/19 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 10, 2020 Birthday: 01/31/1961 Share Posted December 22, 2019 Well everyone for those of you that have the Steam Version of COD 2 like me I have some info about the installation. First let me say that yes I do have the CD Version of COD 2 but had serious install issues on Windows 7 so when I saw yesterday that Steam had Call Of Duty and Call Of Duty 2 on sale for $9.99 each I had to buy them assuming that Steam made sure they would run on their platform, I HATE STEAM. Well, I installed the games and they would not launch. In my games list it said it was running but no game launch. I was like oh I forgot to make it Run As Administrator so I went into the application and checked Run As Administrator. Oh by the way Compatibility Mode has to be unchecked. Thought I was set and tried to launch the game. I clicked on play ready to go and an error popped up saying, FAILED TO FIND STEAM, are you kidding me I am in Steam and the game can't find it. So I put my thinking cap on and thought well all games run off a .dll file so let me see. I went into the Call Of Duty 2 Main folder and guess what? Steam did not add a STEAM.dll file to the Call Of Duty 2 folder or a .dll file to redirect the game to the main STEAM.dll to get the game to launch. So I copied the STEAM.dll file from the main Steam folder and put it in the main Call Of Duty 2 folder. I then launched the game and it worked Call Of Duty 2 ran just fine after I put the Steam.dll file in the Call Of Duty 2 folder. I was even in the Extreme Idiots Call Of Duty 2 Death Match server running around checking it out...... I CAN'T WAIT TO PLAY WITH YOU ALL IN COD 2. If there is a previous post in the forums about this subject I am sorry for the repeat. Anyway, I HATE STEAM, I HATE STEAM, I HATE STEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TBB, *fry* and loaderXI 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaderXI Posted December 22, 2019 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 392 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6417 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 6494 Achievement Points: 54334 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 30 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 08:49 PM Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted December 22, 2019 That was odd at best but glad you knew the fix....There still may be a few tweaks to do Change the settings on seta com_hunkMegs "160" to 512 seta com_hunkMegs "512" You may also wish to download HLSW from our dowload section and you will need to also copy over the steam.dll to its folder...Makes finding and using servers faster and better...No register and always login offline See you in the servers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
River_Rat Posted December 22, 2019 Member ID: 28071 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 66 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 63 Achievement Points: 521 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/30/19 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 10, 2020 Birthday: 01/31/1961 Author Share Posted December 22, 2019 2 hours ago, loaderXI said: That was odd at best but glad you knew the fix....There still may be a few tweaks to do Change the settings on seta com_hunkMegs "160" to 512 seta com_hunkMegs "512" You may also wish to download HLSW from our dowload section and you will need to also copy over the steam.dll to its folder...Makes finding and using servers faster and better...No register and always login offline See you in the servers Cool thank you loader for the feed back, I will change that setting right away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaderXI Posted December 22, 2019 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 392 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6417 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 6494 Achievement Points: 54334 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 30 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 08:49 PM Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted December 22, 2019 HLSW ----> River_Rat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Oster Posted December 23, 2019 Member ID: 27413 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 2 Topic Count: 9 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 191 Content Per Day: 0.10 Reputation: 77 Achievement Points: 1174 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/05/18 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 24, 2023 Birthday: 12/04/1997 Device: Windows Share Posted December 23, 2019 (edited) River if you have win 10 you need to set both the cod2sp and cod2mp exes to compat with win xp sp3. That is how I got mine to work. Along with Loader's fix for the hunkMegs which will prevent your game from crashing due to not enough memory. Edited December 23, 2019 by Oster loaderXI 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
River_Rat Posted December 25, 2019 Member ID: 28071 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 66 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 63 Achievement Points: 521 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/30/19 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 10, 2020 Birthday: 01/31/1961 Author Share Posted December 25, 2019 On 12/22/2019 at 1:04 PM, loaderXI said: HLSW ----> Wow that program is still around? We use to use that for Counter Strike and Day Of Defeat, great tool. loaderXI 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
River_Rat Posted December 25, 2019 Member ID: 28071 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 66 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 63 Achievement Points: 521 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/30/19 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 10, 2020 Birthday: 01/31/1961 Author Share Posted December 25, 2019 On 12/22/2019 at 10:37 PM, Oster said: River if you have win 10 you need to set both the cod2sp and cod2mp exes to compat with win xp sp3. That is how I got mine to work. Along with Loader's fix for the hunkMegs which will prevent your game from crashing due to not enough memory. No I am still using Windows 7 Pro I will getting Windows 10 soon since support for Windows 7 is ending soon. Thanks for the info for when I get Windows 10. Right now my COD 2 is running fine just set as Administrator and adding the steam.dll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaderXI Posted December 25, 2019 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 392 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6417 Content Per Day: 1.20 Reputation: 6494 Achievement Points: 54334 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 30 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 08:49 PM Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted December 25, 2019 1 hour ago, River_Rat said: Wow that program is still around? We use to use that for Counter Strike and Day Of Defeat, great tool. Hlsw is now offline and no longer on the web (recent) but still a great tool and a work around as the master server list works and dont...Been using it since Cod4 came out and still use Rcon4Cod2 too lol...Last update for HLSW was in 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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