HarryWeezer Posted February 4, 2023 Member ID: 20166 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 7652 Content Per Day: 1.98 Reputation: 7228 Achievement Points: 53663 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Author Share Posted February 4, 2023 1 hour ago, RobMc said: IF YOU'RE FEELING BRAVE - but don't shoot the messenger WORKING FIX FOR THE ONLINE PROFILE [EN/FR] [EN] Hey, I finally found a way to play online on Steam if you bought after 2021. First, you will need to have a working key. You can buy one online or you can buy the retail version and use the key that come with it. The key will only be working if it come from the box game or if the person is selling his steam registry key that he bought before 2021. I bought one online and bought the retail version and both worked. You only have to make sure that the key you bought was created before 2021 or come from the box game. You don't have to worry if its the retail version cuz they are all working. When you have the working key you need to replace the steam one with the working one in the registry editor at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Activision\Call of Duty WAW. The key to change is "Codkey". You have to remove the hyphen otherwise the key will not work. The only problem is when you launch the game Steam will change the key every time. To fix that you need to remove permission of changing the key of all users. Right click on the Call of Duty WAW folder in the registry editor and click Permissions. After that you need to uncheck every permissions of all users except Read. Apply the settings and launch the game and you will be able create a profile if you did it correctly. ps If changing the registry you know to write down every change, and keep it, just in case Really appreciate your help with this. I looked at this too, but Steam's version is not putting hyphens in my key. The closest I've come to a fix is reaming the profiles folder to old.profiles, creating a new profiles folder, then creating a folder under that with the ingame I want to use. Then, edited ative.txt to put the player name in that. Launched the game and in multiplayer, it shows me with the name I used but as offline. When I try to go online, it asks for a new profile and whatever I attempt to use, it refuses to create it. What amazes me is that no one has found a fix for this yet that I can discover. I'm sure it's fixable. I'll keep at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
HarryWeezer Posted February 4, 2023 Member ID: 20166 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 7652 Content Per Day: 1.98 Reputation: 7228 Achievement Points: 53663 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Author Share Posted February 4, 2023 2 hours ago, HarryWeezer said: Baron: I believe the 1.7 version of the iw3mp.exe is a patch for COD4. My problems are with COD5. My mistake, That indeed was a COD5 patch. It was released eight years ago. Would Steam still be selling COD5 without it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
RobMc Posted February 4, 2023 Member ID: 25355 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 31 Topic Count: 257 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 5785 Content Per Day: 2.15 Reputation: 9114 Achievement Points: 63248 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 132 Joined: 12/14/16 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 10 Birthday: 01/05/1954 Device: Windows Share Posted February 4, 2023 OK Harry, like you I never give up, so what I always do is look at it in a logical way:- 1/. It worked on 10, from the CD with your original profile 2/. You inherited 11 Pro and it hung from cd on 'components' - so there are differences between 10 and 11 causing the problems. It cannot be fat32/NTFS as 10/11 should be similar. Reading about 11 one of the main upgrades/differences is security, is the security blocking the download? as I don't have 11 (still on Dos) I can't see if it has any controls over downloads, perhaps investigate. 3/. Rather than get overcomplicated I would stick at first with the cd only and try to get it working, in theory the easiest way. So I would wipe everything clean and start yet again with this path, trying to sort out the missing components issue. 4/. If this fails then wipe it clean again and go down the Steam path again with the new knowledge gained, are you sure you've eradicated patch 1.8? by not loading it? I'm no expert but have solved things like this in the past by working in a logical way, we'll get there my old buddy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Labob Posted February 4, 2023 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8264 Content Per Day: 1.54 Reputation: 5976 Achievement Points: 53607 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Android Share Posted February 4, 2023 3 hours ago, HarryWeezer said: I didn't upgrade from 10 to 11. I purchased a new system with 11 pro. I'm sure there are still updates . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Ghostlupus Posted February 5, 2023 Member ID: 25598 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 15 Topic Count: 20 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 342 Content Per Day: 0.13 Reputation: 354 Achievement Points: 2824 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/25/17 Status: Offline Last Seen: 18 hours ago Birthday: 09/22/1956 Device: Windows Share Posted February 5, 2023 @HarryWeezer, Upgraded years ago from WIN7 to WIN10 and then to WIN11. Late December I upgraded my PC and did a fresh WIN11 install. Reinstalled COD5 from Steam and had lots of problems to start with. (old user profile crashed the game frequently) I have applied all suggestions given to me in the forum. (thanks to all of you) At the end I have downloaded all the maps. (all 10 map packs) and COID5 is running fine since. For me the multiplayer option has always worked through Steam. I can't think of any reason why you don't have this option through Steam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Labob Posted February 5, 2023 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8264 Content Per Day: 1.54 Reputation: 5976 Achievement Points: 53607 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Android Share Posted February 5, 2023 Things just go wrong sometimes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
HarryWeezer Posted February 5, 2023 Member ID: 20166 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 7652 Content Per Day: 1.98 Reputation: 7228 Achievement Points: 53663 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Author Share Posted February 5, 2023 22 hours ago, Labob said: I'm sure there are still updates . So I have the same, Win11 pro. If you downloaded from Steam, I'm at a loss why it works for you and not for me. Last resort will be to fully uninstall and try again. Here's what I've tried since yesterday, with no luck: 1. - Not a perm fix, but If you want to play without saving your profile: start MP (as admin?) and go to options > multiplayer > cd key, and enter it. - select co-op/single from menu. When it loads create/load a profile. Now you can switch back to MP to play, but your data is lost on exit 2. Step 1: Launch CoDWaW Step 2, press ctrl alt and delete at the same time to open a menu Step 3, Open task manager, Kill CoDWaW Step 4 Launch the game, It should ask you to run in "Safe Mode" Step 5, Run in safe mode Step 6 Create a profile 3. - Under players\profiles, (users, appdata, local, activision\codwaw\players\profiles) delete everything. Create folder HarryWezer and edit active.txt to replace $$$ with HarryWezer. - Right click on steam icon and select run as administrator. Then go to game folder, and right click on codwaw.exe for single player and multiplayer and select run as administrator. -open steam as admin. Then start game NOT from steam, but from game folder, as admin. Now your profile should load. 4. - Port forward to 28960. The ports are 28960 on tcp and udp, and 3074 on udp only. - Launch multiplyer game (NOT from Steam) - Enter CD key in game. Validate it. - Exit game. - Start game again as per above, and create profile. loaderXI and RobMc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
the baron Posted February 5, 2023 Member ID: 24952 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 3 Topic Count: 10 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 121 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 165 Achievement Points: 1200 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 08/27/16 Status: Offline Last Seen: Tuesday at 08:06 PM Birthday: 06/13/1985 Device: Windows Share Posted February 5, 2023 oh sry indeed... but i also bought cod5 on steam and it went the same way without the iwmp3 step.... too be honest i wrote that part when i was drunk as hell... RobMc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
RobMc Posted February 5, 2023 Member ID: 25355 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 31 Topic Count: 257 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 5785 Content Per Day: 2.15 Reputation: 9114 Achievement Points: 63248 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 132 Joined: 12/14/16 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 10 Birthday: 01/05/1954 Device: Windows Share Posted February 5, 2023 I'm stuck Harry, surely someone else in the world must have a solution, have you thought of posting on the Steam forums? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HarryWeezer Posted February 7, 2023 Member ID: 20166 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 7652 Content Per Day: 1.98 Reputation: 7228 Achievement Points: 53663 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Author Share Posted February 7, 2023 Thanks guys for your help. I really appreciate it. I am up and running with COD5 and COD4 on the new system. There is no way in hell to install the games from Steam and run them that I could find using dozens of suggestions that were more than a decade old. So, it was back to my original discs for both games, which stall on loading them in registering components. I fould an old suggestion that worked. Copy the original disc to a folder on the C drive and install it from there. Why does it work there, and not from the optical drive? Who knows. But it's great to be assurred that I'll be gaming for a few more years and it's great that there are always clan members ready to help. Thanks again!!! Ghostlupus, AthenA, loaderXI and 3 others 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Labob Posted February 8, 2023 Member ID: 42 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 50 Topic Count: 338 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 8264 Content Per Day: 1.54 Reputation: 5976 Achievement Points: 53607 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Birthday: 01/30/1959 Device: Android Share Posted February 8, 2023 They are old games and modern software does not always carry over things like anti piracy protection.old dvd and cd copyright protection Old versions of dotnet. Ect. Which is why places like steam exist. Ease of use but shit happens. Welcome back Harry YACCster and RobMc 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Snake Neck Posted February 8, 2023 Member ID: 29547 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 3 Topic Count: 10 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 36 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 19 Achievement Points: 430 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/09/22 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 6, 2023 Birthday: 02/03/1968 Device: Windows Share Posted February 8, 2023 Looks like i need to reinstall my cod4 multiplayer on my mac. Cant find the download here. anyone...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
YACCster Posted February 9, 2023 Member ID: 20683 Group: ++ COD4 Admin Followers: 138 Topic Count: 309 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3347 Content Per Day: 0.88 Reputation: 4087 Achievement Points: 45217 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 22 Joined: 12/12/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: 3 hours ago Device: Macintosh Share Posted February 9, 2023 16 hours ago, Snake Neck said: Looks like i need to reinstall my cod4 multiplayer on my mac. Cant find the download here. anyone...? How did you purchase the game? You can still get it and download it on Steam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Snake Neck Posted February 9, 2023 Member ID: 29547 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 3 Topic Count: 10 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 36 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 19 Achievement Points: 430 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/09/22 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 6, 2023 Birthday: 02/03/1968 Device: Windows Share Posted February 9, 2023 i need a MAC version Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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