PainKiller

It's scary on the front lines. My mom, my aunts and my partner work in the local hospital dealing with the outbreak every day. ____________________ Think of it this way: Have you had to bury a loved one? Have you had to turn off the ventilator on a patient because they couldn't be saved? Have you had to tell someones family "Sorry, we can't do anything to save them." ? That bloke you shook hands with could have had it, he could be dead next week or tomorrow. That old woman in the shopping center could be a carrier and might have days left. We've not been told to stay in our homes against our wills or the like. We've been told to keep ourselves and OTHERS safe. use precautionary measures. Use PPE, wash your hands, do your bit to help protect other people. Not just yourself but your loved ones. Those who are ignorant about it will quickly change their tone when they get it or have to bury a loved one or get their asses saved by the hospital. Hospitals and other healthcare areas are completely stretched thin - staying home and keeping yourselves and others safe is also helping the healthcare system by taking the strain off of them. Just be glad you're alive, be glad you're safe. And be thankful to those working their asses off keeping others safe.

Ah yes, natural selection how I have missed you. Yes, the financial and economic affects of this virus are felt worldwide. We're all fed up of being stuck in our homes, not being able to work and do what we enjoy. But give thanks for those working on the front-line day in and day out to keep the rest of us alive and well. I hate not being at work, it's driving me completely mad. I can't see my loved ones such as my mother, brother, nephew and my girlfriend. But, I accept that this is the best course to try and plateau the infection. If these sorts people wanna go outside and protest and risk catching and spreading the infection, on their head be it. If they get sick, that's their fault really. All it takes is one person to catch it in a crowd.

Tangmere-shit! Sorry to hear that you'll be leaving. You're one of the funniest guys I know and I've known you for a long time because of course you know my dad, Noddy. Keep well and hope you'll still come in to play at some point.

Your profile is saved locally in your CoD4 directory. Unfortunately if you don't back up your profile when you reinstall the game you will have to make a new one and start from scratch. I always made that mistake with mine. I had to reinstall Windows 10 and lost my profile for CoD4 because I didn't back it up somewhere.

Ignore this post, Rob cleared it up for me. I wasn't aware the rotation was being sorted!

not sure if that's referring to me or you were reading your own comment earlier ?

Does the DM server usually change map every five seconds I try to sort my classes out or spawn and I am the only one in? Not sure if someone is rotating maps or the server is just broken but it's a pain in the ass that's for sure.

I'm still amazed the forum can contain this amount of stupidity at once.

We need a section specifically for piss-takin... I mean discussion, of theories such as this.

Not sure if this is a late april fools joke or your tin hat fell off..

Not been on that game for ages, played a few hours on it. If we can get a steady crowd it, it might be a good thing.

I'll see if I can make it, if not, I'll try be on tomorrow evening

We're all here for you brother

Thoughts are with bart and his wife in this trying time. I wish him a speedy recovery

Oh god here we go ? It was only a matter of time

You gotta be a bloody idiot to fall for it

I call dibs on being top. I won't get it but dammit I'll try!

May or may not be in a caffeine induced daze

It has me stumped that's for sure. I am trying to work out why it's trying to look in your system32 folder when you boot the game though Have you tried booting single player? Try that, it might need to make your config file first.

Can you show an image of your /main folder please? looks like you've got missing files. Which is odd. I need to be able to see the sizes of the folders in the /main directory too. You need these folders:

Best idea to stick with the version that is stable then but still try the tips that Rob and I have posted. Feel free to post some bits and pieces and we might be able to help. The most common issue with CoD2 is Direct X errors, but take it step by step, eliminating problems as they come. Message Loader and get him on TS if you can. I am not always around but I can be if you need it.

First off, FU beer you wanker What type of headset are you using? If it is a USB one, the game has a real hard time picking that up so if you have a 3.5mm jack on it, use that. It wouldn't matter if you put it in the onboard sound or on the sound card it will still work regardless. You just need to tell the computer what it's going to use. As for the game crashing on start up, try updating the game to 1.3 (should be done automatically if done through Steam) and also make sure that your video drivers are up to date. It could also be crashing because the game cannot render the current settings. To sort this out you need to find your player config file. If you are using Steam this is: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Call of Duty 2\28\players If you are using the disc then it will be C:\Program Files (x86)\Activision\Call of Duty 2\28\players If you have not yet been able to connect at all then you will not have a player profile to edit. If that's the case I can send you mine and tell you which bits you need to edit. You then need to look for the file config_mp.cfg and you are looking for these lines: seta com_hunkMegs "256" or something similar. Change that value to 512. That will allocate the game more memory to run some of the more demanding stuff the mod has and the maps that have a lot on them. seta r_rendererPreference "auto" set that to "dx7" instead of auto. It will force the game to render in DirectX 7 and not be such a dick when you are starting it up. Also make sure you are running the game in compatability mode for Windows XP SP3 and administrator.

I'll happily give it a go!! Been wanting to try it out for some time

For myself, it's that I find other games to play really. Nothing else than that. I dedicate most of my time to CoD2 if I am not off playing something else in my extensive steam library or other platforms I have. I still come onto CoD4 MWF2 FT every now and then though for a good laugh depending who is on or the map being played.

Wait till you get to higher level stuff on that game. You won't hear the end of trash talk and personal attacks.