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Early on in my Admin career here, Johnny and I would spend a couple of hours each week working on the COD5 rotation change together.  It was always the best part of my week, and never short on laughter.  He was taken too fast and too soon, but I guess Heaven needed him, too, so off he went.  I miss him.  I hope Char is doing okay.

Early on in my Admin career here, Johnny and I would spend a couple of hours each week working on the COD5 rotation change together.  It was always the best part of my week, and never short on laughter.  He was taken too fast and too soon, but I guess Heaven needed him, too, so off he went.  I miss him.  I hope Char is doing okay.

Early on in my Admin career here, Johnny and I would spend a couple of hours each week working on the COD5 rotation change together.  It was always the best part of my week, and never short on laughter.  He was taken too fast and too soon, but I guess Heaven needed him, too, so off he went.  I miss him.  I hope Char is doing okay.

Let start with your clan name? Johnny Dos
    Do you have any nicknames? Personal or in game? Mr Johnny Dos at work my nick name was Johhny 8 track because my last         
                                                    name was Casetta
    When and where were you born? Earlyier and in Italy and moved to Canada as a child
    When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? An >XI< Member
    
    Where have you lived? Windsor Ontario
    Your first game you played?  Quake, Unreal Tournament, Doom
    And what do you play now? Heavenly games only
    Why did you join XI? Rugger was just starting the clan up when I was playing COD2 
                         Played in the server and loved it never looked back.
    What do you get from being in this clan? A lot of great friends and many many laughs
    What is your favorite hobby? Riding my bike wink wink fishing,music,making wine
    Are you married?  Yes to a very wonderful lady named Charlene
    Do you have children? Yes 2 Kevin and Marc
    What kind of pets do you have, if any? What are their names? 1 cat named Bernard and I share my son's dog Zeffy 
                                           named after my mom Zeffira
    Are you a sports fan? If so, what is your favorite team? Detroit Redwings, Tigers ,Lion's
    What causes are you passionate about? The greater development of Marywana
    What is an interesting fact about you? My bike rides have twisted ends
    What is your current job title? Keeper of the fun in heavenly games
    Did you win any awards or recognitions during your education? I won the admiration of all who meet me that was the best award you couls ever recieve
    Where do you work? Did work for Chrysler Canada
    Where else have you worked?  A stint at Metroplitan Hospital
    Why did you choose to work in your industry? Because it was there and money
    Why do you like your job? Money and good people
    How would you describe your career? If you do not look at the job so much it was fun.
    What are some accomplishments you've achieved during your career? Making people laugh
    Describe a time that your career was rewarding. The end was rewarding
    If you could give a younger person career advice, what would it be? Don't worry be happy join the xtremeidiots and                                            
                                                                        have a good laugh
    
    What is your favorite thing about your career or industry? People you meet
    What is a valuable lesson you learned in your career? Should retire earlier and laugh more
    What do you hope to accomplish in your career? Retire
    Are you involved in any professional/ non-profit/sports organizations? If so, do you have a title or rank within these organizations? >XI< my title was head admin and chief all round good guy
    What is your favorite sport? going for a bike ride 🙂
    If you were granted 1 wish, what would you wish for? a better wifi connection up here

        Authors note , I would like to thank Cpt.TennealXI for helping with Johhny's family life and Harry weaser for his gaming life. Johhny is a huge part of this group of people. 
           He was so easy going very generous and so funny. He attracted so many new members just because he was playing on a server. He loved to talk and he loved to laugh. He was for me
           one of the best things about what the xtremeidiots are great. 

Thanks for the reply, Merlin, and for keeping an eye on things.  My internet isn't the best, living out of a van and all, but I'll try switching over to my house's WiFi next time I see Timeouts on HLSW just to check if that clears things up.  I won't have the house WiFi available much longer, so we'll see if I can even catch it.  As of the time I'm writing this, HLSW this morning is showing all servers looking normal.  But here's the thing:  With the Sniper server on 149.56.xxx.xxx and all the rest on 74.91.xxx.xxx, I absolutely do believe it's a server/host issue when the three on the latter go Timeout, while the former looks and acts normal.  I don't see this as an HLSW issue at all.
Anyway, I don't need to update my HLSW since it's working fine.  I can go into the Sniper server without a problem at all.  For that matter, I can go into all 4 servers as long as HLSW doesn't show them in Timeout. If you're saying that the Sniper server should also be found on the 74.91.xxx.xxx IP then why is there a Sniper server responding at 149.91.xxx.xxx?
The map before Balystock was that snowy map that has a grave yard back in one corner, and buildings people like to snipe out of the windows from, and roofs you can get up on, but I don't remember its name.  Sorry.  I know that even that information isn't necessarily relevant since the server does player size based rotations.  Day before last, I think we may have been coming out of another map when it borked out.
Have a good day.

Oops, I mistakenly ghosted this thread
It was better, although I know there's a whole new rotation in by now.  Did you figure out the culprit map?  There was speculation that it was the map after those I mentioned that were actually causing the hang.

Second afternoon in a row I've gone in there and found it stuck.  What's up with that?  Today it's mp_villa.  Yesterday it was mp_ddd_wet.

We were just talking about Krunch the other day in COD5 OW - asking if anyone has heard from him as it's been awhile since we've seen him.  He used to be a regular on COD5 ... Hoping he is well !

I cannot play this map.  When it loads, I get the map's intro screen, but then I get an unhandled exception.  This happens EVERY time.  I have deleted and let the server re-download the map for me.  No joy.  I have rebooted and rejoined the server while the map is still running.  No joy.  There's something wrong with that map.  Suggest an admin back up their current version and download the version on the redirect to test.  Or if you have a copy you are able to play with, check files on yours vs the redirect, and/or just copy yours up.  Thanks!

I don't know if this has been tried , But from what I understand you transferred you profiles over before you created an online profile , and that will not work , In the past what I had to do was install the game and patches that are needed, then create an online profile pick a game any game online and join it and play a for a second, now you will be able to transfer you profiles , over and play , done ,   That allows your game to create the files needed ,

Have you tried replacing your CODWAWMP.EXE with the one posted on this site? I had all kinds of issues before swapping it.
Will try to find a link
I then told steam not to update that game

My bad , it was cod4 IW3mp.exe that I had issues with.
As you can tell I used to be an idiot 
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It does have it, and it did install it.

So I just got a new PC.  Can't find my old COD5 CD, but I do have the CD Key, but that seemed rather useless without a disc.  So I just pulled the trigger on Steam to repurchase the game for $15.
It refuses to allow me to create any online profile.  wtf?
Anyone have any suggestions?  I just seem to be chasing a ghosts with this one.  No working solution has been found in hours of searching.

Outside chance but I did read this somewhere, I don't think the Steam version has Punkbuster (I know you don't need it) check. If it isn't there try downloading add WAW to punkbuster and tick box in game, I'm sure this cured a similar problem for someone, but this is clutching at straws.
The original WAW was built to work with Punkbuster and may not work if it's not present, but I'm no expert

Hi Rob,
Yeah, I know all about transferring profiles.  In fact, I installed the game from Steam, then before even starting it and before the game had even created the Activision folder in AppData, I copied that entire folder structure over from the old machine.  Other than noticing that the hardware had changed (and just say no to the reset it suggests on launch), I expected it to come up fully intact and right where I left off.  Instead the game came up in 720 resolution and wanted me to create an online profile.  At first, I thought maybe the Steam version did things differently, so I renamed the Activision folder I copied over and restarted the game to let it create its own.  It did, so I know it's still the same old game, but absolutely nothing I've tried has worked to allow me to create even a scratch profile name.  I even found the place to enter a CD Key, which I still have, and it accepted it as valid, but just refuses to let me create ANY profile. 
 

does the server list show up ? If not that would mean the games not updated. You may also try running steam go to library your game right click select properties . There you have 2 choices one is updates the other is check interigty of the game. As ussual you can delete it and reload it. Good luck . Nice to see you back. 

First time poster to WAW, just installed WAW from Steam, setup a new online profile, took a few tries because it said others were already in use, but it works for me!  Of course I'm using a steamdeck and SteamOS but it's the same software as a base.
 

Sadly this has happen to many of us...The version from steam is "single player only" so before the clock ticks away get a refund and buy some where a hard copy and install your self

Did you allow CoDWaWMP.exe through your firewall? Are you using the original cd key from which your profile was created? (Insert key in game menu in single player).Try running the .exe as admin from your Steam /common folder.

Is there no way of getting your old profile off old computer and inserting it in new version? It's on the forum somewhere (a few times) first tell windows to show hidden files then copy it, and keep a copy regularly as it updates. I've got the path to go upstairs but the wifes asleep, if I copy it correctly from our forum
C:\Users\yourname\AppData\Local\Activision\CoDWaW\players\profiles
 

what about a shop that sells secondhand games, buy just for the disc, should be very cheap

So I just got a new PC.  Can't find my old COD5 CD, but I do have the CD Key, but that seemed rather useless without a disc.  So I just pulled the trigger on Steam to repurchase the game for $15.
It refuses to allow me to create any online profile.  wtf?
Anyone have any suggestions?  I just seem to be chasing a ghosts with this one.  No working solution has been found in hours of searching.

Welcome Doc!

Welcome Doc!