Anyone playing the multiplayer?

its totally minted! the perk system and unlocks are superb!and plus the gameplay is very enjoyable!

Installed the demo, but only played it once thus far; I like it. Curious about the multiplayer.

Still playing single player.... Awesome game!

hehe, i havent touched single player yet, been obsessed with multiplayer

Playing single player now in the full game; like it

Does COD4 come in the PC format or is it just for XBOX and the like? Grandson has it on XBOX and says it is awsome. I've been playing BF2. Is COD4 better?

COD4 has been released for PC and XBOX360. I believe for PS...2 or 3 as well, but you would simply need to check the official web site for that. I can't be bothered Up till yesterday I played BF2 single- and multiplayer on PC, but now for singleplayer I've switched to my extended trial version of COD4. Would like to get the full game, but waiting for it to drop in price a bit more

Well I bit the bullet and got COD4. The graphics are awesome. I'm only on single mood for now. It was what I expected it to be just like the other COD'S. COD3 never came out in PC format to my knowledge. So far it's a great shooter but the price is a little to high but still its a good way to while away the hours up here in the winter when your retired. LOL. I may try multiplayer this evening.

CD-WOW sells COD4 for PC for little under €32 including shipping, in case anyone wants to buy it. Cheapest I could find

only cost me £30....aint expensive.

Cost me $50.00 US

Has anyone tried installing this game under Windows 2000?

Even though it says it's not supported, it miight still run. I'm hopeful

Just finished the single player mode. Very nice! I love the epilogue

Same here, I finally maxed out the M4 for the pretty red camo and am working on the same for the M16.

While I've heard it runs, it won't install on Windows 2000. You get a message saying it's unsupported. My attempts to bypass the OS check aren't going so well. Anyone been successful?

This new trend really annoys me. Most times the requirements say an OS isn't supported, but it still lets you install it. I fully understand that if one chooses to do this, it is at your own risk and you will receive no support. Fine. The fact that they actually block the installation is quite unacceptable.

For those with compatibility issues, have you tried to install it on a machine running XP and then copy the COD4 folder altogether?

Well that might work, but I don't have access to an XP machine to do this on. I guess I should get with the program and get off 2000 already. I just hate to do that when it's probably rather simple to bypass this stupid OS check or somehow trick windows installer into temporarily thinking its on XP.

How to get Call of Duty 4 running on Windows 2000 without installing:

I was able to get the COD4 Demo working on Win2K and played through it without any problems, so I assume the full game will work fine. I have just got the full game running up to the main menu screen, wanted to post here before I start playing.

For the demo, the installer extracts all the files to your temp folder of your windows user account. When you get the OS not supported message and then click OK it deletes the temp files. Just set the temp files to read only before clicking OK on the OS not supported dialog. Then you can move the files anywhere you want. The files in the temp folder are in the correct hierarchy for playing the game, just run the exe.

For the full game the files are in the correct hierarchy in X:\Setup\Data\ where X: is your disc drive. Just copy the contents of that folder to your hard drive. I think the default install path is C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare\ so you can copy the files there if you wish, but it shouldn't matter where you copy to. Then run iw3sp.exe to play, you can make your own shortcuts. There is a iw3mp.exe which I assume is for multiplayer.

If you want the game to show up in Xfire you need to add a key to the Windows registry.
For Demo: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Activision\CoD4MWDemo\InstallPath
For Full: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Activision\Call of Duty 4\InstallPath

If you do not have any Activision games installed you will need to navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ in the registry and then create a new key named "Activision" then inside that create a key named "Call of Duty 4". Now create a new string value in the "Call of Duty 4" key and name it "InstallPath". Set it's value to the path where you copied the Call of Duty 4 files, in my case "C:\Program Files\Activision\Call of Duty 4 - Modern Warfare".

Hope that helps. I'm going to go try and play, I assume it will run fine.

I have not tried patching the game, not sure if that will also check for OS or require registry keys other than the InstallPath key.


Update:
I have played about 5 levels of single player and it is running fine.

I was able to get multiplayer working and install the 1.4 patch.

Since the COD4 files were copied without installing you have to install punk buster yourself.
Download PBSETUP.exe from http://www.evenbalance.com/index.php?page=pbsetup.php
Follow their instructions for adding COD4 and checking for updates, it will install what is needed.

The 1.4 patch does the same OS detection and I was unable to figure out how to bypass it to install the patch. Luckily someone created a rar file with the patch files. Get it here http://www.servercommand.org/downloads.php...file&id=171

Finally you will need to enter your key in order to play multiplayer. Open the multiplayer version of the game and find the multiplayer options screen, enter you key there. (I'm not sure if this is the normal procedure or if it usually has you do this during the install of the game)

This post has been edited by patrickmaher: Dec 31 2007, 07:32 PM