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Revision as of 18:51, 21 August 2014

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
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Developers
Infinity Ward
Sledgehammer Games
Publishers
Activision
Engines
MW3 engine
Release dates
Windows November 8, 2011
macOS (OS X) May 20, 2014
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 on Wikipedia

Warnings

The macOS (OS X) version of this game does not work on macOS Catalina (version 10.15) or later due to the removal of support for 32-bit-only apps.
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General information

Official Call of Duty series site
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums
Call of Duty Wiki - A detailed wiki for every Call of Duty game made.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Steam
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Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
Retail
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Error: key type '{{{5}}}' not recognised
Error: OS parameter cannot be empty
All versions require Steam.

Essential improvements

Utilities

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/115300/pfx/[Note 1]
config.cfg is for single player, config_mp.cfg is for multi-player

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/115300/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

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Input settings

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Controller support

Game pad controllers are not supported by Modern Warfare 3. Please check our controller page for information about how to hack controller support into the game.

Audio settings

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Russian
Spanish
Turkish

Network

Self-hosted servers are available through the Steam client's server browser or the in-game server browser found under the Servers menu.

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
Online play
2-18

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Use iw5mp_server.exe (configure with server.cfg).
Direct IP
Go to the Multiplayer launch options and add +connect followed by the IP.

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP 3074
This game does not support Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for automatic port configuration.

Issues fixed

A small tweak guide is available at PC Gamer
A collection of potential crash fixes are available at Crash Fixes

Black screen on start-up

Instructions

PC crashing/freezing in-game

Instructions
Instructions

Game freezes during the intro video

Instructions

Crash to Desktop

Instructions

Windows XP:

Instructions

DirectX error while loading

Instructions

Cannot install

Instructions

Failed to run install script

Instructions

Audio issues

Instructions

Multi-monitor issues

Instructions

Nvidia Optimus

Instructions

Fuzzy textures

Instructions

DirectX 9 compatibility with older video cards

Instructions

Mouse problems

Instructions

RELIABLE COMMAND BUFFER OVERFLOW

Instructions

"Steam Error – 55: This game is currently unavailable. Please try again at another time" error

Instructions

"DLC content is required. Required map ... is missing or damaged." error

Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP
Processor (CPU) Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4000+
Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 GB
Video card (GPU) GeForce 210
Radeon HD 3650
1 GB of VRAM

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/115300/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (115300) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References