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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
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Developers
Infinity Ward
Sledgehammer Games
Publishers
Activision
OS X Aspyr Media
Engines
IW 5.0|IW engine|IW 5.0
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
Call of Duty Wiki - A detailed wiki for every Call of Duty game made.
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Amazon.com
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
All versions require Steam.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Content Collection 1 Contains Content Pack 1, 2, and 3.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Content Collection 2 Contains Content Pack 4 and 5.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Content Collection 3 Contains Content Pack 6, 7 (Spec Ops portion), and 8.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Content Collection 4 Contains Content Pack 7 (Multiplayer portion) and 9.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
DLC for the game consists of 9 Content Packs (each combining 24 Content Drops). See the Wikipedia article for details

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
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.

VR support

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
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Game freezes during the intro video

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Crash to Desktop

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Windows XP:

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DirectX error while loading

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Cannot install

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Failed to run install script

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Audio issues

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Multi-monitor issues

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Nvidia Optimus

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Fuzzy textures

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DirectX 9 compatibility with older video cards

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Mouse problems

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RELIABLE COMMAND BUFFER OVERFLOW

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

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"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+
Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 1.8 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 16 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS
ATI Radeon X1900
256 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Shader model 3.0 support
macOS (OS X)
Minimum
Operating system (OS) 10.9.2
Processor (CPU) Intel i3 2.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 13 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 640M
ATI Radeon HD 4850
Intel Iris
512 MB of VRAM
The following chipsets are unsupported by the OS X version: ATI Radeon HD 2000 series, ATI Radeon HD 6490M, 6630M, 3870, Nvidia Geforce 9000 series, Nvidia Geforce 320M, 330M, Intel HD 3000, 4000, 5000
Hard drive volumes formatted as Mac OS Extended (Case Sensitive) are not supported

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