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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

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Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare cover
Developers
Infinity Ward
Publishers
Activision
OS X Aspyr Media
Engines
IW 3.0|IW engine|IW 3.0
Release dates
Windows November 5, 2007
macOS (OS X) September 26, 2008
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare guide on StrategyWiki
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 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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This page is for the original release. For the updated version, see Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered.

Key points

Mod friendly
Small but active community.
Well optimized; even older PCs can run it with a steady frame rate.
PunkBuster must be manually updated to play on protected servers. See "Unable to initialize PunkBuster. PunkBuster is disabled." error

General information

Official Call of Duty series site
Call of Duty Wiki - A detailed wiki for every Call of Duty game made.
Planet Call of Duty - Very old hub for all Call of Duty games. Has mods, guides, and news on the Call of Duty communities. Hasn't been updated for a while.
Steam Community Discussions
Steam Users' Forums

Availability

SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows Vista and later (see above for affected versions).
Demo

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Variety Map Pack Available for free. Included with Patch v1.6 (v1.7 for OS X) and any digital release of the game. See Patches for a download link.
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Essential improvements

Patches

There are 7 patches in total, but only the last two are required.

Patch v1.6

Includes the Variety Map Pack

Patch v1.7

Windows
Requires Patch v1.6 to be already installed
OS X
Not required for Steam and Mac App Store versions of the game
Contains all the fixes and content from previous patches

CoD4X Mod

A client and server mod for multiplayer that adds enhanced functionality and security to servers, bug fixes, and its own serverlist.

It can be downloaded from the official website.

Skip intro videos

Instructions

Game data

In-game general settings.
In-game general settings.

Configuration file(s) location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/7940/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

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System Location
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/7940/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
Steam Cloud

Video settings

In-game graphics settings.
In-game graphics settings.
In-game textures settings.
In-game textures settings.

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Windowed

Instructions

Field of view (FOV)

Instructions

High frame rate

Instructions

Input settings

In-game control settings.
In-game control settings.

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Audio settings

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.
In-game voice settings.
In-game voice settings.

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Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
French
German
Italian
Only available in Italian retail release.
Polish
Only available in Polish retail release.
Russian
Spanish

Network

In-game multiplayer settings.
In-game multiplayer settings.
Servers can optionally use PunkBuster anti-cheat protection (must be manually updated).

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN play
64
Online play
64

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Matchmaking
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP
Go to Favorites and add a new favorite with the IP as the source.[3]

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
TCP 28960
UDP 28960
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

VR support

Issues fixed

Missing d3dx9_43.dll or similar .dll file

This issue is caused by a broken DirectX installation, to fix simply reinstall DirectX 9.

Game won't start on Windows 7

Instructions

Stuttering issues with high end graphic cards

Instructions

"Unable to initialize PunkBuster. PunkBuster is disabled." error

Instructions

Black/flickering textures on older NVIDIA GPUs

Instructions

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
OpenGL 2.0 OS X only.
Shader Model support 2, 3
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio FMOD, Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer Demonware, PunkBuster The PunkBuster version provided is no longer supported and needs to be manually updated to connect to protected servers. See "Unable to initialize PunkBuster. PunkBuster is disabled." error

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Instructions

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium IV 2.4 GHz
AMD Athlon 64 2800+
Any 1.8 GHz Dual Core Processor
System memory (RAM) 512 MB (XP)
768 MB (Vista)
Hard disk drive (HDD) 8 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia Geforce 6600
ATI Radeon 9800
macOS (OS X)
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 10.7.5
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz
System memory (RAM) 1 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 9 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia Geforce 7300
ATI Radeon X1600
128 MB of VRAM
The Intel Integrated GMA 950 and Intel Integrated X3100 chipsets are not supported

Notes

  1. SafeDisc retail DRM does not work on Windows 10[1] or Windows 11 and is disabled by default on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 when the KB3086255 update is installed.[2]
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/7940/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (7940) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References